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CrappyDom -> Cheney dissected (9/10/2006 3:20:55 PM)
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I just love the softball questions the "left wing media" ask! What I wouldn't give to see Cheney on national TV be questioned by George Pallast!
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WASHINGTON - Vice President "Part of my job is to think about the unthinkable, to focus what in fact the terrorists may have in store for us," Cheney told NBC's "Meet the Press" when asked about his "dark side."
I take it you only took this job AFTER 9/11 because there was a BEST SELLING NOVEL predicting the use of airplanes, there was the plan that we interupted under Clinton to detonate 8 planes over the Atlantic, and of course THE FUCKING CIA BRIEFING saying Osama was going to strike the US. "So Mr. Cheney, if this is your job, why haven't you been fired for incompetence?
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Cheney said he now recognizes that the insurgency in Iraq was not "in its last throes," as he said in May 2005. "I think there is no question but that we did not anticipate an insurgency that would last this long," the vice president said.
Glad to see that you finally noticed almost two years later! In other words, even your hindsight isn't good, instead of 20/20 you have what 20/400?
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"It's still difficult. Obviously, major, major work to do is ahead of us. But the fact is, the world is better off today with Saddam Hussein out of power. Think where we'd be if he was still there," Cheney said.
Okay, we would be hundreds of billions of dollars ahead, tens of thousands of American soldiers would still have their arms, legs, or eyes, several thousand American's wouldn't have died in Iraq (don't forget those contractors are usually American veterans), we would probably have captured and executed Osama, and our Army would be ready to deal with a weak Iran instead of a worn out army facing a strengthened Iran.
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Cheney challenged polls suggesting that a majority of people in the United States do not believe the Bush administration's claim that the war in Iraq is the central front in the fight against terrorism.
Okay, so you challenged them, but being a Republican I assume you won't bother to actually respond with anything factual right? Or will you just misdirect?
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"I think we've done a pretty good job of securing the nation against terrorists. You know, we're here on the fifth anniversary (of the 9/11 attacks).
I guess misdirection it is.
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And there has not been another attack on the United States. And that's not an accident, because we've done a hell of a job here at home," Cheney said in the broadcast interview. "I don't know how much better you can do than no, no attacks for the past five years."
Well I guess our troops dying in Iraq don't count? And by your standards, Clinton has a better record.
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He said the U.S. had done a good job on "homeland security, in terms of the terrorist surveillance program we put in place, the financial tracking we put in place, and because of our detainee policy."
But we will ignore and not ask about all the crucial reforms that the 9/11 commission DID suggest we needed, none of which you have done.
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Cheney disputed that he ever directly said Saddam had any role in the Sept. 11 attacks.
I dispute that the sun rises in the East but that doesn't change the fact that you said exactly that.
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In September, Cheney said on NBC's "Meet the Press": "If we're successful in Iraq . . . then we will have struck a major blow right at the heart of the base, if you will, the geographic base of the terrorists who had us under assault now for many years, but most especially on 9/11."
He defended his past statements both on links between Iraq and the al-Qaida network, and on the existence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, saying the pronouncements were based on the best intelligence he had at the time. No such weapons were found, nor is there clear evidence of links between Saddam's government and Osama bin Laden's organization.
Cheney cited various statements by former
CIA Director George Tenet, both on Iraqi links to al-Qaida and weapons programs, including Tenet's often-quoted comment to Bush that it was a "slam dunk" that Iraq had such weapons
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The vice president was asked on NBC whether there more terrorists in the world now than there were before the Sept. 11 attacks. "It's hard to say. Hard to put a precise number on it," Cheney said.
Translation "only a fucking idiot can't see there are more today than when we started but since so many republicans are fucking idiots, I am going to equivocate and lucky for us, they are too stupid to catch on"
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Asked if the U.S. still would have invaded Iraq had the CIA told Bush and him that Iraq had no weapons of mass destruction in 2003, Cheney answered yes.
Wow, a bit of truth...
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He said Iraq had the capability of obtaining such weapons and would have done so once U.N. penalties were eased.
And I guess all men are rapists because we could all rape...
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Said he still disagrees with the Supreme Court's decision in June that the administration overstepped its authority in holding suspected terrorists without trials or Geneva Conventions protections. He declined to discuss specific treatment of detainees, but said information gleaned from interrogations "helped us prevent attacks against the United States."
Considering they have at least twice made announcements based on political rather than intelligence goals and twice blown sensative undercover operations, one which resulted in the London bombings, he isn't declineing, he is taking the Fifth!
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_Declined to criticize plans by Republicans to spend millions on negative campaign ads against Democrats. "I hope our guys have good hard-hitting advertisements. Certainly, the opposition does," he said.
The only difference is the Democractic ads use facts and are true...
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Cheney called his former aide, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby "a good man ... entitled to a presumption of innocence." Libby is awaiting trial in the CIA-leak case. Cheney declined comment on what his own role in that case may have been.
Of course it is only a presumption and I guess only right wing idiologs deserve them, sort of like that drug addled radio guy.
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_Said he has not been hunting since a Feb. 11 hunting trip in Texas when he accidentally shot lawyer Harry Whittington in the torso, neck and face, but that he intended to go hunting again. "I don't know that you ever get over it. Fortunately, Harry is doing very well."
Shame on anyone who things Cheney was lamenting the fact that he is "doing very well" and was hoping to improve his aim with a bit of practice.
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Host Tim Russert asked Cheney if he should be relieved that the vice president did not show up for the interview with a shotgun. "I wouldn't worry about it. You're not in season," Cheney said.
Wow, those leftist really know how to ask the hard hitting questions on the crucial issues of the day...
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