CAUGHT ON TAPE: Cheney ‘Can’t Buy’ Idea That Iraq War Is Creating More ...

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http://thinkprogress.org/2006/09/25/cheney-buy-that/

CAUGHT ON TAPE: Cheney ‘Can’t Buy’ Idea That Iraq War Is Creating More Terrorists

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On the September 10, 2006 broadcast of Meet the Press, Tim Russert presented Cheney with a CBS/New York Times poll that said the majority of Americans agree with the intelligence community’s assessment that our actions overseas are creating more terrorists. “I can’t buy that,” Cheney responded. Watch it.

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Transcript:

RUSSERT: Here’s what the American people said in a recent poll. Is the U.S. involvement in Iraq or Afghanistan creating more terrorists or eliminating terrorists? And look at that. Overwhelmingly, 54 percent, clear majority, believe we are creating more terrorists.

TEXT:

U.S. INVOLVEMENT IN IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN

CREATING MORE TERRORISTS 54%

ELIMINATING TERRORISTS 15%

The New York Times CBS/Poll

CHENEY: I, I, I can’t buy that.

[Lautremont]

1. If he means he can no longer purchase enough disinformation

to throw people off from that irrefutable fact, he's correct.

[wtmusic]

2. Wow...something Cheney can't buy

Must be a new experience for him

[gratuitous]

13. You'd think with all the money Halliburton has paid him

Not to mention the tens of thousands of dollars in taxes he's gifted himself with that Cheney could buy pretty much anything he wanted to. Or maybe he meant he "can't" buy it in the sense of "If I did buy that argument, I'd have to shoot myself instead of a lawyer for being such a bloodthirsty pig, so I can't buy that argument."

Hard to tell with these dissemblers. You really have to run them to ground, and even then (a la Chris Wallace), they'll try to answer a different question from the one you posed. And if you keep after them, their echo chamber chorus will wail about how you badgered the poor guy, or he'll attempt to shrug it off as being too complicated a question.

It's all a part of their standard anti-matter language campaign.

[rustydog]

3. IT DOES NOT REQUIRE YOUR BELIEF TO BE TRUE

You gutless chickenhawk bastard.:nuke:

[Solly Mack]

4. Of course he can't. It goes against the reality they want to push

and since it doesn't fit into their manufactured reality, they can't "buy it"

[H2O Man]

5. VP Cheney

lacks the moral capacity to tell the truth.

[rodeodance]

6. and that was on Sept 10.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

7. Bend over, grab ankles, insert head in ass. The neo-cons forte.

Also their prescription for the electorate.

[Mandate My Ass]

8. And yet his portfolio is doing fabulous...

of course he sees nothing to be alarmed about. :eyes:

[TheCowsCameHome]

9. You're a complete jerk, Dick. You can take that to the bank.

[thereismore]

10. Not everything has a price tag, jerk. nt

[Imagevision]

11. Recent assessment says the Iraq war has increased the terrorist threat

One would think that the Vice President would/could at the least, stay current and informed of the current state in Iraq.

[ninkasi]

12. That's one of their standard responses

I was watching an interview with Karen Hughes a year or so ago, and when confronted with polls that showed something negative about her lord and master Bush. Her answer? "Oh, I don't believe that". Variations range from, I can't buy that, I don't believe that, I don't accept that, are all common. Being presented with evidence does absolutely nothing to change their minds.

In my life, I had an experience last year when discussing Bush's Iraq invasion, and domestic policies with a family member I hadn't seen in many years. I told her how the evidence of Saddam's threats to the U.S. had been manufactured by the administration. I lamented the lack of proper body armor, the multiple deployments, the erosion of our stand of living here in the U.S., the widening gap between rich and poor, I covered quite a few things.

She listened without interrupting me, but this was her answer "I can't LET MYSELF BELIEVE those things. I just can't."
She had hit the truth button on that. She could offer no evidence to dispute the facts I gave her, so in the end admitted that she believes in Bush because she can't allow herself to do otherwise. I have a feeling that's the case with a lot of the Bush-bots. They can't allow any challenge to their belief system. That is so sad.

[Imagevision]

14. Lie-deny typical Rove playbook response... yaaaawnnn......

[YankeyMCC]

15. Does Not Compute! - Does Not Compute!

Irrelevant! Irrelevant!

lol

[young_at_heart]

16. Cheney is the one who is responsible for this horrendous mess

I still haven't figured out the real reason for his Iraq obsession.

[myrna minx]

17. Current American Deficit: $8,490,903,921,363.31

http://www.brillig.com/debt_clock/

Current American War Dead: 3009
http://projects.washingtonpost.com/fallen/

Something Dick Cheney can't buy: Priceless

"RUSSERT: Here’s what the American people said in a recent poll. Is the U.S. involvement in Iraq or Afghanistan creating more terrorists or eliminating terrorists? And look at that. Overwhelmingly, 54 percent, clear majority, believe we are creating more terrorists.

TEXT:

U.S. INVOLVEMENT IN IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN

CREATING MORE TERRORISTS 54%

ELIMINATING TERRORISTS 15%

The New York Times CBS/Poll

CHENEY: I, I, I can’t buy that. "

[indepat]

18. Cheney can't wake up and smell the coffee for the stench of the dead

and dying.

[GeorgeGist]

19. Why should he buy...

when he and his friends are still selling terror at a profit.