Don’t forget that Rumsfeld is Cheney’s mentor, has been since the Nixon administration when Rumsfeld brought Cheney in.  Rumsfeld has gotten off - something he’s adroitly managed to do his entire life - but he’s the one responsible for the tragic debacle in Iraq.  Cheney is not only completely a-moral, he’s incompetent, thus the inane remarks he’s been making for the last six years and continues to make.  He doesn’t know what else to say.

Andrew Cockburn has written a book on Rumsfeld which reveals how the man thinks (and how he doesn’t think.)  His behavior on 9/11 is indicative of his entire career.  On hearing that Bin Laden was responsible for the attack, Rumsfeld, knowing that he had ignored information he had been given that Al Qaeda was going to attack the US, decided that to divert attention from his screw-up he’d go after Saddam/Iraq.  As usual for hin, he got away with it - and we have taken it in the neck.

The Bush-Cheney administration has been consistent in this respect:  Lies that support the administration are good.  Truth that does not support the admistration is evil.

There has to be more to this than just getting Wilson. It is one thing to out Valerie to attempt discrediting her husband, but why also roll up her whole Brewster Jennings organization - a leading CIA counter-proliferation operation?
After seeing WH senior staff meeting minutes produced in the Libby trial it seems peculiar that in the same meeting they discused Wilson they also discussed A.Q. Kahn - who has been a target of counter-profileration investigations. The question has to be asked: Was Brewster Jennings interferring with Cheney directed black ops?

Senseless suffering and death,they don!t listen to the desires of the populace—-time for impeachment as the thievery continues,nothing left but this,wake up american congress and remove these scoundrels now….

Funny that the CIA thinks she was covert.

The Character Assassination??? first of all, Bin Laden has said and its documented, that “if you bloody the nose of the Americans they will run away” !!!  Cheney was simply speaking truth to all that wish not to hear it !!! if we leave Iraq before the job is finished because Palosi and her feckless Dem’s have no intestinal fortitude, then Yes, she is fulfilling al-Qaida’s agenda !!! regardless of when, where, how and why? Iraq is now the central front in the war on Islamic Fascism!! and you guys cant handle the truth !!! Lieberman sees it??! even in ultra-lib CT he was reelected on the war and the treasonous Lamont went down in flames!!! the same thing is going to happen to the Dem’s in 08 if they adopt a left wing, cut and run, retreat and defeat, policy in Iraq?? and no one will be happier about Palosi and Dem cowardice then Bin Laden !!!
  Scooter Libby is being tried for perjury to a grand jury because he supposedly forgot?? he talking to Tim Russert?? not for outing a agent? or smearing a critic? those charges are false charges, and another “Character Assassination” first she wasn’t a covert agent !! and second its not smearing when you tell the truth, she did send her husband on the goose-chase, so how can that be smearing ???and it was originally released by the State Department from Dick Armatage not by a White House operative (Libby)!! the trial is a joke!!
  but lets talk of the constant “Character Assassination” i read on these posts !!Comment #55474 by Jim ?? equating Cheney to Himmler its simply proof of Jim’s historical ignorance, like every one else, of you left wing “nut-roots” who love to call members of our government and military “Nazis” !!!  you clueless ignoramuses who dare to make such charges have no idea what a Nazi is or was, and every time i see such slander it just proves how idiotic the left wing is !!! Hitler was responsible for about 40 million deaths all for the reasoning of his own ego and his own hate for his fellow man, their crimes are above comparison in modern times except with Stalin and Pol-Pot and the narcissistic types like Saddam and Kim Ill Jung (who you guys want to pow-wow with )???  yet far left libs would slander your own nation and leaders and country with the Nazi tag in a time of war??? i think the official word is called “treason” !!! and that’s what you call: National Character Assassination !!!!..............Cheney is right !!! all of you are wrong !!!

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Welcome to the hotel on the Potomac “Once you checked in, you could never leave”. I can hear five deferment Dickie telling scary bed time stories to keep the lemmings in line. The boogie man named Individual Thought is out there don’t let him get you.

‘Al Qaida’s fundamental underlying strategy is to break our will . . .  if they can cause enough havoc, cause enough chaos in Iraq… kill enough Americans then “we’ll quit and go home” ‘—DC

So now Cheyney has learned those methods of “breaking another’s WILL”, adapting coercive tactics in his prisons and secret terrorist camps. Does Halliburton sell a “How-To-Torture Kit” complete with instructions on ‘how to break a terrorist’s will’ ?
CHAOS is caused by the disintegration of a society and the break-down of all mores, culture and structure.
Not only did the tons of bombs that were dropped on Iraq destroy their infra-stucture but anything- and- everything that is imperative to a People to make them feel like a civilization has been wiped out. The question is how many more thousands of dead civilians will it take before
the U.S. decides to quit “and go home”.

Dick Cheney indulges in lies and character assassination for two basic reasons and they are:  1.  he is incompetent; 2.  he is fundamentally dishonest and amoral.  Other than that he’s a great vice president, right along side Spiro T. Agnew and Richard M. Nixon.

chaney is a bully and more slime than agnew or nixon.  Pelosi and conyers should be impeached as part of the sell out of america. Dr. king stated on several occassions that “america is the greatest purveyor of violence on earth today.” that has not changed. reporters laugh and cringe in thier cowardice before the dictators Bush and cheney. america does not have the heart for the truth. The republican administration is glareingly crimminal in its actions from bush’s election right through provokative action within Iran yet Pelosi hoyer and the other democractic stooges hand our nation to zionist handlers to shield thier genocidal actions in palestineand extend thier lawlessness and thievery of palestinian land. If the american people don’t wake up now and take action Israel will have the entire world in a nuclear inferno.
Amenra63

If anyone doubts the evil, vile nature of Dick Cheney. One needs only take the time to research his past record prior to this administration. He has steadfastly shown himself to be completely void of any empathy for anyone in need. Be they americans or anyone else in the world. He has consistantly been the poster child of mean spirited greed. The fact that he has gotten away with it so long is testament to how corrupt the republican party has become. The fact that he has so far gotten away with his criminal behavior during this administration illustrates just how broken down our system has become. This dismantling of our democracy did not happen by accident. It has always been the plan put forth by Cheney, G. Norquist and the rest within there relatively small circle of criminals who hide behind the bible while they enrich themselves. Cheney belongs in a jail cell along with the rest of these people for doing far more harm to america and its future then any hundred criminals locked away now. They sit back and laugh at all of us behind their closed, goldleafed doors counting their money. We deserve that disdain as long as we allow it to continue. Now I read that its possible a group of generals / admirals may resign if told to prosecute a war with Iran. Perhaps that is all we can hope for, that a revolt amongst our military leadership will finally bring a halt to this madness and provide the congress with the mandate to remove these people before they can escalate this nitemare called bush’s “War on Terror”. ( as if they needed a reason up till now ?) We are in sorry need of an american style coup to return our democracy which has been highjacked by the neo-cons with the support of the religous right.

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I’m not sure, is it Goring Cheney or Himmler Cheney. History is repeating itself folks, bad history, only the names have changed, not the methods.

Cheney still needs more Colgate to clean his mouth. Under his eyes, those who criticized this criminal administration are considered to be Al-Qaida’s sympathizers.

“Scotter” Libby is only a sacrificed creature of dirtiest plots in which Cheney played leading role.

Who takes Cheney’s pronouncements seriously anymore? Besides the fringe, servile, loony right?

This war is going to go down the tubes anyway because there will never be enough troops to end it and because what happened at Walter Reed Army hospital is terrible, to blame this thing on the condition of the buildings is not the real problem, the problem is not enough money for the wonded guys comng back and this can be blamed on the guy named Rumsfeld.

Rumsfeld could have been sacked before the election and maybe then the war could have had a change.

Bushie Boy knows nothing about war, he knows nothing about suffering, in fact he really knows very little about the world outside of Crawford Texas,the only language other than English (if you call his speaking English) is Spanish and he probably knows only a few phrase words.

I say after the Libby trial Bush and Chaney should be IMPEACHED, I REPEAT IMPEACHED, and the trial of Libby is going to be deadlocked, because the fix is in, this administration can do anything, even if Libby goes to jail, at the end of Bush’s term, he will just let him out of jail, just like Ford (all the praising of the man and he let a thief and killer free) the Republicians will always stick together and the people who are not rich will always pay the price.  The poor go to war and the rich are the biggest Hawks of all because they never pay the price they never have their sons or daughters die for a lost cause. 

Gore should be elected President because he really won the first time.

Margaret from Vancouver, Washington

“Al-Qaida functions on the basis that they think they can break our will,” Cheney told ABC News on Friday by way of explaining his earlier attack on the House speaker. “That’s their fundamental underlying strategy: that if they can kill enough Americans or cause enough havoc, create enough chaos in Iraq, then we’ll quit and go home.”

My response:

Vice-Liar Cheney still wants us to believe that Al-Quida is running the show in Iraq. That has been reported as dis-proven by almost everybody that is playing in Iraq. As far as the chaos in Iraq, We have to take responsibility for that, not Al-Quida. The chaos started with our relentless “sanctions” which resulted in Saddam actually complying with the NATO mandates to dis-arm. The Chaos culminated in our illegal attack on a sovereign nation based on cooked intelligence,
(cooked by bush/cheney/rumsfield/rice).

The attack apparatus has now turned on Fitzgerald, whose record is that of a thoroughly nonpartisan prosecutor. Fitzgerald’s perjury rap against Libby, Cheney allies say, is a cheap attempt to criminalize politics.

My response:

Cheneys allies (corporate sponsors)have it wrong. The bush cabal has introduced criminality to politics, not Fitzgerald. Fitzgerald was appointed by we the people to dig into the festering abyss created by the Republican party through their blind obedience to the Party.

I believe these criminalities are impeachable. What are you going to do about it Pelosi?

- - LOOKS LIKE THE DEMOCRATS IN CONGRESS HAVE A NEW “SPOKESMAN”!!!!!!!
” - - - Vice President Dick Cheney made an unannounced trip to Pakistan on Monday to deliver what officials in Washington described as an unusually tough message Gen. Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan, warning him that the newly Democratic Congress could cut aid to his country unless his forces become far more aggressive in hunting down operatives with Al Qaeda.
Cheyne never ceases to amaze us all!!!!

Tell your children of an America that was proud instead of self-important.