Too precious for words: Veep Cheney and Sadam Hussein, business buddies. Thomas Albert has his $0.02.

It reminds me of a great book I read back in the late '80s: Charles Higham's Trading with the Enemy: An Exposé on the Nazi-American Money Plot, 1933-1949. (Sadly out of print.) How to keep American owned companies from collaborating with the Axis. IT&T, Ford, General Motors, Standard Oil, et al. Same as trading arms for hostages of more recent memory.