{"id":332,"date":"2004-07-23T11:22:08","date_gmt":"2004-07-23T15:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.test.bradblog.com\/?p=332"},"modified":"2004-07-23T11:22:08","modified_gmt":"2004-07-23T15:22:08","slug":"dick-cheney-multilateralist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=332","title":{"rendered":"Dick Cheney, Multilateralist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/BradBlog.com\/Images\/CheneyConfused.jpg\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"3\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"media\">&#8220;I have made it clear that our (the US unilateral) sanctions policy is wrong,&#8221; he said when asked to comment on the Iran-Libya Act which contains provisions for sanctions to be imposed by the US against foreign companies making investment beyond US$20 million a year in the oil and gas sector of the targeted countries.<\/div>\n<p>&#8220;He&#8221; is one <b>Dick Cheney<\/b>, Halliburton CEO and Former Sec. of Defense, speaking in Kuala Lumpur, <b>April 20, 1998<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>Whether or not Halliburton violated U.S. sanctions in dealing with Iran during the time that Cheney was its CEO is currently <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/mld\/mercurynews\/news\/world\/9204699.htm\" target=\"_blank\">the subject of a grand-jury investigation<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The above quote was taken from a report by <i>The Malaysian National News Agency<\/i>, courtesy of the indefatigable Josh Marshall. More quotes from his speech can be found <a href=\"http:\/\/www.talkingpointsmemo.com\/archives\/week_2004_07_18.php#003194\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I have made it clear that our (the US unilateral) sanctions policy is wrong,&#8221; he said when asked to comment on the Iran-Libya Act which contains provisions for sanctions to be imposed by the US against foreign companies making investment beyond US$20 million a year in the oil and gas sector of the targeted countries. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-332","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","bb-type-bradblog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=332"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}