Karl
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It could be argued that the point of the war itself was to make money for Halliburton, or at least a prime reason. Alternative reasons for the war would be oil profiteering, again by companies like Halliburton (had the war gone the way that the neo-cons originally intended and we now had a puppet govt in Iraq with Exxon and Halliburton controlling the oil fields).[...] It was people like you that during the eight years of the Bush administration railed against Halliburton and the contracts they got to supply the troops as 'no bid', and tried to hang the yoke of 'crony capitalism' around the neck of Bush, even to the point of screaming that he and Cheney be "frog marched" out of the WH. [...]
So... I'd suggest a different tack, since I doubt Obama invented solar power just to line the pockets of some monied supporter.
By the way, Fast and Furious appears to be an outgrowth of a Bush-era program:
Perhaps you can get Obama nailed on parking tickets....The BATF began Project Gunrunner as a pilot project in Laredo, Texas, in 2005 and expanded it as a national initiative in 2006. Project Gunrunner is also part of the Department’s broader Southwest Border Initiative, which seeks to reduce cross-border drug and firearms trafficking and the high level of violence associated with these activities on both sides of the border.[2] However, multiple agents within the ATF (whistleblowers) have publicly stated they were ordered to allow assault-style weapons to sold to straw purchasers who then transported the weapons to Mexico to resell to Mexican drug cartels.[3]
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