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niyad

(112,440 posts)
Mon Jan 7, 2019, 01:54 PM Jan 2019

Sanders Reminds Liz Cheney of Iraq War Lies After Daughter of Bush VP Attacks So-Called 'Fraud of So

Bernie Sanders Reminds Liz Cheney of Iraq War Lies After Daughter of Bush VP Attacks So-Called 'Fraud of Socialism'

"Really? I wasn't aware that it was 'socialism' that lied about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq."

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Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) was sworn in as a member of Congress in 2017 with her father, former Vice President Dick Cheney, at her side. (Photo: Rep. Liz Cheney/Facebook)

After Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.)—daughter of the notorious warmonger former Vice President Dick Cheney—attacked the so-called "fraud of socialism" in a "Trumpism-inflected" speech on the U.S. House floor on Thursday, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) clapped back with a reference to what has been called her father's "biggest lie."

"Really? I wasn't aware that it was 'socialism' that lied about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, and got us into a horrific war that we should never have started," Sanders tweeted Friday, a clear reference to Dick Cheney's hand in misleading the American public ahead of the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq that launched a war that killed hundreds of thousands of people—including, by some estimates, more than than 200,000 civilians.

Liz Cheney's speech on the first day of the 116th Congress, in which she endorsed Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) for speaker, was a largely symbolic move, as Democrats regained a majority of seats in the November midterm elections. The younger Cheney has her own leadership position in the GOP—as the Republican conference chair in the House, she holds the party's third-ranked spot in the lower chamber and is responsible for communications strategy.

Since Sanders, who identifies as a democratic socialist, ran for president in 2016 and several progressives—including some candidates backed by the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), such as newly sworn-in Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.)—have sought elected offices at various levels of government in the years that have followed, many Republicans have ramped up attacks and helped solidify "socialism" as a buzzword of the current political moment.

Prior to Sanders' response to Cheney, People for Bernie, the grassroots movement that grew out of the independent senator's last presidential run, issued its own rebuttal, charging that "the real fraud is capitalism."


Thor Benson
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Replying to @Liz_Cheney @SenSanders

You know what actually steals power from the people and gives it to the government/massive corporations? The scam people like your father have been involved in for decades. And Sanders' explanation of what your war criminal father did is just fine.
12:46 PM - 4 Jan 2019



While Liz Cheney on Friday responded to Sanders by falling back on the favored Republican invocation of Venezuela and dismissing the senator's reference to her father's history of lying to promote war, critics such as independent journalist Thor Benson were quick to shut her down on both fronts, asserting in a pair of tweets that she does not "even vaguely understand what happened in Venezuela," and that her "father is a war criminal."
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LisaM

(27,762 posts)
1. Good. I wish someone would say it to her face.
Mon Jan 7, 2019, 02:01 PM
Jan 2019

The lies about WMD just get glossed over - people forgive Colin Powell for it, too, and I don't understand it.

Crutchez_CuiBono

(7,725 posts)
2. "In charge of communications strategy"...?
Mon Jan 7, 2019, 02:04 PM
Jan 2019

Is this also where the RTP (Repub. talking points) originate? Is Dick Cheney still a puppetmaster, controling govt through the auspices of his daughter as an elected rep., in a very very interesting position in congress? Is Dick giving the strategy and marching orders via Liz Cheney still to this day?
Aside...Did you see the daggers Cheney was giving the russian pres at Bushes funeral? Omg. The scowls across the board in the row behind him. Literally...if looks could kill...Cheney would've assassinated the russian that day right there in church.

Crutchez_CuiBono

(7,725 posts)
5. So easy to be a nasty self righteous person. Much harder to be kind and thoughtful
Mon Jan 7, 2019, 02:11 PM
Jan 2019

and inclusive in your daily life. They act like they're really working for the gop, when, in reality it's a bunch of rich people who enjoy being angry, getting on tv and without shame, pushing their division and entitlement.
Democratic philosophy requires that our approach to governing, is filtered by our goals being the common good. Not enrichment of the unholy kleptocracy. It requires the ability see life through other peoples eyes. Moreover, having seen life through others eyes, we then govern in a way that makes the American Promise, everyday more attainable for everyone. Is'nt that the exchange for living in a society and under a govts laws? We give that power up in exchange for the promise that they will put our honest needs first and foremost while they have the job. Thus the nature of the oath and promise they took when they were sworn in as a civil representative.
Their oath, sums up what was expected of every oathkeeper right before/as they repeat the words or say I do. Once they are sworn the obligation to duty, and their promise, kicks in.
Thanks be to Speaker Pelosi for launching right out of the gates. What a relief.
Rising tide lifts all boats. And the tides coming in again. Super Red Full Moon on Jan. 21st?

Johonny

(20,685 posts)
7. She'll never do a thing to help the people that put her in office
Mon Jan 7, 2019, 02:56 PM
Jan 2019

That's the bottom line. I don't get how people can vote for a rep that care more about national agenda's and framing debates than their health care, jobs, schools... she has no agenda other than power!

Achilleaze

(15,543 posts)
8. "MY daddy dodged the draft five times first, setting a republican precedent." - Lizzie (KGOP)
Mon Jan 7, 2019, 03:43 PM
Jan 2019

"And so now we republicans have a full-on five-time republican draft dodger as our big presidential cheese. So think about that." - Lizzie (KGOP)

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