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The ten lies of Dick Cheney

Wed, 11 Nov 2009 01:48:20 GMT

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clipper's remarks: A career liar exposed.

The Ten Lies of Dick Cheney (Part One)

On December 11, the Senate Armed Services Committee issued a compelling report into the torture and abuse of prisoners in US custody (PDF), based on a detailed analysis of how Chinese torture techniques, which are used in US military schools to train personnel to resist interrogation if captured, were reverse engineered and applied to prisoners captured in the "War on Terror."

The techniques, taught as part of the SERE programs (Survival, Evasion, Resistance, Escape) include sleep deprivation, the prolonged use of stress positions, forced nudity, hooding, exposure to extreme temperatures, subjecting prisoners to loud music and flashing lights, "treating them like animals," and, in some cases, the ancient torture technique known as waterboarding, a form of controlled drowning that the torturers of the Spanish Inquisition called "tortura del agua."

We Owe Veterans and Active Duty Warriors Better Than This

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 03:00:07 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Cheney's old firm let their sub-contractors expose US soldiers and Iraqi's to a burning toxic waste pit that will cause years worth of injuries and illness. Cotracting out is good for profiteers like the former- Vice President and his buddies but an evil brew for our troops.

Clip Source: crooksandliars.com

Lawsuit Filed Against Iraq Contractors Charges Soldiers Were Poisoned

Contractors working for the military in Iraq and Afghanistan are fouling the nests of U.S. soldiers with pollution, poisoning the troops in the very bases meant to be their sanctuaries.

"burn pits" at U.S. bases in both military theaters that contain "every type of waste imaginable."

"Tires, lithium batteries, Styrofoam, paper, wood, rubber, petroleum-oil-lubricating products, metals, hydraulic fluids, munitions boxes, medical waste, biohazard materials (including human corpses), medical supplies (including those used during smallpox inoculations), paints, solvents, asbestos insulation, items containing pesticides, polyvinyl chloride pipes, animal carcasses, dangerous chemicals, and hundreds of thousands of plastic water bottles."

Barack "Houdini" Obama

Mon, 09 Nov 2009 14:38:31 GMT

clipped by: mountainpalm
clipper's remarks: Promises were broken with no apology, the same creative legalese that infested the Bush administration, in the form of John Yoo and Alberto Gonzalez, was again used to deny justice to the inmates of Guantanamo, It was used to justify more torture, more destruction of the Constitution and more illegal surveillance of U.S. citizens

Clip Source: globalresearch.ca

America's Nightmare: The Obama Dystopia

Manipulation, propaganda, imagery & PR wizardry

by Andrew Hughes

After 8 years of the Bush-Cheney nightmare during which we saw the wanton destruction of Afghanistan and Iraq, the cynical negation of centuries of Law designed to protect the most basic human rights and a foreign policy worthy of Genghis Khan, there came along the "Great Black Hope" in the persona of Barack Obama. The collective world consciousness turned uncritically to what was presented as a new era for peace, change and trust in Government.

Never before had one witnessed such an accomplished use of manipulation, propaganda, imagery and public relations wizardry to sell the public a man who was to take the baton from Bush and run with it in the race to destroy the economy, the rights of the people and help birth a nation totally controlled by those who have always lurked in the shadows of power.

Here We go again !...Now it's...TALIBAN = 9/11

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 11:13:33 GMT

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clipper's remarks: ...like they say...repeat a LIE often enough..it becomes the TRUTH...for the SHEEP !....BAAAAAAAD !

Clip Source: www.alternet.org

If You Say the Taliban = 9/11 Often Enough, Maybe Someone Will Believe It?

It's the latest hit from the same crew that brought you Saddam = 9/11 and its twin chant, Saddam = WMD.

On September 11, 2001, my office building, the World Trade Center, was attacked by al Qaeda, a murder cult of Saudi Arabians, funded by Saudi Arabians. And so, in response to the Saudis' attack, America invaded ... Afghanistan. Like, HUH?

And here we go again. New York Times headline last Friday: "Pakistani Army, In Its Campaign In Taliban Stronghold, Finds A Hint Of 9/11."

Google it and you'll find the Times report repeated and amplified 5,785 times more.

Taliban = 9/11. Taliban = 9/11. Taliban = 9/11.

Your eyelids are getting heavy. Taliban = 9/11. Taliban = 9/11.

It's the latest hit from the same crew that brought you Saddam = 9/11 and its twin chant, Saddam = WMD, Dick Cheney's chimerical tropes which the New York Times' Judith Miller happily channeled to the paper's front page.

And they're at it again.

Arms Dealer urges strong U.S. commitment to Afghan war

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 10:42:37 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Back on the job, or still on the job.

Clip Source: www.reuters.com

BENTON HARBOR, Michigan (Reuters) - Former Vice President Dick Cheney on Thursday urged President Barack Obama to commit enough troops to win the war in Afghanistan, warning hesitation would embolden U.S. foes and devastate its allies.

"I don't see how he can do anything other than move aggressively to achieve victory," the Wyoming Republican, a harsh critic of the new administration, said in a speech to a Michigan business group.

"Our adversaries take heart from our hesitation and vacillation," Cheney said.

"Our not following through will have devastating consequences not only for Afghanistan but also for our NATO allies. This is the first time ever (NATO members have) committed troops to combat."

The White House has not said when Obama is likely to make a decision on his Afghanistan strategy, though an administration official said it was unlikely to occur before he embarks on a trip to Asia on November 11.

Tags: murderer

The Keyboard Commandos want Obama to be tough

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 19:20:18 GMT

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clipper's remarks: To Brooks, the big question is whether Obama possesses "the trait that is more important than intellectual sophistication and, in fact, stands in tension with it." That is, whether the president is "a very manly, virile, manful person, and a firm believer in strict discipline, corporal punishment, and nude apartment wrestling."

Oops, never mind. That last bit was Captain Ned. But it does get old hearing this cohort of Ivy League toughs -- most of whom one suspects haven't had even a fistfight since third grade -- describe every U.S. foreign policy issue as a testosterone test. One suspects it may not be Obama's virility they're worried about.

Next came Cheney's devoted daughter. After President Obama paid a 4 a.m. visit to Dover Air Force Base in Delaware to salute the flag-draped caskets of 18 American servicemen arriving home from Afghanistan, and to console their families, Liz Cheney appeared on -- where else? -- Fox News radio to suggest a cheap political stunt.

Clip Source: www.salon.com

President Obama participates in the dignified transfer of U.S. Army Sgt. Dale R. Griffin at Dover Air Force Base, Del., on Oct. 29.

"All that we have to do is to send two mujahedeen to the furthest point east to raise a piece of cloth on which is written 'al-Qaida' in order to make generals race there, and we cause America to suffer human, economic and political losses -- without their achieving anything of note!" -- Osama bin Laden, November 2004

One sign of a movement that's lost touch with reality is its preference for political melodrama. Out on the ragged edges of America's misconceived "war on terror," events in Afghanistan daily dramatize the awful situation confronting President Obama. He appears to have no good options. To be sure, Obama invited trouble, telling an audience at a VFW convention last August, "This is not a war of choice. This is a war of necessity."

Tags: the (unmaly) men, want, obama, to, be tougher, than they

Who Are You Calling A Narcissist

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 21:10:02 GMT

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Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

In those days, he called himself a “harmless little fuzzball.” He’s a lot less harmless now.

As he and Sarah Palin conduct their auto-da-fé of moderate Republicans — “Moderates by definition have no principles,” he told his radio audience on Monday — Limbaugh is more than ever the face of his party, as Rahm Emanuel said.

He’s also the mouth.

the tactics of Limbaugh, Palin, Cheney & Fille are more cynical: They spin certainty, ignoring their side’s screw-ups, and they exploit patriotism, labeling all critics as traitors.

In an interview on “Fox News Sunday With Chris Wallace,” Limbaugh accused the president of trying to destroy the economy — yes, the same economy that W. came within a whisker of ruining.

he ripped the president for having “an out-of-this-world ego,” for being “very narcissistic,” “immature, inexperienced, in over his head.” (Isn’t immaturity scoring OxyContin from your maid?)

It gives new meaning to pot, kettle and black.

Cheney Caught in Plame Game? 72 Times "Can't Recall"

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 02:15:21 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Liar with selective memory--Remember this was about the vindictive and illegal outing of CIA agent Valerie Plame for Ambassador (and her husband) Joe Wilson's NY Times editorial article contradicting the lies of "yellow cake" uranium from Niger to Saddam Hussein to "prove" WMD and launch a war.

Among the most basic questions for Cheney in the Plame probe: How did Libby find out that the wife of Bush administration war critic Joseph Wilson worked at the CIA?

Libby's own handwritten notes suggest Libby found out from Cheney. When Libby discovered Cheney's reference to Plame and the CIA in his notes - notes that Libby knew he would soon have to turn over to the FBI - the chief of staff went to the vice president

Transcripts plus more from CREW's lawsuit here.

Clip Source: dailymail.com

Cheney FBI interview: 72 instances of can't recall

WASHINGTON (AP) - Federal prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald famously declared in the Valerie Plame affair that "there is a cloud over the vice president." Last week's release of an FBI interview summary of Dick Cheney's answers in the criminal investigation underscores why Fitzgerald felt that way.

On 72 occasions, according to the 28-page FBI summary, Cheney equivocated to the FBI during his lengthy May 2004 interview, saying he could not be certain in his answers to questions about matters large and small in the Plame controversy.

The Cheney interview reflects a team of prosecutors and FBI agents trying to find out whether the leaks of Plame's CIA identity were orchestrated at the highest level of the White House and carried out by, among others, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Cheney's chief of staff.

Tags: cheney, scooter libby, iraq, valerie plame, joe wilson, cia, wmd

Obama Funder Evans Calls for Kidnapping of George & Laura Bush

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 18:04:30 GMT

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clipper's remarks: The also called for the vigilante citizens to arrest Cheney. Now I know where some clippers here get their news and talking points.

Gee....and some called the Tea Partyers dangerous!!

Clip Source: biggovernment.com

Obama Funder Jodie Evans Calls for Kidnapping of George and Laura Bush

One of President Barack Obama’s top funders, Code Pink’s Jodie Evans, is encouraging the kidnapping of former President George W. Bush and his wife Laura, according to new statements issued this week by Jodie Evans and Code Pink.

…You can also use our website to track where the war criminals will be and how to do a citizen’s arrest action! Let Bush’s “motivational speaking tour” motivate you to arrest the war criminal!

The actions being urged and guided by Jodie Evans and Code Pink could result in federal kidnapping charges against someone who takes up their call for vigilantism–or their death as the Bushes still have Secret Service protection.

Jodie Evans and Code Pink have published a how-to guide at their Code Pink website for conducting citizens arrests of the Bushes and former Bush administration officials over their policies

Liz Cheney emerges, the left's feeding frenzy (and "tolerance"), verging on abject panic

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 17:46:05 GMT

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clipper's remarks: So Liz Cheney, just like Palin, unnerves and upsets the Left, not simply because she might run for something and win, and not only because she is one of the most effective conservative spokeswomen on national security. She threatens their claim to the moral high ground and their assertion that women voters belong to the Left. That’s reason enough to send them into fits of rage. And you can bet they’re only getting warmed up.

So predictable. Saw this coming a mile away. It's almost boring watching the left piss their pants again over a woman who happens to be a conservative. Maybe we can expect David Letterman to crack a rape joke about Liz and her family, on behalf of the "tolerant" left.

Sad.

Chinese Proverb: “A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows public opinion"

Clip Source: www.copytaste.com

Clip Source: www.commentarymagazine.com

Noemie Emery takes note of the feeding frenzy, verging on abject panic, that is occurring on the Left with the emergence of Liz Cheney as a prominent figure in the conservative ranks. She observes:

She’s a Palin who could tie Katie Couric in knots, a mom from McLean who could be [TNR's Michelle] Cottle’s neighbor. Moms from McLean could be her constituents. Cottle couldn’t easily explain to a non-left-wing neighbor why Cheney is “dangerous.” That’s why Cottle hates her, and wants her destroyed. That’s why Liz, and those like her, bring out the witch-hunting bloodlust in liberals; why “gutsy” and “tough” in a Hillary Clinton become “savage” and “rough” in a female conservative. They ought to get over this fear of strong women. It’s what they told us to do.

Clip Source: www.copytaste.com

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Tags: witch-hunting bloodlust in liberals

Liz Cheney - Just Another Lying Partisan Hack

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 11:07:58 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Original post by MARIO PIPERNI

Clip Source: mariopiperni.com

President Obama flew to Dover Air Force Base and saluted as 18 coffins returned from Afghanistan. Liz Cheney found reason to criticize.

“I think that what President Bush used to do is do it without the cameras. And I don’t understand sort of showing up with the White House Press Pool with photographers and asking family members if you can take pictures. That’s really hard for me to get my head around…It was a surprising way for the president to choose to do this.”

Liz Cheney, like her dad, is a liar.

It’s true that Bush’s Pentagon continued a long-standing policy of banning cameras at Dover when the nation’s fallen arrived in flag-draped caskets from foreign battlefields.

So that covers “without the cameras.”

Obama was the first president to visit arriving dead at Dover during the wars in Afghanistan or Iraq — meaning that when it came to taking trips to Dover like Obama did yesterday morning, Bush never used to “do it” at all.

Integrity is obviously not a Cheney trait.

Tags: news, politics, partisan-politics, lies, war, respect

Obama Disrespects Fallen Soldiers

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 22:55:36 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Redstate says "And Mr. President, posting rules prevent me from noting my real opinion of you, but you really do need to learn how to act around people who are your betters. You make Jimmy Carter look like a statesman."

Clip Source: www.redstate.com

I am so angry right now I really shouldn’t be typing. TheBoyPresident™ finally and irrevocably crossed the line for me. I hate the bastard. Marxism I can deal with. What he did at Dover Air Force Base I refuse to deal with.

The bottom line here is that the sacrifice made by members of our military, and their families, is treated with an incredible degree of respect by the military - and individually by every man and woman who wears a uniform - from the time of death on the battlefield or in a military hospital through every step of their homecoming and burial.

Which brings me to the self-serving bastard who occupies the White House today. He went to Dover. One might think it was to pay respect to the fallen coming home. Wrong. It was for a G*d damn photo op. He took the White House Press Corps with him and made his visit about him.

Liz Cheney commented about his visit, and his decision making about Afghanistan, in the video below.

[Video]

Thank you Liz.

Obama's Latest Use of 'Secrecy' to Shield Presidential Lawbreaking

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 15:26:23 GMT

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Clip Source: www.commondreams.org

Obama's Latest Use of 'Secrecy' to Shield Presidential Lawbreaking

Published on Sunday, November 1, 2009 by Salon.com

What was once depicted as a grave act of lawlessness -- Bush's NSA program -- is now deemed a vital state secret.

by Glenn Greenwald

The Obama administration has, yet again, asserted the broadest and most radical version of the "state secrets" privilege -- which previously caused so much controversy and turmoil among loyal Democrats (when used by Bush/Cheney) -- to attempt to block courts from ruling on the legality of the government's domestic surveillance activities. Obama did so again this past Friday -- just six weeks after the DOJ announced voluntary new internal guidelines which, it insisted, would prevent abuses of the state secrets privilege. Instead -- as predicted -- the DOJ continues to embrace the very same "state secrets" theories of the Bush administration

Sorry Ass News For A Sunday Morning

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 13:32:48 GMT

clipped by: thinkingblue
clipper's remarks: Did you ever pick up a newspaper and wished you hadn't? Well that's what happened to me this morning. It wasn't an actual real time Newspaper but in today's world it was a Newsdig but I still wished that I hadn't clicked!

First it was a, Health Care {NO} Reform won by the Health Care and insurance Industry.

Then the gloom and doom news from Afghanistan. It's enough to make you put on a pair of rose colored glasses or stick your head in the sand. But alas, I can't do that, because then I would become part of the (Sarah Palin - Michele Bachmann et al ) crazy lunatic fringe mob on the right!

Clip Source: www.thethinkingblue.com

The Sorriest Ass News For Sunday 11/01/09

After all the fuss, public health plan covers few

This is beyond disgusting. Why anyone is not outraged over this (except for the insurance companies) is also beyond repulse. Good Luck America, our leaders have handed our fate over to the health insurance lobby, and Corporate Interests, once again. The next question is HOW MANY MORE WILL DIE BECAUSE OF THIS DECISION? Thinkingblue

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Afghan challenger drops out of runoff election While President Obama has to make one of the hardest decisions of anyone's lifetime, determining, whether or not to continue a deplorable war by sending in more fodder or withdrawing and allowing a sovereign state to solve its own problems. Afghanistan leaders continue to play games and commit high crimes and misdemeanors.

Did we really believe that when George W. Bush and his sidekick Dick (the dick) Cheney left office we would not have to stomach them any longer?

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Tags: politics, health, healthcare, reform, afghanistan, war

Partial Clip Of My Instablog Article: "Open Letter to Liz Cheney, Esq. ..."

Sat, 31 Oct 2009 17:57:13 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Here is a partial clip of the above-referenced article, which you can read in full on Instablogs. If you enjoy the article, recommend it. Everyone needs to be aware of the lies these two continue to tell.

Clip Source: ericgyoung.instablogs.com

Open Letter To Liz Cheney, Esq. - Always Make Sure Your Head Is In The Proper Place

On Thursday, President Obama left the White House just after midnight and flew by helicopter to Dover Air Force Base to attend the return of the remains of fallen American soldiers killed in Afghanistan. Tonight, Lawrence O’Donnell reported on MSNBC about the “easily predictable” attack response from former Vice President Cheney’s daughter, Liz Cheney, on Fox’s John Gibson Show. Follow this link to the MSNBC report.

In what has become an all-too-familiar attack formation, the Vice President and his daughter ankle bite the President on a variety of issues, primarily national security.

Have neither of these two any shame? Of course not. One must first have a conscience in order to feel shame. And it’s that same pesky conscience that compels most of us to tell the truth, most of the time, or at the very least to want to tell the truth most of the time.