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bloomington-lib Donating Member (513 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-21-09 10:33 PM
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Cheney's speech contained omissions, misstatements
Source: MCCLATCHY

Former Vice President Dick Cheney's defense Thursday of the Bush administration's policies for interrogating suspected terrorists contained omissions, exaggerations and misstatements.

— Cheney said that President Barack Obama's decision to release the four top-secret Bush administration memos on the interrogation techniques was "flatly contrary" to U.S. national security, and would help al Qaida train terrorists in how to resist U.S. interrogations.

However, Blair, who oversees all 16 U.S. intelligence agencies, said in his statement that he recommended the release of the memos, "strongly supported" Obama's decision to prohibit using the controversial methods and that "we do not need these techniques to keep America safe."

— Cheney said that the Bush administration "moved decisively against the terrorists in their hideouts and their sanctuaries, and committed to using every asset to take down their networks."

The former vice president didn't point out that Osama bin Laden and his chief lieutenant, Ayman al Zawahri , remain at large nearly eight years after 9-11 and that the Bush administration began diverting U.S. forces, intelligence assets, time and money to planning an invasion of Iraq before it finished the war in Afghanistan against al Qaida and the Taliban .

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/3237981
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Patsy Stone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-21-09 10:35 PM
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1. From the Dept. of No Shit Sherlock.
I still haven't found anything in that speech that's true. Except, maybe, the part about him being in a bunker on 9/11.
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Tangerine LaBamba Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-21-09 11:02 PM
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5. I think his choking fits were real.........
Especially when he needed a drink of water while he was bleating about waterboarding. Freud would have loved that one ......
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Patsy Stone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-21-09 11:13 PM
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11. LOL!
Totally. Hey, Dick! Your slip is showing.
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FrenchieCat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-21-09 10:36 PM
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2. Lying is like breathing to that asshole!
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drm604 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-21-09 10:58 PM
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3. "omissions, exaggerations and misstatements"
The word is "lies".
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-21-09 10:59 PM
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4. That's weird that Yahoo! doesn't credit John Landay
as the writer of this article.
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LeFleur1 Donating Member (973 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-21-09 11:06 PM
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6. Why, Why Why?
Why is anyone giving Cheney a microphone? What is wrong with the media? Are they so hard up they would use this mopehead for controversy? HE HAS NOTHING TO SAY WORTH LISTENING TO. He disregarded and broke the law. He and his incompetent bunch brought the economy of the United States to it's knees. He ignored the warning by Osama bin Laden that they were going to attack the US using their own airplanes. He invaded a country for what reason? Oil? To give his buddies contracts?
Turn your TV sets off when he comes on spewing his nonsense.
There might be another attack, and if so, the reason for it will probably be rooted in something the Bush administration did.
Turn him off.
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-21-09 11:10 PM
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8. Because the military industrial complex owns the media, that's why. n/t
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Amonester Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-21-09 11:24 PM
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13. ....uh... because the r-w owned m$m love$ to create false "come back$"
and "influence" (read: "steer further to the right") in this way the current administration?

see for yourself this "new" cnn "poll":

http://edition.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/05/21/cheney.poll/
"Poll: Favorable opinions of Cheney rise" :puke: :puke:

hey... they $mell mo' money by pumpin' the torturer's numb ers :puke:
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Patsy Stone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-21-09 11:09 PM
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7. They do.
Edited on Thu May-21-09 11:10 PM by Patsy Stone
The byline is in small gray type:

By Jonathan S. Landay and Warren P. Strobel, McClatchy Newspapers – Thu May 21, 7:10 pm ET
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-21-09 11:10 PM
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9. Oh! Thanks. I guess I'm just blind.
:)
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Patsy Stone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-21-09 11:12 PM
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10. I'm suprised my eyes still work
at this time of night. :)
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Downwinder Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-21-09 11:17 PM
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12. Can we start denying Cheney medical treatment and medication,
as is regularly done to American citizens? See if he would consider that to be torture. I do.
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Iliyah Donating Member (828 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-21-09 11:33 PM
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14. duh
duh
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PDJane Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-21-09 11:41 PM
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15. The bleating about the "homeland"
is what I personally found the creepiest.
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Sivafae Donating Member (286 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-22-09 12:00 AM
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16. Cheney needs to STFUASD. eom
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struggle4progress Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-22-09 12:10 AM
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17. Maybe DU needs a "News that we knew even before it happened again" forum
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Miss_Underestimated Donating Member (239 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-22-09 12:12 AM
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18. You expected better from a piranha?


someone on the radio tonight said he reminded her of a piranha!


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applegrove Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-22-09 12:47 PM
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19. That is it. That is how we combat Cheney. He diverted resources to Iraq before
we had bin Laden. I knew something was bugging me about his speech today. I knew it was full of shit I just couldn't put my finger on it.
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Uncle Joe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-22-09 12:58 PM
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20. This article has one of my favorite photos of Cheney,
he's the smallest person in the room.:thumbsup:

Thanks for the thread, bloomington-lib.
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MotorCityMan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri May-22-09 03:41 PM
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21. And now the weather. Tonight's forcast; dark
with increasing light towards morning.

In other words, no shit that Cheney's speech contained omissions and misstatements.

And just what what will it take for his "misstatements" and "omissions" to turn into outright LIES???
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