You gotta love the YouTube
Dick Cheney in 1994 explaining why the US was right in not proceeding to Baghdad. (At least read the transcript.)
posted by mikevotes at
11:12 AM
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Freakin' amazing. He sounds like a goddamn Democrat for christsake!
Is it safe to say he lost his mind sometime after 1994? Or is he just pretending to be lucid and rational?
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-epm, at 12:49 PM
Please don't take this the wrong way -epm. I'm a confirmed atheist and I enjoy your posts. But I see that kind of language a lot on 'liberal' websites and I don't think it helps the cause.
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Anonymous, at 12:59 PM
Anon, I very much appreciate the constructive criticism.
I have a problem with regulating my visceral reactions when I comment on blogs. Sometimes I use my brain when I comment... sometimes, well, I blurt out things I'd never say in polite company... a group of people, or in a letter to the editor.
But you're right. It's this sort of thing -- these rantings -- that will be plucked out and used as a broad brush to paint everyone as a raving, angry raving loon. (A la O'Reilly and the Washington punditry)
I'll try to use my college words and keep my longshoreman language for the bar. :-)
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-epm, at 7:53 PM
My clarification:
This is stunning! Mr. Cheney, in this video, is championing a point of view he has spent the past six years demonising. He has, in recent histroy, insinuated -- if not outright stated -- people expressing these types of views actually encourage and embolden international terrorists. The apparent hypocrisy is frightening to me.
One has to wonder, why in the world nine years after making these statements he took a polar opposite stance. All the circumstance on the ground over those intervening years would have indicted the situation in the region -- the attitude of the Arab nations -- was exponentially more fractured, not more unified. This begs the question: was Mr. Cheney being personally disingenuous in 1994; expressing an opinion that he quietly thought was absurd? Or was he disingenuously pushing an agenda in 2001 and beyond, for personal or ideological gain -- despite knowing the tragic cost in lives that would entail?
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-epm, at 8:09 PM
Thanks for seeing it the way it was intended -epm. I did regret posting it for a while thinking, well it's not really my business how the guy expresses himself. Basically I think that kind of language is counterproductive that's all.
As for Cheney...I think he'll say anything to advance the agenda of the moment. Restraint in '94....grab Iraq in '04...it's all the same to him.
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Anonymous, at 8:28 PM
As everyone seemed civil, I thought I'd just sit this one out.
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mikevotes, at 10:03 PM
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