Cheney: It doesn’t matter that we haven’t captured bin Laden.
Cheney: It doesn’t matter that we haven’t captured bin Laden.
After the 9/11 attacks, President Bush famously declared that he would capture Osama bin Laden “dead or alive.” However, less than a year later — in March 2002 — Bush said that he was “not that concerned” about the al Qaeda leader. Today on CNN’s Late Edition, host Wolf Blitzer asked Vice President Cheney, “How frustrating is this to you personally, knowing he’s [bin Laden] still at large?” Cheney hesitated, then simply replied that he would “obviously…like to solve that problem.” He added that it’s more “important” to “keep…this country safe,” indicating that bin Laden is inconsequential. Watch it:
Because of the Iraq war, the CIA has been unable to devote enough resources to capturing bin Laden, as Newsweek revealed in 2005. Lacking this attention, U.S. News reported in 2007 that senior officials were privately admitting that bin Laden and his network may be “stronger than ever.”
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He is, in all likelihood, dead.
January 11th, 2009 at 3:55 pmMore excuses… charming.
Clinton gets crucified over a hummer, and…
January 11th, 2009 at 3:56 pmHe added that it’s more “important” to “keep…this country safe,” indicating that bin Laden is inconsequential.
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Look at the tape, again, CAREFULLY.
CNN doctored it.
What Darth ACTUALLY said was ” it’s more important to keep my MONEY safe…”
Which is why the DC Madam “committed suicide”…
January 11th, 2009 at 3:59 pmmore “important” to “keep…this country safe,” ?
Oh yeah and letting Osama live is really helping keep us safe.
pardon me while I vomit.
January 11th, 2009 at 4:00 pmCheney and his gangsters had only a short three months to capture Osama BL alive after 11 September 2001, since Osama passed away of natural causes in early December, 2001. See http://www.whatreallyhappened.com for more details. The corporate media and the Bush gangster regime have been lying about Osama BL for over seven years now. Heck of a lie, Mr. Bush…
But what else do you ever get from Bush, but lies and more lies.
January 11th, 2009 at 4:01 pmGo Cheney yourself.
January 11th, 2009 at 4:03 pmIf the Bush administration captured or killed Bin Laden, does anyone believe they wouldn’t have trumpeted that fact daily? I mean, to the point even their own gutless cheerleaders would say STFU?
The only reason it’s “not important” is because – like virtually every and any thing this administration has done – they failed miserably and completely at doing it.
January 11th, 2009 at 4:14 pm“He added that it’s more “important” to “keep…this country safe”
Which apparently doesn’t apply if you’re black and living in the ninth ward of new orleans.
January 11th, 2009 at 4:19 pmI strongly suspect OBL is dead, but since that isn’t known, it is arrogant for Cheney to dismiss him so casually – it is disrespectful to all of America.
Cheney cares only about Cheney – he is a lying war criminal.
He admits to waterboarding three individuals. Whether he does not believe waterboarding is torture is not for him to determine — it is internationally recognized as a war crime.
I watched that putrid human being lie with impunity this morning on CNN about the facts surrounding 9/11 and the war in Iraq, his role, etc.
January 11th, 2009 at 4:19 pmWhen he admitted the waterboarding, someone should have stepped forward with handcuffs and dragged him off the set.
A predictable response. If they had captured or killed bin Laden it would have been a shining example of their success in the War On Terror. But since they didn’t, he is of no consequence. Typical win/win spin.
January 11th, 2009 at 4:24 pmhow long will it be after he leaves office that dead-eye-dick will pack it up and move to dubai with haliburton, sparing us having to look at his ugly maw on television ever again?
January 11th, 2009 at 4:25 pmCheney’s definition of “Keeping America Safe” – 1) $1 billion in a Swiss bank account in his name. 2) Secret Service protection for himself and his family. 3) Total isolation from average Americans.
The rest of America can rot in hell as far as Cheney is concerned.
January 11th, 2009 at 4:26 pmThey don’t know or don’t care, either is deeply concerning.
January 11th, 2009 at 4:32 pm# 1:
Yep, dead as Julius Caesar.
January 11th, 2009 at 4:32 pmWow.
That a fine “f uck you” to the victims and families of 9/11, as well as the 4200+ dead service members and families of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.
January 11th, 2009 at 4:33 pmBeat me to it lokidog, if they had captured/killed OBL, we’d still be hearing about it. Clinton didn’t think he was inconsequential and neither did Clark, but Condi and W ignored
January 11th, 2009 at 4:34 pmthem.
but there WAS a mass casualty event on your watch, under your control, and at your command, you lying, treasonous, piece of scum.
January 11th, 2009 at 4:35 pmSo OBL was just someone to scare the US electorate into a war with Iraq, but otherwise not that important. Just like everyone else in the administration, he was used to their diabolical purposes and discarded.
God help me I hate that “man!”
January 11th, 2009 at 4:38 pmSo basically, after 8 long years of screwing everything up Bush and Chaney are saying… Hee Hee see ya Suckers! We’re out of here!
January 11th, 2009 at 4:42 pmThat’s part of it, certainly, lokidog.
But I think the more important perspective is that Cheney is absolutely correct. It doesn’t matter that they didn’t catch him. He served the purpose they needed him to serve. They got to invade Iraq and make their buddies rich by looting the national treasury. That’s what matters to them.
January 11th, 2009 at 4:47 pm.
Imagine had they caught OBL, then the claim of keeping the country safe would then become senseless.
Come on people, every Fascist State has to have that all elusive enemy threatening the “HOMELAND’S” security.
Why else would they need to trace phone call in the “HOMELAND”?
Why else would they require a “PAPERS PLEASE” society?
… But, but, but I thought OBL and terror on the “HOMELAND” was Clinton’s fault because he failed to catch OBL.
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January 11th, 2009 at 4:48 pmPresident Eisenhower, nearly 48 years ago in his farewell address, warned us of the military industrial complex.
(Vice) President Cheney, on the other hand, uses his own failure of capturing Osama to his advantage to keep the military industrial complex alive.
Me thinks Eisenhower would have captured Osama Bin Laden and Cheney if he were alive.
January 11th, 2009 at 4:48 pm.
R E M E M B E R:
The freepers were all about blaming the Clenis for not getting OBL.
LOLololol…
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January 11th, 2009 at 4:51 pmBin Laden is inconsequential, but all of the other Al Qaeda “leaders” that have been caught or killed were hugely significant. How does that work, exactly?
January 11th, 2009 at 4:52 pmhttp://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/11/opinion/11rich.html?_r=2
Eight Years of Madoffs
By FRANK RICH
http://www.netrootsmass.net/hughs-bush-scandals-list/
Bush Scandals List
Well,
You can’t say that the D!ck-N-Bush haven’t been busy screwing things up.
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January 11th, 2009 at 4:56 pmSure he is inconsequential. It is those number 2 guys that we are always claiming to have killed that are really important…
January 11th, 2009 at 5:02 pmYou realize the irony is that as a Senator Cheney
Cheney was never a senator. As SecDef, he was part of the Bush 41 plan to cut the military by hundreds of thousands, and further cuts were planned when Rumsfeld became secretary in 2001 before 9/11, then again in 2006, until cuts underway to the Air Force were halted by Gates and the Marine Corps was slated to expand to an active duty strength of 200,000+. Cheney and Rumsfeld are visionaries of a “nimble” force — it doesn’t mean they didn’t want private contractors to pick up the slack.
January 11th, 2009 at 5:10 pmOf course Dick thinks it doesn’t matter. That’s why his decision to go into Iraq was the right one, instead of staying in Afghanistan and getting the job done. Another brilliant move by the Bush administration.
January 11th, 2009 at 5:15 pmhttp://democralypsenow.blogspot.com/
wiley Says:
He is, in all likelihood, dead.
January 11th, 2009 at 3:55 pm
I haven’t seen, heard, or read anything that rebuts the claim made by Benazir Bhutto to David Frost, mere days before she was assassinated, that Osama was dead, assassinated by the ISI in Tora Bora in late 2001 or early 2002.
January 11th, 2009 at 5:17 pmrepublicans hate facts Says:
You realize the irony is that as a Senator Cheney used to boast at having cut the military more than anyone in history – right?
Cheney served in the U.S. House of Representatives as a congressman from Wyoming, from 1978 – 1989. Never as a Senator.
January 11th, 2009 at 5:20 pmCheney is a zombie.
January 11th, 2009 at 5:28 pmWe haven’t heard anything from Zawahiri in along while.
That doesn’t make him dead, either.
January 11th, 2009 at 5:31 pmPresident Cheney has to say that – vowing to kill or capture bin Laden makes al Qaeda’s figurehead seem more important than he is, which further emboldens the bad guys.
January 11th, 2009 at 5:32 pm“After the 9/11 attacks, President Bush famously declared that he would capture Osama bin Laden “dead or alive.””
ben Laden is and was an enabler for the Cheney/Bush regime. The Fall Guy – gave them a Boogyman. Set us up to be raped. Seems to have worked quite well, too.
There never was a serious effort to “find” him. Two words: Tora Bora. Nice show, but, you know, no big deal. Overall, the largest money grab in history.
January 11th, 2009 at 5:56 pmOh no! Not embolden-ment! How shall we ever survive the emboldened?
Gawd I hope we are leaving the dark ages of comic book psychology.
Had we enough evidence to indict bin Laden for 9/11, then perhaps Pakistan or Afghanistan would have turned him over. Why take the boogie-man bait? The only thing consequential about Osama bin Laden is that he was a poster boy for the WOT. See the BBC series The Power of Nightmares.
Why did our air defense system fail on 9/11?
January 11th, 2009 at 6:00 pmCheney said to Blitzer “we still have a few days left”!
They don’t want to get rid of the bogeyman. If he’s dead, they would look at it as to their disadvantage to reveal it. Whether or not OBL was with them—the US allowed the Pakistanis to come into Afghanistan and help many al Qaeda escape.
January 11th, 2009 at 6:07 pmwiley, why was the automatic defense system at the Pentagon switched OFF? Why were the interceptor jets sent out over the Atlantic? Why couldn’t they shoot down one plane when they had an hour and forty minutes?
January 11th, 2009 at 6:09 pmCheney you, Dick.
January 11th, 2009 at 6:13 pmDid Cheney capture the anthrax terrorist he hired through his buddy Donald Rumsfeld at the Pentagon to keep the fear going that it was liberals who caused our nation to be attacked? How about the ricin attack? Did ya get that guy too, jerk?
January 11th, 2009 at 6:29 pmRalph TWL says:
It doesn’t matter that they didn’t catch him. He served the purpose they needed him to serve.
True enough, Ralph.
And in the same vein: as LTdan clearly shows at #42, f*** those killed on 9/11 – who cares? Like Cheney, those deaths were props to be used, graves to be danced on by the armchair warrior, tough guy right.
F***ing spineless, America hating little weasels.
January 11th, 2009 at 6:49 pmCome on guys I expect more from you than this. The title and summary of Cheney’s interview are obvious attempts at stretching the truth to create a story.
Why bother there is plenty here to write about so why fabricate crap?
Please, as a supporter of all you do here on TP I have to ask that you do ‘us’ your readers the justice of reporting what is real and keeping your opinions to yourself. Thanks…
January 11th, 2009 at 6:55 pm44 Responses to “Cheney: It doesn’t matter that we haven’t captured bin Laden”… 9/11 was an inside job (USA/Israel/Saudi Arabia) anyway!
January 11th, 2009 at 7:03 pmUh ANIMAL? Are you saying Americans are not allowed to express their opinions and must stand firm with the Fuhrer and his men right or wrong? Wow. Unfreakingbelievable.
January 11th, 2009 at 7:03 pmEven if the war was about the things you say, it was horribly executed. The Taliban has almost regained their former strength in Afghanistan, millions of Iraqis have been “freed’ from their lives or their homes, and the invasion of Iraq has given terrorists the best recruiting tool they could ever have imagined.
If, on the other hand, the war was about consolidating power in the hands of a unitary executive through crisis-based fear, and about enriching the friends of BushCo who ran Blackwater and Halliburton, then it was impeccably designed and executed.
And perhaps, if OBL was simply ‘ONE WORTHLESS PERSON” then Bush shouldn’t have publicly vowed to get him “Dead or Alive!’
Ya think?
January 11th, 2009 at 7:10 pm“#
KayInMaine Says:
Uh ANIMAL? Are you saying Americans are not allowed to express their opinions and must stand firm with the Fuhrer and his men right or wrong? Wow. Unfreakingbelievable.”
Um, did I say ANYTHING to allude to it being my opinion that “Americans are not allowed to express their opinions and must stand firm with the Fuhrer and his men right or wrong”, I personally can’t find a single element in my post that alludes to this.
What I am saying is that this particular post is C-R-A-P. Cheney said nothing of the sort, and sadly as much as I detest him I am not ignorant or hateful enough to go all APE-S*** over something he did not say.
You see I think us Liberals / Progressives are better than fabricating stories to further our agenda, that is the MO or the right-wing-hate-machine. Get it?
Go ahead and state your ‘opinion’ if its crap I’ll call you on it because I CARE about the messages that ‘we’ send. And as much as I like TP the statement that Cheney stated :”It doesn’t matter that we haven’t captured bin Laden.»” is patently FALSE. He said it was important only LESS than keeping us safe. Utter crap I know but that is what he said. Deal with it.
January 11th, 2009 at 7:17 pmJust put this guy in jail!
January 11th, 2009 at 7:20 pm“Dr. Hussein Matt Says:
ANlMAL Says:
What I am saying is that this particular post is C-R-A-P.
Yet, you continue to post, concern troll.”
Wow I didn’t know that contrasting opinions were unwelcome here. How sad. Enjoy the box.
January 11th, 2009 at 7:21 pmCheney: It doesn’t matter that we haven’t captured bin Laden.»
Wonder if it matters why WTC Building #7 came down.
January 11th, 2009 at 7:22 pmLTdan Says:
The war is about spreading freedom and beating the terrorists, not catching ONE WORTHLESS PERSON.
codswallop!
January 11th, 2009 at 7:40 pmthe ‘war’ is about extending USer ‘influence’ into the trans-caspian energy puddle…
it has NOTHING to do with either ‘freedom’ or terrorists…other than that those are offered as propaganda to rationalize the imperial militarism…
LTdan Says:
You really are a brainwashed moron arent you? Sure no reason to get a guy who murdered 300 Americans is there. Nah better to use it for an excuse to fight more profit friendly wars in oil rich countries. Isnt it time for Rush to tell you what you think today?
January 11th, 2009 at 7:44 pmUh ANIMAL? Did you watch the video above of Cheney or are you just pulling YOUR NEOCON CRAP out of your ass hoping it sticks to the wall for all to see?
January 11th, 2009 at 7:49 pmIt strikes me that “Osama bin Laden” may well be Cheney’s code name.
January 11th, 2009 at 7:52 pmANIMAL, did you know Bill Clinton kept America safe for the rest of his years after the 1993 WTC bombing, and the only time it was unsafe again, was when George W. Bush was the president on 9/11/01? And didn’t you think it was weird that the F-16s weren’t called up when planes were doing circles in the sky, but yet, that year (2001), there was at least 60 incidences in America’s skies where the F-16s were called up to check on planes going off course? If this hadn’t dawned on ya, then maybe it’s time to look at 9/11 again and wonder why George & Dick’s America became unsafe again!
January 11th, 2009 at 7:52 pmKayInMaine, Fist off I am about as far LEFT as you can get. I am not spouting neo-con crap just because I am calling the title of the post out as a fabrication does not make me your adversary, you see critical thinking allows me to critique those I agree with. I watched the video, and Cheney said nothing of the sort so how does it make TP look to post articles whose titles are obviously misleading and false? IMHO it makes ‘em look bad.
Yes, I agree Clinton kept the USA safe for the time he was in office, what does it have to do with this post? Yes I find all the circumstances on 911 highly unusual and calls into question the intention of the Bush administration. But what does that have to do with the title of this post?
What I don’t think you are getting here is that I am criticizing the TP because I CARE about their content. You see I am all for sharing my opinion when I think that it will do those I care about good. And in this case I think it is a good idea for TP to consider how they ’spin’ or DON’T ’spin’ a story.
January 11th, 2009 at 8:00 pmIf OBL is indeed alive I guess we’ll know it sooner or later if/when he makes one of his You Tube videos. My guess (along with alot of others here) is that he’s dead…been dead…and he’s just continued to be propped up in front of us so we have a “boogey man” enemy. I’m only hopeful that the new President would not see fit to carry this forward and maybe it’s part of his recent words to “look forward” instead of back. Then again, I had the Giants today, WTF do I know? :-(
January 11th, 2009 at 8:05 pmWell, we can share our opinion too, ANIMAL. Just because we’re not towing the same line you are when it comes to Dick Cheney, doesn’t make us wrong.
The reports coming out of Dubai in July before 9/11/01 had Osama bin Laden in the hospital with kidney/liver problems. After 9/11 happened, all we’ve gotten is audios of him (though, I don’t believe it’s his voice….I think the CIA has an Osama impersonator on the payroll) with no current videos. Bin Laden is dead and has been for years, so Dick Cheney acting all casual about it is disgusting. If bin Laden did survive somehow, it’s because Cheney and his Oil Cartel have him holed up somewhere and have for years!
If Osama bin Laden appears live to Americans under Barack Obama’s presidency, we can bet our sweet bippys that the Bush Cartel did in fact protect bin Laden all these years.
TP provided all the links necessary for us to come to our own conclusions. As you can see, MOST DON’T TRUST DICK CHENEY AND NEVER WILL….no matter what he says or how sweetly he says it.
January 11th, 2009 at 8:09 pmBush already said to a reporter at one time “I don’t know where he is. I just don’t spend that much time thinking about him.”
Truer words were never spoken. The special team they had set up to find him and to channel all information was disbanded very soon. And they stopped the funding first. They spent very little time on garnering information very early on. That came out on the news three years ago. This is not new. Remember Bush and his rhetoric? We will smoke him out or whatever cave he is in.” “He can run but he cannot hide.” Etc.
What Cheney says now is what came out three years ago. Bin Laden was never the reason we went to war. Saddam was never the real reason. OIL WAS THE REASON. Please let’s not forget the reason we are still there. Let’s not forget the lies that got us entangled in the Mideast.
Bush would have liked to get Bin Laden. But not enough to put real effort into it. Now we don’t have him. After all the big talk he is still out there. Thumbing his nose at us.
January 11th, 2009 at 8:22 pmANIMAL, when TP wants your editorial advice they’ll probably offer you a job.
January 11th, 2009 at 8:23 pmShayne Says:
ANIMAL, when TP wants your editorial advice they’ll probably offer you a job.
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Or bang themselves on the head with a blunt object until the moment of insanity passes
January 11th, 2009 at 8:43 pmRemember the amazing hi-tech caves with elevators and generators in Afghanistan? The ones that don’t exist. Neocon fantasies are rich.
January 11th, 2009 at 8:51 pmYou guys are being WAY overly sensitive on this, IMHO.
The title captures NOTHING in the interview and all the other points that have been posted to refute what I am saying, although valid in their own right, have nothing to do with the criticism.
TP gets bashed for being a left wing spin rag for the simple fact that they choose to use titles like the one above. Fine if that is what you all want…enjoy, but know that the assertion is false and makes the left look just as bad as fauxnews makes the right look. If that’s your bag enjoy it.
I made my comments with everyone’s well being in mind. If it pisses you all off so much, well sorry that is not my intention.
You see KayInMaine, your post #61 is a perfect critique of the interview. You don’t have to make up things that did not go down to write a good article about the many issues with Cheney’s behavior. So why is it done?
I’m in architecture, critique drives our work. We don’t cry when someone points out what we have done wrong. In fact the MAJORITY of the feed back we get is critical and guess what it does for our work? It makes it better….Go figure…..
January 11th, 2009 at 8:52 pm…of course OBL COULD turn up dead in the next week or so….
January 11th, 2009 at 8:55 pmI agree that TP takes too many unwarranted liberties with its headlines. I’ve complained about this myself.
But TP IS a “left wing spin rag”. It’s got a point of view and presents news from that perspective. It doesn’t present itself as an unbiased news organ.
Thus, if an unabashedly partisan website looks just as bad as Faux News, that’s not really a good reflection on Faux News, is it? All that “Fair and Balanced™” crap notwithstanding, of course.
January 11th, 2009 at 9:42 pmHey, Oval12345678 aka James K. Sayre: I checked out your recommended Website. . . since its contributors and/or organizers CONSISTENTLY fail even to use their own language correctly, readers should put NO confidence in ANY information reported on that site.
January 11th, 2009 at 10:35 pmConspiracy buffs especially like the idea that Osama is dead. They’ve been saying he’s dead for years–though, oddly, they each have different versions of what happened to him and when.
My favorite conspiracy guy is radio host Alex Jones, known for making incredible statements with no documentation whatsoever (”The government keeps giant, honeycombed hives of toddlers drugged on lithium”). Alex said they were going to “roll bin Laden out on ice” before the 2004 election. I was especially sorry that prediction didn’t turn out.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVPy-ejcbjM
January 11th, 2009 at 10:35 pmMax-1: THANK YOU for pointing out the “Bush Scandals List.” Having experienced Shrub’s destructive policies and pretensions as “Gov” when I lived in Texas, I strove fruitlessly to warn friends, colleagues, and family what would happen if they voted in Herr Shrub as President. If the bushco destruction had been less catastrophic; if the evils promulgated by bushco’s virulent ignorance, selfishness, and total lack of morals had been less devastating, surpassing even my pessimistic predictions, I’d be enjoying a well-earned last laugh. But there’s nothing funny about what bushco AND THOSE WHO VOTED IN A SECOND ROUND OF SAME have done to our nation, to our status in the world, to our influence for good, and to our reputation.
January 11th, 2009 at 10:59 pmHey, Ralph–post #47 ROCKS!
January 11th, 2009 at 11:03 pmYou bet it doesn’t matter! BushCo., Cheney and the PNAC relied heavily on Bin Laden’s services on 9/11. They are very satisfied customers. How can they possibly go after him?
January 11th, 2009 at 11:16 pmLTDan, It is the Bush/Cheneys of this world who act like we are up against a single “mad man”—and need to oust him in order to liberate his people (Osama bin Laden, Saddam Hussein, Ahmadinnerjacket). Progressives most definitely do not look at the world like that “great man” model. They look at the world more in a sociological model—like “the US supports those most friendly to big US business”.
January 12th, 2009 at 1:55 amIf John Kerry had been in office and had not caught Osama Bin Laden by now, LTDan would have been crying about how this IS ABOUT One person…
January 12th, 2009 at 3:26 amYou aren’t allowed to actually kill the boogeyman because then you don’t have the boogeyman to be frightened by. Oh and what color alert are we at I sort of forgot? I also have a lot of other jobs that I would like to use this duct tape and plastic sheeting for. Can I get going with those or do I have to keep saving this shit?
January 12th, 2009 at 6:11 amSo, does the media continue to interview the likes of Cheney, Bush, Joe the Plumber and Sarah Palin in an effort to get useful knowledge and wisdom? Or is it their sick little joke on the viewing population-tricking them into thinking that these idiots are going to say something that we didn’t already know? Personally, I don’t even care to hear the words “Cheney” and/or “Bush” until the word “indictment” follows.
January 12th, 2009 at 8:55 amNot killing Bin Laden is just another failure that this arrogant administration will never admit to.
Our nation needs to move on & bury bush/cheney for good.
January 12th, 2009 at 9:54 amYou know, he could have said “there’s more important work out there to be done” to help push the meme that neocontinuity needs to carry over into Obama’s term, but no, he had to claim Bin Laden is “inconsequential.”
The guy who did the thing that you use to justify everything else you’ve ever done. I’d say that’s pretty consequential. If Bin Laden is inconsequential then terrorism is inconsequental. If Bin Laden is inconsequential then Gitmo, warrantless wiretapping, extraordinary rendition, telecom immunity, torture, suspension of habeus corpus, and signing statements don’t even have the justification that you claim they have.
The thing is, they still believe that instead of dealing with reality, they can just create it by decree.
January 12th, 2009 at 11:07 amAmanda, your headline is a lie, and I can’t believe I have to defend this guy here, but nowhere did Cheney ever say – and I’ve watched this clip several times now – that it doesn’t matter if we’ve captured Osama.
January 12th, 2009 at 11:23 amI don’t believe it was ever their intention to capture Bin Laden in the first place! Bush and Cheney just need to stop lying! It’s been 7 years since 9/11 and they have not found Bin Laden yet! The invasion of Iraq was just another cover up of their secret agenda to control the oil supply in that region – that’s my theory.
January 12th, 2009 at 11:32 amActually the headline is not a lie. Use your english skills, please. You know, the ones you learned in school (assuming you were paying attention). To denote a person, thing, or event as being “inconsequential” IS to state, explicitly, that that person, thing, or event “does not matter.” Stating that OBL is inconsequential actually goes FARTHER than simply stating that his capture does not matter. The latter comment (the headline) refers to a specific instance (”capture”), but Cheney dismissed OBL ENTIRELY — not just his capture, but dismissed the man himself as inconsequential (which implies that everything the man does is inconsequential…. odd position to be taking). Furthermore, taking OBL as an inconsequential person is explicitly granting him a verbal pardon of sorts for the murders he is liable for. If OBL was behind 9/11, dismissing him as suddenly inconsequential is allowing him to go free even though he is a criminal.
Why would Cheney think that OBL is inconsequential? How many people do you have to murder to become “consequential”?
January 12th, 2009 at 11:36 amWhy would you attempt to catch the people you paid to carry out the attacks. Do you think we are stupid Mr.Vice Prez.
January 12th, 2009 at 12:02 pmCageyCretin, now YOU are lying (use your comprehension skills, the ones you were supposed to learn in 2nd grade). ThinkProgress made up a word Cheney never said (”inconsequential”). That was TP’s word, NOT his. TP interpreted, wrongly, that his comments “indicated” that Osama was “inconsequential.” Cheney actually said at the start of this clip that he “would very much like to capture Osama.” (Maybe you need to get your hearing checked?) And for the sake of accuracy and proper journalism, you and everyone else here should know that before going any further with your comments.
All Cheney was saying is that keeping this country safe from another al qaeda terrorist attack since 9/11 is bigger than catching any one of its members (like Osama and his deputies). He’s right (for once). Capturing Osama or Zawahiri would be great, but al qaeda could still have the ability to strike its enemies anywhere, anytime.
If you don’t think that a post-Osama bin Laden al qaeda attack on the U.S. is possible, you’re delusional. Al Qaeda will not go away anytime soon, no matter how many leaders get killed or captured. Hope you (and TP) get it now.
January 13th, 2009 at 1:20 pmWhy would you attempt to catch the people you paid to carry out the attacks. Do you think we are stupid Mr.Vice Prez.
Noliesplease, you really are delusional if you think the Bush administration paid al qaeda to attack us on 9/11. You are apparently part of the “9/11 was an inside job crowd.” Pretty sad.
January 13th, 2009 at 1:24 pmhe is a lying war ccetriminal.
March 1st, 2009 at 11:34 amHe admits to waterbbedava mp3 indiroarding three individuals.you really are delusional if you think the Bush administration paid al qaeda to attack ussohbet on 9/11.