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Dick Cheney Reveals On Morning Joe: Jay Leno’s Jokes Made Him Tougher

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Dick Cheney joined Joe Scarborough on Morning Joe today to discuss his In My Time, “a remarkable memoir by a remarkable man,” according to Scarborough. Cheney warmed the set by sending cupcakes to co-host Mika Brzezinski, who has gotten great laughs at the former VP’s expense in the past, but they were not so sugared up as to forget why they were there.

Now, Cheney covers a lot of material in his 576-page, “head-exploding” memoir, and what he missed, he seems to be getting to in his extensive publicity run. Scarborough and friends were thus challenged with finding a new, and unusual angel of approach. They opted to start things off with a softball of a question:

“What changed Dick Cheney? From the man who was seen by everybody as the moderate voice of Rebuplicanism in Washington, DC, to a man who seemed to morph overnight to Darth Vader… What caused this transformation, first of all, and secondly, how tough has it been for your family to deal with that transformation?”

Just kidding, that doesn’t sound like a soft-ball at all. But Cheney isn’t phased at all, and without even a hint of the existential terror we certainly would be feeling were we in his seat, he is ready with an answer:

“Well, it wasn’t tough to deal with the transformation. After you’ve been vice-president for a few years, subject of all the jokes on Leno and Letterman, you’re fodder for late night comedians, you need to have a pretty thick skin just to get up every morning and function. I never it let it bother me.”

So there you have it. With the help of Jay Leno and David Letterman with all their jokes that Brzezinski likes so much, Dick Cheney learned to toughen up. This might explain the cupcakes.

Otherwise, Cheney seems to believe that he didn’t change so much as the circumstances of his job did, and this is a point that he comes back to more than once. Regarding the public’s perception that he changed, he says that, “I was doing something that hadn’t been done very often as vice president … I wasn’t really in charge of anything … but there were things that needed to be done, I chose to do them, the president wanted me to do them.” He cites 9/11 as one such event that required change action and attitude on his part, but only relatively so. “There’s this conventional wisdom that says there was a period of time back there that was warm and fuzzy, but that’s not what I remember,” he says, making the point that things are always difficult in Washington, and politicians are always working to adjust. What the media likes to perceive as change, he seems to be saying, is just part of the job.

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  • Anonymous

    Dick Cheney and George Bush were the perfect team , both dedicated to keeping the country safe after 9/11.

    They did it well .

  • Anonymous

    Late night comics are insignificant due to their obvious bias .

    Have any of them mentioned Obama’s illegal alien, drunk driving Uncle ?

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    Leno is biased? I think not. Boring, yes. Biased, no. Blames the richness of the material W and Big D*ck provided. Don’t blame bias.

    The Heartbreak of Conservative Victimization Syndrome. Everyone is mean to us! Everyone says nasty things about us! Everyone is unfair to us!

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    Too bad W and Big D*ck weren’t interested in our safety before 11 September. That was a pretty steep price to pay for their inattention and neglect, wasn’t it?

    And, as for safety, they didn’t do a great job keeping our troops safe, did they?

  • Anonymous

    Mrs.Lincoln, well except for that how did you like the play?

  • Anonymous

    Why weren’t they dedicated to keeping the United States Of America safe on Sept. 11, 2001?

  • Anonymous

    On George Bush’s watch:  The 9/11 attacks (3000+ dead), the September/October 2001 anthrax attacks(5 dead), July 2002 attack on the L.A. airport’s El Al ticket counter(2 dead). 

  • Anonymous

     On George Bush’s watch:  The 9/11 attacks (3000+ dead), the
    September/October 2001 anthrax attacks(5 dead), July 2002 attack on the
    L.A. airport’s El Al ticket counter(2 dead).

  • Anonymous

    what a sociopath.

  • Anonymous

    BIden gives more material than just about any other politician.  You don’t see the vitriolic late night jokes about him as much as Cheney do you?  And Cheney is an ex-Vice President.  It isn’t the material, its the ideology.

  • Blosnich752

    What a Dick!

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_ECYBIXNKAG5E46BC3GCJQPA7CQ well_its_no_cannibal_holocaust

    Dick Cheney, best Bond villain ever!

  • Rex the Wonder God

    BEG – Let’s leave aside that Obama’s uncle probably never lied a nation of 300 million into a war of aggression; what you are arguing is that Obama has an UNCLE who is, as you put it, an “illegal alien” who drove drunk; whereas Cheney HIMSELF actively dodged the draft at least 5 times and was convicted TWICE of drunk driving, and only avoided an obligatory lengthier jail sentence as a repeat offender because the judge was never informed of his prior. And those two things are the same … how?

    Unrelated point: granting him his history of heart problems – ever notice that whenever Cheney is asked a question he cannot answer without lying or obfuscating, he starts coughing up phlegm?

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    You may have some point buried in your whine, but you do need to keep in mind that Vice President Biden is affable, friendly, optimistic, fun-loving. Big D*ck is the complete opposite. Given that, a Biden joke is worth a chuckle. A Big D*ck joke results in belly laughs. It’s the nature of comedy.

  • Anonymous

    When you’re losing the argument , change the subject.

    When getting crushed in an argument, attack your opponent.

  • Anonymous

    Except, of course, there’s that anthrax thing. But we should ignore that one.

  • Anonymous

    Congratulations to MSNBC for inviting a war criminal to peddle his fake memoirs on their network. 

  • TruDat

    Jeb Bush/Dick Cheney 2012

  • TruDat

    Obama the Droner was on MSNBC?

  • Anonymous

    Forget it! Jeb Bush is a big RINO who enables illegal immigration and supports amnesty.

  • TruDat

    Interesting, since August had the most U.S. troop casualties in Afghanistan since the war started 10 years ago.  Thanks Obama!!

  • TruDat

    I find it hilarious that these goofy libs think waterboarding is torture and a crime, but Obama sending drones after one terrorist and meantime killing innocent men, women and children as collateral damage is just jim dandy.

  • Anonymous

    So FDR is responsible for Pearl Harbor ?

    As a major nitwit ,Robert does an excellent job .

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    And, Iraq had none. Thanks, President Obama.

  • The Real Royal Emperor

     Nope. A Japanese attack was not completely unforeseen, but the time and the place were far from certain, Big Petty. There were abundant warnings of an attack in the nature of 9/11 from the time W entered the White House. The former was not negligent, the latter was gross negligence. Gross, destructive, fatal negligence.

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    And, Big D*ck seems somewhat unlikely to make it to November 2012.

  • TruDat

    aren”t you due back at the glory hole.

  • TruDat

    Yeah, when’s Obama getting us out of Iraq?  Or closing GITMO?  Or ending rendition?  Or terminating the Patriot Act?  Never?  Thanks Obama!

  • LarryB

    I find it hilarious that your defense of Cheney is to cite Obama’s crimes. They are both guilty of violating our constitution. Unfortunately, the Dems think Obama is the savior and Repub’s think Cheney is the savior. Different party animals, same results.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Steven-Tyler/100001071466947 Steven Tyler

    The best line Chaney delivered during the interview was that no one watches Morning Joe!

  • Darladoon

    the name of the prez daily briefing was entitled

    “bin laden determined to attack inside the united states”

    (by flying planes into large buildings)

  • Darladoon

    this is why i hate “polite” society

    if this man was on my show, i’d make sure and have glenn greenwald to 
    debate him

  • Darladoon

    cheney’s health says everything about how awful a person he has been

    (he is suffering and is about to die)

  • Anonymous

    And I’ll bet you just can’t wait to dance on his grave.

  • Anonymous

    Let’s not forget Dick Cheney shot a man in the
    face and when the local sheriff’s dept. came to investigate after the ambulance
    was called (as is their policy in all hunting accidents) that the secret
    service denied the local officials access to Cheney until the next day.  Initially Cheney and his people denied that
    any alcohol was served at lunch before the “hunt” but later confessed that
    Cheney and his party had one or two beers. 
    How many times has a cop heard a drunk say I’ve had one or two beers
    officer?

  • http://www.facebook.com/mortgagecommitments Tom Barnhart

    Let’s not forget who the biggest winner of post 911 was… HALIBURTON!

    Could you imagine if Obama’s prior position was CEO of a health maintenance company that stood to benefit from the passing of “ObamaCare?”

    Sorry, Big Dick’s got his bloody hands all over this one and I WANT MY TAXES BACK!

  • Anonymous

    Good to hear you agree that we should get out of Iraq, close GITMO, end rendition, and terminate the Patriot Act.

  • Anonymous

    Cheney looks more and more like Emperor Palpatine to me every day.

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    The “official” word in Texas is that Big D*ck had been “sipping” Bourbon throughout the early afternoon.

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    Not the case at all. True, I find the man despicable, with no redeeming qualities. I’d like for him to fly into Roma, Paris or Amsterdam, be arrested, tried and convicted of war crimes, then given a compassionate release. I’m the sort that will go to great pains to carefully remove a scorpion (or other creature) from the living room and deposit it in the garden. I would treat Big D*ck as well as a scorpion. I am true pro-life.

  • Anonymous

    OK, fair enough. I may never agree with you RRE, but I got to give you credit for one thing: you have a really thick skin. I could never put up with all the abuse you take, including some from me.

  • Rio

    Here it is darla, analyze it for us:
    http://news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/terrorism/80601pdb.html

    Who?  What?  Where and when is whatever going to happen?  Do tell.

  • Rio

    When did you stop beating your wife?

  • Anonymous

    Poor, Lettermen, no one watches his senile arse!

  • Anonymous

    Your drool cup is showing again!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jj-Wisniewski/100002654075475 Jj Wisniewski

    Despite how people feel as to whether Cheney was right or wrong on policy, George Bush would have been a bigger failure than he actually was without Cheney. Clearly, the most powerful powerful voice of any vice-president in any administration. Actually, politics aside, he should have been president.

  • Rio

    What a petty little beast you are, two can play that game. 

    Looky here, this administration benefits from years of safeguards put into play yet is still responsible for:

    June 1, 2009 Little Rock Recruiting Station shootings/killings

    November 6, 2009 Fort Hood Massacre

    December 25, 2009  Underwear Bomber, death thwarted by luck, hundreds survive

    May 1, 2010 Times Square Bomber deaths thwarted by luck, hundreds survive

    May 10, 2010 Mosque Bombing in Jacksonville, Florida

    August 30, 2011 Suspicious Package at Scott Air Force Base…….3 hospitalized, 14 suffering from skin and respiratory reactions.

    These and more incidents still occuring even with increased surveilance, DHS, Patriot Act, the Gorelick Wall removed, reinforced cabin doors, airport inspections, etc…..and an enormous amount of additional safety, security and intel measures not in place prior to September 11.

    I don’t think the new guy has figgered out what buttons to push yet.

  • Anonymous

    How many chances did Clinton have to kill bin Laden and chose to stand down to avoid collateral damage? Too bad our civilians ended up being the collateral damage. Seeing as we are second guessing presidents’ decisions and all.

    Troops are not meant to be kept safe. They go into harm’s way to protect others.

  • Rio

    Let’s not forget Halliburton has long been a big winner pre-911.

    I know they were winning defense contracts and the ARMY was issuing no bid contracts to them all through the Clinton years and Kosovo, Bosnia, etc,  Just like the ARMY handled defense contract bids, no bids as well for Iraq and Afghanistan.

    Here we have the New York Times delving into Cheney’s work ethics during his time at the Halliburton Helm and while in office.  Looks like he was not involved in government contracting while at Halliburton and, sold $20 million worth of stocks and donated his opts to charity.

    Note the list of all branches of military contracts successfully bid:

    http://cryptome.org/dod-kbr.htm

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    Right, Nutsofast. Only 3.1M people. Which pretty much tops anything on FOX “News”. Try to tell the truth from time to time.

    http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2011/09/01/late-night-tv-ratings-week-nightline-up-daily-show-down-tonight-show-late-show-conan-return-from-repeats-2/102110/

  • http://twitter.com/Christene101 christene

    Is that you sleeper cell?…WOW,…seriously? So that makes alQaida  Boy Scouts?  How can you even think Cheney a war criminal while we have Libya,..(still know nothing about that)…..do liberal just toss a coin on what to like or dislike? Sleeper cell is doing more damage to the world then Bush or Cheney could ever think of doing! …despite popular liberal belief,..ignorance is NOT cool!….Cheney committed NO crime, nor did Bush, to bad you can’t say that about this administration.

  • Rio

    That’s a matter of opinion, yours so it really doesn’t count.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_ECYBIXNKAG5E46BC3GCJQPA7CQ well_its_no_cannibal_holocaust

    Letterman has as many viewers for his hour show as Fox has for their entire day. Truth hurts.

  • Anonymous

    The Sith lord is still spreading the same lies.  

  • Anonymous

    stop by the children’s hospital and tell the kids, you are a awful person that is why you are suffering and dying, you are one sick person darla

  • Rio

    No one was “lied” into war.  Preaching that nonsense for 50 years is never going to make it true.  No one should drive under the influence, people die from drunks getting behind the wheel.  Just ask the Kopechne’s.

    Interesting that you once again mention lying, how much phlegm do you cough up?  you seem to be well versed on that connection, must be a reason for it.

  • JMcCarthy

    If I remember it right it was Dick Cheney who told Harry Ried to “go F**k Yourself”!  NICE!!!!

  • Anonymous

    Cheney.  Just another Republican eunuch.

  • Cecelia

     

    I’m the sort that will go to great pains to carefully remove a scorpion
    (or other creature) from the living room and deposit it in the garden.

    Professional courtesy…

  • Just some Blow Hard…

    and since we are at it, why did Reagan and GHW Bush give aid, money, training to the Taliban?  Also why put Bin Laden on the CIA pay roll?

  • Just some Blow Hard…

    what provisions were repealed?  The patriot act is still around my friend.  Can you please link reports where any actions by the Bush White House (dealing with terroism) have been repealed?

  • Just some Blow Hard…

    Bottom paragraph.  Bin Laden wants to hijack US aircraft.

  • Just some Blow Hard…

    “Curveball” has come out and said he lied.  They just believed him.

  • Anonymous

    What an ignorant little troll you are.  If I included the thwarted attacks under Bush and attributed them all to luck the list would have been a hell of a lot longer.

  • Anonymous
  • Just some Blow Hard…

    I think Leno’s jokes make us all tougher

  • Just some Blow Hard…

    troll

  • Just some Blow Hard…

    so you think weatherboarding is torture?

  • Just some Blow Hard…

    look up trolling post, and this is the definition

  • Just some Blow Hard…

    apparently you don’t read this site much do you?

  • Just some Blow Hard…

    apparently you don’t read this site much do you?

  • Just some Blow Hard…

    apparently you don’t read this site much do you?

  • Just some Blow Hard…

    I havent.

  • Rio

    You two bright boys think the secret service lied?  You do know they would have to cooperate in making a report to the law enforcement in that jurisdiction due to the gun shot wound?

    Cheney had one beer at lunch, no alcohol during the hunt and the accident happened at 5:30.  Cheney was interviewed the next morning at 8 a m, It wasn’t necessary to take a report late afternoon on Saturday because a former Sheriff, Romero Medellin was already on site and reported to the Kenedy County Sheriff that it was an accident and he had already interviewed the witnesses.

    http://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/crime/texas-cops-release-cheney-shooting-report

  • Anonymous

    Don’t forget Dora the Explorer and Sponge Bob beat O’reilly and Hannity every night.

  • Just some Blow Hard…

    Ok, you posted a reply (after posting this one)  which damned Obama for repealing provisions put in place by Bush to fight terrorism.  This post says he failed to repeal and provisions. 

    You need to be more subtle in your trolling.

  • Rio

    They have been parroting the same old talking points for so long, I wouldn’t doubt they recite them in their sleep.  Miserable lot, allergic to the truth of anythng pertaining to a conservative office holder.

  • Just some Blow Hard…

    Mr Potter

  • Anonymous

    unforeseen? lol  read history dumbass

  • Just some Blow Hard…

    ok, lets leave the drinking and aftermath out of this….

    He shot a man in the face while standing NEXT to him, shooting HAND RAISED birds released from cages.

  • Just some Blow Hard…

    well they did use the money wisely

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7444083.stm

  • Glutton

    Are you a complete moron or what? You’re justifying Bush allowing 3,000 civilians to die under his watch & your rebuttal is pointing out how many terrorist attempts were thwarted by Obama? Also, your death toll count from all the successful attacks is nothing compared to what happened on 9/11. Now go sit in the corner you stupid dunce.

  • Darladoon

    (laughing hysterically)

  • Darladoon

    i agree.  but let’s not forget who lowered the bar first.

    obama is a radical in the same way bush was, but bush was the first to lower that bar.  

  • Darladoon

    cheney is already in a type of prison cell.  

    even if he never goes to jail, he will suffer immensely, and die
    a cold, horrible death (unless, of course, he asks the world for forgiveness).

  • Anonymous

    back from childrens hospital i see, did you cheer them up……you are sick

  • Anonymous

    Cheney made one very important point that everybody has conveniently forgotten:  that Hussein had previously used chemical weapons on his own people and was widely thought (not just the U.S.) that he had stockpiled them somewhere; that he had his “air force” continuously testing and violating the no-fly zone established following Desert Storm; that he had previously had nuclear weapons ambitions and was thought to be working on developing them.  Even when no WMD were found, it was still believed that he had no given up his ambition to develop them as soon as he could secretly do so.

    The connections to Al-Qaeda are kinda shaky, i’ll agree, but not many of us are privy to whatever classified info may have also aided in this belief by the U.S. and other countries that this link existed.

    All of the above is conveniently forgotten by the Dems/liberals as they continue to claim now, lo these many years later, that Cheney and Bush somehow hornswoggled all of us and Congress into going into Iraq.  You libs are nuts!

    And after the way the Dems/liberals have treated Bush and Cheney the last few years, is it any wonder that the Republicans in Congress are being so unwilling to work with the Democrats?  Grow up, people.

  • Muzjik

    Gee – an uncorroborated  “sensational” report from 1998 that Bin Ladin wanted to hijack an airplane.  1998…got that?  
    A source from 1998 says a NY Bin Ladin cell recruiting.  1998..got that?
    In TV interviews in 1997 and 1998, Bin Ladin implies he would bring fighting to America.  1997 and 1998.
    Yet President Bush was supposed to know, on August 6, 2001, that reports from 2 and 3 years previously meant an attack was planned for 36 days later.  And while Clinton wasn’t guilty of inattention and negligence in 1998 and 1999 and 2000, Bush and Cheney were from Jan. to Sept. 10, 2001?

  • Muzjik

    Do you really not know this?..Soviet Union.  Common enemy.  Who knew in the ’80′s that Bin Ladin, ally, would turn wacko extremist against the “friends” who helped defend Afghanistan against foreign invasion.  Who would have figured on such ingratitude?

    It must be nice to know everything that will happen in the future or do you just pride yourself on your 20/20 hindsight?

  • Muzjik

    Do you really not know this?..Soviet Union.  Common enemy.  Who knew in the ’80′s that Bin Ladin, ally, would turn wacko extremist against the “friends” who helped defend Afghanistan against foreign invasion.  Who would have figured on such ingratitude?

    It must be nice to know everything that will happen in the future or do you just pride yourself on your 20/20 hindsight?

  • Just some Blow Hard…

    so why get involved in the first place? It seems to be a running theme there. We friended (thanks facebook for making that a word) Saddam, Mubarak, the Saudi Royal family, and Zardari and it seems to get us nothing but trouble.

    It just seems odd, or very bad judgement, that the same people who defended, financed, trained, and in some cases set up these people, would now see them as the greatest threats to all man kind.

    By the way, you would think we have learned something from the Soviets. They kinda proved it was impossible to occupy that region.

  • Just some Blow Hard…

    it just seems like bad luck to me.  He ignored intelligence that actually came true, while acting on intelligence based on a lie.  Yes “curveball” admitted he lied.

  • Tedderman

    You’re right, that’s another war Bush fuct up, we should have been out of there years ago.  But hey, we had to go and find those danged old WMDs, didn’t we?

  • Tedderman

    You’re right, that’s another war Bush fuct up, we should have been out of there years ago.  But hey, we had to go and find those danged old WMDs, didn’t we?

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_VK7U6RFTAUIPW2JR2NGPBP2IYA super

    All the 9-11 terrorists entered the United States under Bill Clintons watch in the year 2000.  You must stop them before they enter America….Once they are here its already to late. 

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_VK7U6RFTAUIPW2JR2NGPBP2IYA super

    actually thank you Bush for the surge that destroyed AL Queda in Iraq and allowed Bush to start the troop withdrawal back in late 2008.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_VK7U6RFTAUIPW2JR2NGPBP2IYA super

    the problem was Clinton Administration allowed AL Queda to penetrate into the united States back in the year 2000.  Once they were already here it was to late. 

  • Rio

    Just some Blow Hard indeed.  You neglected the majority of that “bottom paragraph”  I’ll post the entire paragraph:

    We have NOT BEEN ABLE TO CORROBORATE some of the more sensational threat reporting such as that from a XXXXX service in 1998 SAYING THAT BIN LADIN WANTED TO HIJACK A US AIRCRAFT to gain the release of the “Blind Shaykh” ‘umar’ Abd al-Rahman abd other US-held extremists.

    emphasis mine.

    Strange that you would want to omit the bulk of the paragraph, would you please explain why?

  • Rio

    None of what you say is true.  Reagan and GHW Bush never gave aid, money or training to the Taliban or al Qaida.  Bin Laden was never on the CIA payroll either.  Bin Laden hated the CIA then as much as he did until the day he died.  Bin Laden used his own money and money from a network of ME extremists to fund his efforts in the Afghan/Soviet war.  The CIA knew of his existance but had nothing to do with him.  It was the Pakistan ISI that decided what groups in Afghanistan to fund and support, our CIA was working with Pakistan, no direct operations with any Afghanis or freedom fighters.  A study I read years ago said we only had 10 CIA agents over there and they had to operate out of Pakistan.

    The Taliban came into existance between 1993-1996…Clinton years btw,  They were the orphans from the Afghan and Iran/Iraq wars.  Most were taken in by Pakistan and educated in the madrasses with the intent to militarize them.  Some migrated to Afghanistan, took the Taliban name….talib…meaning student… hooked up with Mullah Omar who at the time was basically an itinerant preacher, started policing areas of Afghanistan and fighting the former mujahideen(that fought against the Soviets) turned warlords.

    So the Taliban, trained in Pakistan madrasses eventually were at war with the mujahideen fighters that were financed, supplied and trained by Pakistan.  Bin Laden showed up in Afghanistan in 1996 and hooked up with the Taliban…….the Afghan mujahadeen/warlords were his enemies as they shunned his efforts in the war and treated him and his fighters as an annoyance.

  • Rio

    Go back and read my comment again, I said nothing about anything being…….repealed.  My comments had to do with INCREASED safeguards, yet threats are still happening. 

    Then as now it is difficult to find that needle in the haystack, yet, Bush has had 10 years of the most vile accusations leveled against him from trutherism to his inability to find that needle.  Shoes on the other foot now and even with that little list above we see the left has a very thin skin and are unable to take what they’ve dished out, you took the bait.

    We will forever be under threat and some will get through, the lesson learned should be that it isn’t always the fault of the sitting president, but if you are honest you will admit that most of what has been slung at Bush all these years has been unecessary and a lot of it down right evil.

  • Rio

    I was playing your game dipshit. 

  • Just some Blow Hard…

    Rio, there is hope for you.  Much like Pablo, you actually know what you’re talking about and/or do research.  You don’t rely or hyperbole to just troll. 

    But to your point…

    It proves my point that we should just stay out of there.

  • Rio

    Actually, you are the complete moron.  You are playing the same idiot role that m-mayhem did in the first place.  Bush never “allowed” anyone to die, yet you morons use that ugly, vile accusation as everyday vocabulary as if you don’t even stop to think what evil is coming out of your mouths.  It’s like it doesn’t even pass through your brains, it just pops out without thought.  Idiot!

  • Just some Blow Hard…

    I actually agree with you. If you go over my points, I usually try to trap people who I believe have no idea what they are talking about. If they do, I usually yield.

    However I will make one point of contention. Unnecessary? perhaps. Evil? no. To quote the Godfather II, this is the job we’ve chosen. What Hitler, Bin Laden, Stalin, etc have done is evil, this is political theater. Bad theater, but theater none the less.

    I will not give the W administration a pass on this, as they did royally screw up a few things. However instead of admitting mistakes and trying to change them, they doubled down. Such is politics though.

  • Rio

    More BS from the blow hard:

    Whittington came up from behind the Vice President and other hunter and didn’t signal them or indicate to them or announce himself,: said Armstrong…”

    Armstrong said Cheney is a long time friend who comes to the ranch once a year and is a “very safe” sportsman.

    http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2006-02-12-cheney-hunting_x.htm

    Kathleen Armstrong is the owner of the ranch, friend of both Whittington and Cheney and was there to witness the…….accident.

    Now return to your fact free hate on.

    And Darlaloon, you failed to respond to the Presidents Daily Briefing back and forth. ROTFLMAO

  • Just some Blow Hard…

    What did I say that was BS? I never said he did it on purpose. What my point was that this was not two or more guys, out in the woods or wild, hunting wild game. This was more skeet shooting than anything else. It is not really hunting, and any real hunter would tell you that. Yet, in this controlled environment, he still shot a guy in the face. I find this not criminal or what not, i find it hysterical.

  • Rio

    It doesn’t matter, Iraq was never just about WMD, it was Powell that took that “sensational” route and got burned for it, Bush should have taken Cheney’s presentation to the UN and left Powell at home.  Cheney’s included each of the resolutions and proof of Saddam’s defiance to every one of them.

    The Authorization for the Use of Military Force that Congress passed and the president endorsed,  included all of the UN Resolutions lodged against Hussein.

  • Just some Blow Hard…

    whatever the reason, it was a war of choice and huge blunder.  You cannot deny that.  Saddam (and his kids especially) was an evil man and did unspeakable acts.  However he pales in comparison to some leaders through out the world who still continue to do unspeakable acts. Iraq was always seen as a buffer between Iran and the rest of the middle east (protection for the Saudis, not Israel) and now that’s gone. We spent at least 2-3 trillion dollars and have got nothing in return. 

  • Anonymous

    Not me- I refuse to wait in a line that long.

  • Anonymous

    Not me- I refuse to wait in a line that long.

  • LithiumAM

    Al Qaeda wasn’t in Iraq till the Cowboy Pupppet invaded.

  • Lithium

    Don’t forget the Beltway Snipers, and the Shoebomber. If the Underwear Bomber counts, then so does the Shoebomber…

  • Lithium

    Straight White American Christians are DAMN tired of being pushed around!

    The way they act these days, you’d think they’re being shoved into cattle cars on the way to a Concentration Camp. Let me ask you something, do you really think thousands of black people would be allowed to stand outside a building that Bush was in? The National Guard would be called in. God forbid you ask why they have to have this d**k waving contest, walking around with automatic weapons, despite there being no attempts to take them away.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=41502648 Tristan Pinnock

    You do realize that the Taliban didn’t EXIST until after George H W Bush were out of office, right?

    And Osama was never on the CIA payroll. Why would he be? He was wealthy and a very minor player in Afghanistan.

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