If you're trying desperately to locate the Bloomberg expose on the Koch Brother's evil empire, don't bother scanning Fox News -- you won't find it! Why? After year's of fawning over these traitors because of their right wing ideologies, Fair and Balanced couldn't find anything newsworthy about Koch Industry sales to terror-loving Iran.
When you scrape the left wing barnacles off the Bloomberg article, the one item that cannot be challenged as fact is as follows: From 2003 to 2006, Koch subsidiaries in Europe sold material to Iran to help build that nation's largest petrochemical plant, now the largest methanol plant in the world. It was not until 2007 when Koch Industries the world over discontinued further sales to Iran (coincidentally, sales to Iran were declining prior to that point).
Correspondence shows that employees at the Koch subsidiaries felt uneasy that the company was indirectly supplying Iran with these materials, but managers gave instructions to complete the sales anyway.
U.S. companies have been banned from trading directly with Iran since 1995, when President Bill Clinton declared it a threat to national security. Iran supports Iraqi militants and Taliban fighters as well as terrorist groups, including Hamas and Hezbollah. The recent UN speech by Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad clearly proves that Iran is no friend of the United States.
So technically, the Koch Brothers stayed within the letter of the law.
But really, fellas -- whose side are you on?
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