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bigtree Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-25-07 02:12 PM
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Cheney: It's 'hogwash' to say Bush's credibility on the line in Iraq
Edited on Thu Jan-25-07 02:15 PM by bigtree
January 25, 2007

WASHINGTON -- Vice President Dick Cheney said Wednesday it's "hogwash" to suggest the Bush administration's credibility is on the line because of mistakes in Iraq.

Asked point-blank if the administration's credibility was at stake, Cheney shot back: "I simply don't accept the premise of your question. I just think it's hogwash."

http://www3.whdh.com/news/articles/national/BO41197/


more "hogwash" :


March 16, 2003:

Cheney on MTP:

"To suggest that we need several hundred thousand troops there after military operations cease, after the conflict ends, I don't think that's accurate. I think it's an overstatement."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/graphic/2006/10/01/GR2006100100022.html



The Non-Binding Iraq Resolution Is Not The End Of Our Opposition
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=36781&mesg_id=36781

http://journals.democraticunderground.com/bigtree
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Richardo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-25-07 02:14 PM
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1. #1) Who cares what you think, Dick?
#2) The word 'delusional' springs to mind again...
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LiberalFighter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-25-07 02:14 PM
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2. Bush & Cheney haven't already lost credibility? Go Cheney yourself!
Edited on Thu Jan-25-07 02:15 PM by LiberalFighter
Message not intended to original poster
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jody Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-25-07 02:21 PM
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3. cheney's right, * has already lost all credibility. n/t
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ayeshahaqqiqa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-25-07 02:21 PM
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4. Your hog is too big to wash
It's smelly and stinky and has messed up the living room big time. Time for it--and you--to be sent packing.
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Ganja Ninja Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-25-07 02:22 PM
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5. I agree with the Vice President.
Bush's credibility went out the window a long time ago. The only thing on the line now are the lives of the troops they are willing to sacrifice to extend this war into the next president's term.
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Dyedinthewoolliberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-25-07 02:22 PM
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6. Of course it's hogwash Dick,
'cause * doesn't HAVE ANY FUCKING CREDIBILITY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Amonester Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-25-07 02:25 PM
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7. CHENEY THE FLIP FLOP KING (as if Darth Cheneyousself is...
or ever has been "credible" for one nanosecond in his entire cowardish life...)

http://www.halliburtonwatch.org/cheneyflops2.html

CHENEY THE FLIP FLOP KING

Cheney recently reminded America that, “These are not times for leaders who shift with the political winds, saying one thing one day and another, the next.”

FLIP....

"Government spends a lot of money, but it doesn't build factories .... The key to more jobs is not more government, but free enterprise" -- Dick Cheney

FLOP....

Halliburton took $7.8 billion in U.S. taxpayer assistance since 1992 to grow its company -- and that doesn't include money from the Pentagon.

FLIP....

“And one of the best ways to encourage stock ownership is to make sure that pension plans give workers better information, and treat them fairly.” -- Dick Cheney

FLOP....

While CEO of Halliburton, Dick Cheney took advantage of a legal loophole that robbed $25 million from the pensions of Halliburton's workers. Nine months later the company gave Cheney a $20 million pension. Experts call it "scandalous."

FLIP....

"And since I left Halliburton to become George Bush's vice president, I've severed all my ties with the company, gotten rid of all my financial interest. I have no financial interest in Halliburton of any kind and haven't had, now, for over three years." -- Dick Cheney

FLOP....

As vice president, Cheney continues to receive a salary of over $150,000 each year from Halliburton while maintaining 433,333 shares of unexercised stock options in the company.

FLIP....

"We are going after the terrorists wherever they plot and plan." -- Dick Cheney

FLOP....

"We'd be better off if we, in fact, backed off those sanctions ," said Cheney when he was CEO for Halliburton. President Bush says Iran sponsors terrorism. Halliburton sales to Iran totalled $63 million in 2003.

FLIP....

"I have absolutely no influence of, involvement of, knowledge of in any way, shape or form of contracts led by the Corps of Engineers or anybody else in the Federal Government." -- Dick Cheney

FLOP....

Cheney's chief of staff, Lewis "Scooter" Libby, was briefed in October 2002 about a proposal to give contract work to Halliburton's KBR unit for extinguishing oil well fires in Iraq. Moreover, an internal Pentagon e-mail proves that a $7 billion no-bid contract awarded to Halliburton on March 8, 2003 was "coordinated" with Cheney's office. Pentagon officials admitted that Undersecretary of Defense Douglas Feith discussed the March 2003 Halliburton contract in advance with Cheney's office.

FLIP....

“I can tell you that the government had absolutely nothing to do with it,” Cheney said in answer to questions about his exorbitant personal wealth earned from Halliburton.

FLOP....

The value of Halliburton's government contracts increased by nearly 100 percent, from $1.2 billion to $2.3 billion, during Cheney's tenure as CEO. Guaranteed and direct loans from government lenders increased over one thousand percent, from $100 million to $1.5 billion.

FLIP....

"We have not done any business in Iraq since U.N. sanctions were imposed on Iraq in 1990, and I had a standing policy that I wouldn't do that." -- Dick Cheney

FLOP....

Halliburton sold more than $73 million in oil production equipment and spare parts to Iraq from the first half of 1997 through the summer of 2000 -- while Cheney was chairman and CEO of the company.

FLIP....

"I think if we were going to remove Saddam Hussein we would have had to go all the way to Baghdad, we would have to commit a lot of force .... then we'd have had to put another government in its place .... it would have been a mistake for us to get bogged down in the quagmire inside Iraq." -- Dick Cheney

FLOP....

”Our soldiers and Marines raced to Baghdad across 350 miles of hostile terrain in one of the fastest advances in history.” – Dick Cheney

FLIP....

"And we believe he has, in fact, reconstituted nuclear weapons." -- Dick Cheney

FLOP....

"I did misspeak .... We never had any evidence that he had acquired a nuclear weapon." -- Dick Cheney

FLIP....

"There's no doubt that Saddam Hussein has weapons of mass destruction. There's no doubt he's amassing them to use .... I think David Kay will find more evidence as he goes forward .... It’s a hard task, but I have got great confidence that he can do this." -- Dick Cheney

FLOP....

"Let me begin by saying, we were almost all wrong , and I certainly include myself here." -- -- Dick Cheney

FLOP....

"An official British investigation into two trailers found in northern Iraq has concluded they are not mobile germ warfare labs, as was claimed by Tony Blair and President George Bush, but were for the production of hydrogen to fill artillery balloons, as the Iraqis have continued to insist." -- The Observer

FLIP....

It is"pretty well confirmed" that a Sept. 11 hijacker "did meet with a senior official of the Iraqi intelligence service in Czechoslovakia last April, several months before the attack." -- Dick Cheney

FLOP....

"I never said that. Absolutely not ... we've never been able to confirm it or to knock it down. We just don't know." -- Dick Cheney

"We do not believe that such a meeting occurred." -- 911 Commission Staff Report

FLIP....

"The cost of one attack on 9/11 was far greater than what we’re spending in Iraq." -- Dick Cheney

FLOP

The City of New York said the 9/11 attacks will cost the city between $83 billion to $95 billion. As of May 2005, Congress has already authorized $300 billion for the Iraq war.


FLIP....

"We take seriously the responsibility to be honest and to be civil .... Whatever the issue, we are going to deal with facts and show a decent regard for other points of view." -- Dick Cheney


FLOP....

Cheney lacked "civility" when he used profanity on the Senate floor against a political opponent. The vice president said, "Go yourself" to a Democratic senator and later refused to apologize for it. He described his profanity as "appropriate" and that he "felt better" after uttering it.

http://www.halliburtonwatch.org/cheneyflops2.html


I bet next vomit that's gonna come out of his hole will sound like "'m not a crook" ...
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tularetom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-25-07 02:26 PM
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8. The credibility was all gone years ago
so I guess it is hogwash to say it's on the line. That line was crossed a long time ago.
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spanone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-25-07 02:27 PM
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9. I saw his arrogant asshole interview. This man has no idea who he works for.
OF the People BY the People For the People. HE's one fucking clueless heartless sob.
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Left Is Write Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-25-07 02:29 PM
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10. Dick Cheney is from another planet.
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Liberal_Dog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-25-07 02:32 PM
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11. This Filthy Administration Never Had Any Credibility To Begin With
Cheney can go suck it.
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TheCowsCameHome Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-25-07 02:53 PM
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12. Cheney in the tub = a real hog wash.
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Vinca Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-25-07 02:55 PM
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13. These people live in a parallel universe where up is down,
lies are truth and war mongering is somehow a good thing. How many days till this criminal regime is gone???
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Amonester Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-25-07 03:00 PM
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15. if only ONE person (with the help of a lot of good friends) would b
brave enough to arrest the darth lord...
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Tierra_y_Libertad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-25-07 02:55 PM
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14. What little credibility he had was lost just as the war was lost.
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The Backlash Cometh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-25-07 03:09 PM
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16. Because he says so?
When is Dick Cheney going to realize that the sand in his 6 years of glory - hour glass, is coming to an end? Give or take a year or two?
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Cha Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jan-25-07 03:12 PM
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17. cheney should know all about HOGWASH..
he wallows in it everyday of his life.

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