Somehow the 'debate' on national security is now a game show, where the President's speech must be 'balanced' with a voice from the 'opposition' to provide 'fairness', but why the hell is The Cheney that voice? I must have missed the part of the Shrub administration where the opposition had to be given "equal time and respect", although Al Gore was allowed to be the subject of media ridicule from time to time.
But The Cheney is still spreading his lies, and the networks still pay attention. Today The Cheney cited the national security context as one in which they foremost fear was "a 9/11 with weapons of mass destruction.The Cheney said "al Qaeda was seeking nuclear weapons and that because Iraq had "known ties" to terrorists, the Bush administration focused on Iraq because it was a regime that "might transfer such weapons to terrorists." The old "Saddam-Al-Qaeda-WMD" story that has been shown to be false since it began, and is now known to be the product of torture. And The Cheney felt no shame about stating his own support for torturing detainees:
"In top secret meetings about enhanced interrogations, I made my own beliefs clear. I was and remain a strong proponent of our enhanced interrogation program."
http://washingtonindependent.com/44018/the-text-of-dick-cheneys-speech-at-aei
Brief memo to The Cheney: the Fifth Amendment doesn't really help if you make the statement on national TV. When you're finally on trial for your numerous crimes, they will use your own words against you.
But I'm still wondering why the hell anyone is putting you on my TV. If I wanted to watch a horror movie, I want good looking women between the scary parts. The Cheney should be in prison, not on TV.
(Added) The only "good" thing about The Cheney is that he proved that there are worse things than Richard Nixon, but that the country will survive them.
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Py I hope you realize that there's a little button on the remote that will change the channel. God what will they think of next?
And the word verify was anti p how appropo.
I don't have a remote...my TV is actually so old that I manually change channels.
And I could do that to avoid The Cheney, but I'm a liberal, so I force my self to suffer. It's what we do. Well, that and bitch about it from time to time.
I'd also like to know why Newt Gingrich is on my TV. He holds no office, and was in fact forced out of office because his policies led to disaster. Why does Karl Rove have a job? William Kristol?
I guess there's no such thing as being discredited any more. No matter how wrong you are, or how often, you get invited back on TV over and over. If you're a wingnut, that is.
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