Blood Fuel? George H.W. Bush and former Secretary of State James Baker handled negotiations with Nigerian officials to get Dick Cheney off in the KBR bribery scandal. A plea bargain deal was reached to pay $250 million for dropping charges. If this sounds like a bribe to settle a bribery case, it's not so funny to Nigerian activists looking to end the partnership between corrupt officials and crooked outside corporations.

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Blood Fuel? George H.W. Bush and former Secretary of State James Baker handled negotiations with Nigerian officials to get Dick Cheney off in the KBR bribery scandal. A plea bargain deal was reached to pay $250 million for dropping charges. If this sounds like a bribe to settle a bribery case, it's not so funny to Nigerian activists looking to end the partnership between corrupt officials and crooked outside corporations.

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(OpEdNews Contributing Editor since October 2006) Inner city schoolteacher from New York, mostly covering media manipulation. I put election/finance reform ahead of all issues but also advocate for fiscal conservatism, ethics in journalism and curbing overpopulation. I enjoy open debate, history, the arts and hope to adopt a third child. Gustav Wynn is a pseudonym, but you knew that.

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