On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 17:55:17 +0000, NOYB wrote:


Now wait just one minute there. When Halliburtion sells stuff to the UAE
or Qatar, and they resell it to Iran, you guys on the left scream that
Halliburton is selling stuff to the Iranians. Now, when Bush says that N.
Korea has supplied uranium hexafluoride to Lybia, you scream "no, they
sold it to Pakistan".

Why does the middleman matter in the second scenario and not in the first?

Halliburton does business in Iran *without* middlemen. Subsidiaries are
not middlemen.

http://www.halliburton.com/news/archive/2004/report.jsp