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Monday, February 03, 2003
More Ann:
BEGALA: Ann, welcome back to CROSSFIRE. It's always good to have you here. This should be fun.
Let me begin with your current column. . . It concludes with a suggestion -- not a suggestion, an allegation that Democrats are guilty of treason for insufficient applause when the president talked about missile defense.
COULTER: Correct.
BEGALA: Let me test your definition of the word treason. Let's check out another -- just to test your definition of treason. Take a look at this from "The Washington Post."
"According to oil industry executives and confidential United Nations records, Halliburton held stakes in two firms that signed contracts to sell more than $73 million in oil production equipment and spare parts to Iraq while Cheney" -- that would be Dick Cheney, now vice president -- "was chairman and CEO of the Dallas-based company. Two former senior executives of the Halliburton subsidiary say that as far as they know, there was no policy against doing business with Iraq."
Is that treason too?
COULTER: We weren't at war with Iraq.
BEGALA: So that's not a problem. He wasn't a bad guy two years ago?
COULTER: In fact to the contrary -- no, to the contrary it was actually quite useful to have Iraq and Iran fighting one another, I might add.
BEGALA: But they weren't. This was 1998, Ann.
COULTER: No, but I'm just saying...
BEGALA: 1998.
COULTER: Right, we weren't at war then.
I don't know of the details this. But this is just, you know, the classic liberal scandal. Some, you know, precious technical little point. I think my was really clear in that people can understand. Not that somebody worked for a corporation that sold equipment that ended up someplace at somewhere we're going to war with now.
BEGALA: He was the CEO, not the parking garage guy.
COULTER: George Bush announced that this year we're deploying a shield to defend America from incoming ballistic missiles. Only one side of the aisle stood up and gave that a standing ovation. The Democrats don't stand for defending America from incoming missiles. Yes.
BEGALA: If Al Gore had sold oil field equipment to Saddam Hussein would you say the same thing?
COULTER: He wasn't trying to sell this. You're complicated little legal points really are not -- makes no --
SPRINGER: This is kind of like my show.
BEGALA: Yes.
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