`Dishonest and reprehensible' words from Dick Cheney (Galloway, KR News)

[pinto]

I sure hope Knight-Ridder's Washington Bureau survives their corporate takeover...Good Galloway piece from today's local KR paper

Posted on Wed, Nov. 23, 2005
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`Dishonest and reprehensible' words from Dick Cheney

By JOSEPH L. GALLOWAY
Knight Ridder Newspapers

WASHINGTON - "Dishonest and reprehensible" and "corrupt and shameless."

Vice President Dick Cheney was throwing those kind words around in what passes for polite civil discourse in Washington these days. He aimed them at anyone - especially senators of the Democratic persuasion - who dared suggest that President Bush or anyone else in the administration had exaggerated or twisted pre-war intelligence to build the case for invading Iraq.

In fact the pre-war attempts to both cherry-pick raw and unvetted intelligence reports and to mount a public relations offensive to lend credence to the tales of so-called Iraqi defectors - some successful and some not - were largely managed by Dick Cheney and his chief underlings, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby and John Hannah.

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It was Cheney who wanted this war more than anyone else in the Bush White House, and it was Cheney who kept repeating the lies about WMD and Saddam's ties to al-Qaeda in speeches long after both had been disproved.

Cheney is the face of the Iraq War for the American people, and in consequence, his approval ratings are lower even than President Bush's. His longtime colleague in the earlier Bush administration, Brent Scowcroft, says he no longer knows his old friend Dick Cheney. Powell's former aide Wilkerson says Cheney led a "cabal" that has run roughshod over the policy-making apparatus.

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http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/news/special_packages/galloway/13242995.htm

[driver8]

1. Cheney knows that if this story blows up, he is screwed. He has to

squash it any way that he can.

We all know what a war monger this thug is. Unfortunately, not everyone in this country pays attention like we do.

Cheney is a war criminal...plain and simple.

[cliss]

2. I think it's good that Cheney

is out in the news a lot. Cheney is trying desperately to save his presidency.

The more he talks, the more people are going to take a real, close hard look at this man. And they won't like what they see.