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Stephanie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-06-05 01:54 PM
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Why Does Dick Tell the SAME LIES Over & Over & Over Again? --->>>
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/12/06/AR2005120600766.html?nav=rss_politics/administration

Transcript: Vice President Cheney's Speech at Ft. Drum, N.Y.

Courtesy FDCH/e-Media
Tuesday, December 6, 2005; 1:07 PM

SPEAKER: RICHARD B. CHENEY, VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES

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Some have suggested that by liberating Iraq from Saddam Hussein we simply stirred up a hornet's nest. They overlook a fundamental fact: We were not in Iraq on September 11th, 2001, and the terrorist hit us anyway.

The reality is that terrorists were at war with our country long before the liberation of Iraq and long before the attacks of 9/11. And for many years, they were the ones on the offensive. They grew bolder in their belief that if they killed enough Americans, they could change American policy.

In Beirut, in 1983, terrorists killed 241 of our servicemen. Thereafter, U.S. forces withdrew from there.

In Mogadishu, in 1993, terrorists killed 19 American soldiers. Thereafter, United States forces withdrew from Somalia.

Over time, the terrorists concluded that they could strike America without paying a price because they did, repeatedly.

They bombed the World Trade Center in 1993; murders at the Saudi national guard training facility in Riyadh in 1995; the Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia in 1996; simultaneous bombing of two of our embassies in East Africa in 1998; and the USS Cole in 2000.

Believing they could strike us with impunity and that they could change U.S. policy, they attacked us on 9/11 here in the homeland and killed 3,000 Americans.

Now they're making a stand in Iraq, testing our resolve, trying to intimidate the United States into abandoning our friends and permitting the overthrow of a new Middle Eastern democracy.

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Tamarin Donating Member (337 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-06-05 01:58 PM
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1. Alzheimer's? I think the whole administration has it, they never
have anything new to say.
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im10ashus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-06-05 02:02 PM
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2. Why?
Because the media are wimps and refuse to call him out on his lies. Granted, that would be a full-time job, but they still refuse. Also our reps in Congress could be standing up EACH AND EVERY TIME he opens his mouth and counter his lies with the facts. Just my humble little opinion. :-)
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Loonman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-06-05 02:04 PM
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3. 5 deferments Cheney
Can go make a stand in Iraq. A hotdog stand.
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Warpy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-06-05 02:09 PM
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4. Because he's a BIDNESSMAN
and they're used to lying through advertising and bogus accounting until some government agency finally steps in to tell them to knock it off.

Nobody's done that to the Dick.
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sinkingfeeling Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-06-05 02:11 PM
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5. Because he's a despicable human being. And guess what, Dick,
Edited on Tue Dec-06-05 02:13 PM by sinkingfeeling
there weren't any Iraqis in New York on 9-11 either!
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GR Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-06-05 02:15 PM
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6. That's What Makes "Big Lies" Work...
People can't believe you would lie about something so BIG even once and when you repeat it, even after the nattering nabobs of negativism have called you on it, they're even more convinced you must be telling the truth because NO ONE WOULD BE THAT HEINOUS as to lie so blatantly and so repeatedly.

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Marr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-06-05 02:17 PM
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7. Why wouldn't he? It's made him alot of money so far, and the media
doesn't seem all that concerned.
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AuntPatsy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-06-05 02:18 PM
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8. A lie spoken often enough ultimately finds an individual believing it.
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Loonman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-06-05 02:18 PM
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9. He has "other priorities"
:grr:
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