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The hidden hand of Dick Cheney (He has them quaking in their Birckenstocks!)
Salon ^ | May 13, 2009 | Juan Cole

Posted on 05/13/2009 1:01:24 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

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To: Gay State Conservative
Juan Cole was born in Albuquerque. He is a typical University of Michigan affirmative action poster boy, with radical anti-American views. He was actually turned down for a position at Yale in 2006 due to the extreme divisiveness he would inflict even on that rat's nest of leftists.
81 posted on 05/13/2009 6:57:45 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: lewisglad
What a telling picture. Compare body language of Bush and Cheney. Says it all.
82 posted on 05/13/2009 6:59:33 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I’m loving the liberals’ sheer terror of this man!


83 posted on 05/13/2009 7:51:33 PM PDT by SuziQ
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Thanks for the heads up.


84 posted on 05/14/2009 7:09:55 PM PDT by patriciaruth (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1993905/posts)
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To: SeattleBruce
People don’t understand what a total ROGUE state Iraq used to be under Saddam.

It was the egomaniacal personality of Saddam that allowed me and hubby to correctly predict
1. the invasion of Kuwait
2. the first bombing of the WTC, and belief that NYC, D.C. and maybe L.A. were in his sights as payback for his humiliation in the Gulf War.

LESSON from ENDER'S GAME. If you are going to challenge a rat, you have to plan on killing it.

If we had let Saddam stay out there, he would have continued to foster attacks on the U.S. abroad and at home. Don't give me the line that al Qaeda was solely responsible for all the attacks. Saddam helped. Basic psychology of the pathological personality he had. We don't know yet exactly how he helped, but the magnitude of the 9/11 plan needed some state sponsorship or assistance to work.

85 posted on 05/14/2009 7:21:52 PM PDT by patriciaruth (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1993905/posts)
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To: patriciaruth

“If we had let Saddam stay out there, he would have continued to foster attacks on the U.S. abroad and at home. Don’t give me the line that al Qaeda was solely responsible for all the attacks. Saddam helped. Basic psychology of the pathological personality he had. We don’t know yet exactly how he helped, but the magnitude of the 9/11 plan needed some state sponsorship or assistance to work.”
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I would recommend if you haven’t, to read The Connection. The fact that Saddam’s IIA had diplomatic privileges all over the world, allowed that ROGUE state to officially aid terror units whenever and where ever they found that to be convenient for themselves. Gee, do you suppose Saddam found it convenient to oppose the USA and support the ‘arab street?’ We know that he funded homocide bombers inside Israel by giving $25,000 to the homocide bombers’ families. That is an undisputed fact.


86 posted on 05/15/2009 6:39:42 AM PDT by SeattleBruce (God, Family, Country and the Tea Party! Take America Back!)
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To: Old Sarge

Does anyone know how well or poorly Daily Kos is doing (apparently that is a media company also)? It is interesting to look up Daily Kos, Huffington and Free Republic on http://www.Alexa.com.


87 posted on 05/15/2009 6:48:21 AM PDT by SeattleBruce (God, Family, Country and the Tea Party! Take America Back!)
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To: SeattleBruce

For instance Huffington is ranked in the top 500, FR in top 4,100 and Daily Kos in the top 5,300..

RealClear Politics is 7,174

Drudge is 837


88 posted on 05/15/2009 6:52:55 AM PDT by SeattleBruce (God, Family, Country and the Tea Party! Take America Back!)
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To: SeattleBruce

Have read The Connection, and sent copies to our troops.

But the evidence in it is circumstantial, and not enough to convince those who believe Iraq War has been difficult and therefore should never have been started.

We faced then and still face a terrible dilemma when it comes to fighting wars. The military experts told us we needed much more force going in to prevent anarchy and supress insurgency more effectively at the outset. But to get more force we need a draft. A draft leads to factions that protest and riot and force withdrawal from the war, causing anarchy to occur later and insurgency to win.

Therefore, if you are going to win, you have to make do with the army you’ve got, no matter how hard and chaotic that is.

H.W. fought the Gulf War with Reagan’s army, and W. fought the Iraq War with Clinton’s army. As W.’s army gained materiel and expertise necessary for fighting a nonconventional war, their effectiveness increased; but now we have Obama leading our armed forces, and I doubt he can handle it.

W. had to lead the armed forces with a lot of people (most of the Dems and some of the independents and conservatives) trying to stab him in the back. Obama will have people on the far left trying to get him to quit.

On the plus side we have Resko and Fitzgerald providing Clinton with leverage over Obama, and that may provide some counterbalance so that he doesn’t commit some of the worst mistakes.


89 posted on 05/15/2009 3:16:25 PM PDT by patriciaruth (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1993905/posts)
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To: SeattleBruce
What was FR ranking two years ago before the disagreement over who to support for the Republican nomination caused such bitterness that a number of former FR stalwarts left?
90 posted on 05/15/2009 3:18:33 PM PDT by patriciaruth (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1993905/posts)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

He will nail them with the truth! That is if the powers to be actually allow the truth to be told!

I have no faith in the Republicans to do the right thing. Who then but someone who actually has the balls to tell the truth. “The truth will set you free!”


91 posted on 05/18/2009 9:44:59 PM PDT by Bobbisox (ALL AMERICAN CONSERVATIVE FREEPER...and COMPLETELY DUMBFOUNDED!)
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To: Tarpon; sheik yerbouty; freekitty; unkus; flat; SouthTexas; Free ThinkerNY

Meanwhile, the rest of the GOP is looking for their gonads with both hands and a mirror and coming up empty! Eunuchs; one and all. In the 1800’s they would be hung for treason.


92 posted on 05/22/2009 6:51:56 PM PDT by ExTexasRedhead
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
"If we are not careful, he will win the struggle for the soul of the country as a whole."

The Left knows Dick Cheney is telling the truth and that he has the best interests of our country at heart.

They are just hoping against hope that they can prevent the American people from hearing what he has to say.

At the least, they want to scream loudly enough to distract and divert attention from what Dick Cheney says to what they have to say about what he says.

God bless VP Cheney, and God bless our country.

93 posted on 05/22/2009 7:06:52 PM PDT by LucyJo ("Yep, son, we've met the enemy and he is us.")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Geez, a conservative Republican with stones who actually “speaks truth to power”! Somebody check the Hades weather forecast!


94 posted on 05/22/2009 8:09:36 PM PDT by Still Thinking (If ignorance is bliss, liberals must be ecstatic!)
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95 posted on 05/25/2009 9:24:02 PM PDT by Nateman (If liberals aren't screaming you're doing it wrong.)
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