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LilLB
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Username: Lillb
Post Number: 382
Registered: 10-2002
| | Posted on Friday, January 28, 2005 - 1:38 pm: | 
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Not the biggest issue facing the world today, but since Cheney's office isn't commenting, that leaves it to MOLers to speculate. What the heck was he thinking?
http://www.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/01/28/auschwitz.cheney.reut/index.html |
Sgt. Pepper
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Username: Jjkatz
Post Number: 604
Registered: 12-2003
| | Posted on Friday, January 28, 2005 - 2:40 pm: |
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Yet more evidence of his utter callousness and disregard for anyone's feelings but his own. How embarrassing it can be to be an American these days. I sure understand why people haven't removed their Kerry bumper stickers. It's a way of proclaiming "It's not my fault!!"
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Ily
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Username: Ily
Post Number: 144
Registered: 7-2004
| | Posted on Friday, January 28, 2005 - 2:44 pm: |
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I read that the cold weather posed a threat to his heart condition. Those parkas are toasty. |
Mark Fuhrman
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Username: Mfpark
Post Number: 1215
Registered: 9-2001
| | Posted on Friday, January 28, 2005 - 2:54 pm: |
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Forget this picture of Cheney--Instead look at the one on the front page of the NY Times this morning, showing three former Auschwitz inmates wearing their prisoner caps. One of them was biting his sleeve to hold back the tears. Says it all, says it all.
I am glad someone as high profile as Cheney went, even if I abhor his politics. I only wish Bush had gone to show the seriousness with which we must never forget. If only Cheney (or Bush) would next go to the Conference on Africa (where Blair is now) to deal with the poverty and genocide there. |
themp
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Username: Themp
Post Number: 1394
Registered: 12-2001
| | Posted on Friday, January 28, 2005 - 3:21 pm: |
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Remember all those fake-o stories about how the Bush folks wear suits all the time, allegedly unlike the Clinton folks, who supposedly wore jeans and dashikis? Maybe this was one of those weird encoded signals to the heartland - like that he doesn't take this too seriously. Wasn't an accident. They have protocol officer who tell them stuff like when to wear a suit.
Cheney is dressed like Silent bob on a ciggy run to 7/11. Disgraceful.
Or maybe it's because of his health. |
Sgt. Pepper
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Username: Jjkatz
Post Number: 605
Registered: 12-2003
| | Posted on Friday, January 28, 2005 - 3:29 pm: |
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If it was because of his health, he'd have been similarly attired during the inauguration. He wasn't. He dressed properly for THAT.
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Madden 11
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Username: Madden_11
Post Number: 616
Registered: 12-2003
| | Posted on Friday, January 28, 2005 - 4:46 pm: |
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I'm no Cheney fan, but THIS is the example of his poor judgment they chose to report? The newsmedia is a joke. |
Dr. Winston O'Boogie
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Username: Casey
Post Number: 1009
Registered: 8-2003
| | Posted on Friday, January 28, 2005 - 11:20 pm: |
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It was the CIA's fault. They gave the VP faulty information, telling him that all the other dignitaries would be attired in WMD (Warm Men's Duds). |
Southerner
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Username: Southerner
Post Number: 67
Registered: 2-2004
| | Posted on Saturday, January 29, 2005 - 12:02 am: |
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This is comical. It looks like this board has now reached it's post election leveling off point. I was wondering how long it would take. It's going to be a rather boring three years until the next campaign heats up. I feel like I'm living back in 1997 again except the roles are reversed. Remember the days that the non-executive party (Republicans) did nothing except find non-issues to harass Clinton and his admin with. Well, here we go again except the roles are reversed. |
ffof
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Username: Ffof
Post Number: 3286
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Saturday, January 29, 2005 - 9:12 am: |
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good thing they didn't tell him it was a "tarts and vicars" party |
Robert Livingston
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Username: Rob_livingston
Post Number: 788
Registered: 7-2004
| | Posted on Saturday, January 29, 2005 - 9:25 am: |
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Southerner: First of all, this was national news, an AP story, tops on Drudge, and in the Wash. Post. It's not just MOL. Second of all, while this is small potatoes compared to the real crimes of the administration, Cheney looked like an •••-hole. Third of all, the opposition to Bush in the next three years will make what happened to Clinton look like a love-fest. Our president is going down, it's just a question of which crime he will be caught on...
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sbenois
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Username: Sbenois
Post Number: 13038
Registered: 10-2001
| | Posted on Saturday, January 29, 2005 - 9:55 am: |
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Bush hasn't committed any crimes. |
tjohn
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Username: Tjohn
Post Number: 2892
Registered: 12-2001
| | Posted on Saturday, January 29, 2005 - 10:04 am: |
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In absolute terms, this is a pretty small thing, but one would think Cheney could have managed a somber suit for a visit to the graveyard of 1.5 million murdered people. |
sbenois
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Username: Sbenois
Post Number: 13040
Registered: 10-2001
| | Posted on Saturday, January 29, 2005 - 10:07 am: |
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One would think that the UN could have recognized it before 2005.
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tjohn
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Username: Tjohn
Post Number: 2893
Registered: 12-2001
| | Posted on Saturday, January 29, 2005 - 10:17 am: |
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Indeed, but what does that have to do with Cheney? |
sbenois
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Username: Sbenois
Post Number: 13041
Registered: 10-2001
| | Posted on Saturday, January 29, 2005 - 10:27 am: |
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Not a darned thing.
Carry on. |
tjohn
Citizen
Username: Tjohn
Post Number: 2895
Registered: 12-2001
| | Posted on Saturday, January 29, 2005 - 10:30 am: |
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Yes, sir. |
mjc
Citizen
Username: Mjc
Post Number: 194
Registered: 10-2004
| | Posted on Saturday, January 29, 2005 - 11:25 am: |
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Mark F. - Indeed.
a little drift, about an older European guy who used to do handy work for us: Once he got to chatting with some young men who were moving furniture for us, about how as a young man in Germany he also moved furniture. Then he said sometimes it was with a gun to his head. Then he just wept, and talked about hiding in the forests as a teenager. This from a man who was usually the ultimate in good cheer, used to bring our kids candy when he came to work. The hurt is still out there. It lasts so long. |
Face
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Username: Face
Post Number: 506
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Saturday, January 29, 2005 - 1:46 pm: |
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Perhaps Cheney's motive was more subtle. He can be noted for his ability to do that sometimes.
When you look at that photograph doesn't it in some small way remind the world of the true liberator's of Auschwitz? Seems to me that those men probably wore those same olive drab colors, hiking boots and knit hats when they uncovered the autrocities of Auschwitz.
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Dave
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Username: Dave
Post Number: 5120
Registered: 4-1998
| | Posted on Saturday, January 29, 2005 - 2:07 pm: |
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Except the hat's all wrong for a Russian soldier |
mem
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Username: Mem
Post Number: 4581
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Saturday, January 29, 2005 - 2:13 pm: |
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I don't think American soldiers wore russian hats.
Russia has been dumping on jews for ages.
http://www.scrapbookpages.com/DachauScrapbook/DachauLiberation/LiberationDay.html
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/opening_the_gates_of_hell_american_liberators_of _the_nazi_concentration_camps/
Anyway, Europeans always put so much importance on clothes and appearance (I always found it trite and shallow). Cheney's mistake was to disregard that, but no big deal, I end up doing the same everytime I travel over the pond. |
CageyD
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Username: Cageyd
Post Number: 215
Registered: 6-2003
| | Posted on Saturday, January 29, 2005 - 5:02 pm: |
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Let's hope that the next world leader to attend at state dinner at the White House shows up in jeans - I'm sure no one at the White House would mind, right..... |
Dave
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Username: Dave
Post Number: 5121
Registered: 4-1998
| | Posted on Saturday, January 29, 2005 - 5:32 pm: |
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(the Russians liberated Auschwitz) |
cjc
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Username: Cjc
Post Number: 3047
Registered: 8-2003
| | Posted on Saturday, January 29, 2005 - 10:15 pm: |
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True enough. The Russians have been liberating Jews for quite some time now. It's the best part of Fiddler on the Roof. |
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