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Old Apr 14, 2006, 01:57 pm   #7 (permalink) (top)
PatrickHenry
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Yeah, Rumsfeld should retire on his Cerberus holdings:
http://btpholdings.blogspot.com/2005...s_archive.html
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If anyone ever had any question as to why Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld has been such a major figure inside the Bush administration advancing the interests of the neo-conservative network, the answer to the mystery may have finally been resolved. It’s actually been quite profitable for the U.S. defense secretary.

Rumsfeld — along with former Vice President Dan Quayle — has ties to Cerberus Global Investments, a New York-based holding company which, just last month, purchased the Israeli government’s interest in Bank Leumi, the second largest bank in Israel.

The revelation came in the Nov. 15 issue of the influential Israeli newspaper, Ha’aretz, which reported that, at least as far back as 2001, Rumsfeld was an investor in the company, citing a report that appeared in the Oct. 3, 2005, issue of Business Week, based on financial disclosure forms that Rumsfeld was required to file under federal ethics laws.

That Business Week report went so far as to describe Cerberus as being “bigger” than even such well-known business giants as McDonald’s, 3M, Coca-Cola and Cisco Systems, pointing out that Cerberus controls some 226 Burger King restaurants, the National and Alamo car-rental chains, building products maker Formica Corp. and the old Warner Hollywood Studios.

What is of particular interest regarding Rumsfeld’s Cerberus investments (vis a vis his insistent demand that the United States invade Iraq and occupy the country, as it does today) is that Business Week asserted that Cerberus has also “set up military base camps in Iraq.”


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