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Under bush/cheney, especially cheney, the country was forced into a war against a country that had nothing to do with 9/11 and posed neither a strategic nor an existential threat to us, a war cheney justified as if it did. we were on a war footing. that was the national mindset the neocons and fellow hawks knew they could justify everything from torture, to war, to propaganda, manufactured, of course, in the vice presidents office as well. remember that? the aluminum tubes? the notion that sadda...

Secondly, he has properly put forward the obama doctrine which is a shift to the counterterrorism doctrine. to be very specific, not nation building. were focusing our efforts on nation building here at home. chris, you know why thats important? look what happened last night in the state of washington. a bridge collapsed. look what happened 5 1/2 years ago in minnesota. a bridge collapsed and 13 people were killed in minnesota. there are 75,000 bridges that are structurally deficient in our coun...

Like that. the idea there would be bombs dropped with nuclear bombs. the idea wed be facing 9/11s every weekend. this was out of proportion to what we faced. >> of course it led to such excesses of waterboarding and torture. you know, i think the comment you just played from the aei speech which was eight years or so after 9/11 in which he said there are no half measure, all or nothing, shows the mindset. the world doesnt tend to work in all or nothing terms. i think what the president was doing...

My kids to be killed? its time to start nation building here at home. start bringing the troops home from afghanistan. refocus our efforts on the true threats but most importantly on nation building here at home. and not continuing this military industrial complexion that bush and cheney started. >> well said. thanks for coming on. patrick murphy, couldnt agree with you more. david corn, thank you, sir. coming up, where is the irs scandal going from here? big question, actually. open question....

His generations war in vietnam, you know, he got four deferments and said he had other things to do, better things to do. now, lets be straight. he took us from focusing on bin laden in afghanistan to an unnecessary war in iraq. and especially this weekend, on memorial day, when we look at 4,400 american lives killed in iraq. 58,000 american lives lost in vietnam. we need to make sure that were being tough and smart when we talk about the true threats to our country. >> over nearly a decade dick...

The world doesnt tend to work in all or nothing terms. i think what the president was doing yesterday, i liked the word you used at the beginning, chris, was putting this in perspective. everything in life is often a balancing act. you could have -- we could go even further on security measures at airports and elsewhere than we have gone so far if you want to try to have more security. but we have to balance that against freedom and liberties and civil liberties. and cheney was basically arguing...

President obama told the country osama bin laden had been captured and killed, actually killed, abcs jonathan carl interviewed cheney. lets listen. >> are we safer now? >> i think so, but its a kind of situation where we need to preserve our sense of vigilance, if you will. we need to stay just as vigilant as we have been. >> let me go back to david. i mean, this is an important transition from cheneyism to obamaism. obamas fighting the war because we have to fight it because its something we ca...

On september of 2003, the time when the wounds of 9/11 were still relatively fresh and the iraq war was just months old, cheney gave an infinite time line for the ridiculously named war on terror. lets listen. >> from our perspective, this is a continuing enterprise. >> well, in may of 2009, speaking at the american enterprise institute, this is really bringing coal to new castle, cheney remains stuck in his black and white view of the terrorist threat. incidentally, cheney began his speech mome...

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