Cheney: Saddam "sitting on top of a big pile of cash" if still in power

[sabra]

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2006/09/20060910.html

Interview of the Vice President by Tim Russert, NBC News, Meet the Press
NBC Studios
Washington, D.C

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Think where we would be if he was still there. He would be sitting on top of a big pile of cash because he would have $65 and $70 oil.

[kurth]

1. Yeah, Saddam wielded supernatural powers over OPEC

What a LIE.

[Kikosexy2]

9. Tricky Dicky...

is really off his meds...now he's confusing Saddam with himself...I believe Saddam is sitting on a big pile of shit while Ol Dicky is sitting on a big pile of blood money...

[maddezmom]

2. look in the mirror "Big Time"

:puke:

[sabra]

6. they aren't even hiding it anymore...

[Jacobin]

3. Yes., That's MY cash, MINE, MINE, all MINE

<cue laugh track from munsters>

[babylonsister]

4. Let's see your bank account, Halliburton stockholder & enabler.

:grr:

[Beaverhausen]

5. So now it's Cheney sitting on the big pile o'cash

had to say it...he is an evil mofo.

[gratuitous]

7. Crashcart didn't finish his thought

"And all that cash rightfully belongs to ME!"

How, pray tell, could Saddam have sold his oil on the market for $65 or $70 a barrel when he was under sanction not to sell Iraqi oil on the market? Or was the galling thought of how you almost missed cashing in personally so painful, Mr. Cheney, that you momentarily forgot that pertinent point?

[whistle]

8. But, instead, I...Dick Cheney am sitting on a mountain of cash

...which thanks to the Iraq war, political corruption, corporate fascism and the absolute stupidity of the republican voters. Remember, I appointed myself to be Vice President in 2000.

[Kutjara]

10. Wait just one goddamned minute!

The reason we've had $65-70$ oil recently is because of market manipulation by the Big Oil companies, resulting from fears of restricted supply due to the debacle in Iraq and potential debacle in Iran. In other words, the high oil price is the direct result of our ill conceived and poorly executed Middle Eastern policies.

So how the holy hell does Darth Cheney come up with a 65-70 buck oil price if we'd never embarked on our fool's errand? Talk about the cut-and-paste school of history. "We'll just take the bits of the current situation that suit our agenda and splice them into a hypothetical alternative history." Sure, that works.

[MidwestTransplant]

11. The prices are so high because of the war you MORON

There is at least $15 of instability premium in the price.

[A-Schwarzenegger]

12. If he's not Satan, Satan is writing his lines.

[Disturbed]

14. Darth Cheney is a smooth Liar.

There is no doubt that he and Rumsfailed were the leaders of the Office of Special Plans, the office that forced the Iraq Intell cherry picked from the CIA to con the Congress into the Illegal Invasion of Iraq and the Illegal Occupation that will last until the Iraqi Govt. itself demands the end of it. Both of these criminals are more smooth in their blatant lies than Busholini, the Silverspoon Sociopath, Sock Puppet.

[razors edge]

13. they mock our intelligence!

Pot, meet Kettle.

[DoYouEverWonder]

15. Golum wants his Precious

all to himself. Golum doesn't want to share with big bad Saddam.

[Rex]

16. Oh Dick, STFU already.

You're a motard, a fluke. A walking canard.

[rman]

17. How much cash are you sitting on, Cheney?

Last i heard you'd be the first Trillionaire if your potential oil assets would be included.