No reasonable person can argue that Saddam Hussein does not pose a threat to the U.S. and its allies. However, it seems that Vice President Cheney is a unique position of hypocrisy when it comes to Iraq. As head of Halliburton, he not only helped Iraq to rebuild its oil fields after the Persian Gulf War, but also "dealt with several brutal dictatorships, including the despicable government of Burma (Myanmar)...[and] played questionable roles in Algeria, Angola, Bosnia, Croatia, Haiti, Somalia and Indonesia." Halliburton was also "fined $3.8 million for re-exporting goods to Libya in violation of U.S. sanctions." To be fair, as the article points out, the only reason that Democrats didn't jump all over this is because several prominent Democrats were involved in similar deals. The fact that corporate politics has prevented these dealings from coming to light really angers me. To me, the most egregious thing is the present administration's blatantly two-faced attempt to restore ethics to the corporate world, when in fact both W and Cheney epitomized corporate greed and lack of ethics when they were in the private sector.