Dick Cheney's Revisionist Bullshit

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"You know, Dick Clarke. Dick Clarke, who was the head of the counter-terrorism program in the run-up to 9/11. He obviously missed it."
-- Dick Cheney, on Richard Clarke

O FUCKING RLY?

"Bin Ladin Public Profile May Presage Attack" (5/3/01)
"Bin Ladin's Networks' Plans Advancing" (5/26/01)
"Bin Ladin Attacks May Be Imminent" (6/23/01)
"Bin Ladin and Associates Making Near-Term Threats" (6/25/01)
"Bin Ladin Planning High-Profile Attacks" (6/30/01)
"Planning for Bin Ladin Attacks Continues, Despite Delays" (7/02/01)
-- subject lines of Richard Clarke emails to Bush Administration prior to 9/11/01

(courtesy of Doonesbury's "Say What?" feature)

And, of course, there's the infamous "Bin Ladin Determined to Strike US" daily security briefing from August 6, 2001.

No, he obviously had NO FUCKING IDEA this was in the works.

Fuck you, Dick. Fuck you, George. Fuck. You.

This, combined with Cheney's 180 degree flip-flop on the subject of gay marriage (now he's for it, when he was running for, and in, high-profile office(s) on a very Conservative platform, he was against it to the point where he would go into attack-dog mode at the mere mention of his daughter)... this sounds like a man who realizes that he's been a complete cockmonger, and is trying, too late, to try and gild that steaming pile of pig shit.

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[txtriffidranch.livejournal.com]

With anybody else, that would be the sign of an old man who suddenly worries that he won't get into Heaven. With Cheney, it's a sign of an old man who suddenly worries that he's going to die in prison while awaiting trial for war crimes.