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Robbien Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-24-07 10:16 PM
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Cheney accuses Democrat-led House of not supporting troops
Source: Associated Press

MANALAPAN, Fla. — Vice President Dick Cheney today accused the Democrat-led House of not supporting troops in Iraq and of sending a message to terrorists that America will retreat in the face danger.

"They're not supporting the troops. They're undermining them," Cheney told a gathering of the Republican Jewish Coalition at the oceanside Ritz-Carlton hotel in Manalapan, Fla., about 60 miles north of Miami.

On Friday, the House voted to clamp a cutoff deadline on the Iraq war, agreeing by a thin margin to pull combat troops out by next year.

The $124 billion House legislation would pay for wars in Iraq and Afghanistan this year but would require that combat troops come home from Iraq before September 2008 — or earlier if the Iraqi government does not meet certain requirements.

Read more: http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/nation/4659061.html



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Fresh_Start Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-24-07 10:18 PM
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1. Cheney does not support America, he support Hellibrute
instead
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saigon68 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-25-07 03:13 AM
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34. Cheney = Corporate Thug and War Criminal
He could care less about anyone, except his rich friends making $$$$$$$$

He could give a shit about the "troops"

He will send them to be killed for his corporate profit.

Plus he is a COWARDLY DRAFT DODGER.
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liberalmike27 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-26-07 07:38 AM
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52. Who cares?
Who cares what that clot throwing, face shooting, war-lying, treasonous, evil sack of right-wing-sh*t says. Clearly we've found a method for finding the absolutely stupidest people in society. That would be the ones who still believe the moronic rhetoric. I can forgive someone for being caught up in the initial wave of nationalism. But we've had five years to figure out these guys are the most deceptive bunch.
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Xipe Totec Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-24-07 10:19 PM
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2. So, when did the Dick serve in the military? n/t


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Monkeyman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-24-07 10:22 PM
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5. Cut and Ran Five Times
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Xipe Totec Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-24-07 10:25 PM
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8. Nice support!
To hear him talk, you'd think he singlehandedly held back the entire North Vietnamese army.

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Joe Bacon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-25-07 12:04 AM
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29. ...And THE DICK lets wounded soldiers sleep in their urine soaked beds!
Republic Party members have a very peculiar idea of what supporting the troops is. Their idea of supporting the troops is giving them a jockstrap and a bible and parachuting them into a minefield.

Then, they shortchange veterans of their medical care when veterans need them the most. Republic Party members are sick!
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Patsy Stone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-24-07 10:19 PM
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3. Oh, Dick...
Edited on Sat Mar-24-07 10:41 PM by Patsy Stone
Go FUCK yourself!
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Name removed Donating Member (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-24-07 10:22 PM
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Mojorabbit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-24-07 10:26 PM
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9. Welcome to DU greyghost eom
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Patsy Stone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-24-07 10:38 PM
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14. Welcome to DU, greyghost!
:hi:
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IChing Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-24-07 10:41 PM
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17. I echo Patsy Stone's statement
Cheney go fuck yourself.
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rusty charly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-24-07 10:23 PM
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6. and the veto will be your "support", dick?
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merwin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-24-07 11:11 PM
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26. Exactly! How are they supporting the troops with a veto?
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KingFlorez Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-24-07 10:24 PM
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7. Projection
They are the ones who want to veto the funding for the troops just to keep them in Iraq.
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onehandle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-24-07 10:28 PM
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10. Impotent little prick. nt
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sasquatch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-24-07 10:32 PM
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11. "Republican Jewish Coalition"
What's that like 4 people.
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Patsy Stone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-24-07 10:39 PM
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15. Three
Edited on Sat Mar-24-07 10:40 PM by Patsy Stone
Lately, Ari hasn't been showing up for the meetings.
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Joe Bacon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-25-07 03:27 AM
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37. but I bet LIEberman took Ari's place!
It wouldn't surprise me to see them try to channel the spirit of Judah Benjamin :evilgrin:
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whistle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-24-07 10:36 PM
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12. Cheney is a real putz, it's democratic-led House
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Robbien Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-24-07 10:53 PM
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20. I wouldn't put it past the AP to be the ones who left off the "ic"
So in this case it could have been the AP doing the putdown, or Dick Cheney doing his own. Both a couple of dicks.
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moose65 Donating Member (525 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-26-07 07:54 AM
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53. There they go again!
It never ceases to amaze me. The Democrat-controlled congress? It makes my skin crawl. So I guess Cheney was speaking to the "Republican Jew Coalition"??
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BeyondGeography Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-24-07 10:38 PM
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13. And the troops feel SO supported by BushCo
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caledesi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-25-07 04:53 PM
Response to Reply #13
47. Oh yeah, go out and buy those big yellow bumper-sticker
ribbons made in CHINA and put it on your car!
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Cheap_Trick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-24-07 10:40 PM
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16. two words, dick
FUCK YOU
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Matariki Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-24-07 10:42 PM
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18. Broken records, the lot of them
'Dems don't support the troops', 'Dems should drop partisan politics', 'Democrats wasting taxpayers' time', yadda, yadda, yadda.

they're really losing it.
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young_at_heart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-24-07 10:47 PM
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19. What has he said that we can trust.......ever?
I would think his credibility must be about zero by now, except for his friends, the extremists.
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sakabatou Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-24-07 10:53 PM
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21. O RLY?
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liberal renegade Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-24-07 10:58 PM
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22. I find it hard to believe
he even has a fucking audience. Just the site of this POS makes me want to :puke:
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moondust Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-24-07 11:08 PM
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23. Ask the troops.
Who, in reality, is supporting you?

1. The people who are ensuring that you are not sent into a war zone without adequate training and equipment and not overdeployed to the breaking point, as well as placing a time limit on how long you should be asked to risk life and limb in somebody else's insane quagmire. You know too well that there is no way to prevent IED's or suicide bombers no matter how many troops are there.

~OR~

2. Cheap labor chickenhawks who have proved that they do not care if you have adequate training and equipment or how often you go and stay there or how you are treated when you return wounded, and who have no plan to ever pull you out of a war you cannot win.
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gulliver Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-24-07 11:11 PM
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24. Quite the surprise move by Cheney.
I'm sure the Dems are caught completely off guard by this new tactic.
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Pastiche423 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-25-07 01:55 AM
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33. You caught that too, eh?
He should read more Einstein quotes. The definition of insanity would be a good one.
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struggle4progress Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-25-07 03:09 PM
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46. Might could be him gettin senile and fergettin he's sanged that song afore
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pretzel4gore Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-24-07 11:11 PM
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25. to quote Hunter Thompson " How long, oh lord, how LONG!"
it's a pity some democratic representative wouldn't use the vicious creep's dementia against him. Isn't inciting the mob against one of the most important branches of the government against the law?
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rodeodance Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-24-07 11:27 PM
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27. its getty real old mr. vp!
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warren pease Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-24-07 11:47 PM
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28. Is any Democrat capable of...
...simply saying they're supporting the troops in the best possible way -- by trying to keep them alive or out of the clutches of the VA, which this sociopathic administration has cut funding for every single year since the 2000 coup?

Isn't that a sensible response to the usual, tired accusation? Has any Dem used it yet? Do they have a better response? Or do they intend to do the usual -- wave flags and mouth meaningless platitudes, while quivering with fear that Cheney might abuse them again if they go too far?

Impeachment must be put back "on the table," Miss Nancy, or your credibility won't last the summer.

wp
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NYC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-25-07 11:20 PM
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50. Write to Pelosi at
AmericanVoices@mail.house.gov

unless you are her constituent. Then, you can write to her your normal way. The above email address is a way for non-constituents to contact her.
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truthisfreedom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-25-07 01:00 AM
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30. cheney says the same thing for the millionth time, all the while reaping war profits.
I don't understand why the Democrats don't attack cheney over his war profiteering every time he opens is putrid yap.
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LynnTheDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-25-07 01:16 AM
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31. An overwhelming majority of 72% of American troops serving in Iraq
think the U.S. should exit the country within the next year...
http://www.zogby.com/NEWS/ReadNews.dbm?ID=1075

Repeat:

An overwhelming majority of 72% of American troops serving in Iraq think the U.S. should exit the country within the next year

SUPPORT THE TROOPS...LISTEN TO THEM!
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ProudDad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-25-07 01:25 AM
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32. Here's the best answer I've heard in a while
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opihimoimoi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-25-07 03:18 AM
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35. Thats it?? Thats all he got??? The same ole shit? Thats a form of STUTTERING
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pinniped Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-25-07 03:19 AM
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36. Program this stupid tobot to say something new.
This is the same crap over and over.
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spiderpig Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-25-07 05:11 AM
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38. If there's any living human more vile than Cheney
I don't know who it is. He's a soulless, bottom-feeding ghoul.

And I'm trying to be polite.
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City Lights Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-25-07 08:07 AM
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39. The gig is up, old man.
No one takes you seriously anymore, you walking sack of nuts and bolts.

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Rose Siding Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-25-07 08:08 AM
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40. Then he'll REALLY have a cow when bush VETOES this troop funding
:eyes:
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gauguin57 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-25-07 09:17 AM
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41. Mister Cheney, take a seat at the table. On the menu today? MY SHORTS!
Eat my shorts, you disgusting hypocrite!!!!
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kaal Donating Member (93 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-25-07 09:19 AM
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42. a truly effing twat
There needs to be a strong rebuke to his comments by the Democratic leadership. Cheney must never be allowed to get away with such statements!
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bemildred Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-25-07 02:40 PM
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43. How's your heart Dick?
All this stress isn't good for it, you know, you ought to retire.
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bling bling Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-25-07 02:53 PM
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44. Oh dear. Well the Democrats better vote to extend the war longer to prove him wrong.
We wouldn't want the Republicans to think we're soft on terror and that we hate the troops or that we're unpatriotic.

Oh wait, bending over backwards in order to avoid attacks by the Republicans is what the Dems did for the last 7 years. And look how well it's worked. We voted FOR their war and for their Patriot Act and for billions of billions of taxpayers dollars for the war yet we're STILL being attacked as weak troop-haters.

Fuck you Cheney. You're just a broken record and your opinion is worth about as much as a steamy pile of crap at this point. Who gives a shit what you think anymore?
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Zhade Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-25-07 02:54 PM
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45. SEE? Fucking TOLD YOU. No matter how ineffectual the "attempt" to "stop" the war...
...through bullshit death-enabling nonbinding resolutions, the fascists will STILL say this shit.

Get it now, Dem leadership? You might as well actually try to end the war by cutting the funding. Or, you know, continue with the war if you enjoy the blood on your hands.

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HuffleClaw Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-25-07 10:32 PM
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48. and when his puppet uses the VETO will HE be 'undermining the troops'?
i say YES.
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Canuckistanian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-25-07 10:42 PM
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49. He's like a wind-up monkey, isn't he?
I have no idea why he's considered to be this towering figure in American politics when all he does is repeat this same tired mantra.

Really, he's becoming worse than pathetic. Stunningly unimaginative, he seems to be patronizing the same uneducated rubes whose numbers are still dwindling.

Some strategy.
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bdamomma Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-26-07 07:35 AM
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51. again cheney is spewing his own BS.
god, these people are sickening, and the same talking points are being spewed over and over again. Pure BS.
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qwlauren35 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-26-07 07:54 AM
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54. Could he shut up already?
This is barely news. He's a broken record.
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jollyreaper2112 Donating Member (955 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-26-07 08:10 AM
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55. ugh
Could someone shoot that man in the face? No, no, I don't want him dead, I just want him living with a painful, lifelong disfigurement.
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electron_blue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-26-07 08:19 AM
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56. Why do we have to "support the troops"????
I've never actually supported what the troops are doing over there. I'm just sayin....

Or is Cheney claiming that we aren't sending enough body armor and other supplies so they can do their job? No, wait, that's what the Bush administration is guilty of.
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BigDDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-26-07 08:35 AM
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57. Oh, are people still
paying attention to what he says?
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rocktivity Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-26-07 08:38 AM
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58. .
:boring:
rocknation
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Rosa Luxemburg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-26-07 08:43 AM
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59. Yawn, Mr Cheney that's getting tired, stale, lame...
same old stuff, go on pack yer bags
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EnviroBat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Mar-26-07 10:33 AM
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60. Sometimes I wish...
More often than not, that someone would deliver a testicle-crushing kick to Cheny's withered, old nut-sack. So hard, that his heart would instantly explode in his chest, forcing his eye's to blow out of his face. And throughout all of this he would remain totally conscious, for at least ten minutes afterward. I guess you could say that I really dislike the man...
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