REUTERS: CHENEY As Darth Vader

[kpete]

Cheney under political cloud after Libby trial
Wed Mar 7, 2007 12:56PM EST


WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House offered support on Wednesday for Vice President Dick Cheney, a powerful proponent of the Iraq war, after the conviction of his top aide dealt a fresh blow to Cheney's political reputation and raised new questions about his influence.

The trial of Lewis "Scooter" Libby showed Cheney, often portrayed by critics as the shadowy Darth Vader behind the war in Iraq, was deeply involved in an effort to discredit a critic of the administration's prewar intelligence.

Libby's conviction on perjury and obstruction of justice charges placed Cheney squarely in the center of a new political storm. Democrats said Libby was "the fall guy" for his boss, who was not charged in the case and not called to testify.

more at:
http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSN0722039320070307

[RaleighNCDUer]

1. I've often wondered - If Darth Cheney is Vader,

who is Palpatine, his Sith Lord master?

[Richard Steele]

2. The "reverend" Sun Yung Moon. nm

[originalpckelly]

5. Henry Kissenger?

:shrug:

[tularetom]

3. If the white house doesn't cut this out

Cheney will have to fire bush.

[liberalnurse]

4. Anakin Skywalker was a Jedi who went to the dark side....

and became Darth Vadar....He had good inside of his soul before he was corrupted..... That said;

I sense Cheney never had a good soul.

[walldude]

9. And in the end Anakin found it in himself to come back

somehow I doubt Cheney will ever return from the dark side...

[Rosa Luxemburg]

6. Then why doesn't Fitzgerald get Cheney under oath

and Bush too? Let's see what EXACTLY went on.

This is question being asked around the water cooler.

[caseycoon]

7. Are we to expect

either of them to tell the truth? Even under oath?
I don't think so!

[Rosa Luxemburg]

8. there maybe someone out there

perhaps one of their staff will squeal