{"id":2903,"date":"2004-10-07T13:32:55","date_gmt":"2004-10-07T20:32:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mossback.org\/archives\/2004\/10\/kerry-ad-falsely-accuses-cheney-on-halliburton\/"},"modified":"2004-10-07T13:32:55","modified_gmt":"2004-10-07T20:32:55","slug":"kerry-ad-falsely-accuses-cheney-on-halliburton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/2004\/10\/07\/kerry-ad-falsely-accuses-cheney-on-halliburton\/","title":{"rendered":"Kerry Ad Falsely Accuses Cheney on Halliburton"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\tHere’s the summary of the article on FactCheck.org refuting the bogus Kerry accusations on Cheney’s Halliburton<\/a> connection:<\/p>\n

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A Kerry ad implies Cheney has a financial interest in Halliburton and is profiting from the company’s contracts in Iraq. The fact is, Cheney doesn’t gain a penny from Halliburton’s contracts, and almost certainly won’t lose even if Halliburton goes bankrupt.<\/p>\n

The ad claims Cheney got $2 million from Halliburton “as vice president,” which is false. Actually, nearly $1.6 million of that was paid before Cheney took office. More importantly, all of it was earned before he was a candidate, when he was the company’s chief executive.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Those who continue to maintain some sort of connection are grasping at straws. See Mitch Ratcliffe<\/a> for one of the funniest, and most pathetic, examples.<\/p>\n

UPDATE: Here’s my comment to Ratcliffe, whose blog is working again:<\/p>\n

Leaving aside your highly imaginative summary of the last 20 years of American relations with Iraq and focusing on the substance of the debate, most of us were mainly impressed by the “stature gap.” Dick Cheney is a man with one of the most impressive resumes in America, having served as Congressional staffer, Congressman, White House Chief of Staff, Defense Secretary, CEO of a major multinational corporation employing tens of thousands, and Vice-President. <\/p>\n

John Edwards is a kid with great teeth and nice hair who used to sue doctors by using religious appeals and junk science, generally disliked by the people who elected him to be Jesse Helms’ junior senator. He approached the debate like a yapping little Chihuahua dog, tossing made-up figures and non-facts around repetitively and irresponsibly in an attempt to hide the inconsistencies in his own position.<\/p>\n

Is the for the liberation of Iraq or against it? Does he want to speed-up the contracting in Iraq, or slow it down (by ending no-bid contracts)? Does he want to increase the US troop strength or reduce it? Does he have the ability to draw additional nations into the peace-keeping coalition, or has he already alienated those, like Poland, the UK, and Australia, who are already part of it?<\/p>\n

You want to dwell on the exigencies of Saddam’s twisting relations with the US over a 20 year period – and meaningless terms of Cheney’s employment contract – because you have to run from these questions.<\/p>\n

What else can you do?<\/em>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here’s the summary of the article on FactCheck.org refuting the bogus Kerry accusations on Cheney’s Halliburton connection: A Kerry ad implies Cheney has a financial interest in Halliburton and is profiting from the company’s contracts in Iraq. The fact is, Cheney doesn’t gain a penny from Halliburton’s contracts, and almost certainly won’t lose even if … Continue reading “Kerry Ad Falsely Accuses Cheney on Halliburton”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbifyw-KP","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2903\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bennett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}