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politico.com - 1/5/2009
Cheney: Iraq intel was "wrong"
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Vice President Dick Cheney admits that the pre-war intelligence for Iraq was "flawed" but says that does not change anything about how the war has been conducted. In an interview with CBS "Face the Nation" on Sunday morning, Cheney continued to offer a stout defense of the ...
Cheney: No One Could Have Predicted The Financial Crisis, Just As No One Foresaw 9/11
thinkprogress.org - 1/10/2009
Cheney: No One Could Have Predicted The Financial Crisis, Just As No One Foresaw 9/11
— thinkprogress.org — Yesterday in an interview with the Associated Press’s Deb Reichmann, Vice President Cheney repeatedly insisted that no... one anticipated the looming U.S. financial crisis. “I don’t think anybody saw it coming,” he said. He then ... (more) Cheney: No One Could Have Predicted The Financial ...

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politico.com - 1/8/2009
Cheney: I'm actually 'loveable'
— politico.com — Vice President Dick Cheney said his image has gotten a bad rap in the press.... (more) Cheney: I'm actually 'loveable'

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blogs.tnr.com - 12/30/2008
Trash Talk
— blogs.tnr.com — I want to take issue with Martin Peretz’s description of my former colleague Spencer Ackerman’s articles as... “trash.” Maybe I am sensitive because Spencer co-authored several with me, including a piece of the Bush administration’s deception about ... (more) Trash Talk

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Cheney, Iraq, and 'wrong' intel
Political Animal — ... ," and wishing the "intelligence had been different." Bush, of course, conveniently overlooked the inconvenient details, such as the entirely accurate intelligence that he ignored because it didn't tell him what he wanted to hear. Yesterday, it was vice president's turn, who talked about the Iraq intelligence in an entirely different way . In an interview with CBS "Face the Nation" on Sunday morning, Cheney continued to offer a stout defense of the Bush legacy in Iraq, even though like other administration officials he conceded problems with WMD intelligence. "The original ...

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