Deadeye Dick for the Defense
Matt Damon wants to see Cheney under oath.
MATTHEWS: Do you think guys like Cheney—I love to pronounce his name
correctly, by the way. Do you think guys like—it‘s like a Dickensian
name, Cheney. Do you think he knew he was saying stuff that wouldn‘t
turn out to be true, or was he just mad dogged to fight the war?DAMON: I‘d like to see him under oath.
MATTHEWS: I would, too. I‘d like to see him with you.
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MATTHEWS: Do you think if you waterboarded Cheney, like in the movie, that
you‘d get a different truth out of him?DAMON: Well, there‘s two answers to that question. One is he doesn‘t
strike me as the kind of person who has any real personal courage. When it
was his turn to go, he didn‘t go. He deferred six times.MATTHEWS: He said he had other priorities.
DAMON: Yes, he had other priorities. And he doesn‘t seem to have other
priorities about sending other kids there and other peoples kids.
Looks like Mr. Damon will get his wish, because Deadeye Dick will indeed be put under oath. It\’s just too bad it will be in Libby\’s defense.
Vice President Dick Cheney will be called as a defense witness in the CIA
leak case, an attorney for Cheney\’s former chief of staff told a federal judge
Tuesday."We\’re calling the vice president," attorney Ted Wells said in
court. Wells represents defendant I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, who
is charged with perjury and obstruction. …
It\’s the first time, but let\’s hope it\’s not the last. No one has more
to answer for than Dick Cheney. A man who stepped into the vice presidency and
through Junior became the power behind the first American throne in U.S. history.
Taking the vice presidency into territory the Constitution reserves for the president,
Cheney has fundamentally altered the course of U.S. foreign policy and he did
it without having to answer to anyone.
So I\’d like to see him under oath, too, through investigative hearings into the
Iraq war and the intelligence that got us where we are today. I\’d like to see a Democratic Senate take him to task for his abject arrogance and the lies he spread before the war. There are few
people who are less honorable than Dick Cheney, a man who has blood on his hands and has disgraced this
nation through lies, his support for Rumsfeld, and policies that have shamed us around the globe.
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