A FEW WORDS (OUT OF CONTEXT)

Lockheed recently negotiated a deal in the region of 250 Billion Dollars
from the Pentagon. They are notarious tax frauds. Also, they tend to give
honorary positions (read: no work, big pay), to influential people. Lynna
Cheney, Dick's wife, made $120,000 a year for nothing for about 7 years.
Norman Minetta, a member of the cabinet was a Lockheed VP. Wow - what a
surprise!

Lockheed officially spent $12,725,000 on lobbying and campaign
contributions. Madeline Albright and Christopher Hill have actively lobbied
for Lockheed in Poland.

Halliburton, Dick Cheney's old co. and it subsidiary Kellogg, Brown and Root
stand to get anywhere from 100s of millions to billions on reconstructing
oilfields. Halliburton's dealings with Iraq and Cheny's complicity were
already scandalous. But the old deal was peanuts - only $73 million last
time. Put the largest such contracts Iraq has ever had.

When he "retired" from Halliburton, Cheney got a $34 million retirement
package. Protestors from New Mexico found that Cheney owns 6 homes in that
state alone and when they wanted to make an action, they weren't sure which
home to target.

Other companies which will benefit and have strong ties to the US
administration are the construction giant Bechtel, (actve in many ill-doings
and recently targeted by activists in SF) the Fluor Corporation, and the
Louis Berger Group, which is presently involved in the reconstruction of
Afghanistan.A firm called Parsons also. Both Bechtel and the Fluor
Corporation undertake construction and project management work for the US
government

About oil companies, there was an international day of action at gas
stations, which is a good idea to repeat. Some good info is at
www.targetoil.com.

Speaking of connections and people who used to sit on boards - Condie Rice
was at Chevron. And the head of Chevron let her know about his designs in
Iraq. (They used to have a tanker named after her but changed it a while
back to not be too obvious.) Cheney had some business with Chevron and
Lawrence Eagleburger (who had a great interest in bombing Yugoslavia), is
with Halliburton.

Oil co.s gave almost $27 million to Bush during elections --- and still gave
$18 million last year. Cheney's staff held secret meetings in October with
executives from Exxon Mobil, ChevronTexaco, ConocoPhillips -- and
Halliburton to discuss who would get what in a post-Saddam Iraq.

The BP chief executive, Lord Browne, said last year he was putting pressure
on Mr Bush and Tony Blair not to allow a carve-up. This may throw Blair's
war into a slightly different light; BP, wants in.

I think oil companies are the best and easiest to target.

Some sources which can be found on the internet: (for example,
www.thedebate.org)

1] Evening Standard (UK), "Cheney under fire over spoils of war", 11 March
2003.

"THE company once headed by US Vice-President
Dick Cheney is set to be a big corporate winner in the
event of a war with Iraq that ended in US victory."
[2] BBC News (UK), "US firms vie to rebuild Iraq", 10 March 2003.

"Aside from Halliburton unit Kellogg Brown and Root,
they include Bechtel, Fluor, Louis Berger and Parsons.
All five are US-owned and headquartered."
Evening Standard, "Is this war all about oil?", 11 March 2003 (PM).

"In the past few days the United States has brought
unprecedented financial pressure on other members
of the UN Security Council - particularly Russia, so
far without success - to join the war on Iraq."

Evening Standard, "Giants see post-war oil bonanza", 10 March 2003.

"President Saddam Hussein is believed to be sitting on
reserves of at least 115bn barrels, the second-biggest in
the world after Saudi Arabia."

Daily Mirror, "Why George Bush Jnr is hell-bent on war with Iraq",
front-page, 6 January 2003

BBC News, "Oil firms 'discuss Iraqi stake'", 12 March 2003.

"Oil firms BP and Shell [both owned primarily by big
investors in the US and the UK] have held discussions
with the government over a possible stake in Iraq's oil
reserves..."
Washington Post (USA), "Companies Selected to Bid on Iraq Reconstruction",
11 March 2003.

"The Bush administration, preparing what would be
the most ambitious U.S. rebuilding project since the
aftermath of World War II, expects in coming days to
award a construction contract worth hundreds of
millions of dollars to begin remaking Iraq, U.S. officials
said yesterday."

"A few U.S. construction giants -- including the Bechtel
Group Inc., Halliburton Co. and Fluor Corp. -- were
invited to bid for the work..."
BBC News, "Analysis: Oil and the Bush cabinet", 29 January 2001.

"What makes the new Bush administration different
from previous wealthy cabinets is that so many of
the officials have links to the same industry - oil."
BBC News, "Dick Cheney: Leading hawk", 10 September 2002.

"The vice president has also been deeply involved in the
oil industry for much of his career."
BBC News, "New Enron sleaze allegations", 8 October 2002.

"The 'creative' accountancy of Arthur Andersen in Dick
Cheney's firm Halliburton is now under official
investigation."