10/7/2004 11:09:52 PM|||Joe|||Wow, in summary. Congrats to Edwards for cleaning house again!


(Photoshopped by me! :D)

When Edwards rightfully leveled charges against Cheney and Halliburton citing cold, hard facts, including:

* While Cheney was CEO, Halliburton paid millions in dollars in fines for falsifying corporate information (in the same manner that Ken Lay and Enron had done).
* While Cheney was CEO, Halliburton violated sanctions that prohibit U.S. corporations and business organizations from engaging in commercial, financial, or trade transactions with Iran and Libya, "two sworn enemies of the United States."
* Halliburton is now under investigation for having bribed foreign [Nigerian] officials whle Cheney was CEO.

Cheney could barely spit out his weak defense to Edwards, that it was a "smokescreen" --- that default excuse for any Administration official who's confronted with the truth. Like a good trial lawyer, Edwards had shoved the incontrovertible facts under Cheney's nose, and you could almost see the smoke rising from Cheney's ears.

And claiming that he'd never met Edwards before... is he just senile, or what? Why lie about something so relatively inconsequential? Networks wasted no time heading for the vaults to call up footage of a prayer breakfast in February 2001 in which Cheney sat at Edwards' side for several hours.|||109721579219988966|||Cheney Vs. Edwards Debate