War Issues Cloud Cheney's Trip

[kskiska]

Questions on Intelligence Persist; Role in U.N. Process Criticized

NETTUNO, Italy, Jan. 26 -- Vice President Cheney had planned to spend a five-day tour encouraging Europeans to work harder in the fight against terrorism and in promoting democracy, but his message has been eclipsed by a spate of questions about his part in the decision to go to war in Iraq and in selling it to the public.

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While Cheney was posing for photographers before a meeting with Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, an American reporter shouted a question to the vice president, asking to what extent he believed the intelligence on Iraq was faulty. Cheney did not look up and did not respond to the query.

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A new biography of the British prime minister, "Tony Blair: The Making of a World Leader," quotes an unidentified aide to Blair as saying that Cheney opposed "at every twist and turn" efforts by the Bush administration and Blair to get U.N. backing for the Iraq war. Another Blair aide is quoted as saying that Cheney "waged a guerrilla war against the process" of seeking U.N. approval before the war.

The author, Financial Times political columnist Philip Stephens, asserts that Cheney was a "constant disrupting force in the Anglo-American relationship."

The book includes an extensive account of Blair's war strategy meeting with Bush at Camp David in September 2002, shortly before the president went to the United Nations to challenge other countries to join him in confronting Hussein.

"Although Blair had met Vice President Richard Cheney two or three times before, he was surprised to find him sitting alongside Bush at Camp David," the book recounts.

It says that in the months after the Camp David meeting, Cheney "sought to undermine the prime minister privately" by trying to dilute Washington's commitment to the U.N. process. "He's a visceral unilateralist," one of the Blair aides is quoted as saying.

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A50744-2004Jan26.html

[PartyPooper]

1. Cheney cooked the intelligence with the CIA.

And, European reporters can smell a bad chef a mile away!

[KissMyAsscroft]

2. Yeah, killing civilians for no reason will put a damper on any trip.

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[diamond14]

5. NYT poll this month: cheney's favorable ratings fall to 20 %

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/politics/administration/whbriefing/?nav=hptop_ts


part way down the page, under 'Cheney's European Adventure', although the whole article is well worth reading as MAJOR dump on the shrub....


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Eric Schmitt of the New York Times takes note of Cheney's "calculated election-year makeover." He reports that "A New York Times poll this month found that Mr. Cheney's favorable ratings had declined to 20 percent of the voters surveyed compared with 39 percent in a similar poll in January 2002. His unfavorable ratings increased to 24 percent, from 11 percent, in the same period."

[pinniped]

3. How fitting for a supposed leader of the free world...

"While Cheney was posing for photographers before a meeting with Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, an American reporter shouted a question to the vice president, asking to what extent he believed the intelligence on Iraq was faulty. Cheney did not look up and did not respond to the query."

Hey look!...POS Chainknee is practicing for when he's in front of the tribunal.

"Cheney did not look up and did not respond to the query."

Nice defense asshole.

[diamond14]

4. cheney photos...ultimate hypocrite & war-profiteer..(caution: hitler-y)

taking 5 deferments to skip out of Vietnam service, cheney told the press "I had other priorities"....






cheney wears U.S. Army jacket, as he PRETENDS to have served in the military for his staged PHOTO-OP



cheney (death-warmed-over) pins the bronze star on a REAL soldier



mrs. cheney SMILES BIG TIME, as she contemplates OUR DEAD SOLDIERS, and her taxpayer-funded European Vacation through the Swiss and Italian Alps, to Rome and other vacation locations...while TWO cheney-sponsored personally-profitable wars rage on, in Iraq and Afganistan....lynn cheney can't help but SMILE, in her typically reTHUGlican fur coat...

[DoYouEverWonder]

6. The groundhog came out of his hidey hole today

and didn't see his shadow, indicating that there will be at least 4 more years of perpetual war.