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Adventurer
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 Posted: Wed Sep 17, 2008 7:51 am Post subject: Author: Dick Armey livid Cheney 'bu**sh*tted' him about Iraq |
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Author: Dick Armey livid Cheney 'bullshitted' him about Iraq 'mini-nuke'David Edwards and Muriel Kane
Published: Tuesday September 16, 2008
Jon Stewart: 'It's nice to know he lies also to Republicans'
For nearly eight years, Vice President Dick Cheney has combined an unprecedented position of power with a deep sense of living in a hostile and threatening world. He has been prepared to use his power in unscrupulous ways to ward off those perceived threats, even lying to Republican House Majority Leader Dick Army to get his support for the Iraq War.
That is the message presented by journalist Barton Gellman in his new book, Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency. "This vice president is the nearest thing to a deputy president the country's ever had," Gellman told The Daily Show's Jon Stewart on Monday. "Until now, it would have been ludicrous to wonder, 'How do you hold a vice president accountable?'"
Gellman described how Cheney convinced former House Majority Leader Dick Armey, a leading Republican opponent of war with Iraq, to vote in favor of the war resolution.
"Cheney ... had ... a borrowed hideaway office in the Capitol building," Gellman explained. "He brings Armey in ... and he lays out a big stack of papers and says, 'Let me explain to you what's really going on. ... Saddam is much more dangerous than we want to tell the public.'"
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Khenan
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| Posted: Wed Sep 17, 2008 7:58 am Post subject: |
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| I saw that interview... he held his own well enough. |
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Jandar
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| Posted: Wed Sep 17, 2008 3:51 pm Post subject: |
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The only time comedy is news is when a comedian dies.
RIP Rodney Dangerfield. |
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Adventurer
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| Posted: Wed Sep 17, 2008 6:51 pm Post subject: |
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| Jandar wrote: |
The only time comedy is news is when a comedian dies.
RIP Rodney Dangerfield. |
Yes, but I think Jon Stewart is a little different. He offers political satire, and he has a point to him. |
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mises
Joined: 05 Nov 2007
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| Posted: Thu Sep 18, 2008 6:03 am Post subject: |
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| Adventurer wrote: |
| Jandar wrote: |
The only time comedy is news is when a comedian dies.
RIP Rodney Dangerfield. |
Yes, but I think Jon Stewart is a little different. He offers political satire, and he has a point to him. |
Stewart does a better job than any of the MSNBC, Fox etc talking heads. It is an excellent show. |
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Jandar
Joined: 11 Jun 2008
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| Posted: Thu Sep 18, 2008 4:43 pm Post subject: |
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| Adventurer wrote: |
| Jandar wrote: |
The only time comedy is news is when a comedian dies.
RIP Rodney Dangerfield. |
Yes, but I think Jon Stewart is a little different. He offers political satire, and he has a point to him. |
He's not dead. |
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The Bobster
Joined: 15 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Fri Sep 19, 2008 7:36 am Post subject: Re: Author: Dick Armey livid Cheney 'bu**sh*tted' him about |
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Mr Armey needs to get in line. A LOT of us are pissed off ... 'livid' don't begin to describe it. |
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