Pardon Me Mr. McCain, But Who Are the Terrorists Now?
Who’s the terrorist sympathizer now, Mr. McCain?
William Timmons, the Washington lobbyist who John McCain has named to head his presidential transition team, aided an influence effort on behalf of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein to ease international sanctions against his regime.
The two lobbyists who Timmons worked closely with over a five year period on the lobbying campaign later either pleaded guilty to or were convicted of federal criminal charges that they had acted as unregistered agents of Saddam Hussein’s government.
During the same period beginning in 1992, Timmons worked closely with the two lobbyists, Samir Vincent and Tongsun Park, on a previously unreported prospective deal with the Iraqis in which they hoped to be awarded a contract to purchase and resell Iraqi oil. Timmons, Vincent, and Park stood to share at least $45 million if the business deal went through.
Timmons’ activities occurred in the years following the first Gulf War, when Washington considered Iraq to be a rogue enemy state and a sponsor of terrorism. His dealings on behalf of the deceased Iraqi leader stand in stark contrast to the views his current employer held at the time.
Still wanna talk about Bill Ayers douchebag? Oh, and let’s take a little closer look at your pal Billy, shall we:
Timmons has been greasing the skids for a whole host of special interests for decades, and thus brings a certain “insider smarm” that the Maverocity PR purveyors will have to try to downplay. But can they?
Just take a peek at a partial list of clients for whom Timmons and Company has lobbied just since 2001 according to Implu:
— Unocal (now owned by Chevron)
— American Petroleum Institute
— American Health Care Association
— Lincare
— AT&T
— Freddie Mac
— Centex Corporation
— Cox Enterprises, Inc.
— National Assoc. of Manufacturers
— Asbestos Working Group
— Northrup Grumman
— American Financial Services Assoc.
— The NRA (The National Rifle Association)
— The American Council of Life Insurers
;– Farallon Capital Management, LLC
— Bristol-Myers Squibb Co.
— The Vanguard Group, Inc.
— Primerica Financial Services
— Teva Pharmaceuticals USA, Inc.Timmons is a Beltway staple — having served as the chief Congressional lobbyist for the Nixon Administration, and served in every Republican Administration since then. He’s also quite an old hand at Washington politics, knows how to work the levers of power…sound like Dick Cheney in terms of ability to work his own agenda into the mix yet?
We all know how well that went for Dick Cheney’s agenda when he headed up the Bush transition team. You have to think McCain would take a more active roll than Bush did, just based on his own insider experience the last few decades.
So who’s the terrorist now, Mr. McCain?
For the old heads out there, a little MDC:
Who Are the Terrorists Now?
We are the best, fuck all the rest, yes we are the chest-pounding terrorists now!
October 14th, 2008 at 6:21 pm
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