Cheney's Trouble with the Truth

[Thom Little]

You've got to hand it to Dick Cheney; no other modern politician has come so close to perfecting the theater of the absurd. Even as he protests his innocence of lying about matters of state, he lies about matters of state.

In two major speeches Friday and Monday, the Vice President, who has long insisted Saddam Hussein and Al Qaeda were allies, Iraq had weapons of mass destruction, we would be greeted as liberators in Baghdad, and that the Iraqi insurgency is in its "last throes," again evidenced his trademark inability to speak the truth.

Continuing the Administration's recent shrill defensive barrage over whose fault the Iraq mess is and with the truth chasing the lies in full public view, Cheney had the gall to smear the war's critics as "corrupt and shameless." Then, within a few sentences, he showed again why 52 percent of those recently polled by Newsweek believe Cheney deliberately 'misused or manipulated" prewar intelligence.

First, he shamelessly repeated the absurd notion that a bum-rushed Congress, most of which does not have high security clearance, was privy to the same intelligence as he and his war-salesmen allies. In fact, not only was Cheney and his staff poring over the classified testimonials of an array of known liars, forgers, drunks, opportunists and desperate exiles we now know supplied White House speechwriters with their best lines, he also had access to the intelligence community's combined disclaimers, rebuttals and outright denunciations of these sources and their conveniently tawdry tales.



http://www.thenation.com/doc/20051212/scheer1122

[AuntiBush]

1. Yeah. He's Got a "Real" Problem with that.

Telling the truth thingy. So does his puppet-boy sidekick & croonies.

Dr. Dean said is best: "Culture of Corruption."

[DeadManInc]

2. Cheney's like an asshole

when he opens his mouth, nothing but shit spews out of it.

[cliss]

3. The problem with Cheney -

is that he's smart. There can be no doubt the man is intelligent. But people have said that "he's given credit for much more ability than he really has".

So he presents a nice front. I've heard him: he talks a good talk. But when you listen CLOSELY, like I did during the Vice Presidential debate last year, I could hear that he was a bull-shitter.

He lied. He said all kinds of things that were not true. They pointed this out in thread after thread on the DU the next day. So he's a GOOD bull-shitter. That's the problem.

[gizmo1979]

4. Cheney is the devil.

I'll bet he could pass a lie detector test easily.He is a world class bullshiter,and believes his own lies.