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Cheney's Bad Breath
Mr. Cheney's potty mouth is just too easy a target. Suffice it to say, Mrs. Cheney should have washed his mouth out with soap years ago.
Source: The TIP, 2004-06-26
Candidate: Dick Cheney
Vice President Dick Cheney said Friday he had no regrets about a bitter exchange with Democratic Sen. Patrick Leahy in which the vice president used an obscenity.
Cheney, on a campaign swing through the Midwest battleground states of Iowa and Michigan, hurled the "F-word" at Leahy during a conversation between the two Tuesday, according to congressional aides.
Asked if he cursed the Vermont senator, Cheney told the Fox News program, the Cavuto Report, "Probably."
But he said "No" when asked whether he regretted it.
"I expressed myself rather forcefully, felt better after I had done it," Cheney said.
Obviously, this is where we must part company. "Go fuck yourself!" is not expressing oneself forcefully. It is what stupid people say when they're too old to cry.
It has no meaning. Just what was Cheney telling Leahy to do? Fucking oneself is, unless one is an hermaphrodite with amazing sexual organs, quite impossible. Cheney's directions to Leahy, unless Cheney was suggesting that Leahy is such a person, remains unclear.
According to congressional aides, Leahy said hello to Cheney after a photo session on the senate floor.
Cheney, who is president of the Senate, and apparently very touchy these days, then ripped into Leahy for the Democratic senator's criticism this week of alleged war profiteering in Iraq by Halliburton, the oil services company that Cheney once ran and from which Cheney continues to reap profits.
Leahy, then noted Republican hypocrisy by reminding Cheney how Republicans had accused Democrats of being anti-Catholic, because they are opposed to some of President Bush's anti-abortion judges, the aides said.
That's when Cheney, obviously unable to justify such hypocrisy, used the obscenity in telling Leahy what he could do.
"I expressed my unhappiness with the way he's been conducting himself," Cheney told Fox.
"He had challenged my integrity and I didn't like that. But most of all I didn't like the fact that after he'd done so that he wanted to act like everything is peaches and cream and I informed him of my view of his conduct."
Cheney said that was not the "kind of language I usually use." Cheney then took cover in the second oldest excuse ("my dog at my homework" being number one) that "everyone else does it") saying "I think a lot of my colleagues felt what I had said badly needed to be said, that it was long overdue."
On Capitol Hill, Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, a Tennessee Republican, bravely stepped forward to defend his man - he declined to comment on Cheney's remarks "I didn't hear them."
Adding to the Republican hypocrisy, Frist told reporters, "Civility? We need more of it in the Senate ... and probably in Washington, D.C., generally."
The flap overshadowed a day of campaigning in which Cheney hoped to spotlight the economy. Still hoping to change the subject, he said "America's economy is moving in the right direction -- and don't let anyone tell you otherwise."
Cheney, who has never let facts get in the way of rhetoric, was clearly preparing his audience for the next day when it was announced that the government report hailing the first quarter economic growth at 4.4% was revised downward to 3.9%.
Later, at a rally in Sioux Falls, Iowa, Cheney participated in some more name-calling, attacking Democratic presidential challenger John Kerry as the candidate of "malaise" -- an attempt to liken him to former President Jimmy Carter.
Carter and Kerry do have a lot in common. Carter and Kerry both served their country honorably in war - Carter in the Navy, Kerry in the Army. And, of course, Bush and Cheney also have a common bond - they both avoided service - Cheney by furiously finagling three, four, oh! Five deferrments - then finally hatching his mis-begotten brood in a real display of Planned Parenthood; and Bush by languishing in Texas in a drunken stupor for three years.
Critics say the task force secretly formed policy that was favorable to the energy industry. But Cheney replied, "Some people say, secrecy, secrecy, secrecy. You can't run the government if you don't have the ability to talk to people in confidence."
Confidentially, Cheney should have kept his opinions to himself.
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User Originated Comments:
From: Salman Elarabi
2004-07-06 20:59:55
thank you linda.
from the new york
times:
<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
c.i.a. held
back iraqi arms data, officials say
by james
risen
published: july 6,
2004
ashington, july 5 — the
central intelligence agency was told by relatives
of iraqi scientists before the war that baghdad's
programs to develop unconventional weapons had
been abandoned, but the c.i.a. failed to give that
information to president bush, even as he publicly
warned of the threat posed by saddam hussein's
illicit weapons, according to government
officials.
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
this is may be true, may be false and more
likely to be half the truth, especially the part
about not p-ssing that to the oil junta. the
arabic proverb that describes this relentless
effort by the new york times is:
the
truth at the service of the mean spirited.
From: Linda
2004-07-02 11:50:29
thanks, salman, i appreciate your point of view.
From: Salman Elarabi
2004-07-01 20:54:16
former general secretary of the un javier pérez
de cuéllar stated that iraq was the aggressor in
the iraq-iran war. iraq-iran war was not part of
the list of charges against deposed president of
the republic of iraq:
* killing of
religious figures in 1974.
* killing of a
kurdish clan in 1983.
* killing political
figures during his reign.
* the 1986-1988
anfal campaign against the kurds in northern
iraq.
* g-ssing the kurds in the northern
iraqi town of halabja in 1988.
* the
suppression of the 1991 uprisings by kurds and
shiites.
* the 1990 invasion of
kuwait.
here is the opinion of george
galloway on
this:
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http://w
ww.guardian.co.uk/iraq/story/0,2763,1251799,00.htm
l
the dog that did not bark is the iraqi
invasion of iran, with which - lo and behold -
saddam is not to be charged. why? because he
invaded iran at the behest of the us and britain.
he fought the iranian army and attacked the
iranian cities - and the civilians within them -
with weapons given to him by britain and america
and with maps supplied personally by donald
rumsfeld. the trial could scarcely cover the
invasion of a foreign country by iraq in which a
million people died when we would have to be
indicted as
co-conspirators.
****************************
the vital and most important question to
all of this:
would the success of the us
plans for "greater middle east" and its policy in
iraq enhance or undermine global justice and world
peace?
should the people who strive for
justice, justice, justice and peace pray for the
success of us efforts in (the middle east) arabia
or pray that the us fails?
out
of the subject:
a man came to the last prophet
of islam (pbuh) and asked him; who is most worthy
of my friendship? the messenger of god answered;
your mother. the man asked again, who comes next?
the prophet said your mother. the man asked
again? who comes next? the prophet said your
mother. the man asked again? who comes next, the
prophet said your father.
From: Salman Elarabi
2004-07-01 18:54:49
last week the vice president dick cheney, rudely
(underlined), used the 'f' word in the floor of
the us senate.
today, july 1, 2004, the vp
is at it again contradicting the 9/11 senate
investigation committee and reiterated the already
discounted al-qaeda saddam link. the trial of
saddam hussain is being censored by the us in the
free and liberated iraq. could that be because
they us does not want americans to learn about its
involvement in arming saddam and providing him
with vital military intelligence during the
iran-iraq war where he used chemical weapons
against the iranians? or is it because it was a
kuwaiti veto to make sure that the argument that
kuwait is as part of iraq as vermont is part of
the united states does not surface? whatever the
reason is, the coming years will prove that there
is no similarity between post wwii germany and
post april 9, 2003 iraq.
in the past i
have posted an arabic proverb that describes the
vp dick
cheney:
*************************
a silent
fellow;
nevertheless,
he spits blood and
fire when he
speaks.
**************************
ou
t of the subject: the european football (soccer)
cup is coming to a close. england, germany,
france, italy, holland and a whole lot of football
giant nations have been eliminated. it seems that
the final match will be between greece and
portugal. bravo to the greeks who repeated the
saga of the south koreans in the world cup in
2002.
From: ac
2004-06-28 17:35:38
this kind of language in any form constitutes a
lack of self control and discipline. and for him
to have no remorse is sending out a message to our
kids and peers that it is alright to use foul
language if under pressure. the next thing we can
justify is assault because he made me mad and i
slapped him. this behavior is inappropriate for
the asst cmdr and chief of the us. would you want
a man with this lack of self control leading your
counrty ? i dont think so!!!!
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