Post a FACT about Dick Cheney

and provide a linky, please, for the rest of us.

Cheney killed a State Department proposal to close secret CIA prisons by deleting it from the agenda of an NSC meeting.

from Bart Gellman, Pulitzer-prize winning reporter and author of the Cheney bio, Angler.

http://www.bartongellman.com/

:dunce:

regarding Cheney's energy policy actions and JW's lawsuit against him.

for the record:

http://www.judicialwatch.org/cases/67/timeline.pdf

and one reason the right wing is allowed to continue to lie to the American people with impunity.

As Turley noted - that makes Obama complicit by shielding war criminals from prosecution. Of course, no "respectable" American would ever expect torturers to be held accountable for their crimes - which is why they do not deserve respect from anyone.

according to every definition of every other western democracy outside of the Yoo S.A.

http://www.slate.com/id/2218762

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/01/politics/campaign/01CHEN.html

edited to provide a link

Link - the entire trial.

like the luxury hotel I did a job at once does. I was told by a hotel worker as I was bringing my equipment in that every time Cheney stayed at the hotel they had to drag a large mirror out and hang it on the ceiling over the bed.

I don't know the veracity of the story, but that was what I was told.

unfortunately I have no link, but am quite sure of its veracity

Dick must have wanted to make sure every once and a while...:)

without having to roll his lazy ass over?

That's disturbing on a multitude of levels.

and voted against releasing Mandela from prison. when called to task for this, he called the issue "trivial."

http://atheism.about.com/b/2004/10/17/republicans-racism-and-apartheid.htm

Cheney bristled in response to questions about his voting record, revealing a mindset that never understood what was at stake in South Africa -- or perhaps understood all too well. Challenged last Sunday to defend his 1985 vote against a House resolution urging the release of Nelson Mandela from 23 years of imprisonment, he first denounced such inquiries as "trivia." Does he really think that the oppression inflicted on millions of black citizens during more than five decades was a trivial matter?

so I guess he would have supported water boarding for Nelson Mandela.

named "Keep America Safe" that in its mission statement claims the the "unnamed" current administration is:

"turning away from the policies that have kept us safe, by treating terrorism as a law enforcement matter, giving foreign terrorists the same rights as American citizens, launching investigations of CIA agents, cutting defense spending, breaking faith with our allies and attempting to appease our adversaries, the current administration is weakening the nation, and making it more difficult for us to defend our security and our interests."...:eyes:

http://www.keepamericasafe.com/ :puke:

Use any link you can find.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2003/jul/17/iraq.usa

to manufacture lies to justify the illegal invasion of Iraq.

The president's most trusted adviser, Mr Cheney, was at the shadow network's sharp end. He made several trips to the CIA in Langley, Virginia, to demand a more "forward-leaning" interpretation of the threat posed by Saddam. When he was not there to make his influence felt, his chief of staff, Lewis "Scooter" Libby, was. Such hands-on involvement in the processing of intelligence data was unprecedented for a vice-president in recent times, and it put pressure on CIA officials to come up with the appropriate results.

With a mendacious, hole-in-the-soul Pisces Moon to boot.

http://www.astrotheme.com/portraits/732Bw7swnZUj.htm

Get well, soon, Dick. Not.

and shielded the company from asbestos liability.

http://www.halliburtonwatch.org/about_hal/asbestos.html

Halliburton subsidiaries DII Industries, LLC (formerly known as Dresser Industries) and Kellogg Brown & Root, Inc. filed for bankruptcy protection in December 2003 for the purpose of minimizing asbestos liability. Halliburton purchased DII Industries in 1998 under the direction of former CEO Dick Cheney. The acquisition meant that Halliburton inherited 300,000 asbestos claims filed against DII, who had for years manufactured construction products which contained the harmful substance. Halliburton's Kellogg Brown & Root also had manufactured products containing asbestos and has been fighting asbestos lawsuits since 1976. Asbestos causes scarring of the lung tissue (asbestosis), cancer of the pleural lining (mesothelioma) and lung cancer. Victims allege the companies knew of the health risks of asbestos long before they took it off the market.

The bankruptcy proceedings halted all personal injury lawsuits arising from the asbestos claims. If the bankruptcies are approved in court, Halliburton plans to contribute settlement amounts to a trust fund for the benefit of afflicted plaintiffs. A settlement agreement was reached with plaintiffs in December 2002 and, if approved by a judge in Pittsburgh, PA, will settle all present and future asbestos claims against Halliburton. The settlement, expected in May 2004, would require Halliburton to finance a victims trust fund with up to $2.5 billion in cash, 59.5 million shares of Halliburton common stock, notes worth $52 million (valued on December 31, 2003), and insurance proceeds, if any, between $2.3 billion and $3.0 billion as received by DII Industries and Kellogg Brown & Root.

Some call it evil doin's. :grr:

what it is.

FACT!!

He was arrested for DWI again the following year.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_cheney

Know your BFEE:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x1224071

Talking about Cheney is a distraction.

not everyone thinks that knowledge of recent history is worthless, however.

if you do, obviously you do not need to add to this thread.

Let's talk about Spiro Agnew.

How is obsessing over Cheney "knowledge of recent history?"

but you'll have to do so without talking to me about it.

In this mas media driven ongoing cult of personality many are obsessed with Cheney, yes.

Vice President Dick Cheney is a founding member of PNAC, The Project for the New American Century, along with Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and Defense Policy Board chairman Richard Perle. Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz is the ideological father of the group. Bruce Jackson, a PNAC director, served as a Pentagon official for Ronald Reagan before leaving government service to take a leading position with the weapons manufacturer Lockheed Martin.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article1665.htm


Cheney, who was in the loop on 9/11, said "of course the orders still stand".
911 Commission - Trans. Sec Norman Mineta Testimony
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDfdOwt2v3Y



"Reagan proved deficits don't matter" - Dick Cheney
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A26402-2004Jun8?language=printer

That explains so much.

and his wife did, although I didn't know him. If I could have seen into the future I could have run him over with my 1965 Ford Galaxie as a public service and made it look like an accident.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sisters_%28Lynne_Cheney_novel%29

<snip>
In a February 9, 2005 interview on NPR with Terry Gross, Cheney denied that Sisters contained a lesbian relationship. Cheney suggested that the relationship between the two characters was in question and a historical mystery. She also suggested that Sisters was her one bad book, written in an "attempt to take the novel Rebecca (by Daphne du Maurier) and put it in a Western setting."

In an interview that took place on October 27, 2006 with Wolf Blitzer on CNN's The Situation Room, Cheney denied that Sisters contained rape or graphic depictions of lesbian sex.

Of course, there are so many other examples to draw from.

For example, his assertion that the Office of the Vice President belings to neither the executive nor legislative branch of government.

http://www.serendipity.li/cia/olson2.htm

edited to add: Octafish covered this so much better than I did up-thread and with this link

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=1224071&mesg_id=1224071

whom the Teton County Clerk illegally allowed to register to vote after the deadline in 2000 so he could put himself on George Bush's Republican ticket.

By posting in this thread you have shown that you don't care about any issue other than your newtiness.

Obviously this site should only have threads that I want to read. In fact, if you disagree with me, I should be able to tell you what to post because my opinion is the only one that matters. And if I have nothing to contribute to a particular topic, I should be able to criticize you anyway. And, you know, you're probably part of that faction that doesn't agree with me completely on every issue, so I think I should criticize you whenever I can think of something feeble that I hope will really zing (snort) -- Because I'm all about moving forward and being a big tent while trying to make little petty jibes because you pissed me off at some point in the past.

btw, if you lick a newt, is it the same thing as licking a toad? or should I ask... you know.

I must have been distracted. Spiro Agnew is my new Facebook friend.

As for licking a newt, I ain't telling. Gotta find that one out yourself.

somehow that just seems right for you.

as far as the other...no way am I gonna cross youknowwho. lol.

a difficult time breathing.

Bummer.

Same goes for Junior, dammit to hell.



AMY GOODMAN: Why stop short of hearings on impeachment?

REP. JOHN CONYERS: Well, because, unless we’re going to impeach the Vice President and the President within this space of time, I think we could be very seriously compromising the greatest important—most important thing, in addition to documenting any misdeeds that may have happened, whether we continue to have Bush enablers continue to shatter and tear the Constitution to shreds. And so, all of this, academically, is great. I’ve got a number of books from my friends about which articles would be best and which ones we should go after more. But it seems to me that the time element and also the feasibility of whether or not there is any possible chance of success—there is a very stark reality that with the corporatization of the media, we could end up with turning people who should be documented in history as making many profound errors and violating the Constitution from villains into victims. And those are the kinds of considerations that have entered my mind in thinking about this process, Amy.

http://www.democracynow.org/2007/12/20/to_impeach_or_not_to_impeach

edit: to hell

I became aware of this man during the election of GWB. I read in the local paper (AV Press) that he would be attending a rally in Lancaster, along with the second man on the moon, Buzz Aldrin. Although a very strong Democrat, I thought that I would attend, just to see Aldrin. I arrived at the rally center and found a long line of Republicans, waiting to enter. Not wanting to wait in line, I went to the entrance and waited for the arrival of Cheney and Aldrin. I watched as the Republicans, in line, berated a small group of Democrats across from my location. Their primary comments were "Get a Job". I waited, and waited for the arrival and I finally asked one of the security people if he knew when they would come. He told me that they had already entered through a side door. This told me the caliber of the man, that would allow a very few Democrats to scare him, and to then sneak in.

I suppose. I get it now, thanks.

That was eight blocks from me. I trained Sweet Sirius to poop in Cheney's yard. A poop in Cheney's yard got Sirius a liver treat.

Old DUers have heard that story before. It is true. Sirius died on August 25, 2005.

good dog. :)

if his guts were on fire.

Himself.

"important secret business"

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/cheney/chapters/chapter_1/

Only lies.