Make no mistake: the reasons millions of Americans have had to endure the plagues of the Bush-Rove-Cheney administration for the past 6 years is because the Al Gore campaign in 2000 REFUSED to make an issue of then recently-resigned HALLIBURTON Chairman and CEO DICK CHENEY's many corporate sales dealings with Saddam Hussein's Iraq (and Iran and Libya and other such "rogue" nations).
HAD the Gore campaign made effective use of "OPPO RESEARCH" ('opposition research') to uncover even a partial extent of Cheney's dealings with Iraq and Iran, through Halliburton's European subsidiaries, it would have put the Bush-Cheney campaign ON THE DEFENSIVE, and seriously undermined their "STRAIGHT TALKER" and "MORAL VALUES" campaign themes.
So, today the Vice President who insists on NO accountability for mercenaries, no-bid contracts, and missing billions from HIS management of the Iraq war (including his ONGOING HALLIBURTON STOCK PORTFOLIO) is back to beating his favorite drum, "Democrats undermine the war!"
Just documenting the amazing duplicity, corruption, incompetence, and brazen hypocrisy on the part of our ammoral vice president is a challenge of patience and exasperation!
<< Vice President Dick Cheney on Saturday accused the Democrat-led House of not supporting troops in Iraq and of sending a message to terrorists that America will retreat in the face danger.
"They're not supporting the troops. They're undermining them," Cheney told a gathering of the Republican Jewish Coalition..in Florida. >>
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Cheney: House is undermining the troops
By BRIAN SKOLOFF, Associated Press
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070325/ap_on_re_us/cheney_troops;_ylt=Aiuwpf0YvXa8nCaCJHZrT7HMWM0F
MANALAPAN, Fla. - Vice President Dick Cheney on Saturday accused the Democrat-led House of not supporting troops in Iraq and of sending a message to terrorists that America will retreat in the face danger.
"They're not supporting the troops. They're undermining them," Cheney told a gathering of the Republican Jewish Coalition at the oceanside Ritz-Carlton hotel in Manalapan, Fla., about 60 miles north of Miami.
On Friday, the House voted to clamp a cutoff deadline on the Iraq war, agreeing by a thin margin to pull combat troops out by next year.
The $124 billion House legislation would pay for wars in Iraq and Afghanistan this year but would require that combat troops come home from Iraq before September 2008 — or earlier if the Iraqi government does not meet certain requirements.
Cheney called it a myth that "one can support the troops without giving them the tools and reinforcements they need to carry out their mission."
President Bush has threatened to veto the legislation. Cheney said Bush will not withdraw troops before there is stability in Iraq.
"The American people have lost faith in the president's conduct of this war," House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (news, bio, voting record), D-Calif., said after the passage. A message seeking comment was left with Pelosi's office Saturday.
