Kerry Camp Seizes on Probe of Halliburton

[maddezmom]

WASHINGTON - After days of making hay over lost Iraqi explosives, John Kerry (news - web sites)'s campaign is seizing on an expanding FBI (news - web sites) probe of Halliburton Co. as evidence the administration gives "special favors" to special interests. President Bush (news - web sites) received affirmation of his wartime leadership in a very public salute from his former war commander.

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This late in the game, any miscue is ripe for exploitation, and the Republicans committed a few — in one instance watching former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani explain himself after seeming to blame troops in Iraq (news - web sites) for the missing explosives.


Kerry's running mate quickly went on the offensive when word came out that the FBI has begun investigating whether the Pentagon (news - web sites) improperly awarded no-bid Iraq reconstruction contracts to Halliburton Co., the Houston-based company formerly headed by Vice President Dick Cheney (news - web sites).


"At every turn for the past four years, George Bush (news - web sites) and Dick Cheney gave out special favors and looked out for their special interest friends," Sen. John Edwards (news - web sites) said.

more: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=694&ncid=696&e=5&u=/ap/20041029/ap_on_el_pr/campaign_rdp

Lots of back and forth about both sides, but Rudy's words are going to come back to bite *.

[underpants]

1. It is sad that the Kerry campaign has to be its own news network

Seriously if Kerry, Edwards, and the campaign hadn't pushed some of these stories in the last few days I doubt they would have gotten much coverage.

Bush is having to play defense when they were counting on being aggressive and projecting the "It's OVER!" image. Too bad suckers.

[maddezmom]

2. can't wait to hear the cry of "it's a cheap shot" or the Kerry camp

is ripping the news out of the headlines!!!

[City Lights]

5. Yeah, how dare he read newspapers!

It will be so great to have a president again who actually knows what is going on in the world.

[maddezmom]

10. just one who can read, will be really, really nice :)

[Village Idiot]

3. Work it, baby, WORK IT!!!!

Last weekend to make sure these ignorant fuckards fade from memory COMPLETELY!!!


GO KERRY, GO!!!

[tired of bush]

4. what did he say?

At the risk of sounding dumb...what exactly did Guiliani say?

[wishlist]

7. Giuliani blamed troops for not finding and securing explosives better

Bushco is trying to say the explosives were gone before we invaded (big lie exposed by 4/18/01 video) but then Giuliani said that the explosives being missing was due to troops not finding and securing them!

[JPace]

6. The repug pigs have given us sooo much fodder

in these last days.....Yes Gloria, there is a God!
And he/she is a Democrat!

[wishlist]

8. I love that Bush/Cheney are on the mats defending themselves over this

Their over- the- top rhetoric is going to be even more strident today trying to make Kerry the mean baddie and villain for accusing them of wrongdoing "without knowing the facts". Unfortunately for them, they are the ones who are unwilling and incapable of providing any facts.

I have noticed again and again, that Kerry's accusations and claims always turn out to be substantiated and truthful when the "facts" actually do come out.

[molly]

9. Hmmmm

"God bless you, Tommy," Bush said as he took the microphone from him. YOU HELPED KILL 100,000 INNOCENT PEOPLE"