{"id":632,"date":"2004-09-28T01:04:21","date_gmt":"2004-09-28T05:04:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.test.bradblog.com\/?p=632"},"modified":"2004-09-28T01:04:21","modified_gmt":"2004-09-28T05:04:21","slug":"fire-halliburton-win-the-war-and-the-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=632","title":{"rendered":"Fire Halliburton – Win the War and the Election!"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the points in John Kerry’s plan for Iraq has been to call on America’s allies to “share the burden”. However, many of the pundits (from O’Reilly to Maher) have pointed out that it’s a swell idea, but it may not be so easy to actually do. If with<\/i> a new, smarter, less-arrogant, U.S. President. After all, why would France and Germany want to enter this ever increasing morass at this<\/i> time?<\/p>\n

It’s a good point, but one which Kerry can dispell in one single policy initiative:<\/p>\n

“Hire me, and I’ll fire Halliburton”<\/b><\/p>\n

With billions and billions<\/i> of dollars worth of contracts then free for the competitive bidding, do you suppose France, Germany and all the others might want a taste of that action?<\/p>\n

You bet they would. And all they’d need to do to be allowed into that bidding process is a commitment of troops and\/or money for the effort. We could use both.<\/p>\n

I know that quite a few Dems in high places read this blog from time to time. Perhaps somehow one of you can get this idea to Kerry before Thursday’s foreign policy debate with Bush if he hasn’t already thought about it.<\/p>\n

Both firing Halliburton (and hey, they can still bid competitively if they want to!) and simply demonstrating how Allies could be brought into the effort in a single policy initiative would be enormously<\/i> popular with the American people. It would also help win both the election, and the war at the same time.<\/p>\n

Pass it on.<\/p>\n

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