Do.rflex, But, Do.r, according to Turq, Cheney is JUST HUMAN...so, I gots ta ask, do you think Cheney is evil?
Edg --- In [email protected], "do.rflex" <do.rf...@...> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], Mike Dixon <mdixon.6569@> wrote: > > > > BINGO! > > > ~From former aid to Gen Colin Powell, Col. Lawrence Wilkerson: > > == First, more Americans were killed by terrorists on Cheney's watch than on > any other leader's watch in US history. > > So his constant claim that no Americans were killed in the "seven and a half > years" after 9/11 of his vice presidency takes on a new texture when one > considers that fact. And it is a fact. > > There was absolutely no policy priority attributed to al-Qa'ida by the > Cheney-Bush administration in the months before 9/11. > > Counterterrorism czar Dick Clarke's position was downgraded, al-Qa'ida was > put in the background so as to emphasize Iraq, and the policy priorities were > lowering taxes, abrogating the ABM Treaty and building ballistic missile > defenses. > > Second, the fact no attack has occurred on U.S. soil since 9/11--much touted > by Cheney--is due almost entirely to the nation's having deployed over > 200,000 U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan and not to "the Cheney method of > interrogation." > > Those troops have kept al-Qa'ida at bay, killed many of them, and certainly > "fixed" them, as we say in military jargon. Plus, sadly enough, those 200,000 > troops present a far more lucrative and close proximity target for al-Qa'ida > than the United States homeland. Testimony to that fact is clear: almost > 5,000 American troops have died, more Americans than died on 9/11. Of course, > they are the type of Americans for whom Cheney hasn't much use as he declared > rather dramatically when he achieved no less than five draft deferments > during the Vietnam War.== > > http://www.thewashingtonnote.com/archives/2009/05/the_truth_about/ > > > > > > > > > > > > --- On Fri, 5/15/09, Richard J. Williams <willytex@> wrote: > > > > > > From: Richard J. Williams <willytex@> > > Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: 'There's nothing to Fear, but Cheney Himself' > > To: [email protected] > > Date: Friday, May 15, 2009, 2:22 AM > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Mike Dixon wrote: > > > If Democrats "only" voted to authorize > > > military force and not to actually use > > > it, why wasn't there an out cry against > > > it just before or at the time of the > > > invasion? > > > > > Because, Mike, most all of the leaders in > > congress approved of the invasion - they > > knew that Bush meant what he said, so they > > voted in favor of invading Iraq and > > unseating Saddam. > > > > That was the goal ever since H.W. Bush and > > Gulf War I which the U.S. won. Dick Cheney > > was Secretary of Defense when the U.S. won > > the war in Kuwait. > > > > > Why did they wait to protest how there > > > vote was "used" until after there were > > > no WMDs found and probably never would > > > be? > > > > > WASHINGTON â" Despite Democrats' rising > > anxiety about Afghanistan, the House on > > Thursday easily passed a $96.7 billion > > measure filling President Barack Obama's > > request for war spending and foreign aid > > efforts there and in Iraq... > > > > 'House votes $97 billion war funds' > > By Andrew Taylor > > Associated Press, May 14, 2009 > > http://tinyurl. com/pxs4ad > > >
