Comments on: Cheney Calls Iraq “Significant Success, Masterfully Done”; Blames Lengthy, Bloody Occupation On Lack Of Iraqi “Get Up And Go” http://firedoglake.com/2009/01/04/cheney-calls-iraq-significant-success-masterfully-done-blames-lengthy-bloody-occupation-on-lack-of-iraqi-get-up-and-go/ Firedoglake weblog Sat, 18 Feb 2012 08:28:03 -0600 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: bluebutterfly http://firedoglake.com/2009/01/04/cheney-calls-iraq-significant-success-masterfully-done-blames-lengthy-bloody-occupation-on-lack-of-iraqi-get-up-and-go/#comment-1782085 bluebutterfly Mon, 05 Jan 2009 13:20:24 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/01/04/cheney-calls-iraq-significant-success-masterfully-done-blames-lengthy-bloody-occupation-on-lack-of-iraqi-get-up-and-go/#comment-1782085 <p>If you don’t get punished, you didn’t go anything wrong, right?</p> <p>That’s the message Vice President Dick Cheney gave in an interview with CBS’ Bob Schieffer on Sunday, suggesting that a president’s actions are legal if those actions didn’t result in his impeachment.</p> <p>Asked by Schieffer if he believed that anything the president does in time of war is legal, Cheney said there is “historic precedent of taking action that you wouldn’t take in peacetime.”</p> <p>When Schieffer asked if the Bush administration had gone “too far” in its surveillance program, Cheney said no.</p> <p>“I don’t believe we violated anybody’s civil liberties,” he said.</p> <p>Cheney also urged President-elect Barack Obama to continue the Bush administration’s interrogation policies.</p> <p><a href="http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Cheney_Presidents_actions_legal_if_hes_0104.html" rel="nofollow">http://rawstory.com/news/2008/....._0104.html</a></p> If you don’t get punished, you didn’t go anything wrong, right?

That’s the message Vice President Dick Cheney gave in an interview with CBS’ Bob Schieffer on Sunday, suggesting that a president’s actions are legal if those actions didn’t result in his impeachment.

Asked by Schieffer if he believed that anything the president does in time of war is legal, Cheney said there is “historic precedent of taking action that you wouldn’t take in peacetime.”

When Schieffer asked if the Bush administration had gone “too far” in its surveillance program, Cheney said no.

“I don’t believe we violated anybody’s civil liberties,” he said.

Cheney also urged President-elect Barack Obama to continue the Bush administration’s interrogation policies.

http://rawstory.com/news/2008/….._0104.html

]]> By: DanC http://firedoglake.com/2009/01/04/cheney-calls-iraq-significant-success-masterfully-done-blames-lengthy-bloody-occupation-on-lack-of-iraqi-get-up-and-go/#comment-1781543 DanC Mon, 05 Jan 2009 00:27:00 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/01/04/cheney-calls-iraq-significant-success-masterfully-done-blames-lengthy-bloody-occupation-on-lack-of-iraqi-get-up-and-go/#comment-1781543 <p>Isn’t the problem more one of lack of American get-up-&-go-home-already?</p> Isn’t the problem more one of lack of American get-up-&-go-home-already?

]]> By: MrTentacle http://firedoglake.com/2009/01/04/cheney-calls-iraq-significant-success-masterfully-done-blames-lengthy-bloody-occupation-on-lack-of-iraqi-get-up-and-go/#comment-1781489 MrTentacle Sun, 04 Jan 2009 23:37:17 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/01/04/cheney-calls-iraq-significant-success-masterfully-done-blames-lengthy-bloody-occupation-on-lack-of-iraqi-get-up-and-go/#comment-1781489 <p>Yes Dick, we can all see how close to achieving our “objectives” the fantastically successful Iraqi adventure is. After all, Baghdad is an earthly paradise with only the occasional suicide bombing disturbing the idyllic lives of the happy residents.</p> <p>I’ll bet we could get Dick Iraqi citizenship and a nice apartment in a quiet neighborhood not too far from the Green Zone so he could enjoy all that “success” first hand.</p> Yes Dick, we can all see how close to achieving our “objectives” the fantastically successful Iraqi adventure is. After all, Baghdad is an earthly paradise with only the occasional suicide bombing disturbing the idyllic lives of the happy residents.

I’ll bet we could get Dick Iraqi citizenship and a nice apartment in a quiet neighborhood not too far from the Green Zone so he could enjoy all that “success” first hand.

]]> By: bluebutterfly http://firedoglake.com/2009/01/04/cheney-calls-iraq-significant-success-masterfully-done-blames-lengthy-bloody-occupation-on-lack-of-iraqi-get-up-and-go/#comment-1781389 bluebutterfly Sun, 04 Jan 2009 22:36:19 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/01/04/cheney-calls-iraq-significant-success-masterfully-done-blames-lengthy-bloody-occupation-on-lack-of-iraqi-get-up-and-go/#comment-1781389 <p>here’s hoping..</p> <p><a href="http://www.historycommons.org/context.jsp?item=a022691highwaydeath#a022691highwaydeath" rel="nofollow">http://www.historycommons.org/.....ghwaydeath</a></p> here’s hoping..

http://www.historycommons.org/…..ghwaydeath

]]> By: bluebutterfly http://firedoglake.com/2009/01/04/cheney-calls-iraq-significant-success-masterfully-done-blames-lengthy-bloody-occupation-on-lack-of-iraqi-get-up-and-go/#comment-1781381 bluebutterfly Sun, 04 Jan 2009 22:28:47 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/01/04/cheney-calls-iraq-significant-success-masterfully-done-blames-lengthy-bloody-occupation-on-lack-of-iraqi-get-up-and-go/#comment-1781381 <p>try # 2..will try a different site if this link fails again…</p> <p><a href="http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389×4602318" rel="nofollow">http://www.democraticundergrou.....15;4602318</a></p> try # 2..will try a different site if this link fails again…

http://www.democraticundergrou…..15;4602318

]]> By: bluebutterfly http://firedoglake.com/2009/01/04/cheney-calls-iraq-significant-success-masterfully-done-blames-lengthy-bloody-occupation-on-lack-of-iraqi-get-up-and-go/#comment-1781374 bluebutterfly Sun, 04 Jan 2009 22:23:44 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/01/04/cheney-calls-iraq-significant-success-masterfully-done-blames-lengthy-bloody-occupation-on-lack-of-iraqi-get-up-and-go/#comment-1781374 <p>This is what the Americans did to the retreating Iraqi convoy in 1991. The US Army coined the phrase ‘The highway of death’ for this massacre.</p> <p><a href="http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389×4602318" rel="nofollow">http://www.democraticundergrou.....15;4602318</a></p> This is what the Americans did to the retreating Iraqi convoy in 1991. The US Army coined the phrase ‘The highway of death’ for this massacre.

http://www.democraticundergrou…..15;4602318

]]> By: bluebutterfly http://firedoglake.com/2009/01/04/cheney-calls-iraq-significant-success-masterfully-done-blames-lengthy-bloody-occupation-on-lack-of-iraqi-get-up-and-go/#comment-1781353 bluebutterfly Sun, 04 Jan 2009 22:13:42 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/01/04/cheney-calls-iraq-significant-success-masterfully-done-blames-lengthy-bloody-occupation-on-lack-of-iraqi-get-up-and-go/#comment-1781353 <p>A very good friend to Bush 1. Schieffer drove Mrs. Oswald to Dallas..where her son was being held. What did she say during that drive and what did he keep silent about? We will never know.</p> <p><a href="http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1850410,00.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.time.com/time/natio.....10,00.html</a></p> A very good friend to Bush 1. Schieffer drove Mrs. Oswald to Dallas..where her son was being held. What did she say during that drive and what did he keep silent about? We will never know.

http://www.time.com/time/natio…..10,00.html

]]> By: bluebutterfly http://firedoglake.com/2009/01/04/cheney-calls-iraq-significant-success-masterfully-done-blames-lengthy-bloody-occupation-on-lack-of-iraqi-get-up-and-go/#comment-1781342 bluebutterfly Sun, 04 Jan 2009 22:06:30 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/01/04/cheney-calls-iraq-significant-success-masterfully-done-blames-lengthy-bloody-occupation-on-lack-of-iraqi-get-up-and-go/#comment-1781342 <p>No sense of mortality, indeed.</p> <p><a href="http://www.jesus-is-savior.com/False%20Religions/Wicca%20&%20Witchcraft/bohemian_grove_exposed.htm" rel="nofollow">http://www.jesus-is-savior.com.....xposed.htm</a></p> No sense of mortality, indeed.

http://www.jesus-is-savior.com…..xposed.htm

]]> By: bluebutterfly http://firedoglake.com/2009/01/04/cheney-calls-iraq-significant-success-masterfully-done-blames-lengthy-bloody-occupation-on-lack-of-iraqi-get-up-and-go/#comment-1781330 bluebutterfly Sun, 04 Jan 2009 21:59:02 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/01/04/cheney-calls-iraq-significant-success-masterfully-done-blames-lengthy-bloody-occupation-on-lack-of-iraqi-get-up-and-go/#comment-1781330 <p>The lead up to that video..</p> <p><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwNiVZWuQpE&NR=1" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....&NR=1</a></p> The lead up to that video..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v…..&NR=1

]]> By: bernie68 http://firedoglake.com/2009/01/04/cheney-calls-iraq-significant-success-masterfully-done-blames-lengthy-bloody-occupation-on-lack-of-iraqi-get-up-and-go/#comment-1781261 bernie68 Sun, 04 Jan 2009 21:09:03 +0000 http://firedoglake.com/2009/01/04/cheney-calls-iraq-significant-success-masterfully-done-blames-lengthy-bloody-occupation-on-lack-of-iraqi-get-up-and-go/#comment-1781261 <p>Wasn’t there an issue of the first George Bush letting the Iraqis down after the first Iraqi war in 1991? Weren’t a lot of Iraquis tortured and killed by Saddam because Bush One didn’t come through after encouraging the locals to rebel against Saddam? And wasn’t Cheney involved with that too?</p> Wasn’t there an issue of the first George Bush letting the Iraqis down after the first Iraqi war in 1991? Weren’t a lot of Iraquis tortured and killed by Saddam because Bush One didn’t come through after encouraging the locals to rebel against Saddam? And wasn’t Cheney involved with that too?

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