He's always been a Dick...

...but he wasn't always the Vice President. Once upon a time, Dick Cheney ran a multi-national 'oil services' company (although it seems to have been American taxpayers who were usually, ahem, 'serviced' by Haliburton).

Norbizness dips into the memory well to remind us about how very different some things were not so very long ago...

Cheney has frequently fought to lift US sanctions against Iran despite concerns about terrorist activity. Just last month, Cheney said that the US should lift sanctions against Iran and allow US oil companies to invest there. “There’s been a decision not to allow US firms to invest significantly in Iran, and I think that’s a mistake,” Cheney said.

2000 seems like, well, a whole different century, doesn't it?