Replies to post #77663 on Zeev's Turnips Talk Politics (ZTTP)

[skono4]

I'm thinking Good Cop/Bad Cop

[ergo sum]

No need I guess.

The Justice Department investigation relates to a subsidiary called Halliburton Products & Services Ltd., an oil field services company incorporated in the Cayman Islands. In a 2003 report, the company said the subsidiary "performs between $30 [million] and $40 million annually in oilfield service work in Iran."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A110-2004Jul20.html

[sarals]

It's the logic of the rich and powerful... do what I tell you to do... but I can do anything because I am better and more powerful than you. You know, just like how we tell others not to develop nuclear weapons, but we are developing new ones... how we want others to honor the geneva convention, but we do not... etc.

[harrypothead]

WHERE WAS THIS LOGIC WHEN GWB's ORDERED THE PRE-EMPTIVE INVASION OF IRAQ

Exactly! And Iran does poses the weapons capabilities that were used as justification for striking Iraq.
The Bush Doctine sets a bad precedent.