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‘I’m going to put back on my Darth Vader mask’: Dick Cheney jokes during Toronto speech
‘I’m going to put back on my Darth Vader mask’: Dick Cheney jokes during Toronto speechby Joseph Brean at the National Post
http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/10/31/im-going-to-put-back-on-my-darth-vader-mask-dick-cheney-jokes-during-toronto-speech/
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Fresh from revelations he feared a terrorist Wi-Fi hack of his cardiac pacemaker, former U.S. vice-president Dick Cheney spoke Thursday in Toronto, where he accused President Barack Obama of a “war on coal,” of not knowing the meaning of the word “negotiation,” and of causing American allies to lose trust while adversaries lose fear.
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On Syria, for example, where U.S. threats of war fell flat, despite obvious use of chemical weapons, Mr. Cheney went so far as to say Russian President Vladimir Putin is setting U.S. policy, while Mr. Obama is “unwilling to face up to this risk or to do anything about it.”
By offering a selection of Saddam-era war stories, free advice, unfinished business, and political cheap shots from the comfort of retirement, the dark lord of George W. Bush’s White House did not disappoint on a Halloween afternoon, with hundreds of business leaders gathered for the Toronto Global Forum
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