Lynne Cheney on “American Interests”
Last night on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, Lynne Cheney, wife of Vice President Dick Cheney, stepped in it while discussing worldwide terrorist attacks since September 11. According to the White House and a wide swath of conservatives, the U.S. has not been hit with a terrorist attack since 9/11.
Satyam Khanna from Think Progress reports:
Yesterday, Lynne Cheney, wife of Vice President Cheney, reiterated this point on The Daily Show, claiming that terrorists regularly struck between 1993 and 2001 but not since 9/11. “It’s been more than six years. And that is not an accident. … There were many attacks between 1993 and the World Trade Centers coming down in 2001,” Cheney said.
Stewart rebutted Cheney’s claim by listing off the many terrorist attacks around the world since 9/11:
I mean, there was the anthrax thing. … [Terrorists] have been doing that all these past six years. The Spanish bombings, the English bombings, and then all the bombs in Iraq.
Cheney replied that attacks on other countries were not relevant to the discussion: “Yes, yes. But we’re talking about American interests.”
The lives and welfare of U.S. allies are not “American interests.” It is a callous statement to make, rank with smugness.
Remarks Khanna at the conclusion of his post:
http://video.thinkprogress.org/2007/10/cheneystewart1.320.240.flvEvidently, according to Cheney’s logic, even though almost 170,000 U.S. troops are in Iraq, bombings and terrorist attacks there don’t have anything to do with our nation’s “interests.”
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3 Comments, Comment or Ping
Alan Bickley
Dick Cheney was described by President Jimmy Carter on BBC as a “disaster.” Lynne Cheney, who appeared on The Daily Show to promote a book, appeared this morning on MSNBC where she said Carter was being “typical” in that he always makes outrageous remarks when he’s promoting a book. Book promotion by Carter? BAD! Book promotion by Lynne Cheney? GOOD!
October 11, 2007
e_yazel
According to many of those who claim to be alarmed by this White House, Dick Cheney is the most powerful V.P. we’ve ever had… which would make Lynn Cheney something of a First Lady, would it not?
Yet her remarks on The Daily Show this week, which are at least as worthy of scrutiny as the oft-repeated remarks of, for instance, Barbara Bush in the wake of the Katrina debacle, have received a great deal less attention. Why?
October 12, 2007
Karen Klein
Callous witch of a woman, but what can you expect? She’s married to pure evil.
October 17, 2007
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