During the 2000 Transition, All Cheney Wanted To Know About Was Iraq

[journalist3072]

Conventional wisdom would have you believe that anyone who has just ascended to the Vice Presidency of the United States would want to know what was happening all over the world, not just in one part of the world.

But it seems as though during the transition between the Clinton and Bush Administrations, all Dick Cheney wanted to know about was Iraq.

During an episode of Hardball earlier this year, Chris Matthews revealed what he was told by an inside source, on how Dick Cheney only had eyes for Iraq during the transition:

"Let me not let one guy off the hook here, that’s Cheney, Bob. I talked to someone last night who knows better about this than anybody — off the record — who told me the first thing Cheney wanted when he got the vice presidency, during the transition of 2000, what he wanted was not a briefing on the world, all he wanted to know about, where do we stand in Iraq? He was keyed on that decision from day one, long before 9-11, and it certainly looks like these guys weren’t surprised by the decision to go to Iraq. They had it in their mind ahead of time."

Now mind you, the outgoing National Security Adviser Sandy Burger had warned the incoming Bush team during one briefing: "I believe that the Bush administration will spend more time on terrorism in general, and on al Qaeda specifically, than any other subject."

Yet, Dick Cheney's mind was not on Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda, the man who was preparing to attack this country.

His obsession was on someone who didn't pose a threat.

Any officials from the ABC Network trolling this board? If so, can you enlighten me on whether this will be in the "Path to 9/ll?" I'm just asking!

http://thinkprogress.org/2006/03/08/source-to-matthews/

[Monkeyman]

1. Cheney did not want to stop in papa's war

[DianeG5385]

2. Why this is a surprise to anyone is beyond me

When I realized that Bush et al were declared the winners of the election, I told anyone who would listen that we would be going to war with Iraq. Now if a little nobody such as I had clarity on that issue, don't you think the beltway media knew as well? In fact, I'm convinced they knew and criminally played along with getting us into this quagmire.

They ALL knew and anyone who claims to not have known who works in any part of the intelligence structure, the state department, the department of defense, the New York Times and other beltway papers are freakin' LIARS!!!! THEY ALL KNEW THAT IF BUSH WAS ELECTED WE WOULD GO TO WAR WITH IRAQ. You'd have to be a complete moron not to have figured this out.

So anyone who supported this mockery and who feigns shock and surprise is a traitor to this country as are ALL of those who APPEASED the Bush administration.

Let's stop pussyfutting around. These guys LIED us into an unecessary war for personal profit and to place an American base square in the ME to TAKE DOWN IRAQ for the 1979 embassy takeover. These guys are vengeful.

They are KILLING the American dream, one fearful citizen at a time.

I refuse to be fearful.

[journalist3072]

3. It's not a surprise to those of us in the reality-based community, but

We need to keep getting these facts out there. We have to be relentless in keeping these facts out there for the American public, and do the job that the MSM refuses to do.

The other side is clearly engaging in revisionist history.