March 18, 2004

Next time you hear the ridiculous argument that Haliburton is being favored by the Bush administration, note this:

Halliburton has worked with the Department of Defense for 12 years, and did a substantial amount of work under the Clinton administration. Investor’s Business Daily recently wrote:

... Halliburton won its services contract from the Pentagon back in 1992 – three years before Cheney became CEO. Then-Defense Secretary Cheney wasn’t the one who awarded the contract; career Pentagon officials did … By the way, Halliburton worked under the same basic deal in the Balkans under President Clinton.

Another great point from Larry Elder.

Let’s not forget the obvious: the Spanish are depending on us,

the United States, to eradicate the terrorists for them.

They want to be left alone by the terrorists. If the Islamofascists were to succeed, it would be only a matter of time before terrorists demand that militant Islam be imposed on all of Spain. So the Spanish need us, are counting on us, are depending on us to do the hard work for them, to save them.

That is true cowardice: to pretend to agree with the enemy who wants to destroy you.

Americans should not be fooled by Spanish rhetoric that they don’t support the war in Iraq. With us doing all the hard work, it’s easier for them to take the cowardly way out. But they can’t come out and say, “we’re a bunch of cowardly slackers.” No, of course not. They have to pretend they’re opposed to the war on the terrorists who just killed hundreds of them and wounded close to a thousand. They have to pretend they’re opposed to a war on those to whom they’ve just raised the white flag in fear.

Ha. As if. If they don’t turn themselves around on this, the cowardice of the Spanish could become a punchline for generations.