Cheney Links Iraq Invasion to 9/11. Again.
By Nicole Belle Tuesday Mar 18, 2008 3:10pmHoly farking cow, this guy is relentless in his pushing lies. I smell a Worst Person award coming, although frankly, that's such a understatement.
Amid tears and wails, mourners in the southern city of Najaf on Tuesday began burying victims from a suicide bombing that killed nearly 50 worshipers and injured dozens of others just before evening prayers Monday in nearby Karbala.
In Baghdad , a long-anticipated Iraqi national reconciliation conference began with great fanfare, then quickly dissolved into the usual sectarian and political stalemates that have marred several similar gatherings in recent years.
But Vice President Dick Cheney gave an upbeat view of conditions in Iraq as he concluded his unannounced trip to mark the fifth anniversary of the US-led invasion. Cheney also defended the toppling of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein as part of the struggle against terrorism following the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.
This month, an exhaustive Pentagon-sponsored review of more than 600,000 Iraqi documents captured during the 2003 US invasion found no evidence that Saddam's regime had any operational links with the al Qaida terrorist network.
But Cheney, who spent the night at a sprawling US base in the northern town of Balad, told soldiers they were defending future generations of Americans from a global terror threat.
"This long-term struggle became urgent on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001 . That day we clearly saw that dangers can gather far from our own shores and find us right there at home," said Cheney, who was accompanied by his wife, Lynne, and their daughter, Elizabeth.
"So the United States made a decision: to hunt down the evil of terrorism and kill it where it grows, to hold the supporters of terror to account and to confront regimes that harbor terrorists and threaten the peace," Cheney said. "Understanding all the dangers of this new era, we have no intention of abandoning our friends or allowing this country of 170,000 square miles to become a staging area for further attacks against Americans."
Meanwhile, Iran is reconstituting their nuclear program:
Retaining his tough stance against Iran, Vice President Dick Cheney said Wednesday that Tehran may have restarted the nuclear weaponization program that a U.S. intelligence report said was halted in 2003.
Really? You're going to play that tune again? I guess some people never get tired of the same tried and true lies:
"And we believe [Saddam] has, in fact, reconstituted nuclear weapons."
I guess you got to go with what you know.
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Put some mustard on those links foist!
Does Iraq border Texas? How will it be a staging area? Will the terrorists swim to the US?
Excuse me Mr Cheney but I've seen this movie before. I didn't like it the first time and I'm pretty sure I won't like it if it plays in Iran.
Two peas in a pod; being bush & cheney..and both need to be put into straight
jackets and have gags inserted in their respective mouths, for NOTHING utter by
either is based upon facts or the truth.
Really? You’re going to play that tune again? I guess some people never get tired of the same tried and true lies...
and too many people never get tired of listening to them...
he's preachin' to his choir as usual...
Is this a real phrase? “And we believe [Saddam] has, in fact, reconstituted nuclear weapons.”
Let's paraphrase, “And we believe [Saddam] has, in fact, reconstituted orange juice.”
I don't know. This new version of English isn't very fluid.
I wonder if Cheney would be sitting there spewing his BS if he had any idea at all how many Americans are aware of the role he played in 9/11.
Pol Pot-O-Cheesesauce @ 1:
Hehehe...sneaky.
I heard that while Cheney and McCain were together in Iraq the other day McCain asked Cheney to begin the search for his VP running mate. It was Cheney's reconstituted vice presidency program. Then they broke out into a beat box version of Bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb Iran while Lieberman made out with Lindsey Graham. The Cheney ladies dined on Iraqi baby brains. An overall good time was had by all except Paetreus who had to take out the trash.
Question Dick..um Dick? Over here...ya...hey Dick....just how do you pretend to speak for all of America when, if I'm not mistaken, your term clock is almost ticked up? How do you suppose that you are going to have any say about anything the federal government does after November 2008? Keep lying you carnivorous old bastard! That 19% that supports you, love to listen to your gruel while they are getting their diapers changed in the home.
A statement like that only makes sense if he was behind 9/11. In that context, and in his twisted mind, of course 9/11 would trigger the invasion of Iraq, just as he had planned.
Saddam has 'reconstituted' nuclear weapons?
Has Dick been attending the GWB Skewl of Spellink and uther Grahamatikal Airors?
Jeez, and I thought only Dr. Strange could reconstitute stuff -
What? Does he want to make super duper sure he goes to hell some day. Really, someone tell his his place is reserved and guaranteed. He need not commit any more crimes, he's good to go.
“So the United States made a decision: to hunt down the evil of terrorism and kill it where it grows, to hold the supporters of terror to account and to confront regimes that harbor terrorists and threaten the peace,” Cheney said. “Understanding all the dangers of this new era, we have no intention of abandoning our friends or allowing this country of 170,000 square miles to become a staging area for further attacks against Americans.”
So, when did we attack Saudi Arabia?
It's the same farging broken record for SEVEN years!!!!!!!!
Meanwhile, back in the other Fantasy Land...
http://finance.yahoo.com/q?s=%5EDJI
My husband and I were discussing just how stupid you'd have to be to believe a word that comes out of the shrub co. regime.
Because if you believe them and you aren't mentally handicapped in some way then you're either dumber than cold dog shit or simply happy to be just another sponge minion who rejoices in evil.
Dick Cheney, you remain the king of America's Evil Assclowns.
Cheney, GWB and the rest of this ilk are all professional liars. They'll stick to lies such as these as long as there is a percentage of Americans who will actually believe those lies.
"I don't think anyone ever implied Saddam was responsible for 911." GW Bush
Holy farking cow, this guy is relentless in his pushing lies. I smell a Worst Person award coming, although frankly, that’s such a understatement.
While not a believer in Hell (the one they Bible talks of) I think Cheney is the guy who has the pitchfork in the world.
Second thought, he is the commander of hell, He created one for us on earth.
They keep repeating the same lies to the same believers, that 26 or 27% of America that I call The Moron Factor
MargeAggedon @ 17:
Unfortunately, my dad and another very close friend of mine do not tolerate any criticism of GWB. They are otherwise intelligent but there is something about the authoritarian conservative mindset that shuts off the critical thinking method. Because of this, they are among the dumbest 12% (Cheney's approval rating). But I don't have the heart to tell them.
It's not confusion. It's intentional. It is now the worthless news bureau's job to report it over and over until it sticks.
Will it stick this time?
Are we as a nation really that stupid.
Stupid is as stupid does.
curtilingus @ 22:
Sorry Curt, didn't mean to call your dad a moron. (one above)LOL
Cheney is insulting all sane people with this bs talk.
"Worse person in the world" segment is too light hearted for Dick. Keith will have to come up with something new for this comment. I think he should on his desk for this one. No words necessary.
"Go f*ck yourself Mr. Cheney. Go f*ck yourself."
Its OK Bankok Bob. Moronism is what they teach at the Ivy Leagues.
Man Dick sure does live up to his namesake!
I'm surprised chainey didn't link Iraq to 7-11
I swear that's where all the guys who work there came from.
Excellent ys!
(Dick) Links Iraq Invasion to 9/11. Again.
That was small of him
and limp.
Cheney---9/11............repeat, repeat, repeat
McCain....."Don't forget 711!" "I know the guy behind the counter is a terrist"
dick cheney is the modern hitler.
america the New Reich.
And in Los Angeles, most Jack in the Boxes are owned and staffed by Iranians (at least they were back in the 80's).
That's right, Jack is on the terror watchlist.
Remember the talking GI Joes with the pull ring on a string? I wonder where Cheny hides his pull ring?
Shameful bare-faced liars, this Bu$h cabal
The people responsible for 9/11 are these guys"
www.asecondlookatthesaudis.com
Not Iraq. Not Iran. Not Syria, or Pakistan, or even Afghanistan.
And this administration has not pursued "terrorism where it grows". They have, in fact, sold their fellow Americans down the river as they've deliberately allowed those most responsible for 9/11 to get away with it scot-free.
There's no longer a need to invade Amerika.
Due to the Bush - Cheney crime family actions, we've lost the freedoms they used to hate us for...
And they've bankrupted the common citizen to the point where America now has more people migrating out of it than in. At least they can find jobs in Mexico and India now.
curtilingus @ 35:
I knew there was something about his beedy little eyes.And That HAT! Yikes............call Security!
Shoeless @ 36:
The same place as the blow hole for the automatic pilot in Airplane! (?)
Perjury.
ysbaddaden @ 41:
Nope. Opposite that.
Bill B. @ 38:
Well said!
Maybe he's just insane.
Going ot for a second, the video of Chris Matthews dancing with Ellen today is priceless. It proves there is yet another thing Chris and his inflated ego can't do.
When cheney replies to that statement about how many Americans want the war to end with the word "so?". That tells you just how arrogant a shithead he really is. He doesn't care jack shit about the American people, he's all about the money.
Shoeless @ 36:
I think that it might just be attached to the left side of his chest, the voice box with all of the pre-recorded appropriate sayings (pre-approved by focus-groups, of course) is located in the cardiac space where they took out Cheney's heart. Cheney really doesn't have a heart, anymore, what he has is a battery pack (like one of those that you get with a remote controlled monster car from Radio Shack)that he has to plug in at night, and on occasion, Cheney has to go into a hospital to have it recharged.
iznogood @ 11:
Paul @ 7:
Uh, huh. The same Bush Administration that bungles everything it gets its hands on can somehow magically make it all right the first time? Yeah.
I've got a bridge in the Atacama to sell you....
Dick Cheney @ his media circle jerk:
The only reason he must know that is because his Halliburton buddies must have drawn up the plans for the pipeline right before the invasion.
I DRINK YOUR MILKSHAKE!
*sluuuuuuuuuuuuuuurp*
I DRINK IT UP!!
right on! @ 44:
Yes, and the Bush administration is neck-deep in business with them. >.>
Shoot the gasbag!!
When, oh when are these constant deceptions going to get them impeached?
Does anyone in a position to push impeachment proceedings have a fucking memory?
C'mon people !!
Don't you get it?
The "global terror threat" is from the 6 Billion of us "have-nots" who pose a real threat to the "well-being" of the few hundred million "have-mores" on this planet.
THEY are creating a Global Gated Community to keep US out.
The "Global War on Terror" is all about protecting THEM from US.
They are seizing the LifeBoat Earth, ready to throw everyone else overboard.
Got it?
Cheney by virtue of sitting on his hands is responsible for letting 9/11 happen. I have more evidence of linking Cheney's inaction to allowing 9/11 to occur than Cheney has that links Iraq to 9/11, how about that!
pissed off patricia @ 46:
I saw that this morning............I don't know who's worse...Tucker or Meathead. I particularly liked the choke hold LOL!
No Dick you can not have Baghdad Bob's old job.
MountainMan23 @ 53:
Ordinarily, I'd call such ideas moronic, and conspiratorial. I can't help but think this time, you may be right. Global capitalism is unsustainable. Global hegemony of the U.S. is going to drag this planet down to doom. I'm working on a plan of survival, may Yahweh save me from His followers and ensure I never have to use it. >.<
Conflate, conflate, conflate! That is how it goes with these anniversaries and conventions! Any way they can make it seem plausible :-( News Speak and misdirection is the GOP.
[[[22 curtilingus Says:]]] [ MargeAggedon @ 17:]
Unfortunately, my dad and another very close friend of mine do not tolerate any criticism of GWB. They are otherwise intelligent but there is something about the authoritarian conservative mindset that shuts off the critical thinking method. Because of this, they are among the dumbest 12% (Cheney’s approval rating). But I don’t have the heart to tell them.
=========>>My Dad (Canadian) always used to defend the USA (and Israel), often belligerently. It's that staunchly Conservative mindset. He gave the, "Never has one country done SO MUCH for the world" speech, ad nauseam. (The other 6 of us in the family are libruls and dirty hippies.) Since BushCo., he's joined our side. (Major coup for us.)
That 12% has got to be feeling lonely. Or else, they are soooooo obtuse, they just can't see it, and NEVER WILL.
Curt: Does he get "all hurt" if you disagree and go away to sulk? My Dad does (did) (still does at times).
Does anyone have the Pentagon report yet. The one that covered 600,000 pages of documents and found no link to al Queda much less 9/11. The one that they will send you in the mail (probably by dog sled via the Yukon) so as to delay the political embarrassment.
Remind me again what documentation Cheney and Chimpy have provided for this outrageous and recklessly reiterated fabrication.
Well you see, I remembered by the end of the sentence.
It is a fabrication.
That is why we do all of this typing, to exercise the gray matter connectivity.
ysbaddaden @ 41:
Wow! You think Dickie gets some kind of sexual pleasure linking 9/11 to Iraq, then?
This is the biggest fairy tale I've ever seen.
What, I'm on the wrong thread? Sorry.
So which of the Senators vying to be president have tried to persuade their House counterparts to impeach the Lying Pair? Oh, yeah, no time...they're too busy arguing about who said what, and why, 5 years ago.
No Iraq link to al-Queda that is
See what happens when to 'keep the gate' closed...the perps can blame anyone they want.
krankenkopf @ 63:
Yeah, 'cause that would show 'em how impartial the jury would be. Surrrrre....
Alice Hussein @ 64:
There is most certainly a link!!!! There is a Q in both names!!!! Can't you see the link??? :-)
krankenkopf @ 63:
If you want to hand the Noise machine perfect evidence of "treason" and give them an opportunity to drop the mask some of them wear (not all) to hide Know-nothingism and Fascism, go right ahead. Let the Right Wing machine receive perfect ammo (pun not intended) to back up their potshots at us for being traitors for disagreeing with Bush, and you've got Trouble with a capital "T."
What was that guy's name again? Osama something or other?
Dammit, on the tip of my tongue. Whatever happened to him?
Ricky Bones @ 67:
Q, as in quadmire?
err, quagmire that is
Dick Cheney will never be linked to the truth. That much we know for certain.
If he says the sky is blue, you can bet your ass it's overcast.
Well this hot new intelligence may have escaped the CIA, the NSA and every other US intelligence service but Dick Cheney has his own sources. And Sally at the Psychic Connection says that It's true and, furthermore, with Mars aligning with Uranus, May will be the perfect time for a penetrating border incident.
This is far more egregious than anything any preacher ever said. Will we see this repeated on "the news" every night for the next two weeks?
“So the United States made a decision: to hunt down the evil of terrorism and kill it where it grows, to hold the supporters of terror to account and to confront regimes that harbor terrorists and threaten the peace,” Cheney said.
That poses a bit of a problem where the root cause of evil and terrorism in this day and age is inside Dick's blackened, rotting heart!
Bush and Cheney are all about saying the same things over and over again, even when they are proven wrong.
Can anyone pinpoint the date when Dick & Co. lost the ability to create their own reality?
Andy "George W. Bush has never been elected. The ‘Machine’ took it and gave it to him." K Jong Il @ 66:
Still off the table, then, Ms. Pelosi?
General_Rennenkampf @ 68:
And Mr. Reid as well, I see.
Where are all the good suicide bombers when you really need one??
Over the course of its five-year fiasco in Iraq, the Bush administration in vain has tried to sell this conflict by referencing glorious American wars past. Its revisionist history has included failed parallels to the American Revolution, World War II, Korea, the Cold War and even Vietnam. Today, Vice President Cheney again compared the calamity in Iraq to the U.S. Civil War. And that gift for fiction, of course, makes George W. Bush Abraham Lincoln.
For the details, see:
"Cheney Equates Bush with Lincoln, Iraq with the U.S. Civil War."
Blue Lensmadinejad @ 77:
January 20, 2001
Yes, the Iranians are reconstituting their nuclear weapons program, just like reconstituting orange juice from concentrate. When the U.N. puts heat on them, the Iranians evaporate the water from their nuclear program, so that it takes up less space and they can hide it more readily. Then, when no one is looking, they add water, stir, and -- well, we may have "Minuteman" missles, but they have "Minute Maid" missles!
r.r. @ 39:
... does that mean they'll be liking us again soon??
Blue Lensmadinejad @ 77:
August 29, 2005
BigTallMatt @ 49:
absolutely, and why do you think he went to visit the kurds? to try some jedi voodoo on them to get their democracy on so he can start laying tracks, or pipes or whatever.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/2008/03/iraqi_law_paves_way_for_provin...
hmmmmm, curious... or not :/
bearclaw @ 82:
I knew it! Those damn pesky Iranians.
Saddam had a similar technology, it was called insta-WMD. Its MO is fairly similar to that of Ovaltime or SwissMiss, just add some hot water and you got yourself some nice, ready to be deployed at anytime now, WMDs.
The thing is that when it is being stored, these insta-WMDs look exactly like desert sand.
But one day, one of these days... a biiig rain is going to fall all over Iraq, and when WMDs start to pop like mushrooms. All of us pesky peacenik leftie pinko commies are going to owe Cheney a big aplogy!
We are such ingrate bastards, I don't know how I am going to live with myself. My god, the abuse good ol' Cheney must have had to endure while trying to protect us from those insta-WMDs... all while that Saddam feller made him look like a fool! May he have in his infinitely good heart to forgive us!
I do not listen to the irrelevance that is the dickster, never had. Has he yet claimed OBL was in Saddam's cabinet yet?
The Dude @ 86:
So do you think those radio commercials with the kids yelling, "More Ovaltine please!" are actually a coded jihadist supplication for rainfall, so that the insta-WMDs will grow up all over the desert?
bearclaw @ 88:
You know, I always thought those ads sounded creepy... so you may be on to something.
I was always more of a Nestle Quick kid myself... so you may be right about the evils of Ovaltime...
Oh dear merciful fucking god how much more punish must we endure in the name of Bush-Cheney?
The Iraq War has been lost for four and 1/2 god damn years now. It was so over that the fat lady was blown-up by an IED before she even got a chance to sing.
This war will drag on and more of our kids will die. Yes, THEY HAVE ALL DIED IN VAIN, this I believe. All the while American's will sit back and do nothing.
Oh, Capital G, damn this nation to the eternal fire that is the dustbin of history.
i am so tired of cheney and his lies about the alleged nukes programs
in a country his wants to invade. if he is so in love with nukes, then
take one of these illusive nukes and shove it up cheney's ass, but don't
set it off, just tell him it will go off if he ever lies again for any reason.
1994 Cheney http://youtube.com/watch?v=6BEsZMvrq-I
Once installed as vice president everything changed. Cheney was in a position to stear no bid government contracts in Iraq to Halliburton and Cheney's stock has increased over 3000% since. http://rawstory.com/news/2005/Cheneys_stock_options_rose_3281_last_1011....
Liar. War criminal. War monger. War Profiteer.
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CHENEY = LIAR!
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Cheney is a CEO, only his reality counts.
krankenkopf @ 78:
I'd love to see an impeachment. Just not at the cost of outright giving the nastier elements of the Right their Reichstag fire and murder of Kirov all in one. Go right ahead with the calls, though.
curtilingus @ 22:
Unfortunately, my dad and another very close friend of mine do not tolerate any criticism of GWB. They are otherwise intelligent but there is something about the authoritarian conservative mindset that shuts off the critical thinking method. Because of this, they are among the dumbest 12% (Cheney's approval rating). But I don't have the heart to tell them.
The other 88% are democrats and stupid independents who believe that Obama is their savior.
Media Muncher @ 96:
The other 88% are democrats and stupid independents who believe that Obama is their savior.
Right....I believe Hillary won a primary or two recently. You fail on bad hyperbole alone.
Osama's Plan
“We, alongside the mujahedeen, bled Russia for 10 years until it went bankrupt and was forced to withdraw in defeat,” bin Laden said.
He also said al Qaeda has found it “easy for us to provoke and bait this administration.”
“All that we have to do is to send two mujahedeen to the furthest point east to raise a piece of cloth on which is written al Qaeda, in order to make generals race there to cause America to suffer human, economic and political losses without their achieving anything of note other than some benefits for their private corporations,” bin Laden said...
skycypher @ 98:
Not Having Captured Bin Laden: Have the Terrorists already Won?
http://www.oddamerica.com/archives/186
Michael D. Gwizdala @ 54:
Cheney had his hands all over the events off 911. Any reference that a terrorist attack occurred on 911 either by stealth, or permission, or incompetence is wrong. It was an attack poorly disguised as a terrorist attack, still used to misdirect thinking about who was really responsible for the high crimes that were committed that day.
amerle
Is Cheney nuts? (Oops, sorry, that's a rhetorical question).
In any Crisis, there are three stages: Crisis Prevention, Crisis Creation and Crisis Management.
Now, guess at which one Bush and Cheney are the best.
Give up??? Aw c'mon. This is easy.
Just think of how the crisis of the 9/11 attacks could have been prevented. Or this recent Bear Stearns/sub-prime mortgage crisis could have been prevented. Or the crisis involving tainted food and drugs could have been prevented. Or how a better functioning FEMA could have prevented many lives being lost during and after Hurricane Katrina hit.
On the Crisis Management end, all one has to think of is the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, with mismanagement continuing to this day. Or one can think of the aftermath of Bush and Cheney ordering the invasion of Iraq.
Yep, Bush and Cheney are the apocalyptic president and vice-president who are experts in Crisis Creation...just who we need in the White House. Yep. Yep. These two nuts turned their back on al Qaeda in Afghanistran, both before and after the 9/11 attacks, let Osama bin Laden escape, while launching an ill-conceived, ill-executed, ill-managed invasion of a country, Iraq, that had nothing to do with the al Qaeda attacks on 9/11. And now these nuts want to expand their sphere of destruction into Iran, which will certainly be bad, bad, bad for the United States.
Impeach them both now before they create anymore crises and get even more children killed or hurt.
If I did not here for myself, these jack ass republicans, planted all over our media , steel beating the drums, to stay in Iraq is simply incredible, if not unbelievable.
Is it just me, but does anyone else here this consistent mantra, of these cheap Bush prostitutes, all over our national media selling this country to the highest bidder?
Oh yea and do we see they all are dressed in their three thousand dollar suits, with there little flag pins attached. The very same pins they are in an up roar, about Obama not wearing?
They continue to hoop and holler about how much garbage they are going to sling at Senator Obama from the right, about his pastor's inappropriate use of words about them.
Never mind the fact they don't even have very many people that would even own up to being Republicans in the first place.
It does not take a rocket scientist to figure out, and you can actually do it on one hand, in all the primaries, where we see twenty times fewer republicans then democrats. They are in serious trouble and not likely to beat anybody. The largest group of these people are the wing nuts, all over our media, which is why they are running from station to station to give the appearance, they are still a force to be reckoned with.
They are about to give Pat Buccannon a heart attack, from none sleep as when we wake up, he's all over Joe's place in the morning and hitting all the slime scenes in the evening and if anyone have noticed, sense he told that black woman to shut up, she has been banned from the talk circuit. She was not a nice sister for having Rachel come to her defense, not to mention all the black attacks they got, but will never tell.
You just don't talk back to these people or you will never be seen on TV again and that is for real folks.
They really think we are stupid, when we know that even Hillary has enough support to beat the hell out of one of them, unless many of them that have come to the democratic ticket, get so pissed if she were to somehow win, that they would change over again, to avoid a total disaster and I can't say I blame them because if we are to have republicans in charge.
It may as well be a real one.
another lie in a long litany of LIES...
Impeach the lying war criminals already!!!
Please, it's ok. media to just ignore Bush and Cheney. Neither has had an original comment in many years so what you are reporting is not news. So, feel free to just let them ride into the sunset UNTIL you have some investigative reporting to share. When you nail their hides we certainly want to be the first to know. But not 'til then, please.
This morning, Bush said "We HAD to go to war in Iraq to protect the Iraqi people from the cruelties of Sadam Hussein."
Forget impeachment ... arrest this traitor.
General_Rennenkampf @ 97:
Right....I believe Hillary won a primary or two recently. You fail on bad hyperbole alone.
I believe Hillary like Dick Cheney is a war pig
After Bush & Cheney leave office there will be a reckoning. No one is above the law, not the President, not the Vice President.
In the end they will be held accountable for each and every official act perpetrated in direct conflict with the interests and better welfare of the American People.
It's the law of the universe.
"To every action there is an equal and opposite reaction." -- Sir Isaac Newton
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