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HAPPY TENTH DICK CHENEY!!!

littlejoe

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HOUSTON (The Borowitz Report)—In a sombre ceremony attended by former members of the Bush Administration, the former Vice-President Dick Cheney marked the tenth anniversary of making up a reason to invade Iraq.

The ceremony, held on the grounds of the Halliburton Company headquarters, brought together the former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, the former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, the former Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz, and other key members of the lying effort.



Calling the assembled officials “profiles in fabrication,” Mr. Cheney praised them for their decade of dedication to a totally fictitious rationale.

“Making up a reason to invade a country is the easy part,” Mr. Cheney told them. “Sticking to a pretend story for ten years—that is the stuff of valor.”

Mr. Cheney added that their “steadfast charade had raised the bar for all future Administrations.”

“When it is time to invade Iran or Venezuela, will the President have the will to make up an entirely fake reason to do it?” he asked. “That remains to be seen.”

The ceremony ended on an emotional note, as Mr. Cheney placed a wreath on the Tomb of the Unknown W.M.D.

Former President George W. Bush, who was said to be otherwise engaged, was represented at the event by a nude self-portrait
 

hopalong

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another liberal who gets his information from Borowitz,,,,or could it be the same person? :roll: :roll: :roll: HUMMMMMMMMMM :D
Nah
 

Steve

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it is hard to argue with a liberal on the reasons we went to war with Iraq.. with facts such as Iraq invading Kuwait.. becasue they do not listen to rational facts,... instead they rely on opinions for the basis of their argument..


and they ignore facts such as this one ..
uly 5 marked the completion of the operation in which the United States removed 550 metric tons of yellowcake uranium from Tuwaitha, the facility that once served as the center of Iraq’s nuclear activities.The uranium was then shipped to Canada. Cameco Corp., a Canadian uranium producer, bought the material and plans to enrich it, before selling it to nuclear plants worldwide. According to Cameco’s Web site, yellowcake uranium, or uranium oxide, is uranium that has been milled and mined but requires further processing before it can be used as a fuel.

The transfer of the uranium involved stops in Baghdad and Diego Garcia, a U.S. military base in the Indian Ocean, as well as 37 military flights, before it finally arrived in Montreal. Securing and transporting the uranium cost the U.S. military nearly $70 million, which Iraq has pledged to partially reimburse. While the exact price Cameco paid for the uranium is unknown, a senior U.S. official told the AP that the deal was worth “tens of millions of dollars.”

The details of the transaction have been kept secret. By the time the AP reported the incident, the mission had already been underway for months. In a July 7 press conference, State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said that the secrecy was due to “security concerns.” U.S. officials worried the uranium might end up in the wrong hands if kept in an unstable region like the Middle East
source: FACTCHECK

yet still claim he lied... and repeat the lie so much the actually believe themselves..

if they want to re-argue the last eight years why stop there.. why not look at Johnson,.. Kennedy.. Roosevelt.. and any other president who took US to war..

Two days later, in the same area, the Maddox and another destroyer reported that they were again under attack. Although these reports now appear to have been mistaken, Johnson proceeded quickly to authorize retaliatory air strikes against North Vietnam. The next day he gathered congressional leaders and, without divulging the circumstances that might have helped provoke the torpedo attack, accused the North Vietnamese of "open aggression on the high seas." He then submitted to the Senate a resolution that authorized him to take "all necessary measures to repel any armed attack against the forces of the United States and to prevent further aggression." The resolution was quickly approved by Congress; only Senators Wayne Morse of Oregon and Ernest Gruening of Alaska voted against it. Later, when more information about the Tonkin incident became available, many concluded that Johnson and his advisers had misled Congress into supporting the expansion of the war.

The U.S. National Security Agency, had concluded that the NSA deliberately distorted the intelligence reports that it had passed on to policy-makers regarding the August 4, 1964 incident. He concluded that the motive was not political but was probably to cover up honest intelligence errors

we can argue over the past... and show that many of the wars we were involved in may not have had enough justification for our involvement..

or we could look at current events and pray our so called leader has the wisdom to do the right thing..

I would like our actions to be limited to containment with rogue countries.. but with modern warfare containment is not always feasible..

I do not want US involved in Syria.. if we have any involvement it should be to blow up any weapons depots and incinerate any possible wmds stored in the country..

but not one of the liberals can explain why Obama has so many excuses not to back up his so called red lines... or even why he would make the threats..

so far Obama's only response it to possible send more weapons to the region through proxies and intermediate.. possibly arming our enemies who may be the ones who used the chemical weapons...

I am sure the history books will show Obama in a dim light on his middle east policy.. or alt least compare his naivety to that of Carters..
 

Whitewing

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I politely asked LJ (and anyone else for that matter) if they'd like to debate the merits of why we invaded Iraq in 2003. No takers. Guess it's just posting silly crap like the above.
 
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