Cheney should check his own 'facts'

[govegan]

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/opinion/153589_thomas23.html

[jbfam4]

1. Love Helen Thomas

Thanks for posting this.....excellent read.
Cheney should have checked his facts before talking bush into going to war. More people need to call him on this. Good for Helen.

[tabasco]

3. I love her too - for always telling the truth.

Cheney is a cowardly, evil, man. He lied to send our troops to war. He has the blood of the dead troops on his hands. He will burn in hell but I want him punished in this world.

[govegan]

5. You're very welcome.

The article is a nice piece of journalism.


"There are a lot of people in the press who don't understand the business community," Cheney said.


THE BUSINESS COMMUNITY!!!!

I think he muses a lot on the "business end" of his big military stick.

When someone like this corrupt putrefaction starts talking about business community, it usually means: "sit down, shut up, take your damned money and don't ask questions." for the average worker. And for the corporate bigwig: "sit down, shut up, fork over some of your damned money and don't ask questions."


He scoffed that only the administration's political opponents have accused Halliburton of "favoritism" in getting those contracts.

"There is no evidence to support anything like that," Cheney said, "but if you repeat it often enough, it becomes a sort of article of faith." Cheney could have been explaining his repetitious line to the American public about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction. If you repeat it enough, it becomes accepted truth.

[The Backlash Cometh]

2. an excerpt:

Cheney should check his own 'facts'

By HELEN THOMAS

WASHINGTON -- Look who's talking. Vice President Dick Cheney is accusing the press of "cheap-shot journalism" in covering the Bush administration, claiming "people don't check the facts."

Cheney is miffed over a raft of stories about his ties to Halliburton Co., a Houston-based energy conglomerate, which is a major recipient of U.S. contracts to rebuild Iraqi.

While he's lecturing about accuracy, Cheney should do some fact-checking of his own statements about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction. The vice president's pre-war chant about such weapons helped lead the nation into war.

Now, despite an intense hunt for that arsenal since the U.S. military took over Iraq last spring, the vice president is having difficulty accepting the reality that those weapons were a fantasy of the administration's pro-war hawks.

It appears that even David Kay, who heads the U.S. weapons hunters scouring Iraq, is about to throw in the towel.

[MasonJar]

4. Merry Christmas, Helen. Keep up the good work. n/t