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http://www.fas.org/irp/cia/product/iraq-wmd.html. You might also be interested to learn that President Clinton believed Iraq to have WMD intent before he left office ... http://www.nationalreview.com/levin/levin072103.asp.

- "Bush and Cheney stole the election:" Actually, the first independent recount of the 2000 presidential election was conducted by the Miami Herald and USA Today. According to their review, Bush won the election ... http://www.pbs.org/newshour/media/media_watch/jan-june01/recount_4-3.html.

- Bush and Cheney "doubled gasoline prices:" Gasoline was ~ $1.47/gallon when President Bush assumed office in January 2001 ... http://www.swivel.com/graphs/show/11909967. You are correct that gasoline prices have doubled; however, you have excluded the price of oil. Prior to 9/11, the average price per barrel of oil was ~$30. It is now just below $90/barrel, after having peaked above $150/barrel ... http://www.wtrg.com/oil_graphs/oilprice1947.gif. While gasoline prices doubled, oil was up 300% (at a minimum) to 500% (at a maximum) over 2001 market prices. OPEC largely establishes the market volume of oil barrel pricing, not President Bush or Vice President Cheney.

- "Halliburton was still paying Cheney:" Misleading statement, as stated here by Fact Check ... http://www.factcheck.org/kerry_ad_falsely_accuses_cheney_on_halliburton.html. Vice President Cheney did receive deferred payments after he left the company in 2000, but it was based on past performance ... not future access. According to Fact Check's page: "The $398,548 Halliburton has paid to Cheney while in office is all deferred compensation, a common practice that high-salaried executives use to reduce their tax bills by spreading income over several years. In Cheney's case, he signed a Halliburton form in December of 1998 choosing to have 50% of his salary for the next year, and 90% of any bonus money for that year, spread out over five years. (As it turned out, there was no bonus for 1999.)"

- "Halliburton moved its headquarters to the UAE:" You are correct ... they did open offices in Dubai; however, "the company will maintain its existing corporate office here as well as its legal incorporation in the United States, meaning that it will still be subject to domestic laws and regulations" ... as noted in this NY Times article, http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/03/12/business/web-0312halliburton.php. As you'll also see in the article, the company is incorporated in Deleware, remains listed as a US company on the NYSE, and is subject to corporate taxes as before. According to the NY Times article: "some analysts who follow Halliburton said they did not think the relocation of Lesar reflected anything more than changes in the energy business."

I am not pro-Bush or pro-Cheney, but I am interested in finding the ground truth and not relying on the soundbites offered by the media. Personally, I wouldn't walk across the street to see Vice President Cheney, but I don't quite believe he's Satan walking the earth."> Your name: (optional)

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