Cheney: 'I Basically Don't' Think Bush Administration Responsible For Afghanistan Problems

Yep, "I basically don't take responsibility for the last 8 years."

One of the maxims attributed to Napoleon is that one should never ascribe to malice what can be explained by incompetence. Nonetheless, when one considers the likelihood that public tolorance for the Iraq war and the general fearmongering that was the main prop for their power would have abated had they not let OBL and Mullah Omar escape, and combines that with how utterly diseased this man's mind is (along with those of Rove, Addison, Libbey, and the rest of their cabal), it's hard not to conclude the decision was deliberate.

I have an ass. My ass does something useful.

I believe Cheney is suffering some kind of mental deterioration -- maybe alzheimers disease. The kindest thing we -- and the media-- can do is to ignore him.

http://cursor.org/stories/binladenforgotten.htm

‘The goal has never been to get bin Laden’, said General Richard Myers, chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, on 6 April 2002. President George W Bush might have declared on 17 September 2001 that bin Laden was ‘Wanted: Dead or Alive’ – but Myers told CNN that a far more important aim than bin Laden’s head on a platter was the ‘capture, killing and scattering’ of ‘mid-level al-Qaeda operatives’ . ‘The goal [in Afghanistan] was never after specific individuals’, he claimed .
But four days later, on 10 April 2002, army secretary Thomas White said that one of America’s ‘strategic objectives’ in Afghanistan is ‘to get bin Laden…and we are pursuing that’ 3. Asked if the war on terror could only be hailed a success once bin Laden was found, White said yes – claiming that ‘no one said it was going to be easy’ .
‘I truly am not that concerned about him’, said President George W Bush on 13 March 2002, after being asked the million-dollar question ‘where is bin Laden?’ once too often . ‘Deep in my heart I know the man is on the run, if he’s alive at all’, said Bush, brushing bin Laden off as ‘a person who has now been marginalized’ .
But a week later, on 21 March 2002, US commanders claimed that bin Laden and co are ‘still a threat in the new Afghanistan’. Major-general Frank Hagenbeck warned that ‘there are al-Qaeda operatives in Paktia right now, who are going to great lengths to regroup’ 7 – while CIA director George Tenet claimed that bin Laden remains an ‘immediate and serious threat’
On 8 April 2002, US defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld said bin Laden’s threat had been ‘neutralized’. ‘Our goal was to stop terrorism to the extent that we could’, said Rumsfeld – claiming that ‘enough pressure’ had been applied to al-Qaeda leaders to make them ‘so busy surviving’ and ‘moving from place to place’ that they no longer have time to plot terrorist attacks.

Damned from their own mouths.

Had 2008 turned out differently, what do you think are the odds that this guy would have set up shop in Palin's office of the VP (as opposed to just hiding out with elements of the CIA government-in-waiting)?

It's really unfair of Dick to keep Satan waiting so long to collect his soul, considering how good he's been to him.

If we could only see the REAL bubble over Dickhead's head:
http://satiricalpolitical.com/2009/11/29/cheney-senate-report-capturing-bin-laden/

"Blow the dust off the clock. Your watches are behind the times. Throw open the heavy curtains which are so dear to you — you do not even suspect that the day has already dawned outside."

- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

"Do the orders still stand", Mr. Cheney?

http://michaelfury.wordpress.com/2008/12/18/clock-stoppers/

So the cowardly, draft-dodging, drunken face-shooting, wrong about everything, hiding in his bunker like a pussy Cheney isn't man enough to take responsibility for his mess?

I'm shocked.

I am just amazed at the level of stupidity coming out of the senate as well as the white house. They have no idea what the average American citizen wants. They are so out of touch with reality it isn't funny. This guy is the epitome of ignorance and arrogance.

Folks, even if OBL had been captured soon after 9/11, I have no doubt that the Bushies would have still pushed for the occupation of Iraq. Bush brought up 'regime change' several times during the 2000 campaign, outta nowhere.

I cannot believe that Myers or Bush thought OBL to be unimportant, or that they would intentionally let OBL get away... too big of a feather-in-the-cap. OBL's importance was downplayed in those quotes above, only to justify the failure to catch him.

Of course not. It's ACORN's fault.

Deny, deflect, and blame someone else...

Dick Cheney's mindset 'I am always right. If you disagree with me, you are always wrong'. That's about all there is to it.

It is clear that they let Osama go so that they could move forward with the war in Iraq. They never gave a damn about Afghanistan or catching Osama.

Dick Cheney belongs behind bars, he should not be having his psychotic opinions validated by news organizations.

He should be begging for forgiveness from every American and people all over the world for what he has done... instead he coasts along with his sick deviant behavior.

When is someone besides the comedians going to hold the psychos being allowed to run rampant in our government and politics accountable???!!!

Seriously!!

The fact that Cheney is giving his political opinion to news organizations and being given credibility every day is a HUGE reflection of an equal but opposite disease on the left.

Some sort of abused wife syndrome that tolerates and accommodates as much bull shit as the right wants to dish out.

We need some serious psychological intervention in our politics

This man is insane.

They are all completely mad...did you hear that bubble-head Dana Perino say "there were no terrorist attacks on U.S. soil while Bush Administration was in the White House....not that there are any eye-witnesses, video, recording devices of all kinds, actual time and date, video footage of those events (no wonder Republicans don't believe in science....it contradicts their version of the story)...you have to wait at least a hundred years for all eye-witnesses to be dead and buried and to be sure you have destroyed all the contradictory evidence)...before you revise history...Dana, Uncle Darth, (you "alternate universe" numb skulls)

In the sentence, "I basically don't" what is the purpose or implication of the word "basically"?

How is this sentence different from "I don't"?

Your rhetoric quiz for today.

He could have stopped at "I basically don't think..."

He seems to be using the media as a blanket to fan smoke everywhere just hoping the fact that he was running a private contractor assassination company out of the WHITE HOUSE gets lost in the murkyness.

WHAT IS IT WITH RIGHT WINGERS ALWAYS HAVING TO HAVE A DEATH SQUAD? AND IT'S ALWAYS THE RIGHT WING DOING THESE EVIL DIRTY DEEDS, TO BAD HE COULD'NT DO IT DIRT CHEAP.

oh when you rule of law haters go after the above, we only have the phrase "right wing death squads" to go with here, there ain't no centurist death squads or left or liberal or progressive etc.etc.etc.

Wow scary

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Cheney has been wrong about everything. He knows foreign policy the same way the Detroit Lions know football.

Why does the press constantly give this troll and his pig-faced daughter a free pass? Oh I know. Because they're too chickenshit to go against any real opposition other than the asswipes they'll talk to.