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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (541016)	1/6/2010 4:48:47 PM
From: combjelly	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575981

"Fair enough if you can't provide any examples of Big Oil paying off the Bush administration" Just follow the money. Look at Ray Hunt and Bush. Hunt has literally given millions of dollars to Bush in his various campaigns, the recount in Florida and the first inauguration party. Guess who sewed up a deal for Kurdistan oil? Both of Bush's inaugural parties were well funded by Big Oil or those with direct connections to it. There were reports of Big Oil reps. handing Bush checks during the first one.

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (541016)	1/6/2010 7:53:14 PM
From: RetiredNow	1 Recommendation Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1575981

My contention wasn't that Big Oil paid off Cheney and Bush, rather it is that Big Oil donated plenty of money to their campaigns and ran plenty of PR for them to ensure they got elected. Then they turned around and created the most oil friendly administration in recent memory, including getting distracted from the war on terror to go on an oil fishing expedition in Iraq, which cost the taxpayers $1 trillion, and landed Halliburton big bucks in no-bid contracts. It's all perfectly legal, but it is corrupt nonetheless. The part that I think is particularly traitorous is when they stretched the truth on terrorism in Iraq to secure a war in attempt to give oil companies another place to do business in and secure our oil supplies in the future. It didn't take much selling at the time, because we were all very fresh in our memories of 9/11 and there was over-riding hatred and fear of Muslims combined with a huge desire for revenge that Afghanistan didn't quite satisfy due to Bush's failure to kill Osama Bin Ladin in Tora Bora. So they sold us a bill of goods and we bought. That is proof that Bush and Cheney were the most cynical of leaders and traitorous to the American people, even if they may never be prosecuted for it.