I was asked this question about Kerry

[G_j]

'Is Kerry going to do anything about Haliburton and the other war profiteers?' Being not nearly as informed as I should be, all I could say was 'I sure hope so!'

Has Kerry been addressing these Iraq contracts, missing oil revenues etc.?

[seabeyond]

1. i WANT to know too

good question. i am assuming he will. but then who is to know, huh. there is plenty there to ogo after them in theft

[Catfight]

2. Why don't you ask Kerry on his website? Kerry has an arsenal of

questions all of us would love to ask Bush, maybe Kerry can start collecting them and ask one a day?

[Bombtrack]

3. Cheney and Bush authorized the no-bid contracts

Of course Kerry isn't going to continue that. He has absolutely no reason to. Both candidates, Kerry, and even more, Edwards, have said they would immediatly end that policy

[TheDonkey]

4. He bashed the no-bids on his midnight speech after the RNC

Yes, he's mad about those contracts and that led him to also vote against the $87B blank check.

JK does need to explain this more often. You also know he'd stop the war-profiteering because unlike Chenney and shrub he doesn't get a cut from these no-bid cash fests.

[G_j]

7. thanks

I didn't hear that complete speech. I'm glad he said this.
I had done a quick search on his website but didn't find anything right off.

It seems to me that this brazen war profiteering is a great weakness
for Bush. There is no way to defend it as "strong on defense", "patriotic" etc. It is just good old fashioned greed and corruption.

Talk about "values" !

[TheDonkey]

14. Yeah, it's a HUGE weakness. I know some rethugs who are even worried

because BILLIONs of all of our tax money is being wasted by these greedy people. It's almost unreal. Kerry is starting to talk about it and the more the merrier. We ALL need to use it in our talking points.

[roseBudd]

5. tell them Kerry was a tough prosecutor

not a failed businessman bailed out by Daddy's friends

[volosong]

6. KERRY SHOULD DEMAND FORMATION OF AN INDEPENDENT COUNSEL TO INVESTIGATE

[delete_bush]

8. Try this...

Kerry early on addressed the war profiteers in his opposition to the infamous (and not well explained by the Kerry camp) $87 billion "troop" funding bill.

Included in the package was something totally non-negotiable for the Republicans: Provisions sponsored by Democrats to prevent war profiteering simply had to go.

In addition, Kerry and others wanted the spending package bill in two parts, one for $67B for the troops, which everyone would support, the other $20B for reconstruction projects.

These included, to cite some lurid examples, $9 million to establish Iraqi zip codes, $100 million to buy the Iraqis trash trucks and $400 million to build state-of-the art jails. Oh, and $100 million for bequeathing to the Iraqis, by end of 2004, a Pentagon-created "world-class newspaper."

Kerry and others, including some R's, wanted $10B of the $20B to be in the form of a loan, the chimp wanted the entire $20B in the form of a grant and STATED THAT HE WOULD VETO THE BILL IF IT WAS NOT IN A FORM HE APPROVED.

In other words, Kerry voted for preventing war profiteering before he voted for it a second time.

[G_j]

12. that is very helpful

thanks!

[Feanorcurufinwe]

9. What? You weren't able to answer? You must have missed

every speech Kerry gave for the last 9 months.

[G_j]

10. link? quotes?

On a quick search I was not able to find references to Halliburton or war profiteering at the website, I did this before I posted here. That is why I was asking you folks.
And no, I haven't had the ability to hear Kerry's speeches in full.

[Feanorcurufinwe]

13. I have the feeling google is just as accessible to you as it is to me.

And forgive me for being cynical, but I just don't believe someone could be paying attention and not know the answer to your question.

[G_j]

15. well DU is often better than Google

as a first step to finding good links. But I did a Google search and found a number of references, here is an example:

http://cnnstudentnews.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/08/04/kerry.halliburton/

Kerry campaign: Release Cheney's Halliburton testimony
Lawyer says vice president's conduct 'proper in all respects'
Thursday, August 5, 2004 Posted: 9:38 AM EDT (1338 GMT)

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry's campaign Wednesday called on the White House to release details of Vice President Dick Cheney's testimony in federal regulators' probe of the accounting practices of the company he once headed.
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ps.. thanks for all the help

[seabeyond]

11. you know he doesnt come to texas

and he isnt on the news. and the few speeches i have heard, i havent heard anything but cheney no bid to halliburton his friend. not that he is going after them when in office