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Dick Cheney has some nerve attacking Sarah Palin as not qualified for VP -- worst VP in history had 13 per cent approval leaving office

Posted on Monday, July 30, 2012 at 07:24 AM

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Dick Cheney and Sarah Palin

Dick Cheney really has some nerve stating that Sarah Palin was not qualified to be Vice President of the United States.

This former VP will go down in history as one of the worst- ever and the man who doomed the Bush presidency to failure.

When he left office Cheney had approval ratings of 13 per cent, unparalleled in American history.

This is the man who can excoriate Sarah Palin who even now has massive support from sections of the Republican Party?

Remember Ahmad Chalabi? That’s the Iraqi politician from Saddam Hussein’s time who convinced Cheney and his cohort that Saddam had weapons of mass destruction and led Cheney and Co. down the path to the most destructive war of the modern era.

His agent nicknamed “Curveball” spun a cock and bull story to Cheney about Saddam’s “mobile biological weapons” labs that the war mongering Cheney and Bush and British leader Tony Blair snapped up as gospel truth.

Colin Powell even used the “evidence” at the UN, exposing the US to subsequent ridicule.

The CIA had insisted that Saddam had no links with Al Qaeda and there was no connection to 9/11. Cheney insisted otherwise.

Here are Cheney’s statements at the time.

“January 30, 2003: "His regime aids and protects terrorists, including members of Al Qaeda. He could decide secretly to provide weapons of mass destruction to terrorists for use against us."

March 16, 2003: "We know that he has a long-standing relationship with various terrorist groups, including the Al Qaeda organization."

September 14, 2003: "We learned more and more that there was a relationship between Iraq and Al Qaeda that stretched back through most of the decade of the '90s, that it involved training, for example, on biological weapons and chemical weapons."

Brings back pleasant memories now doesn’t it?

Here is his take on Saddam and his “nuclear weapons” search.

"March 19, 2002: "We know they are pursuing nuclear weapons."

"March 24, 2002: "He is actively pursuing nuclear weapons."

"May 19, 2002: "We know he's got chemical and biological...we know he's working on nuclear."

The colossal blunder that led us into Iraq and the loss of thousands of American lives and billions in cost is directly linked to Cheney’s war dancing.

Then there are his ties to Halliburton who made billions of that war, his insistence in torturing suspects and spying in Americans, his influence on Bush’s disastrous economic policies.

Could Sarah Palin have done any worse? I really don’t think so.

She’d have a very low bar to jump over that’s for sure.

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McNamara31 | Aug 02, 2012, 11:09 AM EDT

Madeliene Such vile statements...Can't imagine how someone believes such crapola?

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trconnors | Aug 01, 2012, 02:56 PM EDT

madaliene, have you ever had a brain scan?or where you jilted by a black muslim

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seanomelb | Jul 31, 2012, 10:51 PM EDT

Poor old Madeliene.

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AlunPalmer | Jul 31, 2012, 10:43 PM EDT

Torture loving war profiteer, Cheney was. That pretty much guarantees that anyone he criticises is a morally better person than him. He makes Sarah Palin look like an angel, if not a very bright one.

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Madeliene | Jul 31, 2012, 07:40 PM EDT

Biden is the worst VP oin history and Hussein pbama is a muslin racist communist Emporer wannabe, who is RAPING our RIGHTS EVERY DAY IN OFFICE.

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seanomelb | Jul 31, 2012, 07:19 PM EDT

Cheney! the most vile of man who ever served in the Us administration.Oops! I forgot Rumsfeld.

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susan724 | Jul 31, 2012, 04:22 PM EDT

irishpjk - You think he was the best VP in 53 years and you can't even spell his name?? LOL!! Let's see Gore left office with a 60% approval rating and has since earned a Nobel Peace Prize! 'Lil Dr. Evil left with a 13% approval rating and between him and his puppet, 'Lil Bushie, there is no Republican, candidate or otherwise, who wants anything to do with either one of them! Get some help!

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WoundedKnee | Jul 31, 2012, 10:22 AM EDT

Tom MO: "Ireland... secretely sided with the Nazis". That's a lie. I say you're a liar, Tom MO. Have the guts and smarts to produce some evidence or take your lie back.

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seanomelb | Jul 30, 2012, 11:47 PM EDT

Cheney the mass murderer!!!!

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irishpjk | Jul 30, 2012, 11:19 PM EDT

wtf Chaney best VP in the 53 years I have lived here, all American boy. What I liked best was when the liberal senator broke his chops on the floor and then went to shake Chaney’s hand, and the VP told him to F. O. Worst All Gorie

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curtisjohnson | Jul 30, 2012, 10:06 PM EDT

Tom Mo - how about some evidence for the "Ireland secretly sided with the Nazis" garbage. Britain entered the war to protect it's own selfish interests, not to save the world from "Hitlerism." In fact, leading up to the war there was a significant push in the anglo-sphere to move away from democracy and towards fascist regimes as they were viewed as more scientific and progressive (not that britain was ever anything other than a mercantilist oligarchy in substance anyway). The fact that they had the opportunity to stop/disrupt the concentration camps long before they were closed is all the evidence you need of their intentions. They also denied admittance to the Jewish diaspora.

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Tom Mo | Jul 30, 2012, 09:22 PM EDT

You all. Were it not for the United States of America, Ireland would be a non entity. Ireland stayed neutral during WW11 but secretely sided with the Nazis, while thousands of Irishmen were fighting and dieing in the British, French, and American Armies to save the world from Hitlerism. That's a fact. Idiots.

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Tom Mo | Jul 30, 2012, 09:11 PM EDT

Katie Murphy. I used to read "kitty the Hare" when I was a child. Are you related?

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seanomelb | Jul 30, 2012, 06:28 PM EDT

Cheney the warmongering fool should do jail time for the slaughter of innocent children in Iraq. HE was VP of the worst administration in the history of the USA. The moron and his cohorts sent the country broke.The temerity of the fool to cast aspersions on anyone else.BTW Palin was(is) a dud.

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Tom Mo | Jul 30, 2012, 06:06 PM EDT

Sweet jeasus Patrick Roberts, Have you gone mad? Cheney is still as solid as the Rock of Gibraulter(sp). You damn liberals/socialists are vexing. You throw so much crap out it is impossible to argue. But History will tell. Pat stop acting like Chris Mathews and The Madcow.

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