http://archive.democrats.com/elandslide/petition.cfm?campaign=madgeorge
http://masters-of-war.org/cheneylies.html"If ever time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government, our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin." - Samuel Adams
"I think this is a deliberate, intentional destruction of the United States of America." - BILL MOYERS
"I am more fearful for the state of this nation than I have ever been because this country is in the hands of an evil man: Dick Cheney. It is eminently clear that it is he who is running the country, not George W. Bush." - Elmer L. Andersen, former Minnesota governor and lifelong Republican -- until now.
"The vice president is the single greatest threat to American and international security in the world today. Not Osama Bin Laden. Not the ghost of Saddam Hussein. Not Ahmadinejad or Kim Jung Il. Not al-Qaida, the Taliban, or Jose Padilla himself. Not even George W. Bush can lay claim to this title. It is Dick Cheney's alone."- Scott Ritter, "Why Cheney Really Is That Bad", Truthdig, Aug 21, 2007.
"One of the biggest changes in politics in my lifetime is that the delusional is no longer marginal. It has come in from the fringe, to sit in the seat of power in the Oval Office and in Congress." - From "There Is No Tomorrow", by Bill Moyers, The Minneapolis Star Tribune, January 30, 2005
"Conservatives are crazy as bedbugs. They are bullies." - Kurt Vonnegut, "Strange Weather Lately, May 9, 2003
KURT VONNEGUT: "I myself feel that our country, for whose Constitution I fought in a just war, might as well have been invaded by Martians and body snatchers. Sometimes I wish it had been. What has happened, though, is that it has been taken over by means of the sleaziest, low-comedy, Keystone Cops-style coup d'etat imaginable. And those now in charge of the federal government are upper-crust C-students who know no history or geography, plus not-so-closeted white supremacists, aka "Christians," and plus, most frighteningly, psychopathic personalities, or "PPs." And what syndrome better describes so many executives at Enron and WorldCom and on and on, who have enriched themselves while ruining their employees and investors and country, and who still feel as pure as the driven snow, no matter what anybody may say to or about them? And so many of these heartless PPs now hold big jobs in our federal government, as though they were leaders instead of sick. What has allowed so many PPs to rise so high in corporations, and now in government, is that they are so decisive. Unlike normal people, they are never filled with doubts, for the simple reason that they cannot care what happens next. Simply can't. Do this! Do that! Mobilize the reserves! Privatize the public schools! Attack Iraq! Cut health care! Tap everybody's telephone! Cut taxes on the rich! Build a trillion-dollar missile shield! f**k habeas corpus and the Sierra Club and In These Times, and kiss my ass!" - From "Kurt Vonnegut vs. the !*!@", In These Timeshfm
"...when it was becoming ever more evident that the infant German democracy was about to be murdered by psychopathic personalities hereinafter P.P.s the medical term for smart, personable people who have no conscience. P.P.s are fully aware of how much suffering their actions will inflict on others but do not care. They cannot care. The classic medical text about how such attractive leaders bring us into unspeakable calamities is The Mask of Sanity by Dr. Hervey Cleckley. An American P.P. at the head of a corporation, for example, could enrich himself by ruining his employees and investors and still feel as pure as the driven snow. A P.P., should he attain a post near the top of our federal government, might feel that taking the country into an endless war with casualties in the millions was simply something decisive to do today. So to bed." - Kurt Vonnegut, "Vonnegut at 80", January 10, 2003
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"...In this election, they will speak endlessly of risk. We will speak of progress. They will make accusations. We will make proposals. They will feed fear. We will appeal to hope.They will offer more lectures, and legalisms, and carefully worded denials. We offer another way, a better way, and a stiff dose of truth."- Dick Cheney, speech to the GOP convention, 2000
Vice President Cheney also says on Meet the Press: "Mohamed Atta, who was the lead hijacker, did apparently travel to Prague on a number of occasions. And on at least one occasion, we have reporting that places him in Prague with a senior Iraqi intelligence official a few months before the attack on the World Trade Center." Tim Russert: "What does the CIA say about that?" Vice President Cheney: "It's credible."
The CIA in fact deemed this not credible a few days after Cheney first mentioned it. -Source: ""Lie By Lie" , a M other Jones interactive timeline on the run-up to the invasion
"Simply stated, there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction." - Speech to VFW National Convention, August 26, 2002
"After saying several times that Saddam is trying to build a nuclear weapon, Cheney says: "And we believe he has, in fact, reconstituted nuclear weapons." Six months later, after the beginning of the war, Cheney will claim that he misspoke."-Source: ""Lie By Lie" , a M other Jones interactive timeline on the run-up to the invasion
"Vice President Cheney said that Iraq was "the geographic base of the terrorists who have had us under assault for many years, but most especially on 9/11." The bipartisan 9/11 Commission found that Iraq had no involvement in the 9/11 attacks and no collaborative operational relationship with Al Qaeda." - Source: MSNBC, 9-11 Commission
"In his statement Sunday (September 12, 2004), Kerry complained that Cheney "continues to intentionally mislead the American public by drawing a link between Saddam Hussein and 9/11
in an attempt to make the invasion of Iraq part of the global war on terror."'CNN.com - Kerry challenges Bush on Iraq-9/11 connection - Sep 12, 2004
"The senator has got his facts wrong. I have not suggested there's a connection between Iraq and 9/11, but there's clearly an established Iraqi track record with terror." - Dick Cheney, Vice Presidentiaal debate, October 5, 2004
"The al Qaeda organization had a relationship with the Iraqis." - "Vice President and Mrs. Cheney's Remarks and Q&A in Sheboygan Falls, Wisconsin", September 11, 2004 (Source: whitehouse.gov)
Report: 9/11-Iraq link refuted days after attack
Magazine says administration refused to give key docs to Senate committee
MSNBC Nov 22, 2005Ten days after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, President Bush was advised that U.S. intelligence found no credible connection linking the attacks to the regime of Saddam Hussein, or evidence suggesting linkage between Saddam and the al-Qaida terrorist network, according to a published report. The report, published Tuesday in The National Journal, cites government records, as well as present and former officials with knowledge of the issue. The information in the story, written by National Journal contributor Murray Waas, points to an abiding administration concern for secrecy that extended to keeping information from the Senate committee charged with investigating the matter. In one of the Journal report's more compelling disclosures, Saddam is said to have viewed al-Qaida as a threat, rather than a potential ally.
Presidential briefThe president's daily brief, or PDB, for Sept. 21, 2001, was prepared at the request of President Bush, the Journal reported, who was said to be eager to determine whether any linkage between the Sept. 11 attacks and the Iraqi regime existed. And a considerable amount of the Sept. 21 PDB found its way into a longer, more detailed Central Intelligence Agency assessment of the likelihood of an al-Qaida-Iraq connection. The Journal story reports that that assessment was released to Bush, Vice President Cheney, then-national security adviser Condoleezza Rice, then-Secretary of State Colin Powell, and other senior policy-makers in the Bush administration. The Senate Intelligence Committee has requested from the White House the detailed CIA assessment, as well as the Sept. 21 PDB and several other PDBs, as part of the committee's continuing inquiry into whether the Bush administration misrepresented intelligence information in the months before the start of the war with Iraq in March 2003. The Bush administration has refused to surrender these documents. "Indeed," the Journal story reported, citing congressional sources, "the existence of the September 21 PDB was not disclosed to the Intelligence Committee until the summer of 2004."
Long-alleged connectionAfter Sept. 11, the administration insisted that a connection existed between Iraq and al-Qaida. President Bush, in an October 2002 speech in Cincinnati, said the United States had "learned that Iraq has trained al-Qaida members in bomb-making and poisons and gas." And Vice President Cheney, in a September 2003 appearance on NBC's "Meet the Press," alleged there was "a relationship between Iraq and al-Qaida that stretched back through most of the decade of the '90s." But the National Journal report said that the few believable reports of contact between Iraq and al-Qaida "involved attempts by Saddam Hussein to monitor the terrorist group." Saddam considered al-Qaida "as well as other theocratic radical Islamist organizations as a potential threat to his secular regime," the Journal reported. "At one point, analysts believed, Saddam considered infiltrating the ranks" of al-Qaida with Iraqi intelligence operatives as a way to get more information about how the organization worked, the Journal said
Journal: Little has changedThe Journal story asserts that little has changed to refute the initial absence of information linking Saddam and the al-Qaida network. "In the four years since Bush received the briefing, according to highly placed government officials, little evidence has come to light to contradict the CIA's original conclusion that no collaborative relationship existed" between Iraq and al-Qaida, the Journal reported. Reporter Waas quotes one former administration official, whose assessment is a problematic contradiction of the administration's longstanding assertions:
"What the President was told on September 21 was consistent with everything he has been told since - that the evidence was just not there."
avarice (noun)1. avarice, greed, covetousness, rapacity, avaritia -Reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth (personified as one of the deadly sins)
"...O'Neill had been preaching that a fiscal crisis was looming and more tax cuts would exacerbate it. But others in the White House saw a chance to capitalize on the historic Republican congressional gains in the 2002 elections. Surely, Cheney would not be so smug. He would hear O'Neill out. In an economic meeting in the Vice President's office, O'Neill started pitching, describing how the numbers showed that growing budget deficits threatened the economy. Cheney cut him off. "Reagan proved deficits don't matter," he said. O'Neill was too dumbfounded to respond. Cheney continued: "We won the midterms. This is our due." - From "Confessions of a White House Insider", by JOHN F. DICKERSON From the Jan. 19, 2004 issue of TIME magazine (below)
"The President, his father, the Vice President a whole host of powerful government officials, along with stockholders and executives from Halliburton and Carlyle, stand to make a mint off this war. Long-time corporate sponsors from the defense, construction and petroleum industries will likewise profit enormously."- "Blood Money", by William Rivers Pitt (BELOW)
"I severed my ties with Halliburton when I became a candidate for Vice President in August of 2000." Dick Cheney, 1/22/04
FACT: Along with the 433,000 stock options, "Cheney still receives about $150,000 a year" from Halliburton. CNN, 10/25/03
"What happens financially [by joining the GOP ticket], obviously, is I take a bath , in one sense." Dick Cheney, 7/25/00
FACT: Halliburton "has agreed to let Mr. Cheney, the Republican vice-presidential candidate, retire with a package worth an estimated $20 million, according to people who have reviewed the deal." NY Times, 8/12/00
