Well, here’s something everyone could have anticipated, but as usual, other than bloggers it seems only Warren Strobel and John Landay of McClatchy reported:
Former Vice President Dick Cheney’s defense Thursday of the Bush administration’s policies for interrogating suspected terrorists contained omissions, exaggerations and misstatements.
Well, this column is apparently going to be as long as a Leon Uris novel, but here is a selection that seems remarkably DFH bloggeresque:
_ Cheney said that the Bush administration "moved decisively against the terrorists in their hideouts and their sanctuaries, and committed to using every asset to take down their networks."
The former vice president didn’t point out that Osama bin Laden and his chief lieutenant, Ayman al Zawahri, remain at large nearly eight years after 9-11 and that the Bush administration began diverting U.S. forces, intelligence assets, time and money to planning an invasion of Iraq before it finished the war in Afghanistan against al Qaida and the Taliban…
Oh, you damn dirty hippies — being all right and not serious like Dick Cheney. Because David Broder and his ilk know serious, and only serious can be appreciated. Especially in the form of needlessly dead soldiers and civilians in a third-world country (no pictures though).
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Attaturk you forgot to mention all the billions Bush gave Pakistan to get Ossama. I want that money returned. Bush and Cheney are loaded lets hit them up for the cash.
I wonder when the MSM will ask if any of that money wound up in Ossama’s pocket as Protection money. Pakistan’s Intelligence service did help set up Ossama.
Cheney has been in the news allot lately I wonder if Valerie Palme is going to use this opportunity to get on the news and ask about Bush’s promise to find out who leaked her name.
“moved decisively against the terrorists in their hideouts and their sanctuaries, and committed to using every asset to take down their networks.”
Why does dick hate the troops? Surely if we had done the things dick claimed our people would have indeed brought Osama to justice for 9-11. So dick is saying our people weren’t good enough? Or is dick admitting his priority was not the capture of those responsible for 9-11 but something else altogether?
Dick is a deeply delusional and demented piece of shit of a sub-human.
It helps one to understand the priorities of 8 years of bush/cheney if one remembers the 1998 letter to then President Bill Clinton advocating the invasion of Iraq.
bush/cheney allowed 9-11 to happen and set about blaming Sadam for it. dick clings to that delusion to this day.
What a sick, sick little man, with no grasp of the destruction he took part in.
Cheney has crawled out from under his rock. He thinks that he can control the conversation and with the Media interviews he can make sure that only serious questions are asked.
If there was ever a time for a photogenic Blond to work it and get on all the other news shows that don’t have Cheney on now is the time.
Cheney can lie and we can poke holes in his story.
Valerie can ask other questions that question Cheney’s integrity like just who in the Bush White House outed her an American spy during wartime?
Valerie can ask if the Death Penalty for TREASON applies to outing an American spy during wartime.
A War for Oil? Or maybe Dick just likes torturing people?
Didn’t the GOP accuse Clinton of trying to wag the dog when he ordered missile strikes against Al Quieda during the whole Monica thing?
http://www.commodityonline.com…..7-3-1.html
I wonder what will happen to all those oil speculators sitting on oil tankers full of oil waiting for the price to go up?
I wonder who loaned them the money to speculate? If those oil speculators have to sell at a loss imagine what that will do to gas prices and oil company profits for this year.
They —Cheney and the ignoring MSM— could look it up:
Late July 2002
Bush approves diversion of $700MM from a supplemental allocation for Afghan war activities to preparation for Iraq invasion. Congress is not consulted.
Raw Story, Path of War Timeline, July, 2005.
Cheney especially should do so before he slips any further, ’cause no one’d ever guess where the RawStory timeline links: the transcript of a 60Minutes feature with Bob Woodward, promoting Woodward’s book Bush at War. Surely PapaDick (that really does capture the man’s weirdness,eh?) recalls the man who wrote of him as a “powerful, steamrolling force obsessed with Saddam and taking him out.”
http://online.wsj.com/article/…..15315.html
At what price did they buy this oil? And who bought the oil? With what money please don’t say loans from our banks.
We do know they bought high but how high. It takes money just to rent a full oil tanker and have it sit there, some oil tankers have been sitting for months.
When will they be forced to sell? I think a rapid decrease in oil prices is likely if they are forced to sell and that this will help our economy provided our banks were not involved.
I wonder if the oil speculators are buying insurance contracts to protect themselves against being forced to sell oil when prices are low.
Please tell me that American companies like AIG are not selling them insurance.
http://www.nypost.com/seven/01…..150970.htm
$68,000 a day to rent one oil tanker holding 2 million barrels of oil.
374.7 million barrels divide by 2 = 187.3 oil tankers if my math is right
187 * $68,000 * how many days the oil tankers have been sitting there tells us how much money they lost.
Add that to the price they paid for the oil in the first place and we have the number the oil speculators need to sell their oil at to break even.
Remember that that number goes up $68,000 a day.
I wonder whats the bigger number the amount of money the oil speculators would lose if they had to sell at today’s prices or the billions Bush gave Pakistan to find Ossama?
Nite folks
mornin
Mornin’, gang -
McClatchy = the only news organization in whose reporting I have the slightest confidence of some semblance of accuracy.
Morning all, Al Jazeera will have a news hour on Link TV starting the first of June.
Mark Brown gives us a turn of the Rubik’s cube on the Lake:
Good morning, pups. It’s Bobo and Krugman this morning. Bobo says “Cheney Lost to Bush,” and that President Obama and Dick Cheney dueled at the dais over nitty-gritty details of American anti-terror policy. He seems to be laboring under the impression that Obama has “benefitted” from Bush/Cheney policies. Time to check his meds again. Mr. Krugman says we should get ready for a “Blue Double Cross,” and that despite insurers’ appearance of cooperation with President Obama on health care reform, the double-crossing is well under way.
Here they are.
The coffee and tea are ready, and I’ve got banana pancakes today. I took today off, which is a good thing. It will give me a chance to get to Home Depot early, before all the gopher wood is gone, so I can start building my ark. We had gotten 19 inches of rain in 2009 by Sunday, and we’ve gotten about an inch a day over the past few days. Hoover is very annoyed — he thinks we should have better control over the weather. Have a great day.
Can anyone tell me why Liz Cheney is holding forth on ABC about how we’re less safe because of Obama? Is she now going to run for president because Obama was mean to her daddy?
No can do.
A nuke is like a car; once it’s bought,
the value immediately depreciates by at least 20%.
With this opinion piece,David Brooks deserves a seat at the table this morning,never thought I would say that, but this is a must read.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05…..rooks.html
NOR did he point out that the numbers of al=qaeda INCREASED because of the mal steps, decisions and depravity of their supposed “decisive action”
action so decisive EVERY profesional TOLD them they would be helping the enemy, deminishing any chance for success AND harming our own soldiers
nope, didn’t see that mentioned either
… and his article has the CIA Seal of Approval.
You fail to understand. That was the entire point. It is good for business.
A nuke is like a car; once it’s bought,
the value immediately depreciates by at least 20%.
s’true. there is very little resale value in a used nuke.
Mornin’, Attaturk, pups
Gary Trudeau lays out Cheney’s torture program in 3 panels of Doonesbury today.
Joe Douchebag this morning says the Bush Regime only waterboarded & tortured 3 prisoners, so this means it was okay to do. Would Joe support President Obama if President Obama ordered the torture of individuals to fraudulently make the case that the neocons of America are conspiring to kill Americans and take over the country, just so President Obama will have a reason to round up the neocons to imprison them the rest of their lives or kill them in droves?
Bill Greider destroys Greenspan’s denials of the effects of bubbles in Chapter 3 of Secrets of the Temple, before Greenspan was even in the picture. Greenspan is either an out-and-out liar or incompetent. Or both.
Doesn’t take Joe long to pick up on the talking points, does it? I heard that shit yesterday.
Fantastic! That one comes with my sat TV package. Give a holler out when you learn a time, please.
It doesn’t matter what the Dickster, Newtie or any other republican has-been corruption monkey says. It only matters that they keep talking, keep getting the megaphone, keep framing the “debate” and keep bullying the sitting democratic president to throw him off balance and undermine the dem agenda.
It’s a classic from the Karl “turdblossom” Rove playbook. And it’s working: since their attacks began, the rethugs are currently enjoying something like an 8-point bump in voter approval so far.
They literally could not care less about national security, obviously. The ultimate goal is still the Permanent Republican Majority by any means necessary.