--- In [email protected], Duveyoung <no_re...@...> wrote: > > Do.rflex, > > But, Do.r, according to Turq, Cheney is JUST HUMAN...so, I gots ta ask, do > you think Cheney is evil?
I'd say that 'just humans' can also be evil. 'Just humans' can have many characteristics, eh? After all, you're 'just human' but you're also mentally unstable. > > Edg > > --- In [email protected], "do.rflex" <do.rflex@> 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 > > > > > >
