Mad Kane published an interview with Dick Cheney earlier today. Here is a sample:
CHENEY: I deny everything.
MADKANE: Everything?
CHENEY: Everything.
MADKANE: Do you deny that you went duck hunting with Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia?
CHENEY: Absolutely.
MADKANE: But Mr. Vice President, even Justice Scalia admits that you two went duck hunting together.
CHENEY: Never heard of the man.
Sounds about right.
Bilmon posts these from Robert McNamara’s memoirs:
But for the most part, McNamara’s eleven points are a pretty good capsule summary of the lessons that should have been learned from Vietnam, but which weren’t — in large part because the people now running the foreign policy of the U.S. government have never even been able to face up to the fact that we lost the Vietnam War, much less understand why we lost it.
Go read them.
There’s a lot of material in Cheney’s Meet the Press appearance today. I imagine most of it will be chewed on by one or another member of the blogosphere show I will show restraint and share just this one snippet regarding how the cost of the Iraq debacle will be paid:
But this is not a situation where, you know, it�s only a matter of us writing a check to solve the problem. Iraq sits on top of 10 percent of the world�s oil reserves, very significant reserves, second only to Saudi Arabia.
The fact is there are significant resources here to work with, and the notion that we�re going to bear the burden all by ourselves from a financial standpoint I don�t think is valid. We�ve got a donor�s conference scheduled coming up next month, where the international community will come together and pledge funds to cooperate and supported with the Iraqi operation.
Of course it was never about the oil and I look forward to hearing how much the coalition of the willing will pony up.
I’m tired and not doing much reading tonight but I did read through some 9/11 material. Mostly the stuff that conspiracy theory fans would like. Check them out…it appears that there are a few open questions:
Part 3 of Keith Quinnels Could 9/11 Have Been Prevented.
Tom Gevaert’s A Comedy of Errors — Airspace Security on 9/11.
Skippy and Spadehammer ask questions about 9/11.
September 11: Minute by Minute.
Good Night!
Lew Rockwell is a libertarian but I wouldn’t call him a conservative as does Ken Macleod. Ken is right, though, in saying that this is a pretty radical essay:
There is something grossly immoral about a regime that saunters into town, bankrupts its host country and destroys a few others in the process, making mess after mess and still not being held accountable for it. Making matters worse is the reality that it and its friends in industry will take off with all the loot. After all, all this money is going somewhere, and it isn’t to average Iraqis!
Rockwell chews the bushite actions and policies and spits them out in little pieces.
Some of you may not like everything he says but you should, nevertheless, read the entire piece!