Crude Excuses

Uh, the Oil for Food scandal isn’t about buying Iraqi oil. If that was all that had been done, there wouldn’t be a scandal. You can look here for some background information, such as the actual scandal. Instead of citing irrelevant facts in an effort to throw aspersions on the Republicans, perhaps you should ask youself whether the UN is the kind of people you want to hitch your moral credibility to.

Now, there is one American oil company that stands accused of having been involved in the scandal. Of course, it turns out to be a major contributor to the Democratic Party. Gosh, the one bit of real scandal and you didn’t bring it up. How odd.

Rather defensive, aren’t you? According to
BAGNewsNotes
that means you’re losing the argument. That gives me a warm feeling inside. Thank you for brightening my day

However, if I understand your claim correctly, you are upset that Cheney increased sales to the government while CEO of a government contractor. Wasn’t that his job? What, exactly, is the “unclean” part of that? Are you an anarchist who views all government money as tainted? Why single out Cheney and Halliburton?

It’s also interesting that you brought up Cheney at all, since I didn’t mention him and he’s completely irrelevant to both the original post and my comment. Argument by distraction – another indicator of someone who’s losing an argument.

As for the charge about Libya, Halliburton and Cheney, let’s go to
FactCheck.org:

We can only give Edwards partial credit for his Halliburton attack, however. He implied that Cheney was in charge of the company when it did business with Libya in violation of US sanctions, but that happened long before Cheney joined the company.

[emphasis added]

Hmmm. Perhaps it’s not me who needs to read more.

I see. I had imputed a claim that the information was accurate and perjorative, but apparently it was simply mindless reguritation of text you don’t understand. I apologize for presuming that you had a clue. I won’t make that mistake again.