I am curious to know how many of these companies have top leaders of the U.S.A. including our President on their board of directors or as silent partners.

I am curious to know how many of these companies have members of the U.S. gov't including our President on their board of directors or as silent partners.

These are foreign corporations...we don't have to do business with them, and we can fine them, but the rest of the world doesn't have to bow down to our paranoid, self-interested outlook on the rest of the world. Case in point: Cuba, who poses no danger to any other nation, one of the countries that apparently doesn't have the right to self-determination because we Americans don't agree with the philosophy they've chosen. India and Pakistan created nuclear weapons without any trouble from us, while North Korea and Iran are evil for doing the very same thing. It's time for Americans to get over themselves, and stop acting like what's in our best interest is Right and Good while the interests of the 6 billion other people in the world are dangerous, evil, or irrelevant.

An example, that has been set by the US Government of doing buisiness in Iraq and other places, while threatning, terorrism.
Illegal to our Government means Amnisty, what does it mean to me?
You will see in 2008 or sooner if we are attacked here in the USA/NAU.
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This is news???? I would think that Cheney being the CEO of Halliburton and opening up a subsidiary in the British Cayman Islands to do business with Saddam by circumventing a US boycott of Saddam after Gulf War 1 would be more significant. But that hadn't been reported back then and still is considered a non-topic. But it bordered on Treason since Halliburton was an American Company.

Some idiots just don't get it. Case in point is the self righteous capitulators with comments on how we set the example. The fact is that past wrongs don't make this right! The fact is that while we are criticizing ourselves (which is good to a degree) we should not confuse the state of self criticizing with acceptance of those nations that are in fact clear and present dangers to our nation.

For all the aid and help we have provided and continue to provide to the world at large, we are in fact in a position to try to establish an order of things. Cuba while no direct threat is a threat and this is no forumn for a history lesson. They were going to entertain missles directed at New York and other cities under the benevolent Fidel, and if you think they have changed their stripes you are to stupid and ignorant to comment here.

We had better wake up or we will face a world in which the US is no longer the strongest and the leader. Bad as it is to many of you out there that the big bad US is your home, it will be far worse under the new circumstances you will find yourselves in the ensuing decades, should the US have to bow to a new world order.

Wake the hell up.

Sudan’s been in the news for long enough and these companies showed how greed beats humanity and kept doing business with this country anyways. The fine should be big and amounting to as many days they ignored this Ban on Trade.

After the news and all of our comments, there will be nothing done about this and it will be business as usual. The only thing that will change is some greedy politicians pockets will get a little fatter

With over 100 separate "terrorist groups" on the international terrorist group list, all of a wide variety of causes, countries and ideologies, it is virtually impossible to not have some business dealings with some of them at any given time.
That's what happens when the arbitrary number of "terrorists" out number the arbitrary number of good guy states by ten fold.
Anyone else see the limitations and the imbalance here, in this new world order, yet?
It's the draconian Empire from Star Wars against everybody else.
Programmed for failure if peace is the objective.