Condoleezza Rice becomes the third member of the Bush administration to accuse Cheney of lying in his memoir
source: http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/condoleezza-rice-becomes-third-member-bush-administration...
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Rice told Reuters in an interview Wednesday that she "kept the president fully and completely informed about every 'in and out' of the negotiations with the North Koreans," countering the former vice president's assertion that Rice misled the president about nuclear diplomacy with North Korea.
"You can talk about policy differences without suggesting that your colleague somehow misled the president," Rice said. "You know, I don't appreciate the attack on my integrity that that implies."
Rice also disputed Cheney's assertion that Rice "tearfully admitted" she was wrong for wanting the administration to apologize for President Bush's claim in the 2003 State of the Union that Iraq was searching for uranium for nuclear weapons.
"It certainly doesn't sound like me, now, does it?" Rice said."I would never--I don't remember coming to the vice president tearfully about anything in the entire eight years that I knew him."
Rice admitted that she told Cheney he had been correct about the press reaction to the uranium claim.
Rice is the third former official from George W. Bush's State Department to dispute parts of Cheney's memoir, which was published on Tuesday.
The book has provoked rebukes this week from former Secretary of State Colin Powell, as well as Powell's former chief of staff Lawrence Wilkerson.
During an appearance on CBS's "Face the Nation" on Sunday, Powell defended himself, Rice and others against what he said were "cheap shots" lobbed by Cheney in his memoir to boost book sales.
Powell said contrary to Cheney's claims, the former vice president deserves no credit for Powell's resignation, that Powell presented dissenting views on the Iraq War to the president and that Powell and his former Deputy Secretary of State, Richard Armitage, are not to blame for the Valerie Plame scandal.
In an interview with "Democracy Now!" on Tuesday, Wilkerson asserted that Cheney's fears of being tried as a war criminal influenced how the former vice president characterized situations in his memoir.
"This is a book written out of fear, fear that one day someone will 'Pinochet' Dick Cheney," Wilkerson said, referring to Augusto Pinochet, the former Chilean dictator who was charged for war crimes.
Wilkerson said it was "utter nonsense" for Cheney to claim to have anything to do with Powell's resignation.
"The only person Cheney does not seem to find fault with is Cheney," Wilkerson said.
Wilkerson said he regrets not resigning for putting together Powell's February 2003 presentation to the United Nations on the supposed presence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
Creating that presentation "was probably the biggest mistake of my life," he said.
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freehit
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I'm shocked,SHOCKED I say, to find after giving current a rest for awhile to let my brain cool off to read something like this! To think anyone would accuse the hero of the world of telling a lie, well, if I was wearing any shorts they'd be in a bunch from hearing that. Oh wait, THAT Dick Chaney,of course he lied. DUH!
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EarnestT
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Dick "5 draft deferrments,count`em" Cheney a legend in his own mind. Makes you wonder what goes on in that empty space between his ears. Believes in torture,WMDs that never existed,and his own superiority. All those years with his arm up Duh-Bya`s back manipulating the game. Why can`t we get this abberation tried for crimes against humanity,he admits it!
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EarnestT
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Wyley_Wombat
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Dickless was always a "shadow dictator" hiding behind the curtains and pulling the strings of his puppets, always dodging that nasty beastie of accountability whilst using others to commit his evil deeds. If he wants media exposure so badly, waterboard him on national television.
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Wyley_Wombat
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coolplanet
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These scumbags make a living by lying.
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coolplanet
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coolplanet:
No, that's no longer a concern for them, the money just rolls in, they're above "making a living" for the rest of their lives. At this point they are on a mission to control and manipulate everything including our Laws and Government, to the detriment of all those who must still and always "make a living".
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PunxatawnyPhil
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Varex_Sythe
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No, it can't be.
The guy who set up his own intelligence office out of what was little more of a broom closet, and comprised of only himself, who managed to find evidence that Iraq had functioning and threatening WMD's (evidence that the "incompetent" CIA could not find with all of its funding, experience, and manpower) is being accused of lying? This cannot be. Cheney is a perfect atheistic angel of honesty.
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Varex_Sythe
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lazloman
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Any notice the sock puppets never comment on stuff like this?
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lazloman
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lazloman:
Apparently their "grassroots" organizational "directors" determine where to "send" the minions and ignore what they choose. My guess is that the subject of the bush administration and Cheeeeeeeeny, is something they choose to ignore (for now, until they deem necessary).
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PunxatawnyPhil
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Hardytoo
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To quote a a great defender: "Steal This Book"
(Abbie Hoffman) - 9 months ago
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Hardytoo
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Hardytoo:
They will need to look for it in the true crime section.
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Hardytoo
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joeredford:
And still steal it, as my friend (in my head) Abbie would have done.
They might also check the "Fiction" section. - 9 months ago
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Hardytoo:
That's a new MLS section for all books by pevious BUSH adminstration criminals Fictional True Crime.
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faye59
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Hardytoo:
As long as you don't pay for it. Strictly fiction.
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joeredford:
Good one.
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cherry5000
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cheney is an asshole.
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cherry5000:
Not eloquent, but accurate.
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tlbuffin:
Dead or Alive?
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GRC54
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GRC54:
Pobably both.
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tlbuffin:
1) Is that width, length, or both?
2) By the look on her face is she saying "yes, this is how much I had to gnash my teeth together to hold on to it".
3) An example of why she didn't say a "mouthful". - 9 months ago
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keithponder
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She didn't mind when he Cheney was attacking everybody else on the planet.
Now she's upset ? Sorry Condi....get back in there.
You make your bed, you lie in it & you sleep with dogs...you get fleas, so quit your sniveling. - 9 months ago
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keithponder:
Hear, hear!
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keithponder:
GOOD COMMENT
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cherry5000
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Fishinflick
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Cover your ass, bride of Chucky!
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"I don't appreciate the attack on my integrity that that implies."
INTEGRITY ? ?
YOU ? You have absolutely NO integrity as far as most are concerned ....your integrity went out the freaking window with your lies about WMD in Iraq. - 9 months ago
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lazloman
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I'm no fan of Condi, but now we have all these people calling Cheney a liar, but he still contends that was right and everyone else was wrong. Whatever legacy he leaves will be long lasting and reprehensible.
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lazloman:
He was in charge the whole first term.He's upset because neither Condi nor Powell agreed with what he was doing. He set Powell up to lie to the UN Security Council ntis said that Scooter took the fall for him when they outed the CIA agent. He's one scary man.
He earned the Darth Vader moniker. - 9 months ago
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The problem with gops is that all important issues are handled by concocting a lie as the answer, to begin with. Now that Dick has written the bible of lies the rest of the liars have their feelings hurt. This has to be the definition of irony.
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mii
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No Honor among thieves.
They all deserve each other. - 9 months ago
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JanforGore
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So are we supposed to now like these people because they are trashing Dick Cheney? They are all war criminals and they all went along with everything. Even Colin Powell who sat at the UN and lied to our faces. But now with all that is going on that is of real importance, the only thing we will see in the media to distract us is these orcs arguing with each other? Excuse me while I say, I don't give a ****. If the American people are too soft and apathetic to do the right thing then we can just lump ourselves in with them. Torture can only happen if it is allowed.
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JanforGore:
I believe that Mr Powell was led to believe the information he gave to the UN was the truth. He, like the rest of us, was given limited information, only information that support the war hawks plans. Very likely, when he realized his error, it reaffirmed his plan to get the heck out of that Admin
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sharin:
BS.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=8339
He knows war crimes well, and he knew who he was lying down with in that criminal regime.
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JanforGore:
I'm no supporter of wars, nor fear mongering, and I believe that all reasons given for the Iraq invation were trumped up lies. That said, I prefer to think positive (naively so?) of some people - Colin Powell being one of them. I believe he is a man of honor and would not have made those claims in his speech if he didn't believe them to be true.
from a Barbara Walters interview in 2005:
WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Secretary of State Colin Powell said Thursday his prewar speech to the United Nations accusing Iraq of harboring weapons of mass destruction was a "blot" on his record.
I'm the one who presented it to the world, and (it) will always be a part of my record. It was painful. It is painful now," Powell said in an interview with Barbara Walters on ABC-News
The presentation by the soldier-diplomat to the world body in February 2003 lent considerable credibility to President Bush's case against Iraq and for going to war to remove President Saddam Hussein.
In the speech, Powell said he had relied on information he received at Central Intelligence Agency briefings. He said Thursday that then-director George Tenet "believed what he was giving to me was accurate."
But, Powell said, "the intelligence system did not work well."
"There were some people in the intelligence community who knew at the time that some of those sources were not good, and shouldn't be relied upon, and they didn't speak up," Powell said.
"That devastated me," he said.
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sharin:
Well you can believe his words to keep his legacy intact if you choose. As far as I am concerned, men of honor don't cover up massacres of unarmed innocent civilians. For that I will never respect him. And frankly, the faulty intelligence defense is being used just a bit too much to get these people off the hook for their crimes. He didn't have access or clearance to check out the information he was given considering his stature and experience? Amazing that only in government is willful ignorance reason enough to make you a hero even as the bombs fall.
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sharin:
In the face of all the real intelligence, the honor wears thin. The CIA itself was not 100% convinced Tenet was on top off it. I'll take Powell at his word he has regrets, but I suspect deep down it's mostly about playing along with the ruse. Condi's role in the deception is recorded on video, the lies we all saw on TV. They should have all been investigated for war crimes.
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JanforGore:
I'm just glad he's reminding people of just how inept they were. I wish someone would make a greatest hits video for their failed policies.
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sharin:
It's awfully ironic that the same hawks are creeping out of their holes now that Perry joined the race. Armitadge and Cheney and some of the others are smelling the blood in the water. Who wants to bet at the next war they cook up?
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faye59
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Fishinflick:
At least Powell admitted that he had regrets. Cheney stands by his record even though thousands of innocents have died.
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dinm76
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Lie down with dogs, you get feas.
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bike10
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We had to endure 8 years of lies from Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Ashcroft and company. Now they write they lies in books. Fox will turn in minin series of the Bush years.
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"It certainly doesn't sound like me, now, does it?" Rice said."I would never--I don't remember coming to the vice president tearfully about anything in the entire eight years that I knew him."
Lmao, knew that was pure bullshit on cheney's part.
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whoa, I just found this, it may or may not be a picture of the actual condi-cheney emo event, maybe dick was telling the truth....
(God, I love google images, I search for "tell me a story" attempting to make one joke, but then i find this priceless gem, did my best to make it work lol)
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faye59
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His book is pure pulp fiction. What a clown and megalomaniac.
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nanac
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I wouldn't take this book if it was given to me! Cheney is an evil,vile,person.
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nanac
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letsliveinpeace
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NO ONE SHOULD BUY THIS DICTATOR BOOK. THEY ARE ALL LIAR.
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I don't like that he accused her of being teary considering that she would have to have emotions to be teary and I am not sure Conde has a conscience.
Anyone that could so easily sell her soul to the oil industry to the point that they would name a tanker after her is not a cry baby. She is still evil. She was either grossly incompetent to have allowed 9/11 to happen on her watch or deliberately allowed it. She is a nasty piece of work but she is not a cry baby.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=g6KbUpGNBts
See The Bush Administration Commit Treason, They are all liar!!! - 9 months ago
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letsliveinpeace
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Thanks for posting this article very informational. The book of lies!
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