My favorite quote from Cheney on this is:
“The United States needs to be not so much loved as it needs to be respected. Sometimes, that requires us to take actions that generate
controversy. I’m not at all sure that that’s what the Obama adminstration believes.”
It is a keen insight to just how delusional / or full of cow crap the man is.
Loved or respected, huh Dick? Well sadly we are now neither thanks to your wonderful neo-con ideology and political machinations.
The idea that 'controversial' actions will lead to us being respected is pure BS. Our renditions, gitmo-prison, abu gahrab, and the like have all
made us look like barbaric nut cases, controversial they may have been, winning us respect they did not.
My personal opinion is that
Che4ney, Rumsfeld, and Pearl were some of the last ranks of the true neo-con army and this is a last desperate gasp, or shall we call it a death
rattle from a failed and dying ideology
Originally posted by FlyersFan
Originally posted by audas
It has been repeatedly proven beyond any doubt that the Bush policies were one were a primary factor which led to 9/11 -
Bush was only in 8 months when that happened. It was the result of 8 years of Clinton dumbing down and raping the intelligence community that left
the door open for 9/11. Not 'Bush policies'. The threat was always there.
Flyers have you forgotten Bush was repeatedly warned and ignored it?
Bush briefed on hijacking threat before September 11 (CNN 2002)
The White House had (at least ) 28 Advanced Intelligence Warnings Prior to 9/11
Hmm, so the dumbed down Clinton administration was able to detect the threat and the form it owuld come in yet they are the ones responsible?
Please, the length some go to to avoid having to accept uncomfortable truths is just ridiculous.
Bush was warned repeatedly and ignored it, lied about it, and then used the aftermath to further his political/economic agenda. Don't try to pass of
Bush's legacy of failure on Clinton.