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sabra Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-15-09 12:11 PM
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McCain: “It's unfair, and I think that Mr. Panetta should retract, and retract immediately.”

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0609/23747.html

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Later in the interview, McCain criticized former Central Intelligence Agency Director Leon Panetta for telling the New Yorker magazine that “it's almost as if (former Vice President Dick Cheney) is wishing that this country would be attacked again, in order to make his point.”

“Leon Panetta knows Dick Cheney, and he knows better,” McCain said.

“I disagreed with the Cheney policy on interrogation techniques, but never did it cross my mind that Dick Cheney would ever want an attack on the United States of America,” he said. “It's unfair, and I think that Mr. Panetta should retract, and retract immediately.”
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get the red out Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-15-09 12:14 PM
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1. McCain is just selfish
He doesn't want that particular attack Cheney is rooting for to include him.
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tridim Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-15-09 12:15 PM
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2. Gawd, America really dodged a bullet here.
McCain is being such a maverick defending The Dick.
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Buzz Clik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-15-09 12:17 PM
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4. My thought exactly -- not very mavericky
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OneGrassRoot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-15-09 12:16 PM
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3. They're all worse than middle schoolers...."Take it back!"
Whiners.

They all need to STFU and get to work. They're pathetic.
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bridgit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-15-09 12:18 PM
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5. republicans need to STFU and STFU immediately also stop with the demanding apologies...
over everything from soup to nutz; they're beginning to sound like Olive Oil's dad from the movie, "You owe me an apology!"
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katanalori Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-15-09 12:20 PM
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6. I wouldl like to pretend that I care deeply
Edited on Mon Jun-15-09 12:21 PM by katanalori
about what McCain (and Cheney) think. BUT, as KO said: "WAIT! YOU DON'T MATTER ANYMORE!"

:bounce:
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liberal N proud Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-15-09 12:21 PM
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7. Leon Panetta knows Dick Cheney, and he knows it's the truth
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livetohike Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-15-09 12:22 PM
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9. Just what I was about to post
:toast:
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KansDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-15-09 12:21 PM
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8. Hey, John! Speaking of retractions, did you ever...you know...do right by your wife?
Just curious...
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WI_DEM Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-15-09 12:23 PM
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10. Why are they calling him former CIA director? was he fired?
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rvablue Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-15-09 12:35 PM
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16. Yeah, that's a little weird. Not fired, as far as I know?? Didn't catch it until I read
your comment. Weird. :shrug:
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kestrel91316 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-15-09 12:24 PM
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11. No apologies, no retractions. NONE. We are right and they are wrong.
We won, they lost. Time for Repukes to sit down and shut up.
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BOSSHOG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-15-09 12:24 PM
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12. dick and george let it happen in September 2001 for political reasons
Edited on Mon Jun-15-09 12:26 PM by BOSSHOG
its hard to think they wouldn't want it to happen again for political reasons in the great post conservative values decade.

It must be hard work getting five deferments.
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AspenRose Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-15-09 12:25 PM
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13. Shut up, John.
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sharp_stick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-15-09 12:29 PM
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14. Do Repukes
do anything except demand apologies for all real and imagined wrongs? I mean, shit, that's all I hear these days.. So and so just "went beyond the pale" (another puke line I'm hearing far too much of recently) he must retract and apologize immediately.

Fucking whining little shits. We really dodged a bullet with this asshole and caribou Barbie last year.
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HughMoran Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-15-09 12:33 PM
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15. Shut up McCain - go call your wife a "fucking c___" instead
Ass hole
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Vickers Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-15-09 12:37 PM
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17. Johnny, "interrogation techniques" = TORTURE.
Until you can cease mincing your words about stuff like that, your other words don't mean jack-shit.

“Leon Panetta knows Dick Cheney, and he knows better,” McCain said.

Sounds like a threat to me.
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sabra Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-15-09 01:04 PM
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22. very weird statement... def seems like some coded message there
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dem629 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-15-09 12:38 PM
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18. What a bitter, petty man McCain is.
He really embarrassed himself when he complained about the new Marine One chopper.

He's still hurt after the election. Too bad.
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Catherine Vincent Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-15-09 12:39 PM
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19. Did McCain retract his jab at Chelsea Clinton, Hillary Clinton and Janet Reno?
Oh wait, he was joking.
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Lone_Star_Dem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-15-09 12:40 PM
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20. Whatever. McCain is the twit that admitted the Bin Laden tape helped the GOP win in 2004
Edited on Mon Jun-15-09 12:41 PM by Lone_Star_Dem
Now he wants to get all stupid and pretend he doesn't get the correlation between terrorist, fear and the control of the American voters by the GOP in America.
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bunkerbuster1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jun-15-09 12:41 PM
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21. Walnuts, remember your bit about ACORN?
when are you going to retract this vile bit of slander?

http://elections.nytimes.com/2008/president/debates/transcripts/third-presidential-debate.html

We need to know the full extent of Senator Obama's relationship with ACORN, who is now on the verge of maybe perpetrating one of the greatest frauds in voter history in this country, maybe destroying the fabric of democracy.
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