Why would Cheney lie so loudly about WMDs on NPR?

[spanone]

Is Cheney just so damned arrogant that he can go on public radio and LIE to the American people just days before Kay's testimony and think there will be no ramifications? He may be right, and if so, we deserve all the screwing we get from these thugs. Kay today disagreed with the veep about the trailors Cheney pointed to as chemical weapons labs. Is no one accountable in the misadministration?

[oostevo]

1. To quote Slashdot trolls ...

You're new here, aren't you?

[spanone]

6. No I'm not new here

Cheney for all his evilness is a smart man. So I ask the quesion, why when he knows that Kay is going to testify does he make an absurd statement? It is puzzling.

[sweettater]

12. Because.....................

he knows he can get away with it?

[kalian]

2. Because he can....

sorry to inform you, but when the media is in their pocket...they
can do just about anything.
Besides, he probably knows that the "WMDs" are being planted as he
lies...

[shooga]

15. Russert & Cheney

once you start lying, you have to continue to lie:



http://www.geocities.com/secretspyy

[RapidCreek]

19. He knows they were planted BEFORE the war....

RC

[ewagner]

3. This has been making me nuts

I know Cheney is arrogant but this has (for lack of a better word)"intellignet design" to it.

Something's brewing, or more likely being cooked up.

We need to brainstorm this and figure out what's up.

[Southsideirish]

4. Best defensive is a good offensive. (n/t)

[KG]

5. cause he's totally incapable of telling the truth.

he's a professional liar.

[librechik]

7. he's a crafty bloviator who knows that no one can prove him wrong

because he holds all the "evidence" It's a challenge that no one will accept, so he can say whatever he wants.

[Stephanie]

9. But this evidence is old news

That bio weapons trailer thing was disproven months ago. Weather balloons, remember?

I'm leaning towards thinking Cheney has lost his shit.

Don't you think 4 or more heart attacks and walking around with that Frankenstein pacemaker ready to jolt you any second would have to affect someone's mind? Don't heart patients often get serious depression?

I think something must be really wrong with him. How else to explain such a stupid, patent, obvious lie. It's almost childish.

[lovedems]

8. Here is what I want to know...

Let's play "hypothetically" and assume the CIA did give the chimp and his handlers bad information...WHERE IS THE OUTRAGE??? Seriously, I would imagine the pResident or someone from this administration speaking out that we were wrong and we got bad information. Instead, they are stonewalling an investigation and have decided to "look into themselves".

That tells me clearly that they did pressure the CIA, that they did manipulate the intelligence and they knew what they were doing the entire time.

They are going to be so busted. McCain and Levin were on the News Hour both calling for an independent investigation.

[spanone]

10. I agree entirely. bush should be wanting heads to roll

afterall he sent kids to their deaths based on this information. Where is the Christian in the man. He invaded a NATION. A soveriegn nation for chissakes. Pre-emptively. HE SHOULD BE PISSED.

[oasis]

16. McCain seemed overly protective of the Chimp while at the same time

calling for investigations. He may see this as a chance to put pressure on Cheney to resign. McCain, of course, knows about Cheney's visits to the CIA.

[Old and In the Way]

13. Not so different from 9/11 is it?

Why wasn't Mueller and Tenet fired for gross incompetence?

Because they knew "Bush Knew"....because they told him.

This is one compromised administration....

[shooga]

18. Honor amoung thieves..aka "Loyalty"

http://alwatch2000.freeyellow.com/they-knew.htm


http://www.geocities.com/secretspyy/


http://global123.freeyellow.com/DIRTY_OIL.html

[rustydog]

11. What, and admit to the nation that you purposefully lied?

No, he'll bluff and bluster while Rove and his monkeys try to come up with someone or wome agency for them to blame.
To admit you lied to bring the American Military to illegally invade another nation,killing tens of thousands of civilians and causing the deaths and devastating injuries to tens of thousands of American troops just might be a criminal act and an international war-crime.

[priller]

14. I don't think Cheney is all that smart

Like Rove, he's more ruthless than smart. A bold, ruthless liar.

Josh Marshall wrote an article about 6 months ago where he showed that almost everything Cheney has a leading hand in with this administration (whether visible or behind the scenes) turns out badly. I wish I could find it, but he made a compelling case. Cheney, far from being a wise mentor to young Chimpy, is instead a major screwup.

This is not the first time Cheney's made outrageous claims. Remember before the war he told Tim on MTP that "we believe Saddam has reconstituted nuclear weapons." So yeah, he'll say anything.

[DemoTex]

17. Cheney as a neighbor

He had a big house on Euclid, about 8 blocks away. He drove an older ('95?), nondescript Cadillac. I often saw Dick and Lynn at the Starbucks in Highland Park Village. Back then (1997), I drove a '65 Porsche 356C with "Texas Democrat" on the back window. I usually wore an ACLU ball cap, too. Anyway, I crossed it up several times with Dick (he knew me from the press corps of Gulf War I, when I used to sit next to Katie Couric and Wolf Blitzer and feed them technical questions to get responses from the then SecDef Cheney for my aviation magazine). Oh, yes, Cheney remembered me.