If our Vice President lies, does anybody care?
by Kim Pearson

This post is prompted by a comment on the Don Imus controversy:

On Thursday, our illustrious Vice President Dick Cheney repeated his assertions of al-Qaida links to Saddam Hussein's Iraq...

We had a verbal Imus mistake for which he has apologized. The Vice President on the other hand participated in creating a war that has killed and wounded hundreds of thousands of people. He did it by using words that led us into war, and it appears that he was intentionally lying in order to do what he wanted to do...

Indeed, coverage of Dick Cheney -- much less those specific comments has been thin-- both in the press and the blogosphere. Sen. Carl Levin's April 12 commentary is one of the few pieces I found:

The vice president has a clear, documented pattern of overstating and misstating information with regard to Iraq. He also, for instance, continued to claim that 9/11 terrorist Mohamed Atta may have met with an Iraqi agent in Prague — long after the intelligence community believed otherwise. Again, his obvious purpose is to link Hussein's regime with Sept. 11, even though the rest of the world has concluded that no such link exists.

In the end, Levin asks,

We need to ask ourselves: What does it mean for our country when the vice president's words lack credibility, but he still wields great power?

What, indeed?

Kathy at Stone Soup Musings

says:

It means too many voters are taking at face value the ideas they're being fed instead of reading, investigating and thinking for themselves....

At Brigham Young University, it means that the Veep's forthcoming commencement speech there will be an occasion for anti-war protest.

Is that all there is?

Kevin Hayden believes that the movement to impeach Vice President Cheney and Pres. Bush is gaining ground, and not just among longstanding critics.

Elected Democratic centrists like Rahm Emanuel and Harry Reid don’t want to move to impeachment because they can’t see a way clear to fire Cheney so a Bush impeachment won’t yield worse. They suffer from a lack of imagination that’s afflicted the elected for 150 years.

They need to listen to the drumbeat from the street.

What are you hearing?

Submitted by Kim Pearson (view blog) on Fri, 04/13/2007 - 10:41

Comments

 

It's apalling; I'd love to protest, but . . .

I think it's apalling that Cheney is so sure he's right in the face of so much evidence to the contrary. I'm not sure if I believe he is lying, or just delusional about what he believes in the way so many over-zealous people are. I live about an hour from BYU and am trying to decide whether it's worth the trouble to take a day off work to go protest when I know it's not really going to do any good (about whether he speaks or getting him to change his mind about anything. I did sign the petition against the speech which is making the rounds of cyberspace and sent it to everyone I know.

Kalyn Denny
Kalyn's Kitchen

Submitted by Kalyn Denny on Fri, 04/13/2007 - 12:02
 

I think it's because Cheney

is such an appalling alternative to Bush that impeachment isnt favored, but also, because the last time impeachment was on the table it brought the country to a halt. Maybe Dem leaders like Reid and Emanuel want to try to legislate their way into taming Bush? Although with Bush's increasingly tone deaf stubborness, it does seem impossible.

Submitted by Morra Aarons on Fri, 04/13/2007 - 16:16
 

Our current White House

Our current White House Administration is very scary.. We have an ignorant, cowboy-president who can't form a complete sentence, and a demon-like vice president who lies worse than a used car salesman selling a Yugo..

The American people were sold a pack of lies to get us into this war - an invasion of an otherwise sovereign nation where we have killed many, many thousands and have destabilized an already unstable nest of bees.. For what?? Is America safer?? I think not...

But this isn't the worst.. The worst is that most Americans don't even realize they were lied to and bamboozled.. Somehow, the reasons for the Iraq invasion have been forgotten - i.e. weapons of mass destruction, ties to Al-Qaeda, lethal threat to The United States.. Americans just plug along, accepting our current state of world kaos , as gas prices reach toward $4-$5/gallon, innocent people are dying, prisoners are being tortured, and billions are being stolen from the national treasury - all in the guise of spreading our freedom and democracy across the entire globe...

So what do we do??

I think the first thing we need to do is help educate our fellow countrymen to the fact that Bush/Cheney have raped & pillaged our great country and have embarrassed us in the eyes of the world... That their leadership is unacceptable!!

The complacency of the average United States citizen will be the death of America.. I hope to God that we learn something from these despicable leaders..

Submitted by David on Fri, 04/27/2007 - 11:13