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I do not believe that there’s any chance that the Arab Spring flourishes in Iraq. An Arab Spring in Iraq appears like Syria, but so much worse. Because, unlike.

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Former Secretary of Condition Condoleezza rice stated Herman Cain shouldn’t be playing the race card within an interview broadcast following the former pizza executive stated he’s being assaulted by liberals for his race although not by conservatives.

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 Former Vice President Dick Cheney praised the Obama administration Sunday for using a drone strike to kill American-born Muslim cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, but said President Barack Obama should now reverse past criticism of former President George W. Bush’s actions against suspected terrorists.

 Al-Awlaki — an American whose fluency in English and technology made him one of the top terrorist recruiters in the world — was killed Friday in Yemen, according to U.S. and Yemeni government officials.

 The strike also killed Samir Khan, an American of Pakistani origin, and two others who were in the same vehicle as al-Awlaki, said the U.S. official, who was briefed by the CIA. Khan specialized in computer programming for al Qaeda and authored the terror network’s online magazine, Inspire.

 ”I think it was a very good strike. I think it was justified,” Cheney told CNN’s Candy Crowley on “State of the Union.” But “I’m waiting for the administration to go back and correct something they said two years ago when they criticized us for ‘overreacting’ to the events of 9/11.”
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 The Obama administration has “clearly … moved in the direction of taking robust action when they feel it is justified,” Cheney said.

Cheney’s daughter, Liz Cheney, went a step further, saying Obama “in effect said that we had walked away from (America’s) ideals.”

“I think he did tremendous damage,” Liz Cheney said. “I think he slandered the nation and I think he owes an apology to the American people.”

 When asked by Crowley if Dick Cheney also wants an apology, the former vice president replied, “Well, I would. I think that would be not for me, but I think for the Bush administration.”

 Republican critics of the administration claim it is hypocritical for Obama to approve the killing of Americans without due process while criticizing Bush officials for signing off on the use of so-called “enhanced interrogation techniques” such as waterboarding.

The use of such techniques has been banned by Obama.

 Former Rep. Jane Harman, D-California, told CNN that she believes many of Obama’s critiques of the Bush White House — most notably its secrecy — are valid.

 ”I don’t think the Obama administration should be repeating” those mistakes, Harman said. “I think the debate about the legal grounds (for counterterrorism strategy) should be more in the open,” she said. In particular, “we should have a legal framework around our interrogation and detention policies far more than we do now.”

 Harman, a former top member of the House Intelligence and Homeland Security committees, also cautioned about the need for strict guidelines in the use of drone strikes, which have increased under Obama’s watch. Critics of drone strikes argue that they undermine the U.S. cause by killing innocent civilians, infringing on the sovereignty of other nations and generating sympathy for al Qaeda and other extremist organizations.

 ”We could abuse this program,” Harman said. “We’ve got to have a counter-narrative (to dissuade potential terrorists). We’ve got to live our values.”

 Retired Gen. Michael Hayden, a former CIA director under George W. Bush, largely dismissed Harman’s warning, telling CNN that critics of drone strikes “greatly exaggerate” their collateral damage.

 The strikes are arguably the most critical weapon in the U.S. arsenal against al Qaeda, Hayden said.

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Have human rights organizations today, American and Canadian press conference and seminars in Vancouver, Canada urges the Attorney General of Canada to open an investigation and prosecution against former U.S. President George W. Bush on issues related to the torture of detainees in U.S. prisons.

She said such organizations – in a statement, I got a copy of Alice – The call to open an investigation and initiate prosecution of Bush is based on individual responsibility and leadership, under Canadian law and international law of human rights.

The Canadian Centre for Justice and International Center for Constitutional Rights in America – who fly the case – they will show at the press conference for a file specifies a detailed and lengthy case against former U.S. President, and request a formal investigation and legal prosecution against him. The centers that the file consists of a four thousand page contains materials to support the case to the Attorney General.

Bush had canceled a planned visit to Switzerland earlier this year after the announcement of the Centre for Constitutional Rights filed a criminal complaint that he will in this country on behalf of two detainees who were tortured, according to a press release of the two jurists.

It is scheduled to speak at Bush’s Economic Summit Regional held on October 20 / October, compared to $ 150 thousand charge for participation.

The human rights organizations had earlier threatened to take legal action against Bush in Switzerland for alleged abuse of detainees at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba.

It also called on the Human Rights Watch, human rights U.S. foreign governments to prosecute Bush and senior administration officials for war crimes, if it failed to manage the current President Barack Obama in the investigation in a number of evidence growing that proves the involvement of Bush and his men in the use of torture.

Published a human rights organization based in New York report in July saying that the U.S. authorities to investigate the legally binding by senior Bush administration officials for war crimes such as kidnapping, torture and ill-treatment of prisoners.

The report explained that the legal team of the previous U.S. administration was part of a conspiracy in the preparation of the opinions which allows violations are well aware that they have no basis in American or international laws.

In addition to Bush, identified by Human Rights Watch’s name Vice President Dick Cheney and former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and former director of the CIA George Tenet, as guilty as potential authorization of torture and other crimes.

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 Mitt Romney and Rick Perry wasted very little time in going straight at one another Wednesday night, sparring over whether the former’s business expertise or the latter’s decade as governor of Texas is healthier coaching for enhancing jobs because the occupant of the White House.

“Michael Dukakis created jobs thrice faster than you did, Mitt,” said Mr. Perry, referring to the previous liberal Democratic governor who lost the 1988 presidential election.

“George Bush and his predecessor created jobs at a faster rate than you did, governor,” retorted Mr. Romney, a one-term Massachusetts governor who made his fortune leading a capital investment firm, as he pointed to the person whom Mr. Perry succeeded in 2000.

With the Republican presidential nomination on the road, the GOP field squared off at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in a nationally televised discussion within which the candidates clawed at one another on their records and rhetoric amassed over years of state service.

But the moderators repeatedly brought the fight back to Mr. Perry and Mr. Romney, the 2 front-runners in the national polls.

Mr. Perry took hearth over his state’s low rankings on education, Texas’s record-breaking pace of executions of criminals, and his move as governor to undertake to possess all 12-year-old girls in his state inoculated against a sexually transmitted disease — something he acknowledged he would have done differently currently.

Meanwhile, Mr. Romney was blasted for his decision as governor to sign a health care law that features a private mandate that every resident of his state purchase health care or face a fine.

“It was an excellent opportunity for us as a folks to ascertain what’s going to not work, which is a private mandate in this country,” said Mr. Perry, whereas businessman Herman Cain said he had opposed former 1st lady Hillary Clinton’s Nineties health care set up, President Obama’s 2010 set up and “now I’m running against Romneycare.”

Mr. Romney said what worked in his state won’t work everywhere, and said one of his 1st acts as president would be to possess his administration issue waivers to every state.

“I understand health care pretty darn well, having been through what I went through as a governor. And one factor I’d do on day one if I’m elected president is direct my secretary of Health and Human Services to put an executive order granting a waiver from Obamacare to any or all fifty states,” he said.

As much because the candidates sparred among themselves, they saved their harshest criticism for Mr. Obama.

“Obamacare took over one-sixth of the economy,” said Rep. Michele Bachmann, Minnesota Republican. “This is the issue of 2012, along with jobs. this can be our window of opportunity. If we fail to repeal Obamacare in 2012, it will be with us forever, and it will be socialized medicine.”

For Mr. Perry, the debate was his 1st likelihood personally to mix things up with his fellow candidates, and to indicate Republican voters that he deserves the first adulation he’s received from several of them.

He gave the impression to stumble over a handful of answers when asked to face his past rhetoric with his stances as a presidential candidate, however had his strongest moments when he was defending his state’s specific record during his decade as governor.

He conjointly didn’t go into reverse on his criticism of Social Security as a Ponzi scheme, and said that applied despite former vp Dick Cheney, who earlier Wednesday had suggested such language was over the highest.

For one instant on the morning of Sept. 11, an airliner that had vanished from all the tracking tools of contemporary aviation suddenly became visible in its final seconds to the people that had been attempting to search out it.

It was simply when nine a.m., sixteen minutes when a plane had hit the north tower of the globe Trade Center, when a radio transmission came into the new york air traffic management radar center. “Hey, are you able to look out your window right now?” the caller said.

“Yeah,” the radar management manager said.

“Can you, are you able to see a guy at concerning 4,000 feet, concerning five east of the airport without delay, feels like he’s —”

“Yeah, I see him,” the manager said.

“Do you see that guy, look, is he descending into the building also?” the caller asked.

“He’s descending really fast too, yeah,” the manager said. “Forty-five hundred without delay, he simply dropped 800 feet in like, like one, one sweep.”

“What reasonably airplane is that, are you able to guys tell?”

“I don’t recognize, I’ll browse it out in a minute,” the manager said.

There was no time to browse it out.

In the background, people may be heard shouting: “Another one simply hit the building. Wow. Another one simply hit it exhausting. Another one simply hit the globe Trade.”

The manager spoke.

“The whole building simply came apart,” he said.

That moment is an element of a newly printed chronicle of the civil and military aviation responses to the hijackings that originally had been ready by investigators for the 9/11 Commission, but never completed or released.

Threaded into vivid narratives covering each of the four airliners, the multimedia document contains 114 recordings of air traffic controllers, military aviation officers, airline and fighter jet pilots, still as 2 of the hijackers, stretching across 2 hours of the morning of Sept. 11, 2001.

Though a number of the audio has emerged over the years, mainly through public hearings and a federal criminal trial, the report provides a rare 360-degree view of events that were unfolding at high speed across the Northeast within the skies and on the bottom. This week, the entire document, with recordings, is being printed for the primary time by the Rutgers Law Review, and alternatives of it are offered online at nytimes.com.

“The story of the day, of 9/11 itself, is best told within the voices of 9/11,” said Miles Kara, a retired Army colonel and an investigator for the commission who studied the events of that morning.

Most of the work on the document — which commission staff members called an “audio monograph” — was finished in 2004, not in time to go through a long legal review before the commission was finish off that August.

Mr. Kara tracked down the initial electronic files earlier this year within the National Archives and finished reviewing and transcribing them with facilitate from law students and John J. Farmer Jr., the dean of Rutgers Law faculty, who served as senior counsel to the commission.

At hearings in 2003 and 2004, the 9/11 Commission played a number of the recordings and said civil and military controllers improvised responses to attacks they had never trained for. At 9 a.m., a manager of air traffic management in new york called Federal Aviation Administration headquarters in Herndon, Va., attempting to search out out if the civil aviation officials were working with the military.

“Do you recognize if anyone down there has done any coordination to scramble fighter-type airplanes?” the manager asked, continuing: “We have several things going, happening here, it’s escalating big, big time, and we have to be compelled to get the military involved with us.”

One plane had already crashed into the north tower of the globe Trade Center. Another had been hijacked and was seconds from hitting the south tower. At F.A.A. headquarters, not everyone was up to hurry.

“Why, what’s going on?” the man in Herndon asked.

“Just get me somebody who has the authority to urge military within the air, now,” the manager said.

In its 2004 report, the commission praised front-line aviation officials. but it then thoroughly dismantled the accounts of senior government officials, who within the weeks when Sept. 11, and for more than a year afterward, assured the general public that fighter pilots had been in hot pursuit of the suicidal hijackers. during these chases, per accounts from vice chairman Dick Cheney, the F.A.A. and the Defense Department, the pilots were described as able to perform a wrenching order from President George W. Bush to shoot down airliners.

The commission discovered that little of that was true: of the four flights, military commanders had nine minutes’ notice on one before it flew into the globe Trade Center, and didn’t learn the opposite three had been hijacked until when they had crashed. Military commanders, given an order outside the chain of command to shoot down hijacked airliners, didn’t pass it along to the fighter pilots, but instructed them instead to spot the tail numbers of any suspected rogue planes. That turned out to be a prudent call as a result of by then, there were not hijackers within the air for them to shoot.

The newly printed multimedia document spells out exactly how the recordings contradicted the accounts of the senior officials.

2.      USA – William Thomas “Sleepy Bill” Burns and Billy Maharg. Burns was an ex-major league pitcher and was the connection to the players. Maharg was the gambler with the connections underground. With big money and even bigger dreams, those two men approached two of the White Sox players, Pitcher Ed Cicotte and First Baseman Arnold “Chick” Gandil, about fixing the Series.

3.      UK – The report looks at recent lobbying by the financial services industry and its many champions – from the banks themselves and their trade associations, to the lobbyists-for-hire, the City of London Corporation and the capital’s Mayor, Boris Johnson

4.      China – The 2008 Chinese milk scandal was a food safety incident in the People’s Republic of China, involving milk and infant formula, and other food materials and components, adulterated with melamine. Sanlu GM Tian was charged under Articles 144 and 150 of the criminal code

5.      Italy – Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi appears in court this spring to defend himself against charges that he paid to have sex with a minor, the prosecution’s star witness will be an 18-year-old Moroccan girl with a tantalizing monicker

6.      USA -the press began carrying stories that Nixon himself had benefited from a secret fund raised in his behalf by a small group of California businessmen

7.      Already dogged by corruption allegations involving one of its former Cabinet ministers, the one-year-old People’s Partnership (PP) Government is being urged to again brace for “a huge scandal” within the State-owned Housing Development Corporation (HDC) during its tenure. Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar will be compelled to make a personal intervention at the HDC in an attempt to resolve the scandal

8.      Alaska – The indictment of Alaska Senator Ted Stevens on charges of concealing over a quarter-million dollars in gifts and services from an oil company that lobbied him for government aid

9.      USA – Former New York Governor Eliot Spitzer’s sex-with-prostitutes scandal generated 23% of the newshole the week of Mar. 10-16, 2008

10.  USA – Senator Larry Craig of Idaho had been arrested for making advances to an undercover officer in a Minneapolis airport restroom

11.  USA – Dick Cheney aide Scooter Libby, which consumed 13% of the newshole the week he was found guilty on obstruction and perjury charges, (March 4-9, 2007). Scrutiny of Vice President Dick Cheney filled 5% of the newshole, the week of June 24-28, 2007, triggered by a Washington Post series examining Cheney’s power and his often secretive methods of operation.

12.  USA – Former World Bank President Paul Wolfowitz engineered a promotion and raises for his girlfriend accounted for 4% of the newshole the week of May 13-18, 2007—placing that just ahead of the Stevens case.

13.  India – large amount of cash in foreign currencies found in the possession of the Karmapa’s aides were the accumulated offerings of devotees from around the world who came to Dharamsala for the Karmapa’s blessings.

14.  Tibet – Genpo, soto zen teacher, who is married, resigned as abbot after disclosing that he had been carrying on an affair with one of his students

15.  Albert “Jack” Stanley was legendary for winning billion-dollar contracts in Third World countries as the Halliburton executive, In the wake of his admission in a guilty plea last week that he had resorted to bribes, kickbacks and high-level corruption to secure deals in Nigeria, however, Stanley now lies at the center of a widening scandal in the oil industry that has implications for corporations and governments across the globe.

16.  The most recent gay sex scandal is that of Dr. George Rekers, a psychologist who claims that homosexuality is a “gender disturbance” that can be cured. Rekers was discovered returning home from a trip to Europe with a male prostitute, whose services he purchased from a gay escort service called rentboy.com.

17.  State Sen. Roy Ashburn, R-California was pulled over for drunk driving near a gay bar in Sacramento driving a state-issued vehicle. In the car with him was an unidentified man. Ashburn has been a fierce opponent of gay rights, supported Prop 8, etc. Ashburn, to his credit, within days came out as being gay

18.  New Jersey Gov. James McGreevey’s was lobbying against gay folks while having an adulterous affair with a gay man.

19.  Mark Foley, Republican – U.S. Representative, Florida was found to be sending sexually explicit messages and emails to teenage boys in the Congressional page program for the better part of 10 years

20.  Ted Haggard, Leader of the National Association of Evangelicals as head of one of the most vehemently anti-gay national organizations in the U.S. was caught paying male prostitutes for sex and snorting crystal meth back in 2006

21.  Larry Craig, Republican – U.S. Senator, Senate Liaison for Mitt Romney’s Presidential Campaign was caught trying to solicit sex in an airport bathroom in 2007. Only problem is the guy he’s trying to pick up on happens to be an undercover cop.

22.  The Los Angeles Times has been following the Los Angeles’ Police Department corruption scandal involving members of its Rampart Division. Up to 3,000 prosecuted cases are now under investigation as having been tainted by police corruption involving stolen drugs and frame-ups. Prisoners have had to be released after it was discovered that the police framed them.

23.  India – Telecoms Minister Andimuthu Raja was sacked after a report by India’s state auditor said his ministry sold licences and spectrum below market prices, depriving the government of up to USD 39 billion in revenues

24.  The Congress-party led coalition government came under fierce criticism for mismanagement and ineptitude over the Commonwealth Games which cost up to Rs. 70,000 crore (USD 6 billion). Allegations of corruption spanned a broad spectrum including issuing of contracts and purchase of equipment — from treadmills to toilet rolls

25.  India – Congress party politicians, bureaucrats and military officials have been accused of taking over land meant for building apartments for war widows. Apartments with a value of USD 1.8 million were sold for as little as USD 130,000 each in the apartment block, which faces the Arabian Sea in one of the worlds most expensive stretches of real estate in Mumbai.

Scorched earth runs in the family.

Having lost the facility to heedlessly bomb the globe, Cheney has turned his attention to heedlessly bombing recent colleagues.

Vice’s new memoir, “In My Time,” veers unpleasantly between spin, insisting he was continually right, and score-settling, insisting that anyone who opposed him was wrong.

His knife-in-her-teeth daughter, Elizabeth Cheney, helped write the book. The second most famous Liz & Dick combo do such a wonderful job of cherry-picking the facts, it makes the cherry-picking on the Iraq war intelligence seem picayune.

Cheney could now not have a pulse, but his blood quickens at the thought of other countries he may have attacked. He salivates in his book about how Syria and Iran may have been punished.

Cheney says that in 2007, he told President Bush, who had already been pulled into diplomacy by Condi Rice: “I believed that an important initial step would be to destroy the reactor in the Syrian desert.”

At a session with most of the National Security Council, he created his case for a strike on the reactor. it’d enhance America’s tarnished credibility in the Arab world, he argued, (not bothering to mention who tarnished it), and demonstrate the country’s “seriousness.”

“After I finished,” he writes, “the president asked, ‘Does anyone here agree with the vice president?’ Not one hand went up around the space.”

By that point, W. had belatedly realized that Cheney was a crank whose dangerous advice and disdainful rants against “the diplomatic path” and “multilateral action” had pretty much ruined his presidency.

There were few times before the bitter finish that W. was willing to face up to Vice. but the president did make a daring stand on not letting his very little dog be gobbled up by Cheney’s big dog.

When Vice’s hundred-pound yellow Lab, Dave, went once W.’s beloved Scottish terrier, Barney, at Camp David’s Laurel Lodge, that was a bridge too far.

When Cheney and Dave came to their cabin, there was a knock at the door. “It was the camp commander,” Cheney writes. “ ‘Mr. vice chairman,’ he said, ‘your dog has been banned from Laurel.’ ”

But on all the nefarious things that damaged America, Cheney got his approach for much too long.

Vice gleefully predicted that his memoir would have “heads exploding all over Washington.” but his book may be a bore. He doesn’t even mention how in high school he used to hold the water buckets to douse the fiery batons of his girlfriend Lynne, champion twirler.

At least Rummy’s memoir showed some temperament. And George Tenet’s was the primal scream of a bootlicker caught out.

Cheney takes himself therefore seriously, flogging his cherished self-image as a rugged outdoorsman from Wyoming (even though he shot his Texas looking partner in the face) and a vice chairman who was the sole thing standing between America and its enemies.

He acts like he’s America. but America didn’t like Dick Cheney.

It’s easier for someone who believes that he’s America incarnate to allow himself to try to to things that hurt America — like torture, domestic spying, pushing America into endless wars, and flouting the Geneva Conventions.

Mostly, Cheney grumbles about having his power checked. It’s dangerous enough when the president does it, a lot of less Congress and also the courts.

A person who is always for the employment of military force is as doctrinaire and irrelevant as someone who is always hostile the employment of military force.

Cheney shows contempt for Tenet, Colin Powell and Rice, whom he disparages in a sexist approach for crying, and condescension for W. when he won’t be guided to the trail of most destruction.

He’s churlish about President Obama, who took the explore for Osama bin Laden off the back burner and really did what W. promised to try to to with his very little bullhorn — catch the $64000 villain of 9/11.

“Tracking him down was definitely one in every of our prime priorities,” Cheney writes. “I was gratified that once years of diligent and dedicated work, our nation’s intelligence community and our special operations forces were in a position on could 1, 2011, to find and kill bin Laden.”

Tacky.

Finishing the book with an account of the 2010 operation to put in a battery-operated pump that helps his heart push blood through his body, he recounts the prolonged, vivid dream a couple of beautiful place in Italy he had during the weeks he was unconscious.

“It was in the countryside, a bit north of Rome, and it really appeared i was there,” he writes. “I will still describe the villa where I passed the time, the small stone methods I walked to induce coffee or a batch of newspapers.”

Caesar and his cappuccino.

Former U.S. vice chairman Dick Cheney’s new book levels “cheap shots” at colleagues and mischaracterizes events, ex-Secretary of State Colin Powell said on Sunday.

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Powell, whose disagreements with Cheney on problems like Iraq are accepted for years, said President George W. Bush’s national security team failed to perform smoothly which he had suggested Bush to undertake to resolve the matter.

“We had totally different views,” Powell told CBS’s “Face the state,” adding that the views couldn’t be reconciled.

In the CBS interview, Powell was asked concerning passages in Cheney’s book, “In My Time,” that are important of Bush administration officers, together with Powell and his successor, Condoleezza Rice.

“They are low-cost shots,” Powell said.

He conjointly dismissed Cheney’s prediction that the book would cause heads to explode everywhere Washington.

“My head is not exploding, i have never noticed the other heads exploding in Washington, D.C.,” Powell said.

Powell challenges the account within the book within which Cheney suggests that the Secretary of State was pushed out at the tip of Bush’s 1st term in workplace.

“(Cheney) takes nice credit for my resignation in 2004. Well, President Bush and that i had continually agreed that i might leave at the tip of 2004,” Powell said. “I continually meant to merely serve one term.”

He conjointly disputed Cheney’s suggestion that Powell had an inclination withhold his views from Bush and instead aired them outside the administration.

“The president is aware of that I told him what i believed concerning each issue of the day,” Powell said.

Cheney’s book is due out on however copies of it have already leaked to the media.

According to accounts within the big apple Times and Washington Post, Cheney described an occasion within which Rice “tearfully” admitted to the vice chairman that he had been right in objecting to a public apology from the Bush administration for its allegations concerning Iraq’s pursuit of weapons of mass destruction.

No weapons of mass destruction were found in Iraq once the 2003 U.S.-led invasion.

The administration apologized for a claim in Bush’s State of the Union address within which he said former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein had sought uranium.

Powell accused Cheney of employing a “condescending” tone toward Rice within the book.

One writer, Scott Stump wrote,  “When former Vice President Dick Cheney releases his memoir early next week, it may cause the second earthquake in Washington, D.C., this month.”

“There are gonna be heads exploding all over Washington,’’ Cheney told NBC’s Jamie Gangel in an exclusive interview that will air on NBC’s “Dateline” at 10 p.m. ET Aug. 29. and another writer, Charlie Savage said in his article said, “Mr. Cheney’s book — which is often pugnacious in tone and in which he expresses little regret about many of the most controversial decisions of the Bush administration — casts him as something of an outlier among top advisers who increasingly took what he saw as a misguided course on national security issues.”

In the book, titled “In My Time,’’ Cheney addresses a broad range of topics, including the attacks of Sept. 11; a secret resignation letter he kept in a safe in case he experienced catastrophic health issues, and his thoughts about former President George W. Bush and ex-Secretaries of State Condoleezza Rice and Colin Powell. The 46th vice president discusses those topics and more in his candid, unapologetic interview with Gangel, and he’ll likely have more to say when he appears live on TODAY with Matt Lauer on Aug. 30, the day his book hits stores.

Most of us remember the real deal, however, so if you are like most of us who are aware of the truth we will not spend our hard earned dollars to read what we already know. If there arises a desire to read Mr. Cheney’s confessions I am sure the local Libraries will have a copy that will be available to those that just have to read it. If he was a indeed a visionary, the question that tickles my mind is when?

Ah, Memories are made of this.

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