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Speaking of Debates - Cant wait to see that moron Dick C. at a podium
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About as crooked as a barrel of snakes......Halliburton and the no-bid contract, price gouging and charging for work not performed......
.....Cheney is still walking free yet we spent how much money putting Martha Stewart behind bars??? Some standards we have in this country......apparently none....
.....Cheney is still walking free yet we spent how much money putting Martha Stewart behind bars??? Some standards we have in this country......apparently none....
Isaac Hayes should've written this instead of "Shaft":
Who's the cat that formed an off-shore subsidiary to deal to with Iraq to circumvent sanctions?
Cheney.
Who did the same thing with Iran?
Cheney.
Who took 5 deferments to avoid Viet Nam?
Cheney. Dick Cheney.
They say Cheney was CEO when they had massive accounting fraud at Haliburton.
Shut yo' mouth, I'm only talking about Cheney.
He's a very corrupted man and no one digs him but Dubya - Cheney, Dick Cheney.
Seriously, Edwards will wax him worse than Kerry waxed Dubya. My guess is Republicans will be so embarassed that they will look for even more excuses to reduce the number of debates, simply because they are intellectually challenged.
Who's the cat that formed an off-shore subsidiary to deal to with Iraq to circumvent sanctions?
Cheney.
Who did the same thing with Iran?
Cheney.
Who took 5 deferments to avoid Viet Nam?
Cheney. Dick Cheney.
They say Cheney was CEO when they had massive accounting fraud at Haliburton.
Shut yo' mouth, I'm only talking about Cheney.
He's a very corrupted man and no one digs him but Dubya - Cheney, Dick Cheney.
Seriously, Edwards will wax him worse than Kerry waxed Dubya. My guess is Republicans will be so embarassed that they will look for even more excuses to reduce the number of debates, simply because they are intellectually challenged.
Either Cheney is a Complete Liar or is Too Stupid to be Vice-President Based on His September 14th "Meet the Press" Interview
[font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]How stupid does Cheney think we are? Apparently, pretty stupid. And maybe we are. Under any normal circumstances (not being ruled by a Republican one-party state), he should have been impeached -- and perhaps imprisoned -- a long time ago.[/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Here are Honest-to-God (rush) excerpts from the transcript of Dick Cheney on "Meet the Press," forwarded to us by a BuzzFlash reader:[/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]MR. RUSSERT: The Washington Post asked the American people about Saddam Hussein, and this is what they said: 69 percent said he was involved in the September 11 attacks. Are you surprised by that?[/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]VICE PRES. CHENEY: No. I think it’s not surprising that people make that connection.[/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]MR. RUSSERT: But is there a connection?[/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]VICE PRES. CHENEY: We don’t know. [/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]MR. RUSSERT: Vanity Fair magazine reports that about 140 Saudis were allowed to leave the United States the day after the 11th, allowed to leave our airspace and were never investigated by the FBI and that departure was approved by high-level administration figures. Do you know anything about that?[/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]VICE PRES. CHENEY: I don’t. [/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]MR. RUSSERT: Joe Lieberman, the senator from Connecticut, running for president, had this to say: “...what President Bush gave the American people on Sunday night was a price tag”—$87 billion—”not a plan. And we in Congress must demand a plan.” [/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]What is our plan for Iraq? How long will the 140,000 American soldiers be there? How many international troops will join them? And how much is this going to cost?[/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]VICE PRES. CHENEY: Well, some of those questions are unknowable at present, Tim. With respect to the financing, the $87 billion we’ve asked for is—about 3/4 of that is to support our military and security operations. About 1/4 of it will go specifically to helping make the investments Bremer believes we need to make in order to get the Iraqis back and functioning on their own capability.[/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]So how long will it take? I don’t know. [/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]MR. RUSSERT: In terms of costs, Mr. Vice President, there are suggestions again—it was a misjudgment by the administration or even misleading. “Lawrence Lindsey, head of the White House’s National Economic Council, projected the ‘upper bound’ of war costs at $100 billion to $200 billion.”[/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]We’ve already spent $160 billion after this $87 billion is spent. The Pentagon predicted $50 billion: “The administration’s top budget official [Mitch Daniels] estimated that the cost of a war with Iraq could be in the range of $50 billion to $60 billion...he said...that earlier estimates of $100 billion to $200 billion in Iraq war costs by Lawrence Lindsey, Mr. Bush’s former chief economic adviser, were too high.”[/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]And Paul Wolfowitz, the deputy secretary of Defense, went before Congress and said this: “We’re dealing with a country that can really finance its own reconstruction, and relatively soon. The oil revenues of that country could bring between $50 and $100 billion over the course of the next two or three years.” It looked like the administration has truly misjudged the cost of this operation.[/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]VICE PRES. CHENEY: No, I didn’t see a one-point estimate there that you could say that this is the administration’s estimate. We didn’t know. [/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]VICE PRES. CHENEY: No, I didn’t see a one-point estimate there that you could say that this is the administration’s estimate. We didn’t know. And if you ask Secretary Rumsfeld, for example—I can remember from his briefings, he said repeatedly he didn’t know. And when you and I talked about it, I couldn’t put a dollar figure on it.[/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]MR. RUSSERT: But Daniels did say $50 billion.[/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]VICE PRES. CHENEY: Well, that might have been, but I don’t know what his basis was for making that judgment. [/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]There are funds frozen, Iraqi assets in various places in...[/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]MR. RUSSERT: How much is all that?[/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]VICE PRES. CHENEY: I don’t have a final dollar figure. We don’t know who will...[/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]MR. RUSSERT: Why is there no bidding?[/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]VICE PRES. CHENEY: I have no idea. ..... I don’t know any of the details of the contract because I deliberately stayed away from any information on that, but Halliburton is a fine company. [/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]MR. RUSSERT: Reconstituted nuclear weapons. You misspoke.[/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]VICE PRES. CHENEY: Yeah. I did misspeak. [/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]MR. RUSSERT: Now, Ambassador Joe Wilson, a year before that, was sent over by the CIA because you raised the question about uranium from Africa. He says he came back from Niger and said that, in fact, he could not find any documentation that, in fact, Niger had sent uranium to Iraq or engaged in that activity and reported it back to the proper channels. Were you briefed on his findings in February, March of 2002?[/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]VICE PRES. CHENEY: No. I don’t know Joe Wilson. ..... One of the questions I asked at that particular time about this, I said, “What do we know about this?” They take the question. He came back within a day or two and said, “This is all we know. There’s a lot we don’t know,” end of statement. And Joe Wilson—I don’t know who sent Joe Wilson. He never submitted a report that I ever saw when he came back. [/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]And we have to just add just one more illustrative claim of Mr. Cheney:[/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Same on biological weapons—we believe he’d developed the capacity to go mobile with his BW production capability because, again, in reaction to what we had done to him in ’91. We had intelligence reporting before the war that there were at least seven of these mobile labs that he had gone out and acquired. We’ve, since the war, found two of them. They’re in our possession today, mobile biological facilities that can be used to produce anthrax or smallpox or whatever else you wanted to use during the course of developing the capacity for an attack.[/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]That Cheney would, once again, make the now totally disproven and discredited claim that U.S. forces seized mobile biological weapons vans is so fraudulent and brazenly dishonest, it's almost laughable. It's the kind of "in your face" repeated lie that you only dare to utter when you know that you can run over anyone in your way.[/font]
[font=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]With an independent investigation, Cheney testifying under oath, and the release of his papers, Dick would be out of office faster than you can say "Chickenhawk Dick."[/font]
Cheney Lies About North Korea But Still Flacks for Halliburton
Remember several weeks ago when Dick Cheney said over and over again that North Korea’s restarting of their nuclear reactors could only have one purpose, those of weapons development, because the reactors were of no use to them in generating electricity? Along comes a story in today’s New York Times that points out how energy-starved the North is, and how desperate they are for electricity. Yet the man widely credited with being the brains behind the Administration’s energy policy tells the world that the reactors started by the North aren’t significant to their energy needs.
Yup, Dick sounds like the brains to me.
Oh, and on a related note, many of us are assuming, possibly incorrectly, that western oil companies would reap immediate bonanzas from the liberation and American takeover of Iraqi oil inventories. It turns out that the most immediate winners from our imminent invasion and corralling of Iraqi reserves wouldn’t be from western oil companies developing new sources, but rather companies who specialize in repairing and upgrading existing refining and delivery systems. It appears that oil consultants believe the most immediate benefit from regime change would be seen in the existing oil fields and delivery systems, with new sources and supplies not being brought on line for years at least. And according to a very informative story in Saturday’s New York Times, guess which firm is in the best shape to profit immediately from such work in Iraq shortly after an occupation? If you said Halliburton, take the rest of the day off.
Remember several weeks ago when Dick Cheney said over and over again that North Korea’s restarting of their nuclear reactors could only have one purpose, those of weapons development, because the reactors were of no use to them in generating electricity? Along comes a story in today’s New York Times that points out how energy-starved the North is, and how desperate they are for electricity. Yet the man widely credited with being the brains behind the Administration’s energy policy tells the world that the reactors started by the North aren’t significant to their energy needs.
Yup, Dick sounds like the brains to me.
Oh, and on a related note, many of us are assuming, possibly incorrectly, that western oil companies would reap immediate bonanzas from the liberation and American takeover of Iraqi oil inventories. It turns out that the most immediate winners from our imminent invasion and corralling of Iraqi reserves wouldn’t be from western oil companies developing new sources, but rather companies who specialize in repairing and upgrading existing refining and delivery systems. It appears that oil consultants believe the most immediate benefit from regime change would be seen in the existing oil fields and delivery systems, with new sources and supplies not being brought on line for years at least. And according to a very informative story in Saturday’s New York Times, guess which firm is in the best shape to profit immediately from such work in Iraq shortly after an occupation? If you said Halliburton, take the rest of the day off.
Cheney Lies About Medical Malpractice Claims Impact On Health Care Costs, Says Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights
WASHINGTON, July 20 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights today said Vice President Dick Cheney is lying to the American public by claiming that capping what juries can give to innocent victims of medical malpractice will lower health insurance premiums.
"America spends more on dog and cat food each year than all medical malpractice payouts combined," said FTCR president Jamie Court, author of Corporateering: How Corporate Power Steals Your Personal Freedom And What You Can Do About It (Tarcher/Penguin) "Malpractice costs are a fraction of 1 percent of all health-care costs. By contrast, prescription drugs are 16 percent of health costs. If Mr. Cheney and the Bush Administration wanted to lower health care costs, they would have permitted the government to bulk purchase prescription drugs for Medicare recipients. Limiting what innocent victims collect from wrongdoers cannot have an impact on health care premiums. Only curbing the greed of the insurance and pharmaceutical industries can make a real difference, but those industries are among biggest campaign donors on the hill."
WASHINGTON, July 20 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights today said Vice President Dick Cheney is lying to the American public by claiming that capping what juries can give to innocent victims of medical malpractice will lower health insurance premiums.
"America spends more on dog and cat food each year than all medical malpractice payouts combined," said FTCR president Jamie Court, author of Corporateering: How Corporate Power Steals Your Personal Freedom And What You Can Do About It (Tarcher/Penguin) "Malpractice costs are a fraction of 1 percent of all health-care costs. By contrast, prescription drugs are 16 percent of health costs. If Mr. Cheney and the Bush Administration wanted to lower health care costs, they would have permitted the government to bulk purchase prescription drugs for Medicare recipients. Limiting what innocent victims collect from wrongdoers cannot have an impact on health care premiums. Only curbing the greed of the insurance and pharmaceutical industries can make a real difference, but those industries are among biggest campaign donors on the hill."
