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Local protest
planned for Dick Cheney�s latest Republican fundraiser,
war profiteering, energy policy ENRON corruptions, environment
are among the top issues
Event: Local Protest to Meet Cheney�s Latest Portland Fundraising Visit
Date: Tuesday, January 13th, 2004
Time: 4:30 p.m.
Place: Embassy Suites Hotel, 7900 NE 82nd
Local environmental and peace and justice activists will be gathering
at the
Embassy Suites Hotel to protest the latest visit to Portland by
Republican
fundraiser, Dick Cheney. "Judging from the revelations of former
Treasury
Secretary, Paul O�Neill, Cheney is responsible for the most corrupt and
criminal policies of the current administration," said Will Seaman, a
local
organizer with the Portland Peaceful Response Coalition. "He�s still
getting regular pay checks from Halliburton - the prime war
profiteering
corporation in Iraq - and remains a stockholder, and he was at the
center of
formulating this administration�s energy policy in the interest of
ENRON and
the other energy corporations that bought the presidency for Bush and
his
crony capitalist pals." As in previous visits to Portland, today�s
protests
will reflect a broad range of dissent from Bush Administration
policies,
from the environment and energy policy, to the war and occupation in
Iraq.
"This week saw even more evidence come to light that the Bush
Administration
�s war on Iraq had nothing to do with weapons of mass destruction or
with
making the country safe against terror," said Seaman. "This criminal
war
was planned from the beginning of this corrupt administration, and we
need
only look to who is profiting to understand the true motives of people
like
Dick Cheney."1 Seaman cited the multi-billion dollar no-bid contracts
that
have gone to Halliburton and the advanced discussions of Iraqi oil
fields
that took place well before the 9-11 attacks, reported by Paul O�Neill,
as
indications of the more likely incentives for Bush�s plans for war.
"And we
should emphasize that the man visiting Portland today is a leader, if
not
the key leader, in formulating and implementing these policies," said
Seaman. "And the costs have been hundreds of US soldiers killed,
thousands
injured, tens of thousands of Iraqis killed and injured, a country
devastated, no exit strategy, and no end in sight."
1. "Bush was demanding excuse to invade Iraq in January 2001, says
ex-treasury secretary", Andrew Gumbel, in Los Angeles, 12 January 2004,
Independent (UK); "Bush decided to remove Saddam 'on day one'", Julian
Borger in Washington, January 12, 2004, The Guardian (UK); "Bush Sought
to Oust Hussein From Start, Ex-Official Says", Richard W. Stevenson,
January 12, 2004, New York Times.
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