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...Washington Post reporter Bob Woodward - many months after the fact - out of context in an effort to shift the blame for the war's costs and direction from the White House to the CIA. Tenet describes watching an episode of Meet the Press in 2006 in which Vice President Cheney cited the "slam dunk" comment as a critical reason behind the U.S. invasion of Iraq and recalls thinking: "As if you needed me to say 'slam dunk' to convince you to go to war with Iraq...
...words yields heavy casualties when the subject is war itself. In Washington, the White House charged Democrats with trying to win elections by losing a war, and Democrats fired back on a President sunk in a "state of denial." Dick Cheney accused Senate majority leader Harry Reid of ignorance and "defeatism." "I'm not going to get into a name-calling match with somebody who has a 9% approval rating," Reid replied...
...There were also two long shots on the stage who attempted to stir things up. Congressman Dennis Kucinich tried to secure the hearts - if not the support - of the party's anti-war left, calling for Vice President Cheney's impeachment and promising to "move away from global warming and global warring." Former Senator Mike Gravel declared of the other candidates: "After standing up with them, some of these people frighten...
...Friedman, in his rambling April 15 article in the New York Times Magazine, sees promise in this “geostrategic, geoeconomic” green movement. A testosterone injection will transform the stereotypical environmentalist from effete tree-hugger into gun-toting patriot. Picture it now: Dick Cheney, a card-carrying member of the Sierra Club. And many environmentalists might accept this recasting as well. They recognize that another terrorist attack strikes fear in a way that, say, melting icecaps just don’t. Clean energy, now cast in a muscular light, can be supported by conservatives?...
...Percentage of Americans who could name current Vice President Dick Cheney; 74% could name the Vice President...