Cheney wrong on all accounts. Fact check proves bigtime "FAIL!"

[bushmeister0]

From kpete's post earlier today,

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x3889084

McClatchy goes point by point how Cheney lied his ass off. Wrong, wrong wrong.

But, is it an Op-Ed or a legitimate news story?

Is it an Op-Ed to point out that an "elected" leader promoting war is lying?

Anyone remember this WaPo article from March 18 2003? The day before the Iraq invasion?

Bush Clings To Dubious Allegations About Iraq

By Walter Pincus and Dana Milbank:

"For months, President Bush and his top lieutenants have produced a long list of Iraqi offenses, culminating Sunday with Vice President Cheney's assertion that Iraq has 'reconstituted nuclear weapons.' Previously, administration officials have tied Hussein to al Qaeda, to the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, and to an aggressive production of biological and chemical weapons. Bush reiterated many of these charges in his address to the nation last night.

But these assertions are hotly disputed. (Lest we forget!)

In his appearance Sunday, on NBC's 'Meet the Press,'" the vice president argued that 'we believe has, in fact, reconstituted nuclear weapons.' But Cheney contradicted that assertion moments later, saying it was "only a matter of time before he acquires nuclear weapons." Both assertions were contradicted earlier by Mohamed ElBaradei, director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency, who reported that 'there is no indication of resumed nuclear activities.'

ElBaradei also contradicted Bush and other officials who argued that Iraq had tried to purchase high-strength aluminum tubes to use in centrifuges for uranium enrichment. The IAEA determined that Iraq did not plan to use imported aluminum tubes for enriching uranium and generating nuclear weapons. ElBaradei argued that the tubes were for conventional weapons and 'it was highly unlikely' that the tubes could have been used to produce nuclear material.'"

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A42517-2003Mar17?language=printer

And it goes on. Down the great memory hole.

Obviously, someone who has been so wrong for so long, who is almost certainly personally responsible for the Iraq mess we're currently involved in -- to say nothing of the resulting deaths of the hundreds of thousands of Iraqi citizens, the 4,000 plus Americans dead, the tens of thousands of Americans injured -- should be given equal coverage with the most popular president in generations?

He's one of the most despised politicians in modern history, who may not even have been actually elected to office, he's been wrong about everything, is months away from being on some court docket for war crimes the likes of which haven't been seem since WWII, either in the US or in some Western European democracy, and the media is acting like there's some sort of debate going on between a democratically elected president of the United States and some rank gangster!!!

The mind boggles.

I think this pretty much suns it up:



Are we insane? Why are we even giving a radical minority the air time to debate the pros and cons of torture?

[Richard Steele]

1. Yes. Clearly, we (as a people) are completely, totally, batshit-smoking INSANE.

There's really just no other explanation for it
that i can consider even remotely plausible
at this point in time.

I'm not kidding; not even a little bit.
This shit just ain't right.

[mwb970]

3. We've been this way for years and years.

The trend toward batshittery seemed to begin, or in any case drastically accelerate, when that awful president St. Ronald came in. I continue to be in awe of the amount of suffering in America and the world that started with Reagan's accursed presidency. For one thing, he made the ascension of a total zero like georgewbush possible. For that alone, I will never forgive him.

May he never rest in peace, after what he did to us.

[Jeep789]

2. Cheney was not speaking to those that check facts

He was speaking to those that thrive on fear alone.

[bushmeister0]

4. Didn't Scott McClellen once say: "The president of the United States is not a fact-checker"?

Finally, some truth!

[Sebastian Doyle]

5. Since when does Darth Cheney let facts get in the way?

I find your faith in "facts" most disturbing