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26. i love cheney the dick weighing in on benghazi....thanks richard
Wed May 8, 2013, 08:31 PM
May 2013
Cheney: We would have been ready for Benghazi attack

Ex-Vice President Dick Cheney claims the Benghazi attack was a “failure of leadership” by the Obama administration, and that the Bush administration would have been ready and would have responded to the Sept. 11, 2012, attack that killed the U.S. Ambassador to Libya Chris Stevens and three other American embassy staff.

“When we were there, on our watch, we were always ready on 9/11, on the anniversary,” Cheney told the U.K.’s Daily Mail. “We always anticipated they were coming for us, especially in that part of the world . . . I cannot understand why they weren’t ready to go.”

The Bush-Cheney administration was, however, widely criticized for ignoring signs and intelligence report in advance of the original Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist hijackings and attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.

As well, Cheney has been taken to task for his prediction that U.S. troops would be “greeted as liberators” when they invaded Iraq in the spring of 2003.


http://blog.seattlepi.com/seattlepolitics/2013/05/08/cheney-we-would-have-been-ready-for-benghazi-attack/

Yeah -- the only people who think this is an issue are the Republicans gateley May 2013 #1
Not even M$Greedia are playing along with the malaise May 2013 #2
Fox News host on Benghazi: ‘We’re getting a little lopsided’ by favoring Republicans Tx4obama May 2013 #3
Geeze, ya think?! nt babylonsister May 2013 #4
fox mentality.. Cha May 2013 #17
GETTING a little lopsided??? gateley May 2013 #5
Ha malaise May 2013 #14
They'll just tie Obama and Hillary to this murder and those kidnappings. onehandle May 2013 #6
Rush blamed Obama for the kidnappings yesterday. nt tridim May 2013 #8
Benghazi? Oh yeah, I had forgotten about that non-issue... Blue Owl May 2013 #7
LOL malaise May 2013 #12
Issa is floundering, badly. Looks the fool. Ikonoklast May 2013 #9
Absolutely lovin' it malaise May 2013 #13
If the shoe fit's, and it does... sheshe2 May 2013 #15
Better to keep your mouth shut and be thought a fool... MattBaggins May 2013 #33
Hillary is going to get 100-125 million votes in 2016 and 2020. The record is a little under 70. graham4anything May 2013 #10
Stop bogarting the joint, my friend, and pass it around!! madinmaryland May 2013 #11
Issa and the rethugs~ a Ship of fools! sheshe2 May 2013 #16
All politics all the time malaise May 2013 #19
Someone mentioned Jody something today at work, who is that? RB TexLa May 2013 #18
Jody Arias malaise May 2013 #20
the irony CatWoman May 2013 #21
LOL - great point malaise May 2013 #27
Well, they are trying to reach for Watergate nadinbrzezinski May 2013 #22
They can't even fetch water let alone the gate malaise May 2013 #23
I know...I know nadinbrzezinski May 2013 #24
That's okay. There was no thunder to steal, from what I understand. GoCubsGo May 2013 #25
i love cheney the dick weighing in on benghazi....thanks richard spanone May 2013 #26
Cheney's memory is failing now malaise May 2013 #28
And the 12 fucking post 911 attacks and 50 dead under his watch? MattBaggins May 2013 #34
It must hurt to be a Rethug right now. Dawson Leery May 2013 #29
Even Chris Hayes is laughing at them malaise May 2013 #30
This was supposed to be their n-teenth attempt to take out Obama. Dawson Leery May 2013 #31
Bwaaaaaaaaaaa hahahahahahahaha malaise May 2013 #32
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