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Title: Cheney Author: 9/11 Didn’t Change Cheney, Gave Him Opportunity ‘To Put His Views Into Action’
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Think Progress
URL Source: http://thinkprogress.org/
Published: Jun 25, 2007
Author: GELLMAN
Post Date: 2007-06-25 19:11:54 by Zipporah
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Cheney Author: 9/11 Didn’t Change Cheney, Gave Him Opportunity ‘To Put His Views Into Action’ Cheney has argued that his quest for war in Iraq, pursuit of torture, denial of due process to detainees, and advocacy for illegal wiretaps were all precipitated by the events of 9/11: CHENEY: In a sense, 9/11 changed everything for us. 9/11 forced us to think in new ways about threats to the United States, about our vulnerabilities, about who our enemies were, about what kind of military strategy we needed in order to defend ourselves. [12/23/03] CHENEY: I think 9/11 changed things to the point where we could no longer afford to ignore what was going on in Iraq. [2/23/07] This morning on Washington Post radio, Barton Gellman — the co-author of the Cheney series — argued that based on his research of Cheney, he found “no evidence” that “9/11 exerted a profound psychological change on the Vice President.” Instead, Gellman argued, “[Cheney] has not changed his views very much over the years. What has changed is he has a greater opportunity to put them into action.” Listen to the interview: Transcript: GELLMAN: It’s been often speculated that 9/11 exerted a profound psychological change on the Vice President. But we did not find evidence that that’s true. There’s a moment in the story in which we’ve got witnesses who are watching him watch the World Trade Center collapse. Everyone else in the room is groaning. And he doesn’t blink his eyes. He turns around and starts working the phones again. And what he’s doing is he’s finding that 9/11 confirms some long-held beliefs of his. And it gives him the opportunity to press through some long-desired changes. He has not changed his views very much over the years. What has changed is he has a greater opportunity to put them into action. Poster Comment: Now isnt that just convenient?
The Washington Post’s four-part series on the influence and power of Dick Cheney reveal the tactics of a stealthy operator who prizes secrecy, kneecaps opponents, stifles dissent, and dogmatically pursues a rigid hard-right agenda.
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#1. To: Zipporah (#0)
Means, motive, opportunity.
To reason, indeed, he was not in the habit of attending. His mode of arguing, if it is to be so called, was one not uncommon among dull and stubborn persons, who are accustomed to be surrounded by their inferiors. He asserted a proposition; and, as often as wiser people ventured respectfully to show that it was erroneous, he asserted it again, in exactly the same words, and conceived that, by doing so, he at once disposed of all objections. - Macaulay, "History of England," Vol. 1, Chapter 6, on James II.
Mentally disturbed .. mentally deranged .. ah hell, he's physco! I still wonder how long it will take him to find his Jewishness.
The Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.
neither bush nor cheney exhibited the slightest shock or even surprise as events unfolded......are they just guys who don't surprise or shock easily? things that make you go hmmmm
A chance for his true self to be seen by the whole world.
..think of his actions as would someone looking into a crime.. too cool not shocked.. his actions as described just seem too controlled.. I may be reading too much into this...but what came to mind was how a murder investigation is handled.. how a suspect is focused upon..
things that make you go hmmmm ...exactly,
Their new Pearl Harbor.
I think that's the correct way to look at it. in my opinion, 911 was NOT an act of war, it was a crime. I believe our response should have been an investigation, not a muscle-flexing. brains not brawn. imagine how different the world would be right now.
#2. To: Zipporah (#0)
And he doesn’t blink his eyes. He turns around and starts working the phones again.
#3. To: Zipporah (#0)
#4. To: Zipporah (#0)
Ron Paul for President
#5. To: aristeides (#1)
Means, motive, opportunity.
#6. To: kiki (#3)
neither bush nor cheney exhibited the slightest shock or even surprise as events unfolded......are they just guys who don't surprise or shock easily?
#7. To: Zipporah. everyone here (#6)
PNAC
#8. To: Zipporah (#5)
..think of his actions as would someone looking into a crime..
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