Comments on: GOP's Torture Strategy: Pelosi

Politico: Republicans Are Countering Calls For An Investigation By Saying That The House Speaker Should Be Included

[casionova]

Incidentally the British were the first to use WMD in Iraq. They used to bomb rebel Iraqi villages with poison gas before WW2. Winston Churchill signed the orders.

Thats why I thought it was funny to hear the brits condemning saddam the monster for gassing his own people when they did it first....

[notblue]

For over two decades politicians and presidents from both sides of the isle stated Sadam had WMD. Both Republicans and clearly Democrats like Pelosi were fully aware of the interrogation methods being used. If not for the collective memory loss of the leftwing in this country and the sheep that believed the false move.on talking points Obama may not have been elected. But now the election is over and the Dems believe that if they continue to point fingers and blame the other side of the isle the media will support that agenda and the sheep will once again believe. This time however, as this article clearly states, there is documentation showing that all relevant high ranking Democrats also knew. That is why there will be no prosecution of ANYONE. As long as the Dems can deflect from their own impotence and hide the truth by critisizing and blaming political rivals that the white hot spotlight of truth never shines on them or their policies. Lucky for the Dems there are still enough enough sheep, enough libs, who harbor hatred for anything conservative and are still able turn a blind eye to reality and truth.

[leeanna59]

Is there some kind of alternative history written for people who have blanked out the UN inspectors on the ground in Iraq investigating and hunting actually for ANY evidence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq . . .
Posted by prometheus11

It is very well documented that Sadam Huessein (however you spell it) used WMD to kill 50,000 of his own people. By the time the inspectors got there, the WMD had been moved to Syria.

[casionova]

Cheney said Iraq had reconstituted nuclear weapons programs.
Posted by casionova at 7:16 AM : May 12, 2009
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Exactly. Programs are development...having nuclear weapons is operational.
Posted by reasoned1955

So we are in agreement then. Cheney is a liar.

I would go one further however and say that since Cheney lied to the world to wage an aggressive war he should be hanged as the war criminal he is and as the Nazis were for waging an aggressive war.

[moderateminded44]

Your frustration with the facts is showing Stuart. I will concede that Cheney definitely fanned the flames; but no one (not even him) was saying that Iraq had operational nukes. The concern was their development. This is consistent in all objective writings on this topic. Posted by reasoned1955 at 7:06 AM : May 12, 2009

********!!! Knucklehead. CHENEY was talking mushroom cloud over New York, by the Iraqi regime. He used Powell sadistically and destroyed his credibility, to propagate the WMD fiasco 100 fold. Whereas his real motivations were billions for the oil & weapons industries.

Cheeky Cheney USED the Oval Office for greed and only greed. He never once gave a hoot for how many Americans or Iraqi's died. This man is insane.
Posted by SanityPlease at 7:28 AM : May 12, 2009

Stuart's other login name....

[norcalruss]

This is absolutely ridiculous. The torture policy was devised and owned by Bush Administration and that is where the focus should be. These bums in the GOP are doing nothing but obstructing as usual. They are trying to muddy the waters and protect Bush, Cheney and others by dragging Pelosi and others into the war crimes policy of the Administration. Pelosi was not the speaker of the house back then, and even if she would have objected, would these self-righteous b@stards in the Whitehouise have listened to her? And what is Lamar Alexander blabbering about the Clinton Administration for? They had nothing to do with Bush?s torture policy. This is the complete and utter nonsense that you would expect from the hypocritical GOP sore-losers. Try to impeach Bill Clinton for lying about a BJ don?t do a d@mned thing when one of your own commits war crimes, gets thousands of Americans killed, wastes hundreds of billions of dollars, and destroys a country for no good reason.

[valh1]

Looking at Princess Pelosi is absolute torture. Her face has been pulled so tight it hurts to look at her. Of course she will never be voted out. She is in a safe district where they love liars and cheats because that is just how liberal moonbats roll!!!

[reasoned1955]

Cheney said Iraq had reconstituted nuclear weapons programs.
Posted by casionova at 7:16 AM : May 12, 2009
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Exactly. Programs are development...having nuclear weapons is operational.

[moderateminded44]

That was probably due at least in part to a Presidential State of the Union Address which mentioned "yellow-cake uranium", which the husband of a former CIA employee -- who's identifty was at one time a state protected secret -- disclaimed as false.
Posted by prometheus11 at 7:13 AM : May 12, 2009

That's been rehashed a million times already, and it's commonly accepted that it's a FAR leap from yellow cake to armed nuclear weapons. Only a mental midget like stuart2590 would crap his diaper over that.

[casionova]

but no one (not even him) was saying that Iraq had operational nukes. The concern was their development. This is consistent in all objective writings on this topic.
Posted by reasoned1955

Cheney said Iraq had reconstituted nuclear weapons programs. He knew he was spinning a tale and hes responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths because of those lies