Rand Paul in ’09: Cheney pushed Iraq war to benefit Halliburton

Washington Post ^ | April 7 at 10:23 am | Aaron Blake

[SoConPubbie]

David Corn over at Mother Jones unearths a 2009 video of Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.), in which Paul suggests that former vice president Dick Cheney wanted to invade Iraq in order to benefit his former employer, Halliburton.

In the video, shot at Western Kentucky University, Paul argues that Cheney thought the invasion was a bad idea in the first Bush administration but changed his tune after working for Halliburton.

[SoConPubbie]

"If we must have an enemy at the head of Government, let it be one whom we can oppose, and for whom we are not responsible, who will not involve our party in the disgrace of his foolish and bad measures." - Alexander Hamilton "We don't intend to turn the Republican Party over to the traitors in the battle just ended. We will have no more of those candidates who are pledged to the same goals as our opposition and who seek our support. Turning the Party over to the so-called moderates wouldn’t make any sense at all." -- President Ronald Reagan "A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice." - Thomas Paine 1792 "It does not take a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men." - Samuel Adams "If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen." - Samuel Adams

[HiTech RedNeck]

Ah, now I know you’ll be able to get everything you need for the invasion from Halliburton...

[falcon99]

Paul sounds like he has the same reasoning ability as Reid, Obama, Pelosi, Wasserman-Schultz and Sharpton.

[DIRTYSECRET]

Water under the bridge. We had to kick somebody’s arse.

[HiTech RedNeck]

True enough, it doesn’t show that Cheney got any kickbacks for it.

[SgtHooper]

Bingo! The libtards I know are stuck in that same groove as well.

[ZULU]

Paul is sounding creepier and creepier.

[SoFloFreeper]

Ooooh... Great find, there, Corn. You’re amazing.

Yawn.

[clintonh8r]

The 9/11 attacks were not used a pretext for the war in Iraq. If that were the case, why did we spend months getting our allies on board and seeking UN blessing? The 9/11 attacks were used, rightly, as a pretext for the war in Afghanistan.

[ilgipper]

Strike Three Mr. Paul. I am with Rand on a lot of issues, but he’s got too many strains of the left-wing wack-a-doo-dle propaganda.

[Sacajaweau]

We've been using Halliburton since WWII.

Rand Paul is stuck on stupid

[alstewartfan]

Ted tied goofy Rand at the Pa. Leadership Conference this weekend with 20% each. Carson and Santorum (who delivered a spellbinding speech Friday) also did well. IMO, Rand needs to remain a back bencher. He will lead us to disaster. Bob

[SADMILLIE]

That “water under the bridge” should result in trials!! What a joke. NO WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION?? God help us. That little stunt , not only was the greatest disaster of bush,but it put this country into the hands of a diabolical liberal. You can’t make up how important it is to dismiss another bush in our party.

[Zhang Fei]

Strike Three Mr. Paul. I am with Rand on a lot of issues, but he’s got too many strains of the left-wing wack-a-doo-dle propaganda.

I don't have a problem leaving our military dependents allies to fend for themselves, given that their defense policy - reflected in minuscule budgets as a % of GDP - since the end of the Cold War has been to fight their enemies to the last dead American. But people like Paul seem to have this idea that the US is the root of all evil in the world. Were they born defective, or were they repeatedly dropped on their heads as kids?

[sagar]

Is it taboo to say that Iraq War benefited a lot of companies? After all, those companies stood to make hundreds of billions off of war and were actively looking to get lucrative contracts?

After all, why apologize for trying to maximize shareholders’ wealth? We all benefited.

[Cen-Tejas]

......tend to agree, Cheney might be a lot of things but he would not send our kids to their deaths for a few bucks in his pocket.................in my opinion!

[South Dakota]

+1

[lonevoice]

We've been using Halliburton since WWII... Rand Paul is stuck on stupid

The loonatarian Cult of Paul is already getting insufferable, and we've got, what, 2 more years until the 2016 primaries?

[Jane Long]

The nut doesn't fall far from the tree.

[VRWC For Truth]

GMTA, the apple don’t fall far from the tree.