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Originally posted by ARTelevision
Haliburton is the smart choice for what they do best.
It would be absurd to not use their expertise for work that's in the national interest.
The vast majority of the deception occurring during this administration's tenure is being practiced by its detractors.
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It may well have been smart to pick haliburton, but it wasn't a choice, because there was no competition - that's what "no-bid" means.
Your last point doesn't hold water. Not until this Administration is some years behind us will we have an idea as to the truth of that statement. 30 years later, and details are still emerging about the Nixon whitehouse's lies and maneuvering in the run-up to the '72 election. But to bring us back to the present, how about an
article looking at the current presidential campaign:
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From Bush, Unprecedented Negativity
Scholars Say Campaign Is Making History With Often-Misleading Attacks
It was a typical week in the life of the Bush reelection machine.
Last Monday in Little Rock, Vice President Cheney said Democratic presidential candidate John F. Kerry "has questioned whether the war on terror is really a war at all" and said the senator from Massachusetts "promised to repeal most of the Bush tax cuts within his first 100 days in office."
On Tuesday, President Bush's campaign began airing an ad saying Kerry would scrap wiretaps that are needed to hunt terrorists.
The same day, the Bush campaign charged in a memo sent to reporters and through surrogates that Kerry wants to raise the gasoline tax by 50 cents.
On Wednesday and Thursday, as Kerry campaigned in Seattle, he was greeted by another Bush ad alleging that Kerry now opposes education changes that he supported in 2001.
The charges were all tough, serious -- and wrong, or at least highly misleading. Kerry did not question the war on terrorism, has proposed repealing tax cuts only for those earning more than $200,000, supports wiretaps, has not endorsed a 50-cent gasoline tax increase in 10 years, and continues to support the education changes, albeit with modifications.
Scholars and political strategists say the ferocious Bush assault on Kerry this spring has been extraordinary, both for the volume of attacks and for the liberties the president and his campaign have taken with the facts. Though stretching the truth is hardly new in a political campaign, they say the volume of negative charges is unprecedented -- both in speeches and in advertising.
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