Will Cheney Duck and Run From Bush's Promises? (DNC Release)

[MaineDem]

For Immediate Release
August 24, 2006
Contact: Stacie Paxton/ Mark Paustenbach- 202-863-8148

Will Cheney Duck and Run From Bush's Promises?

Washington, DC - As Vice President Cheney continues on the campaign trail
raising special interest cash for Republicans, the question remains if the Vice
President will continue to mislead the public by trying to link the 9/11
attacks to Iraq. Despite repeated efforts to do so, the American public is no
longer buying it. In his news conference Monday,
President Bush finally admitted that there was no link between the 9/11 attacks
and Iraq, and pledged to stop attacking the patriotism of people who criticize
his failed policies.

Democrats have said all along that there was no connection between 9/11 and the
war in Iraq. Now that President Bush has finally acknowledged this fact, the
question remains whether Vice President Cheney will say the same and admit he
was wrong in trying to convince the American people otherwise.

"Now that President Bush has finally acknowledged that Iraq had nothing to do
with the September 11th attacks and pledged to stop attacking the patriotism of
his critics, it's about time for his hatchet-in-chief, Vice President Cheney,
to do the same," said Democratic National Committee Communications Director
Karen Finney.

"Vice President Cheney should abandon his standard fear and smear tactics and
stop trying to distract Americans from the failed leadership and misplaced
priorities of the Bush Administration and the Rubberstamp Republicans in
Congress. Democrats understand that all Americans deserve an honest debate
based on the facts on the ground in Iraq and are offering a new direction in
Iraq and a new direction for America."

President Bush: No More Linking Iraq And 9/11

President Bush: The terrorists attacked us and killed 3,000 of our citizens
before we
started the freedom agenda in the Middle East.

Q: What did Iraq have to do with that?

THE PRESIDENT: What did Iraq have to do with what?

Q: The attack on the World Trade Center?

THE PRESIDENT: Nothing, except for it's part of -- and nobody has ever
suggested in this administration that Saddam Hussein ordered the attack.

President Bush links "end of major combat" in Iraq with September 11th attacks.
In his speech aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, President Bush stated "The
liberation of Iraq is a crucial advance in the campaign against terror.We have
not forgotten the victims of September the 11th -- the last phone calls, the
cold murder of children, the searches in the rubble. With those attacks, the
terrorists and their supporters declared war on the United States. And war is
what they got."

Vice President Cheney states that the war in Iraq is a strike against the
terrorists who had America under assault on 9/11. On Meet the Press, Vice
President Cheney stated, "If we're successful in Iraq, we will have struck a
major blow right at the heart of the base, if you will, the geographic base of
the terrorists who have had us under assault now for many years, but most
especially on 9/11."

Or Attacking the Patriotism of Critics

President Bush This Week: "I will never question the patriotism of somebody who
disagrees with me."

Vice President Cheney Suggested Democrats Calling For 9/11 Investigations Were
Seeking "Political Advantage" In A "Time Of War." Responding to calls for an
independent investigation into September 11, Vice President Cheney suggested
the critics were simply operating with political motives. Cheney told a New
York audience, "what I want to say to my Democratic friends in the Congress is
that they need to be very cautious not to seek political advantage by making
incendiary suggestions, as were made by some today, that the White House had
advance information that would have prevented the tragic attacks of 9/11. Such
commentary is thoroughly irresponsible and totally unworthy of national leaders
in a time of war."

Americans Increasingly Dissatisfied With Bush Policies. "Americans increasingly
see the war in Iraq as distinct from the fight against terrorism, and nearly
half believe President Bush has focused too much on Iraq to the exclusion of
other threats, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News poll. ...Public
sentiment about the war remains negative, threatening to erode a Republican
advantage on national security. Fifty-three percent of those polled said that
going to war in the first place was a mistake, up from 48 percent in July; 62
percent said events were going "somewhat or very badly" in the attempt to bring
order and stability to Iraq."

Paid for and authorized by the Democratic National Committee, www.democrats.
org. This communication is not authorized by any candidate or candidate's
committee.

[elehhhhna]

1. WHY NOT Just say it? Anybody?

The man has had many heart attacks. Heart attacks affect brain function. Given his obvious delusions and outright lies, he is unfit to serve.

[TheCowsCameHome]

2. He hasn't had any lately. He's overdue for one.

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[GreenTea]

4. Good cop, bad cop-Cheney loves being the hatchet man....

and doing the dirty work...the arrogant, vindictive, evil SOB Cheney lives and breathes for it...What else do you think keeps his hateful, greedy, lying ticker alive?

(Besides power)...