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Dick Cheney on Iraq ‘Success’

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Posted on Jan 5, 2009
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After operating largely out of the spotlight for the last eight years, Vice President Dick Cheney continued his Sudden Visibility Press Tour on Sunday as he prepared to leave office. Here, he talks to CBS’ Bob Schieffer on “Face the Nation” about how he thinks his administration fared in the Iraq war.

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By Purple Girl, January 7, 2009 at 7:49 am Link to this comment

If any one should be executed for Treason, War Crimes and Crimes against Humanity it’s DICK.Dick began his crusade to destroy America 40 yrs ago, and has seen all his dreams and efforts come to fruition.
Hang him, then spark up the pace maker and hang him Again!
Cheney et al have created a Corp rule nation, Killed our economic capablities, created anomosity throughout the world ingrained enough to last for decades to come and has Arrogantly Told the citizens of this country his attitude towards Democratic Rule is “So”.
The exectuion of Dick Cheney should make Wm Wallace’s look ‘humane’.

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By Senseodyne, January 6, 2009 at 2:31 pm Link to this comment
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How to prepare Dicktadders:

1. Nail tadders to inclined wooden board.
2. Cover with absorbent cloth.
3. Pour water on tadders til they sprout information.
4. Keep tadders under lock and key in a Cuban atmosphere til they turn back to   dirt.
5. Present resulting soil to MSM twits as delicious parting fare.
6. Best served with neo-conned flavored koolaid.

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By squeaky jones, January 6, 2009 at 12:42 pm Link to this comment
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Is Cheney a cybot working for the Dark Side?  Why is he mostly in a un-disclosed location?  Is there more Cheney cybot types out amongst the human race?  Do androids dream of electric sheep? Squeaky.

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By mackTN, January 6, 2009 at 12:38 pm Link to this comment
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samosamo—

You are so right about the media—questions they don’t ask, stories they won’t do, propaganda they spread.  About Iraq—where are the pictures of people’s living conditions?  Where are the pictures of foreign commerce taking place there?  Why is a war that McCain was ready to fight for decades more all of a sudden being wrapped up for the end of Bush’s term? 

Why aren’t there more stories on this outrageous bailout to banks who won’t account for the money?  Why can’t the infamous middle class, so beloved during the presidential campaign, catch a break?  Why do I get a bailout of only $500 while my credit card company gets 50 billion and still squeezes me for ridiculous interest? 

Let’s learn more about the financial lobbying industry that has so much power over congress.

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By samosamo, January 6, 2009 at 11:41 am Link to this comment

By paul bass, January 6 at 6:00 am

Right on. And it hurts that the seeming freedom we have is that we can go to the store but don’t you dare cross the yellow line as that will mark you as a terrorist.

Good point, but I was trying to highlight the current situation of how the average people that use abc, cbs, cnn, msnbc and nbc as a source of information are getting disinformation(lies), or no information(witholding information) or bombarding us with all the useless and empty crap about celebrities which now comprise athletes, actor/actresses, poker players or anyone doing stupid human tricks for attention(which is fluff, foo-foo and bullshit, oh, and all marketing/commercials thrown in the peoples face 24/7, that those people filtering through all that, are not getting the information, the real information, to make the daily decisions that are required for living in this country much less the world. The real freedom seems to boil down to what station to watch on tv.

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By Jim Yell, January 6, 2009 at 9:17 am Link to this comment
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To hear this man talk, is like we have no history to refer to. No lessons learned from the past. Cheney has led us down the dark path to a bankrupt nation and laid the ground work for dictatorship.

His lies about what is torture is the same deceit and delusion that has fostered totalitarian governments in the past. The fact that it appears he will waltz off the stage without ever having to be accountable for his crimes, which should start with conspiring with the energy corporations against the nations interests at the very start of the Bush/Cheney nightmare on Pennsylvania Avenue.

He is either a delusional criminal or a clear headed monster. Almost wrote mobster, which would work too.

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By paul bass, January 6, 2009 at 7:00 am Link to this comment
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samosamo,- the question is not whether we have a media to protect our freedoms, its do we have any freedoms left?
i mean we are not in stalinist russia but how many crimes how much torcher how many war crimes before ANYONE EVEN STARTS INVESTIGATING THESE CRIMINALS

ohh…. wait they got rob blagoyavich for pay for play scandal WHAT our politicians are corrupt? i had no idea it thought the 30,000 lobbyist and euqivant number of earmarks were all for the good of the country as a whole

home land security giving out money to Tennessee chicken farms or something seems like a perfectly logical thing


OHHH I WISH THAT SHOE HIT BUSH IN THE FACE

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By samosamo, January 5, 2009 at 9:51 pm Link to this comment

By Dr. Knowitall, PhD, PhD, January 5 at 7:51 pm

This isn’t about just bob schieffer, it is about all of those msm stations that claim to bring you the ‘hard cold facts’. Russert, brokaw, matthews, and all of those ‘hard nose journalist’ that in reality have never ever asked the hard direct questions of those they interviewed. And it is not just never asking the questions, it is they really don’t want or are told not to ask the questions that will bring the reality of what is going on in the world to the people. You cannot come any closer to the failure of the msm NOT serving the interests of a democracy with those sham interviews and interviewers with their empty questions.
Nothing but the classic failure of the media placating the subverted msm for the elite agendas.

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By Dr. Knowitall, PhD, PhD, January 5, 2009 at 8:51 pm Link to this comment

A couple things:

Isn’t Bob Shieffer a genius interrogator and journalist????!!!!**%@#?

I ask you, what might any of you have asked this disgusting excuse for a human being had you been in Schieffer’s seat?

No one ever tries to nail the bastard.  The media are the only ones allowed close to him and they continually fail to call him out.  What the hell?

Not only that, he’ll never have to answer for what he did to the Iraqis.  What hope is there for innocent children in the world when these sociopaths continue to roam the Earth?  Why can’t the voice of decency and reason ever be heard, even uttered?

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By 1twenty1, January 5, 2009 at 6:19 pm Link to this comment
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WMD:  Whoppers Made by Dick.

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By Allan Krueger, January 5, 2009 at 6:05 pm Link to this comment

A war profiteering, delusional prick whose bank account has been enlarged from blood money - BLOOD MONEY from hundreds of thousands of Iraqi’s and more than 4,000 dead Americans.

Cheney should be on trial, not on Face The Nation!

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By samosamo, January 5, 2009 at 4:54 pm Link to this comment

By Trigger finger, January 5 at 2:13 pm

Surely you are joking here. Penis shot his friend. Your comment is accepted for sarcasm but if you truely believe he shot himself, then you are the post boy of what a large part of this country learn from the lying deceitful mainstream media, anything but the truth.
This criminal surely won’t be allowed to just walk away from office and live a retired life, will he?

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By diamond, January 5, 2009 at 4:54 pm Link to this comment

Okay. I’ve now officially had enough of twisted Dick. Can’t someone remove the pacemaker? Failing that can someone remove his vocal cords since all he uses them for is lying and conniving? I hope the next time I see this murderous bastard he’s in a coffin like the coffins he put all those Iraqis and Afghanis and American anthrax victims in. How he can go on TV and have one shred of credibility is just more proof that the mainstream media is completely corrupted not to mention COMPLICIT in his crimes.

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By nrobi, January 5, 2009 at 4:01 pm Link to this comment

Here is another case, although this may be one on the worst, of Revisionist History Syndrome, or as is more colloquially termed, Right Hand Syndrome.
Darth Vader cannot see the forest for the trees.  Reality is just another word, like freedom, for the decision maker for the decider. Would to G-d, that we could all be such ostrich’s, with our heads stuck in the sands of time.
Of course, to be this way, one has to learn from birth the expectations and power that goes along with the RHS.
To those with R H S, please masturbate yourself into oblivion, so that the rest of the world, can get on with the business of saving the planet and working for the good of all.
This is not the way of life for people with RHS, they
think only of themselves and the pleasure that results from the continued and repeated use of their right hands.

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By knutski, January 5, 2009 at 3:54 pm Link to this comment
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Achieving success ? Better then it was before ? Hussein was under self-deception ?  For God’s sake, does this evil bastard’s mindless mublings really mean anything. Does anyone expect him to break down and admit the dismall atrocity that is his War of choice in Iraq? The man belongs behind bars as a War Criminal. Loop up the desctiption of a war crimanal, see what it says, see how it relates to this man.

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By Trigger finger, January 5, 2009 at 3:13 pm Link to this comment
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This is the first picture I’ve seen of him since he shot himself in the face a couple of years ago.  Long recovery, No scars? must have good doctor! Has he been getting paid for hiding?

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By Reubenesque, January 5, 2009 at 2:56 pm Link to this comment

“I,the decision maker for the decider, decisively decry that the decisions decidedly declared decided do hereby stand decisively decided.”

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