Bush Administration ♥'s Exports to Iran
By bluegal Tuesday Jul 08, 2008 8:00pmAP via Omaha World-Herald, h/t Foolocracy:
The United States sent Iran $546 million in goods from 2001 through last year, government figures show. It exported roughly $146 million worth last year, compared with $8.3 million in 2001, Bush's first year in office. Even adjusted for inflation, that is more than a tenfold increase.
Exports to Iran are a politically loaded but tiny part of U.S. trade....Top U.S. exports to Iran over Bush's years in office include corn, $68 million; ...vitamins, $18 million; [and] bull semen, $12.6 million... The value of cigarettes sold to Iran was more than twice that of the No. 2 category on the export list, vaccines, serums and blood products, $73 million.
Iran is a top customer of Alta Genetics Inc., a Canadian company with an office in Watertown, Wis., that sells bull semen, used to produce healthier, more profitable cattle. "The animals we're working with are genetically superior to those in many parts of the world," said Kevin Muxlow, Alta's global marketing manager.
Also getting Bush administration approval for export to Iran were at least $101,000 worth of bras; $175,000 in sculptures; nearly $96,000 worth of cosmetics; $8,900 in perfume; $30,000 in musical instruments and parts; $21,000 in golf carts and/or snowmobiles; $4,000 worth of movie film; and $3,300 in fur clothing.Few people or companies asking U.S. permission to trade with Iran are turned down by the Treasury Department, the lead agency for licensing exports to sanctioned countries....Read more...
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Must be all those Bra´s!!!!!!!!
Oh and least we forget
DUDE!!!
I don't think I can really appreciate this story as I'm still in a shocked state from witnessing Obama and Hillary prove today who was the better democratic candidate.
With Obama 's wholesale selling out to fear and politics and even approving cloture on FISA so as not to allow a filibuster, tells me all I need to know about this candidate of change.
John McCain’s Old-Fashioned Cigarette Diplomacy
J.T. @ 3:
I agree, I'm just too disgusted to care anymore. What's the difference who I vote for? If Obama isn't going to stand up for the Constitution and rule of law now, why the hell should I bother voting for him? This country is fucked, no matter who wins. I think I'll just stay home and watch it burn. George Carlin was right, voting is a sham, an illusion of choice.
What, no bibles? How we gonna spread the 'good word' without the textus de dias?
Let me get this straight:
Bush gets parts of their government declared terrorists, the riech wing wants to invade their country and we're still doing biz with these people?
I wonder what 12 million dollars of bull semen looks like. If anyone here has a camera and access to Bill O'Reilly's swimming pool, please find out.
One of my snark friends here in germany has a saying in regards to obama,,´´ depends what change we can pee in!´´
GERMANY loves the man,, abber,, some arent so quite sure hes not selling out to get more votes and do the same old crap in washington. Pay back those that paid his campaign etc.
with that,, I bid you all a goodnight and danke again crooks & liars for a kick ass blog where one can speak thier mind without being banned for it. ( in good taste that is)
Nighters folks and take care !
J.T. @ 3:
Oh but people say Hillary voted the "right" way....I found this online...curious I thought
Top Clinton Adviser to Join Fox News
Howard Wolfson, one of the members of Hillary Rodham Clinton's innermost circle and perhaps the most visible member of the New York senator's television surrogates, is joining Fox News Channel as a Democratic analyst.
Wolfson confirmed the move this evening via email. In addition to his part time commentary duties on FNC, Wolfson will remain a partner at the Glover Park Group -- a major consulting firm in Washington, D.C.
"Fox has the largest audience in cable television -- many of its viewers are independents who will help decide the next election," said Wolfson of his decision. "It's critically important for strong progressives to be talking to and offering analysis to that audience."
So whats the BEEF we have with Iran then? Why do we feel the need to HOOF it over there? After all, if we mess with the BULL, won't we get the HORNS?
If this is what "sanctions" look like in a Bush administration, I wanna apply to get "sanctioned" too.
WTF??
I imagine BillO will ignore this completely... after all, he was the one who took Olbermann and NBC to task over GE's business links to Iran. You'd think the world was coming down when BillO went off on that one. Now that BillO's beloved Bush administration has been allowing damn near everyone who asks to do business with the latest nation in our crosshairs, I wonder how he's going to spin that?
hmoore @ 13:
err ..
It's a clever Bush administration ruse to drain all the cash from the Iranian economy ..
.. yeah .. that's the ticket!
Snowmobiles to Iran? I guess I need a lesson in geography.
more "INCONVENIENT TRUTH" about the Bush administration's foreign policies...
or should I say... non-existant foreign policies.
millions? the oil is worth trillions
akovia @ 15:
And $3300 in fur clothing??? Guess that's what you wear while snowmobiling.
when there is profit to be had, Dubya and Cheney can't be far behind.
Cal @ 7:
Go read a British book from the 80s called 'Trading with the Enemy' , its a long established tradition.
Chimpy's grandpa (and other leading Repugs and US corporations) made millions from trading with and working for the Third Reich from the 1920s up until the collapse in 1945.
Kezaro @ 8:
That's what I'm wondering. O_o That's a lot of bull
shitjizz.akovia @ 15:
The northern part of Iran has tall mountains that are nice for skiing. I remember an edition of Outdoor magazine did an article about the ski resorts in Iran last year.
It beggars belief to think that the Bush family fortune has it origins in WW2 Polish slave labor mines camps,
courtesy of the golden share paid out to Prescott Bush post WW2.
Fact is stranger than anything that Hollywood or Catch 22 offers.
Blue Buddha @ 22:
Avoid Qomsheh
Talking about sanction against Iran!!!! When the American darling “Shah” was deposed, we armed (Reagan) the Iraqi with those WMDs to fight them. Sanctions were imposed on Iran for everything, except “The Iranian CAVIAR
ConcernedCanuck @ 10:
I've got to tell you Obama-Heads that every once in a while , I get a good vibe when I think about what putting Mr. Obama in charge of this once decent nation would say to the rest of the planet.
After reading and hearing some of the most snarky, mean, hurtful and convoluted critiques of Mrs. Clinton over the past year it still stings to have to start coming around and landing in the Obama camp. It has to be done though and you're either on the [Democrat] bus or you're off the bus.
Thirty years of "Oh, all politicians are corrupt" bookended with the other classic"There's no difference between Republicans and Democrats" put the Grover Norquist/Irv Kristol nail in the coffin when good/smart guy Albert Gore was defeated by a dry-drunk clunkhead who deserted his military duty.
In seven years, George Bush managed to thoroughly ruin my little Avril Rose's America and I'll never forget that.
No offense to Luke Russert but deciding to become an independent just means that the GOP triumphs. I understand why all you Ron Paul-heads and Dennis Kucinich-Heads and John Edwards-Heads really liked your candidate , I truly do-but we've got to get this country back into the hands of a party that will stop the dangerous direction that we're All heading in.
I worry about this obviously good person Barack Obama and always have because of the well-known corrupting power that the District can have on a person. This FISA capitulation/aiding and abetting in the destruction of the Fourth Amendment is devastating. Is this some tough-guy Chicago Politics scheme to Criminally go after the Telecoms after he's in office, as John Dean and Keith Olbermann posit?
Does Rezko, Donald Young, Larry Sinclair and blackmail do the trick?
Did some Senior Adviser convince him to abandon all principles merely to ensure that McCain couldn't call Obama a friend to the tayerists?
Obama claimed that he would even veto a cloture on Immunity for the Telecoms as well as the actual bill so color me stunned.
It just might take a little while longer now to step onto that bus , that's all
$21 000 in GOLF CART parts? I thought we were supposed to be giving up golf to support the troops!
Somehow I doubt this list will make it onto The O'Reilly Factor, although Bill-O will probably call for a Bill-O-Cot on Canada again, since that bull-semen company is based in Canada.
Cal @ 7:
That can't be right. According to the Bush doctrine of 2001, if you do business with turrorists, yer a turrorist!
Maybe we still have time to export Cheney and Bush to Iran before the bombs burst in air - after all, they're both full of Bulls**t ....!!??
amazing, we have bread that creature so it cant even reproduce with itself in nature.
Cigarettes? Golf carts? Fur coats?
Hmmm. Someone in Iran has pretty expensive tastes. I'm guessing from the amounts reported that a lot of this stuff (other than the corn and cigarettes) isn't destined for the lower classes, or even for a large number of people. In fact, this looks like Kim Jong Il's shopping list from a few years back. Wonder what we'd find if we got a hidden camera over to the vacation homes of some of the lran's leaders?
No matter. What this proves to me is that our leaders don't really consider Iran a threat, any more than they do the Chinese. The whole thing is a sham. Just an excuse to spend more money on military hardware and, increasingly, outsourced support services (including killer wiring in G.I. showers).
So, first we get Obama and as many other Democrats elected as we can in November. Then we start pressuring them from day one to fix this mess. Never let up. Never surrender. Just keep the heat on them until they get with the program.
Holy crap..! If MacGuyver can make a nuke out of all that -- I'm sure he can -- so can the Iranians!!!1 OMG, put on your fear panties, boys!!!! /snark
This is just lame. So. Freaking. What? I would normally be getting pissy about ppl going so far off-topic on this, but this post just begs it. Alright, we get it. Bush is a liar, and Businesses do what the hell they want to in this country. Simply put: this isn't worth the time to read. no one is selling weapons, we shouldn't be saber-rattling at Iran while we're in a few simultaneous wars anyway, so who frigging cares about exported golf cart supplies and bull semen, just to preach the obvious to the choir? (apologies to anyone who is just now waking up to the fact that Bush is a liar and than Iran likes recreational vehicles and tobacco, just like us.)
I second the above: Who cares.
Only a person inundated in american exceptionalist propaganda could contend that we should do anything but help this country and trade with them.
I hope this post isn't implying otherwise
J.T. @ 26:
See, that's the rub. Bush DIDN'T do it in seven years - what he has wrought is the tail end of what started when Ronald Reagan lifted his crusty claw and lied about upholding the Constitution. And then G.H.W. did his bit, and the all too Conservative Bill Clinton got the DLC and Blue Dogs in place for when G. Dubya's turn came around. It was a group effort - PNAC couldn't have done their part if Clinton hadn't backed them. and Bush couldn't have fone the harm he has done without the aid of Democrats.
Hillary was treated BETTER than she deserved...
casper46 @ 18:
Nukyoolur winters are effin cold I think.
Why does an export from a Canadian company count as a US export?
Also, who cares if you're actually trading with them. Just care about the Bush hypocrisy.
This is typical and disgusting. The dems attack Bush from the right AGAIN...
Does Iran seem like a threat to YOU?
Do you support military action against Iran?
Do you support sanctions against Iran?
Do you think that the Dems attacking from the right are helpful to Bushies agenda?
'Talking Point' politics with ideas taken out of a can or reconstituted freeze dried BULLSHIT.
Obama sold us out and as commented above - He has DEMONSTRATED UNEQUIVOCALLY that he will not defend your BASIC constitutional rights nor will he stand for the RULE of LAW. FISA law stated it would be the ONLY means of spying on Americans - So much for the rule of law.
That the telcoms handed over god knows what and the government has granted them blanket immunity - Hey that's FASCISM isn't it??
But in closing it is unclear from this Blog post; Does C&L support fear/war mongering against Iran?
Does C&L think the US should attack Iran either economically or militarily..?
And the guy from Germany who said this site allows free speech lives in a fantasy world.
BiO
Kezaro @ 8:
Oh my, that has to be the most disgusting thing ever thought of! Brilliant!
It's interesting too, to see what America still produces for export...
I wish someone would sell them a nuclear bomb, so that we can dispense with fantasies of killing Iranians and provide the region with a counterbalance to Israel's stockpiling hundreds of nuclear weapons.
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