VP Pacemaker spoke at the American Enterprise Institute, otherwise known as the Kristol & Ledeen Institute for Maiming American Soldiers, where the following fat-headed comments were dutifully recorded by the Washington Post.
Vice President Cheney launched a White House counterattack today against rising criticism of the administration's handling of Iraq, arguing that failing to confront Saddam Hussein would have been "irresponsible in the extreme" and could have endangered the United States.
Cheney, speaking at the American Enterprise Institute, ... Three times, he said it would have been "irresponsible in the extreme" to disregard warnings about (a classified intel report).
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Cheney, too, touched on the human-rights crimes of Hussein's government. "If we had not acted, the torture chambers would still be in operation, the prison cells for children would still be filled, the mass graves would still be undiscovered," he said.
I notice that he makes no mention of the 13 and 14 year-olds we are holding (still?) in GITMO. How is that different? Are we morally more justified in holding children than say, Hitler Saddam? Just asking.
Cheney praised Bush 10 times during the speech and at one point implicitly criticized his predecessor, President Bill Clinton. "Having lost thousands of Americans on a single morning, we are not going to answer further danger by simply issuing a diplomatic protest or sharply worded condemnations," he said.
Wow! Get the Clenis™ list out! I guess the subtle distinction of the invasion of Afghanistan escapes him v. sending cruise missiles to Sudan or Iraq. Once again despite any evidence to the contrary, a republican jumps into the alternate reality machine to find mythical evidence of what Clinton might have done...because of the affirmative power of blaming the Clenis™ in all situations, all the time.
posted by Jo Fish on 07.24.03 at 09:21 PM
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Wow! The ClenisTM really CAN do everything!
Thank you, ClenisTM!
In my erratic net surfing came across this. If only Repukes could learn to stop lieing outright or telling half truths. Saddam and family were/are part of the scum of the earth.I'm just not buying humanitarian reasons for Bush's rush to put our troops in harm's way. Their are daily gross human rights violations around the world,i.e Iran, North Korea, China, half of Africa, half the Caribean, most of S. America....so why aren't we moving to save the children there. because for the wing-nut right there's no political advantage to it and not as much oil as Iraq has.
"Another Bush lie, seconded by Ken Adelman. During a CNN interview last week, correspondent Tumi Makgabo inquired of Mr. Bush regarding the absent casus belli for his recent war. After tossing off the standard fabrication about finding "biological labs", Mr. Bush changed the subject to his backup reason for the war:
... I believe in freedom for people, and I suffer when I hear the stories of what took place inside of Iraq, the mass graves that have been discovered, the torture chambers, the jails for children.
Jails for children - the horror! And Mr. Bush is not alone in feeling for Iraq's formerly incarcerated children. Yesterday on CNN Crossfire (partial transcript), Ken Adelman of the Defense Policy board also expressed his joy at the liberation of Iraqi youngsters:
Instead of the hundreds of kids 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 years old in prison, and have been languishing in prison for years because of what their families might have said about Saddam Hussein - they're out of prison, they may be going to school, they're living a life.
Well, not exactly. It turns out that the story told by Bush and Adelman does not comport with actual reality. The tale they were telling was, simply put, yet another Bush administration lie. As explained in Saturday's New York Times, the alleged kiddie jail was actually... an orphanage. And this has been known for months:
The orphanage had been home to 107 girls and boys whose parents were killed or imprisoned, or were unable to care for them. As the Americans advanced on Baghdad, they mistook the orphanage for a jail or prison and released all the children who were there.
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Many children who have not returned have resorted to life on the streets, begging for food or money, or perhaps turning to drugs or prostitution."
posted by: Buddy on 07.25.03 at 10:38 PM [permalink]
