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Clearly Forgetting His Bush Years, Dick Cheney Calls Benghazi ‘Worst Incident’ During His Career

POSTED BY: NIKI2
UPDATED: Tuesday, May 14, 2013 11:22
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Tuesday, May 14, 2013 8:58 AM

NIKI2

Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...


I'm sorry, but it's just TOO damned funny...
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We live in exhaustive political times, when partisanship and the gasping hyperbole of a party that has not only lost its footing but its standing with the American public drives it to assert ‘truths’ and false scenarios in desperate hope of holding on… to what? Truth doesn’t seem to be in play here, as it often isn’t in matters of politics. And now we have former Vice President Dick Cheney stepping into the Benghazi fray to make a statement that seriously boggles the mind:

“I think it’s one of the worst incidents, frankly, that I can recall in my career.”

Really?? Really, Mr. Cheney? The WORST?

I don’t know if he’s been away too long, has been weakened by his physical maladies, or is just plain losing his memory, but when the man who was vice president at the time of 9/11 (with its many well-documented missed warnings); WMD (called “the greatest intelligence failure in living memory” and the lie that led to the Iraq war); the outing of CIA agent Valerie Plame (believed to be retaliation for her husband’s rebuttal of to faulty intelligence on the Iraq run-up); the war in Afghanistan that many believe lost focus due to the Iraq incursion (with both wars costing $3.1 trillion and counting); Abu Ghraib, the appalling response to Hurricane Katrina; the stock market crash and subsequent recession… when the man who was vice president during all of this says Benghazi is the “worst incident” he can recall in his career, I’d guess he has surely lost his mind.

Or it’s that other thing; that thing where people in positions of power knowingly spin, twist, and corrupt the truth as an intentional ploy, subscribing to the “big lie” theory, which posits that if you tell a lie often enough, people will eventually believe it (some version of which has often been attributed to Nazi propaganda minister, Joseph Goebbels). The administration of George Bush, with his vice president Dick Cheney by his side (or, as some believe, pulling the levers from above), has been depicted as the most “mendacious” in history. Which makes it all the more galling, if not outright insane, for Cheney to make the assertions he has. But truth has never stopped him before; why now? http://www.addictinginfo.org/2013/05/14/dick-cheney-master-of-spin-has
-audacity-to-call-benghazi-worst-incident-he-can-recall/
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Yeah, that other thing, you know... "Watergate and Iran Contra times ten..."

This stuff is funnier than shit--sad, certainly, but you just can't help laughing...

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Tuesday, May 14, 2013 9:43 AM

NEWOLDBROWNCOAT


Ya left out, " Deadeye Dick Cheney commits assault with a deadly weapon on lawyer. Lawyer apologizes."

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Tuesday, May 14, 2013 10:32 AM

KWICKO

"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -- William Casey, Reagan's presidential campaign manager & CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981)




The GOP and conservatives in general have selective amnesia when it comes to Bush and Cheney. How many times have you heard them talk about how they "kept America safe", as if their administration didn't really start until the morning of September 12, 2001?


Worst terrorist attack in history? Yeah, you guys built that.



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"I was wrong" - Hero, 2012

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Tuesday, May 14, 2013 11:14 AM

AURAPTOR

America loves a winner!



Nope. VP Cheney's right on this one too.

Fathom the hypocrisy of a government that requires every citizen to prove they are insured... but not everyone must prove they are a citizen

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Tuesday, May 14, 2013 11:22 AM

STORYMARK


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Originally posted by AURaptor:

Nope. VP Cheney's right on this one too.



Well, if the raptard agrees - we KNOW Dick is wrong.




Excuse me while I soak in all these sweet, sweet conservative tears.

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