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OT Cheney's 'Dishonest and Reprehensible' Charges

Cheney's 'Dishonest and Reprehensible' Charges

Last night, Vice President Dick Cheney said that "the suggestion that's
been made by some U.S. senators that the President of the United States
or any member of this Administration purposely misled the American
people on pre-war intelligence is one of the most dishonest and
reprehensible charges ever aired in this city." Let's be clear:
President Bush and many members of his administration misled the
American people on pre-war intelligence. It was either purposeful or
the result of gross negligence. These claims were repeatedly advanced
to justify the invasion of Iraq. Blaming the people who point it out is
one of the most dishonest and reprehensible charges ever aired by Vice
President Cheney. White House senior advisor Dan Bartlett added that
the administration's critics have "crossed a bright line" by claiming
that the Bush administration misled Americans into war because "they
have no facts on their side." Actually, there are mountains of facts to
support the claim. Here's a selection of grossly misleading claims made
before the war by Cheney himself:

CHENEY SAID IT WAS AN 'ABSOLUTE CERTAINTY' IRAQ WAS DEVELOPING NUCLEAR
WEAPONS: On September 8, 2002, Cheney said, "[i]t is now public that,
in fact, he has been seeking to acquire, and we have been able to
intercept and prevent him from acquiring through this particular
channel, the kinds of [aluminum] tubes that are necessary to build a
centrifuge. ... We do know, with absolute certainty, that [Saddam
Hussein] is using his procurement system to acquire the equipment he
needs in order to enrich uranium to build a nuclear weapon." Cheney
"was referring to the aluminum tubes." At the time, "[t]he Department
of Energy, the Nation's foremost nuclear weapons experts, and the
State Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research, did not
believe the aluminum tubes were for centrifuges to make nuclear
weapons." After the invasion, months of inspections "found no evidence
of hidden centrifuges or a revived nuclear weapons program."

CHENEY SAID IT WAS 'PRETTY WELL CONFIRMED' THAT IRAQI INTELLIGENCE
OFFICERS MET WITH A 9/11 HIJACKER: On December 9, 2001, Vice President
Cheney said it was "pretty well confirmed, that [one of the 9/11
hijackers, Mohammed Atta] did go to Prague and he did meet with a
senior official of the Iraqi intelligence service in Czechoslovakia
last April, several months before the attack." The CIA has stated
publicly that it didn't have "any credible information" that the
meeting took place. The bi-partisan 9/11 Commission concluded the
meeting did not occur. Even after the 9/11 Commission issued their
findings, Cheney refused to back away from his statements. In June
2004, he stated that "we just don't know" whether the meeting took
place.

CHENEY SAID THAT IRAQ TRAINED AL-QAEDA TERRORISTS: On December 2, 2002,
Vice President Cheney claimed that Saddam Huissen's regime "has had
high-level contacts with al Qaeda going back a decade and has provided
training to al Qaeda terrorists." It wasn't true and the administration
knew it. According to the New York Times the information came from a
detainee "identified as a likely fabricator months before the Bush
administration began to use his statements as the foundation for its
claims that Iraq trained Al Qaeda members to use biological and
chemical weapons." A February 2002 document by the Defense Intelligence
Agency said that the detainee Ibn al-Shaykh al-Libi, ''was
intentionally misleading the debriefers.''

OT Cheney's 'Dishonest and Reprehensible' Charges

Sir Rodney Smithers wrote:
Kevin,
That is all we need, another person who is not able to carry on an
intelligent discussion, cut and pasting articles to make up for his
shortcomings.

I'm not Kevin, you ignorant twit. So, did you ever figure out what
you'll see at Table 1280 that you won't likely ever see anywhere else?
Do you still expect people to believe that you park for free near
Agatha's, then walk 13 blocks to Woodruff, as opposed to parking right
AT the Woodruff parking deck?? So, where do you boat?

OT Cheney's 'Dishonest and Reprehensible' Charges

Kevin,

Learn to read so I don't have to repeat myself a hundred times.

Are you finally going to step up and admit you made a mistake about the APO?

I have to admit you remind me of the married guy who went out drinking with
his buddies. He picked up a woman went back to her place, and did not get
home till 6 am. He tried to quietly slide into bed without waking his wife,
but unfortunately she woke up. When she asked him where he had been, he
said he got home around midnight, but didn't want to wake her up, so he
sleep in the hammock on the porch. His wife informed him, that she had
thrown the hammock away 2 months earlier.

His only response was "That is my story and I am sticking to it."

Kevin, Is that your story and are you sticking to it?

wrote in message
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Sir Rodney Smithers wrote:
Kevin,
That is all we need, another person who is not able to carry on an
intelligent discussion, cut and pasting articles to make up for his
shortcomings.

I'm not Kevin, you ignorant twit. So, did you ever figure out what
you'll see at Table 1280 that you won't likely ever see anywhere else?
Do you still expect people to believe that you park for free near
Agatha's, then walk 13 blocks to Woodruff, as opposed to parking right
AT the Woodruff parking deck?? So, where do you boat?

OT Cheney's 'Dishonest and Reprehensible' Charges

wrote in message
oups.com...

I'm not Kevin, you ignorant twit. So, did you ever figure out what
you'll see at Table 1280 that you won't likely ever see anywhere else?

Yes, I will answer it, but you are using this as a deversion from my
question, do you want to answer my question about the venue for the APO
show?

Do you still expect people to believe that you park for free near
Agatha's, then walk 13 blocks to Woodruff, as opposed to parking right
AT the Woodruff parking deck??

Kevin, reread my response to you concerning this thread, you will see I
responded to this 3 times already.

OT Cheney's 'Dishonest and Reprehensible' Charges

In article , "Sir Rodney
Smithers" Ask me about my knighthood. says...
Kevin,

Learn to read so I don't have to repeat myself a hundred times.

Are you finally going to step up and admit you made a mistake about the APO?

I have to admit you remind me of the married guy who went out drinking with
his buddies. He picked up a woman went back to her place, and did not get
home till 6 am. He tried to quietly slide into bed without waking his wife,
but unfortunately she woke up. When she asked him where he had been, he
said he got home around midnight, but didn't want to wake her up, so he
sleep in the hammock on the porch. His wife informed him, that she had
thrown the hammock away 2 months earlier.

His only response was "That is my story and I am sticking to it."

Sounds like Bush.

jps

OT Cheney's 'Dishonest and Reprehensible' Charges

Kevin is "stuck on stupid"

"Sir Rodney Smithers" Ask me about my knighthood. wrote in message
. ..

wrote in message
oups.com...

I'm not Kevin, you ignorant twit. So, did you ever figure out what
you'll see at Table 1280 that you won't likely ever see anywhere else?

Yes, I will answer it, but you are using this as a deversion from my
question, do you want to answer my question about the venue for the APO
show?

Do you still expect people to believe that you park for free near
Agatha's, then walk 13 blocks to Woodruff, as opposed to parking right
AT the Woodruff parking deck??

Kevin, reread my response to you concerning this thread, you will see I
responded to this 3 times already.

OT Cheney's 'Dishonest and Reprehensible' Charges

Sir Rodney Smithers wrote:
wrote in message
oups.com...

I'm not Kevin, you ignorant twit. So, did you ever figure out what
you'll see at Table 1280 that you won't likely ever see anywhere else?

Yes, I will answer it, but you are using this as a deversion from my
question, do you want to answer my question about the venue for the APO
show?

Do you still expect people to believe that you park for free near
Agatha's, then walk 13 blocks to Woodruff, as opposed to parking right
AT the Woodruff parking deck??

Kevin, reread my response to you concerning this thread, you will see I
responded to this 3 times already.

I'm not Kevin, you ignorant twit. Now, you haven't answered these
questions at all. Let's try again. Do you still maintain that you park
*13* blocks away for free, when you could park right at the Woodruff
parking deck? Do you really walk the 13 blocks in formal wear to see
the symphony?

Also, you've never answered what unique feature you see if you dine at
Table 1280? Everyone who's really been there would know exactly what
I'm talking about.

Also, I've asked and you've not answered, how long have you been going
to Table 1280?

Also, you've never answered