Cheney: Dems trying to 'rewrite history' on war

[No Passaran]

Vice President Dick Cheney on Monday accused his Democratic opponents of "trying to rewrite history for their own political purposes" when they criticize the Bush administration for going to war based on flawed prewar intelligence.

http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/07/12/cheney.dems.ap/index.html

This guy is out of his friking mind.

[No Passaran]

1. +

I can see they're really afraid of losing Pennsylvania.

And I hope Patterno gets fired. :)

[amber dog democrat]

2. This is clever

Acusing the Democrats of the very things the Bush Administration is doing.
Of course they're going to go on the attack. The danger is that Cheney can
evade responsibility for going to war with flawed intelligence - by rewriting history for his own political purposes.

Its an outrageous lie stated with indignation and self rightiousness.

He is the epitome of evil and it is dangerous to ever underestimate this man.

[JaySherman]

3. Projection

The attribution of one's own attitudes, feelings, or desires to someone or something as a naive or unconscious defense against anxiety or guilt.

Has anyone in history ever been better at it the current crop of rethugs?

[cthrumatrix]

4. black is white...up is down.... relase your energy papers "toliet mouth"

and then tell us about history you liar.

[hyphenate]

5. Ha!

George Orwell was so prescient!

Doublespeak, they name is Republican.

[Norquist Nemesis]

6. Someone please turn off the replay machine.

This crap's getting soooo old! Don't they ever have anything else to say?

[no_hypocrisy]

7. "There are people who are out to revise history. Well, I call those

people 'historical revisionists'." Didn't this gem come from * with regard to the Iraq invasion earlier this year?

[NJmaverick]

8. IN a way he is right

bush and cheney rewrote history to suit their evil purposes. Now the Dems want to rewrite history again so it reflects the truth. I imagine that pisses off the ole bridge troll cheney to no end. He hates the truth.

[truthisfreedom]

9. cheney "lying" for political purposes. all Kerry has to do is stay on

message... cheney is LYING like he has about everything in the past. he is a LIAR and he is incapable of tellling the truth. look at that sneer... do you think he went through his whole life with a crooked body and that crooked sneer TELLING THE TRUTH? people who tell the truth are benevolent and direct and kind and good, and cheney is a lying, swearing, sneering, bent-up creepazoid.

[emulatorloo]

10. From the guy who still wants me to beleive Saddam planned 9/11

You bet I am going to beleive what Cheney says!

[MGKrebs]

11. Dang. I could swear I was protesting before the war.

This never happened?

[boobooday]

12. This is their M.O.

It's the "I'm rubber, you're glue" pre-emptive approach.

Just like they jumped all over the Ken Lay thing to try to connect him with the Democrats, because if they say it FIRST, then we always look like we are being defensive.

Cheney is really the epitome of evil.



http://www.wgoeshome.com

[nolabels]

13. This is a cost plus war (invasion)

The War in Iraq Cost the United States
it just past $122,425,000,000

http://costofwar.com/

[calimary]

15. My husband said he figured each kid who dies over there is worth

about a billion dollars to Halliburton.

Cool, 'eh? Our loved ones are worth far more to this administration - dead than alive.

[peekaloo]

14. greed + evil = Dr. Greevil!

dangerous bastard.

[adriennel]

16. revisionist history

geez, the GOP playbook is SO predictable. get some new tactics.

[daleo]

17. Telling the truth is rewriting history

According to Cheney. He was born in the wrong country at the wrong time to really do justice to his skills.

[nolabels]

18. He is a liar

He states

"Sens. John Kerry and John Edwards, the presumed Democratic presidential ticket, reviewed the same reports on Iraq that were given to President Bush and supported the decision to go to war, Cheney said."

Hey Dick, they gave your Adminstration authority to do it's job

Do you remember when the NSA was sent out to do this?

Revealed: US dirty tricks to win vote on Iraq war

Secret document details American plan to bug phones and emails of key Security Council members

Read the memo

Talk about it: dirty tricks?

Martin Bright, Ed Vulliamy in New York and Peter Beaumont
Sunday March 2, 2003
The Observer

The United States is conducting a secret 'dirty tricks' campaign against UN Security Council delegations in New York as part of its battle to win votes in favour of war against Iraq.
(snip)
The memo describes orders to staff at the agency, whose work is clouded in secrecy, to step up its surveillance operations 'particularly directed at... UN Security Council Members (minus US and GBR, of course)' to provide up-to-the-minute intelligence for Bush officials on the voting intentions of UN members regarding the issue of Iraq.

The leaked memorandum makes clear that the target of the heightened surveillance efforts are the delegations from Angola, Cameroon, Chile, Mexico, Guinea and Pakistan at the UN headquarters in New York - the so-called 'Middle Six' delegations whose votes are being fought over by the pro-war party, led by the US and Britain, and the party arguing for more time for UN inspections, led by France, China and Russia.

The memo is directed at senior NSA officials and advises them that the agency is 'mounting a surge' aimed at gleaning information not only on how delegations on the Security Council will vote on any second resolution on Iraq, but also 'policies', 'negotiating positions', 'alliances' and 'dependencies' - the 'whole gamut of information that could give US policymakers an edge in obtaining results favourable to US goals or to head off surprises'.
(snip)
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/iraq/story/0,12239,905936,00.html

They want the Dems to take responsibilty for the republicans invading Iraq, talk about rewriting history.

[Moderator]

19. Duplicate

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=680816