The famous no-bid deals once again read their ugly heads. The article continues " There was suspicion among many in the Arab world and among parts of the American public that the United States had gone to war in Iraq precisely to secure the oil wealth these contracts seek to extract. The Bush administration has said that the war was necessary to combat terrorism. It is not clear what role the United States played in awarding the contracts; there are still American advisers to Iraq's Oil Ministry.
Sensitive to the appearance that they were profiting from the war and already
under pressure because of record high oil prices, senior officials of two of the
companies, speaking only on the condition that they not be identified, said they
were helping Iraq rebuild its decrepit oil industry."
We have no reason being in Iraq. W wanted to terrify red staters about Iraq's "imminent threat" when really all he wanted to do was liberate Iraq's oil. And now the hypocrite mini-me McCain is lecturing Obama on GWOT.
The article "Terrorism Takes Center Stage as Obama Responds to McCain Camp's Charges" at
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shows Obama is allowing surrogates to attack big bro 43's 3rd term, McCain's hypocritical charges that Obama is a pre-9/11 thinker. It states "In a conference call with reporters, Sen. John Kerry (who faced the same soft on terror charges in his 2004 presidential campaign) and former counterterrorism
czar Richard Clarke noted that Obama is proposing a comprehensive approach that
includes military measures, including a possible invasion of Pakistani border
areas if the U.S. has a solid tip on Al-Qaeda whereabouts and Pakistan refuses
to act.
In fact, Kerry -- who had considered McCain as a possible vice presidential
runningmate in 2004 -- and Clarke noted, McCain and other Republicans had
criticized Obama for that very suggestion of military action in Pakistan. And,
they pointed out, Obama's call for granting habeas corpus rights to individuals
held at Guantanamo Bay was upheld by the Supreme Court last week.
Kerry and Clarke went on to criticize McCain's approach to fighting terrorism as
ineffective and outdated. McCain's approach, they charged, had relied too much
on the military, diverted resources and attention from Al-Qaeda and aided
terrorist recruitment. Meanwhile, the circumvention of the U.S. legal system in
handling suspected terrorists had undermined America's standing in the Muslim
world.
"This is really an important day in marking a real line between John McCain's
policies and Barack Obama's," said Kerry. "The McCain campaign has defined a
road to defeat and, frankly, to more disastrous policies that haven't worked...
[McCain] has fully embraced, willfully and openly, the failed policy of the Bush
administration of the past seven years. He is really defending a policy that is
indefensible."...
But Clarke said that Al-Qaeda had not attacked on American soil since Sept. 11 because it had instead decided that it was easier to attack America in Iraq: "They've killed 4,000 and wounded 25,000," he said, contradicting the Democratic case that many if not most casualties have been inflicted by non-Al-Qaeda Iraqis.
But Clarke was fully on message with his charge that McCain's attack today was a
"Karl Rove strategy" and "straight out of the Republican playbook."
"I'm frankly a little disgusted by some of the attacks of some of my friends on
the McCain campaign to use the same old tired tactics of the past several
campaigns, trying to paint one party as weak on terrorism and completely
distorting the record of pone party, to drive a wedge for partisan advantage and
to frighten Americans."
Sensitive to the appearance that they were profiting from the war and already
under pressure because of record high oil prices, senior officials of two of the
companies, speaking only on the condition that they not be identified, said they
were helping Iraq rebuild its decrepit oil industry."
We have no reason being in Iraq. W wanted to terrify red staters about Iraq's "imminent threat" when really all he wanted to do was liberate Iraq's oil. And now the hypocrite mini-me McCain is lecturing Obama on GWOT.
The article "Terrorism Takes Center Stage as Obama Responds to McCain Camp's Charges" at
click here
shows Obama is allowing surrogates to attack big bro 43's 3rd term, McCain's hypocritical charges that Obama is a pre-9/11 thinker. It states "In a conference call with reporters, Sen. John Kerry (who faced the same soft on terror charges in his 2004 presidential campaign) and former counterterrorism
czar Richard Clarke noted that Obama is proposing a comprehensive approach that
includes military measures, including a possible invasion of Pakistani border
areas if the U.S. has a solid tip on Al-Qaeda whereabouts and Pakistan refuses
to act.
In fact, Kerry -- who had considered McCain as a possible vice presidential
runningmate in 2004 -- and Clarke noted, McCain and other Republicans had
criticized Obama for that very suggestion of military action in Pakistan. And,
they pointed out, Obama's call for granting habeas corpus rights to individuals
held at Guantanamo Bay was upheld by the Supreme Court last week.
Kerry and Clarke went on to criticize McCain's approach to fighting terrorism as
ineffective and outdated. McCain's approach, they charged, had relied too much
on the military, diverted resources and attention from Al-Qaeda and aided
terrorist recruitment. Meanwhile, the circumvention of the U.S. legal system in
handling suspected terrorists had undermined America's standing in the Muslim
world.
"This is really an important day in marking a real line between John McCain's
policies and Barack Obama's," said Kerry. "The McCain campaign has defined a
road to defeat and, frankly, to more disastrous policies that haven't worked...
[McCain] has fully embraced, willfully and openly, the failed policy of the Bush
administration of the past seven years. He is really defending a policy that is
indefensible."...
But Clarke said that Al-Qaeda had not attacked on American soil since Sept. 11 because it had instead decided that it was easier to attack America in Iraq: "They've killed 4,000 and wounded 25,000," he said, contradicting the Democratic case that many if not most casualties have been inflicted by non-Al-Qaeda Iraqis.
But Clarke was fully on message with his charge that McCain's attack today was a
"Karl Rove strategy" and "straight out of the Republican playbook."
"I'm frankly a little disgusted by some of the attacks of some of my friends on
the McCain campaign to use the same old tired tactics of the past several
campaigns, trying to paint one party as weak on terrorism and completely
distorting the record of pone party, to drive a wedge for partisan advantage and
to frighten Americans."
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