Cheney: "When we ran, nobody had any idea that 9/11 was going to happen"

[sabra]

http://newsblogs.chicagotribune.com/news_theswamp/2007/05/cheney_to_fox_n.html#more

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QUESTION: Six in ten Americans say they feel it was a mistake to go to war. About as many say they think it’s hopeless on the ground. And then you had a group of moderate Republicans at the White House who said they delivered a frank message that they are really worried about the future of the Republican Party after this – how the war is going. What do you say to those people?

THE VICE PRESIDENT: Well, what I say and I know what the President says is that we were elected to do a job and to do what we think is right for the country. When we ran, nobody had any idea that 9/11 was going to happen just a few months later or that we would be faced with the kinds of problems that we’re faced with now, in effect a worldwide conflict that has seen attacks not only in New York and Washington, but in London, in Madrid, in Istanbul and all the way around the world; an al Qaeda organization that’s still very active today trying to marshal the resources and acquire the weapons to launch further attacks against the United States. We’ve been enormously successful at defending the country for the last five and a half years against another one of those attacks. It doesn’t mean there won’t be more attacks. There may well be.

But the things we’ve done, sometimes unpopular such as aggressively get involved in the Middle East with military force or set up a terrorist surveillance program at home that allows us to monitor communications between Americans and people overseas at suspect phone numbers or the controversy over the detainee program and how we interrogate prisoners. So I got labeled under that, obviously, because I stood up and defended the importance of that program. It’s been absolutely vital.

We didn’t get elected to be popular. We didn’t get elected to worry just about the fate of the Republican Party. Our mission is to do everything we can to prevail on what is now, we believe, a global conflict, a fundamental test of the character of the American people, whether or not we’re going to be able to prevail against one of the most evil opponents we’ve ever faced. And on our watch, we’re going to do absolutely everything we can to see to it that we do succeed and that we do prevail in that conflict, and sometimes that means that we don’t do well in the polls or people want to be critical. That’s their prerogative. But we sit there every morning and read the intelligence reports in the Oval Office and we know what’s happening out there. We know how committed our adversaries are to try to get at us. And we’ve done what we thought was right for the country.

[guitar man]

1. except the PNAC

:eyes:

[bobbolink]

5. Beat me to it. Been planned since when.... 1997?

Tweety briefly mentioned PNAC the other day, and I thought maybe some of it would finally come out.

Why don't Keith, Tweety, Colbert, etc start talking about PNAC??

[guitar man]

10. death threats?

:shrug:

[bobbolink]

13. Possible. I'd really like to know.

[guitar man]

17. well it's funny to me

that no one seems to want to touch it.


"the process of transformation, even if it brings revolutionary change, is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event -- like a new Pearl Harbor"

that right there just seems to be too big of a coincidence, especially when I remember hearing the media apeing the "Pearl Harbor" meme over and over right after 9-11. Makes me think much of the media is complicit and the reat is threatened.

[bobbolink]

19. What do you think would be the result if it *did* become news and suddenly

the whole citizenry is aware and KNOWS that sentence you just quoted?

Do you think they would collectively yawn and go back to IDOL, or .....?

Sometimes I think if it became known people would explode, and other times.....

[guitar man]

20. if it was spelled out to them

and they did yawn and go back to American Idol, I'd have to say they deserve every damn thing that has happened and will happen to them in the future.

Unfortunately, we are along for the ride :wow:

[MUAD_DIB]

14. Suntext: "When we ran nobody had any idea how we were going to screw America!"

[ccpup]

2. bullsh*t n/t

[Solly Mack]

3. wow..they are busy busy busy shaping that end game reality

LOL

"...or the controversy over the detainee program and how we interrogate prisoners"

[DemBones DemBones]

4. "We didn’t get elected to be popular. " Mission accomplished!

Approval ratings continue to dive.

[BridgeTheGap]

6. Sure Dick, we believe you! NOT

I'm heartened to hear that Dick doesn't care about the fate of the Repub party.
Still nothing on what, exactly, Iraq had to do with 9/11, probably because they didn't have anything to do with it.
If you're reading the intelligence reports, why can't you see how you have emboldened the terrorists by invading a country that had nothing to do with 9/11?
You choose to ignore the will of the American people at your own peril!

[Eurobabe]

7. You and George knew, I call bullshit.

Someday the dominoes are all going to fall and the truth will come out.

[Red Zelda]

16. Sadly,

the same thing has been said about the assassinations of the 1960s.

[seemslikeadream]

8. Except you and your friends

:shrug:

[NI4NI]

9. Hey Dick! Richard Clarke did!

But you and your asshole boss didn't want to listen!

[dweller]

11. hey, i sussed some truth in his statement ...

"When we ran..."

they had adequate warning of attacks pre-Sept 11. The chicken-heart cowards ran from the responsibity to protect the US, or else were complicit in allowing it to happen.

your choice Dick.
dp

[bdamomma]

12. what a sick SOB

this comment tells it all, they do not care about anyone but themselves and they do not care about their party, just the PNAC agenda, we have some sick sick criminals running this government, is it revolution time yet??????????

We didn’t get elected to be popular. We didn’t get elected to worry just about the fate of the Republican Party. Our mission is to do everything we can to prevail on what is now, we believe, a global conflict, a fundamental test of the character of the American people, whether or not we’re going to be able to prevail against one of the most evil opponents we’ve ever faced. And on our watch, we’re going to do absolutely everything we can to see to it that we do succeed and that we do prevail in that conflict, and sometimes that means that we don’t do well in the polls or people want to be critical. That’s their prerogative. But we sit there every morning and read the intelligence reports in the Oval Office and we know what’s happening out there. We know how committed our adversaries are to try to get at us. And we’ve done what we thought was right for the country.


This is bush/cheney's crusade, and they take that word "prevail" and shove it!!!

[unpossibles]

15. well he's half right when he said, "We didn’t get elected to be popular"

true, they did not get elected. And they're not really popular either. And they had warnings of 9/11, so he's wrong about that too.

And what the hell does Iraq have to do with it?

[TahitiNut]

18. Bullshit. I predicted it in September 2000 - an 'event' leading to war in the Middle East.

Some things are clearly predictable ... not many ... but with greedy global corporatists it's a "slam dunk."

[CJCRANE]

21. Cheney doesn't see it as lying.

To him it's "creating reality".

[Johonny]

22. some success

"We’ve been enormously successful at defending the country for the last five and a half years against another one of those attacks. It doesn’t mean there won’t be more attacks."


Huh? The number of Terror attacks worldwide has INCREASED dramatically since they started their "defense" of this country. Worse they have killed more Americans as a direct result of the war than died on 9/11. Even worse they failed to capture or stop the two main Terror events of that year The Antharax killer, Bin Laden. But the absolute worst is the shear number of dead Iraqi people that have died due to Terror attacks that are a result of the destablization of their country by this man. He's done an enormous job at getting people killed by Terrorist. FU DICK!!!!!!!!

[BurtWorm]

23. "We were specifically told it would happen on 9/12."

[tanyev]

24. Then the lightning speed at which you were able to capitalize on it

to achieve the PNAC's goals is even more remarkable, Dick. And improbable.

[bdamomma]

25. hey dick head what are you planning for the american people this time

do you know something we don't know???

"We’ve been enormously successful at defending the country for the last five and a half years against another one of those attacks. It doesn’t mean there won’t be more attacks. There may well be." .....dick cheney.



he knows something.....sigh, we need to remove ASAP.

[Lex]

26. "We didn’t get elected . . . " -- Cheney.

A little truth if you chop the sentence a bit.

[wicket]

27. Yeah they did Dick, you just didn't read the Hart Rudman report

:eyes:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Commission_on_Terrorism

[bdamomma]

28. that link doesn't seem to be working, I would like to send this

article to my Senator.