Dick Cheney Iraq

The Big Headline That Wasn't Big Enough

Robert J. Elisberg | Posted 07.10.2009 | Politics


Robert J. Elisberg

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.

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

Arianna Huffington | Posted 07.03.2009 | Politics


Arianna Huffington

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.

The Great Republican Contradiction

Robert J. Elisberg | Posted 04.24.2009 | Politics


Robert J. Elisberg

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

Bush's Final Gift: Gaza

Eric Margolis | Posted 02.15.2009 | Politics


Eric Margolis

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...

2009: Another Year of Living Dangerously

Eric Margolis | Posted 01.30.2009 | World


Eric Margolis

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.

Clint and Cheney: a Tale of Two Dicks

Arianna Huffington | Posted 01.18.2009 | Politics


Arianna Huffington

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

Why I'm a Rogue Republican

Eric Margolis | Posted 12.06.2008 | Politics


Eric Margolis

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

John McCain, War Games And The Draft

Linda Hansen | Posted 09.22.2008 | Home


Linda Hansen

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.

Dick Cheney Still Looking For Iraq WMDs

Huffington Post | Steve Clemons | Posted 05.02.2008 | Politics


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...

Cheney's Compulsive Obsession with Iraq WMDs & Syrian Nukes

Steve Clemons | Posted 05.02.2008 | Politics


Steve Clemons

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.

Cheney Understands Iran War Fears "Because Of My Past"

The Swamp | Mark Silva | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


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...

Dick Cheney Calls Iraq War A "Successful Endeavour"

ABC News | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


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...

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

Think Progress | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


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...

Female Suicide Bomber Kills 43 in Iraq

AP | KIM GAMEL | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


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...

Arrested War Critic Seeks VP's Testimony

AP | IVAN MORENO | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


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

Secret Service Facing Lawsuit For Arresting Cheney Protestor

NY Times | Kirk Johnson | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


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...

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

MSNBC | Mark Murray | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home


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

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

First Read | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


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...