Need help finding a Cheney quote

[trotsky]

I thought I had read it on Bartcop, but I can't find it there. I think it was on a Sunday talk show, "Whistle" Dick Cheney said something about 9/11 being "in the past" and not worth revisiting. I just got one of those "never forget" right-wing e-mails and would LOVE to respond using that quote. Does anyone know what I'm talking about?

[RobertSeattle]

1. Couldn't find it either, but found this great piece while searching

http://groups.google.com/groups?q=Cheney+9/11+%22in+the+past%22&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&c2coff=1&safe=off&selm=ac2pnc01idf%40enews1.newsguy.com&rnum=1

Honest, serious people and organizations know their most valuable lessons
for the future come from studying and learning from the past.

I served 28 years in the Army where I learned time and again the critical
need to study what we did in the past and learn from it. A few examples
will illustrate.

-- Immediately after establishing a beachhead at Normandy and moving inland,
Allied forces encountered the nearly impenetrable hedgerows of rural France.
A couple of industrious mechanics in a tank unit fashioned a plow blade for
the front of tanks that allowed the tank to penetrate hedgerows. Because
Eisenhower understood the need to modify tactics based on what worked, teams
from Ike's headquarters were all over the battlefields studying Lessons
Learned. Soon, tanks throughout the command were fitted with the
hedgerow-busting plows.

-- George Patton took study of the past to an infinite degree. Patton
actually believed that in previous incarnations he had been a warrior on
battlefields over which he was now fighting. Patton had studied historic
battles -- how the terrain and weather affected the course of the fight.
When he took command in North Africa after the Allied defeat at Kasserine
Pass, the first thing he did was convene a study group to figure out why we
had our butts kicked.

EDITED BY ADMIN: COPYRIGHT

[cherryperry]

2. I don't, so I tried a search and

all I came up with is:

"Dick Cheney was on the line, and it wasn't to chitchat. The vice president rarely calls the Senate leader – a Democrat he dismisses as an 'obstructionist' – so Tom Daschle knew the topic was important when he hurried into his Capitol office. What he heard was a plea, and a warning. The Senate will soon launch hearings on why we weren't prepared for, and warned about, September 11. The intelligence committee will study the matter, but mostly behind closed doors. Cheney was calling to preemptively protest public hearings by other committees. If the Democrats insisted, Bush administration officials might say they're too busy running the war on terrorism to show up. Press the issue, Cheney implied, and you risk being accused of interfering with the mission."


http://www.antiwar.com/justin/j020102.html


Perhaps you could pursue it from there...I just don't know...

[trotsky]

3. Self-kick

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Hoping someone has seen this...

[ElsewheresDaughter]

4. he said it to Tim Russert..here is an article about it

http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/letters/articles/2003/09/19/challenging_cheneys_bogus_claims/

here is the buzzflash one
http://www.buzzflash.com/analysis/03/09/15_cheney.html

i will try finding more

[ElsewheresDaughter]

5. try this one

http://www.buzzflash.com/analysis/03/09/15_cheney.html

[ElsewheresDaughter]

6. BINGO! Transcript.... Meet The Press...Cheney/Russert 9/14/03

http://www.msnbc.com/news/966470.asp
<snip>
Cheney: "One of the things this points out that’s important for us to understand—so there’s this great temptation to look at these events as discreet events. We got hit on 9/11. So we can go and investigate it. It’s over with now.
It’s done. It’s history and put it behind us."

[trotsky]

7. Oh THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU!!

This is gonna be great to shove back in their faces...

[cherryperry]

8. I am in shock and awe (ahem) at your wonderfulness!

All hail Elsewheres Daughter!


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