Dick Cheney Iraq

Legacy: Who Is Accountable In Iraq?

Peter Van Buren | Posted 02.21.2012

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The issue of legacy is not so much should we assign blame to a soldier, but to ask: why have we not assigned blame and demanded punishment for the leaders who put those soldiers into the impossible situations they faced?

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Cheney Worried About Critical Issue

AP/The Huffington Post | Posted 12.13.2011

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WASHINGTON -- Former Vice President Dick Cheney said Iraqi leaders have progressed toward a stable society, but he's worried about the failure of Wash...

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Animation: Cheney Defends The Iraq War

Scott Bateman | Posted 11.08.2011

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Dick Cheney's been on a media blitz to publicize his new book, "Bwahahahahaha!" or whatever it's called. Last week, he was on the Today Show with Matt Lauer. Here's actual audio from that video, with notations and animation.

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Dick Cheney and the Agony of Deceit

Michael Sigman | Posted 11.07.2011

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Dick Cheney shames the truth-shading of other political memoirs, instead spinning a story that flies in the face of common sense while it contradicts the more plausible accounts of fellow Republicans.

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Cheney Conspicuously Avoids Addressing Reality Of Contentious Issue

AP | STEVEN R. HURST | Posted 11.05.2011

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WASHINGTON (AP) -- Dick Cheney's autobiography presents a robust defense of his push for the U.S. invasion of Iraq without critically examining two is...

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What Would You Ask Dick Cheney?

The Huffington Post | Mandy Jenkins | Posted 10.29.2011

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Former Vice President Dick Cheney is making the rounds in the media this week to promote his new memoir, In My Time, which hits bookstores Tuesday. ...

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The Big Headline That Wasn't Big Enough

Robert J. Elisberg | Posted 05.25.2011

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The Iraq war started because Dick Cheney and the Bush Administration tried to draw a fake link between Iraq and 9/11. And now Dick Cheney says there was "never evidence" linking Iraq to 9/11.

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When Will Dick Cheney's Tower of Lies Finally Come Tumbling Down on Him?

Arianna Huffington | Posted 05.25.2011

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As recently as two weeks ago, Cheney was still banging the drum about Saddam's "known ties to Mideast terrorists." His ongoing Forget Everything I Ever Told You Tour is historical revisionism at its most despicable.

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The Great Republican Contradiction

Robert J. Elisberg | Posted 05.25.2011

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Stuff happens, Dick Cheney callously says. It makes the skin crawl. What cold-hearted, criminal arrogance.

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Bush's Final Gift: Gaza

Eric Margolis | Posted 05.25.2011

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Just when we thought it was impossible for the calamitous George Bush and Svengali Dick Cheney to do any more damage to the world or to America's inte...

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2009: Another Year of Living Dangerously

Eric Margolis | Posted 05.25.2011

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The proud towers of Wall Street have fallen, disgorging packs of thieves and fraudsters. The mighty US suddenly exposed as the proverbial king without clothes. Uncle Sam is bankrupt.

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Clint and Cheney: a Tale of Two Dicks

Arianna Huffington | Posted 05.25.2011

The VP and Eastwood's character are both gruff, prickly, taciturn, sandpaper-voiced men, given to conservative views, macho posturing, and a narrow view of right and wrong. And they both always seem on the verge of telling people around them to go f**k themselves. Read More Will The Madoff Debacle Finally End The "Who Could Have Known?" Era? Iraq. Fannie Mae. Citigroup. Bernie Madoff. When you look at the elements that were crucial to the creation of each of these debacles, it's amazing how much in common they all have. And not just in how they began but in how they ended: with those responsible being amazed at what happened, because...who could have known? Read More Watch: Arianna Talks New Media and Politics with Ashton Kutcher

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Why I'm a Rogue Republican

Eric Margolis | Posted 05.25.2011

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I've been a lifelong Republican and plan to spend all Eternity as one. But my party abandoned me in the year 2000.

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John McCain, War Games And The Draft

Linda Hansen | Posted 05.25.2011

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If you promote war, vote for it or stand to make a profit from it, then you'll be happy to do your patriotic duty and send your children off first. Watch: When the children of the powerful and privileged are on the line, the cost of war, they'll tell us, is too damned high.

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Dick Cheney Still Looking For Iraq WMDs

Huffington Post | Steve Clemons | Posted 05.25.2011

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Even after all of this time and President Bush's own abandonment of the WMD theme, Vice President Richard Cheney is still convinced that there are hid...

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Cheney's Compulsive Obsession with Iraq WMDs & Syrian Nukes

Steve Clemons | Posted 05.25.2011

A source reported to me yesterday that in the last two weeks, Cheney held forth at a meeting on Iraq WMDs and insisted that they were real and still out there.

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Dick Cheney Calls Iraq War A "Successful Endeavour"

ABC News | Posted 05.25.2011

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US Vice-President Dick Cheney declared the 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq a "successful endeavour" during a visit to Baghdad, on the same day a woman su...

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Dick Cheney: Link Between Iraq And Al-Qaida "Pretty Clear"

Think Progress | Posted 05.25.2011

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Before the Iraq war began, Dick Cheney was among the most prominent messengers of the false claim that Saddam Hussein had a relationship with al Qaeda...

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Cheney Understands Iran War Fears "Because Of My Past"

The Swamp | Mark Silva | Posted 05.25.2011

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Vice President Dick Cheney acknowledges that it's understandable that people might read planning for a war in Iran into his Middle East trip. Asking...

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Female Suicide Bomber Kills 43 in Iraq

AP | KIM GAMEL | Posted 05.25.2011

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BAGHDAD — A female suicide bomber struck Shiite worshippers in the holy city of Karbala on Monday, an official and a witness said, killing at le...

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Arrested War Critic Seeks VP's Testimony

AP | IVAN MORENO | Posted 05.25.2011

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DENVER — An attorney for a man arrested after telling the vice president that his policies in Iraq were "disgusting" asked U.S. marshals Thursda...

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Secret Service Facing Lawsuit For Arresting Cheney Protestor

NY Times | Kirk Johnson | Posted 05.25.2011

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The arrest of a man named Steven Howards in June 2006 after he approached Vice President Dick Cheney at a Colorado ski resort and denounced the war in...

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Richardson: "Something Is Wrong When The Patriots Face Stiffer Penalties For Spying...Than Cheney And Bush"

MSNBC | Mark Murray | Posted 05.25.2011

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From NBC's Mark Murray ... Well, sort of. Richardson just issued this statement linking the New England Patriots spying scandal -- which cost the Pat...

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White House To Roll Out Cheney In P.R. Surge

First Read | Posted 05.25.2011

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Advisors say Vice President Dick Cheney will reinforce the White House message in a planned appearance tomorrow in Michigan at the Gerald R. Ford Muse...

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