Thursday, October 30, 2003

Think about this:
THE STUDY of more than 70 U.S. companies and individual contractors turned up more than $500,000 in donations to the president�s 2000 campaign, more than they gave collectively to any other politician over the past dozen years.
The "study" was released by the Center for Public Integrity, a muckraking think tank with a distinctly leftist air to its website.

Did they donate to Bush because they knew the Iraq war would come up and that they would get this plum contracts in exchange for their half million? Or is Bush just grateful?

I have to wonder how many companies could even bid on this kind of job? I'm sure that Clinton could have found a Chinese or Indonesian firm to do the job, but that would have had its own downside.

Update: Instapundit links to comments by Daniel Drezner and Steven Antler pointing out some disconnects between the headlined conclusions of the study and the actual findings. Doesn't misstating the evidence constitute a lack of integrity?

I'm sure there are rightwing groups with misleading names, but there seem to be a lot more high profile lefty ones that reek of hypocrisy: MoveOn.org, People for the American Way, Center for Public Integrity, for starters.

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