NBC Nightly News special report "I am baffled that any American company would want to have employees operating in Iran," says Sen. Susan Collins, R-M
March 7, 2005

NBC Nightly News special report

"I am baffled that any American company would want to have employees operating in Iran," says Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine. "I would think they'd be ashamed."

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Sources close to the Halliburton investigation tell NBC News that after that announcement, Halliburton decided that business with Iran, then conducted through at least five companies, would all be done through a subsidiary incorporated in the Cayman Islands.

"The purpose of these sanctions is to dissuade Iran from supporting terrorism and from seeking to acquire weapons of mass destruction."

Our Vice President's old company has been doing business with Iran for years and that seems to be OK with everybody on the right. Does Susan Collins think that Dick Cheney should be ashamed?

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