Lance_Zuma
07-30-2004, 02:27 PM
This is the second of four interviews conducted by XONA News Service
(XNS) with the four major players of the First Gulf War. This interview
was help outside the FOX NEWS studios with former Secretary of Defense and
current Vice President, Dick Cheney, as he waited to pick up his daughter
from her sexual-orientation-reversal therapy session.
XNS:
Mr. Vice President, were you aware at anytime during your tenure as
Secretary of Defense that American military personnel were subjected
to biological or nerve agents while serving their country under your
leadership during the First Gulf War?
Vice President Cheney:
First of all, let me state that being the Secretary of Defense and
running the day-to-day affairs of those fine young men and woman who
served their country so admirably was without a doubt the finest hour
of my life. I can never put into words how proud I was of each and
everyone of them for there noble endeavor. To answer you question:
Absolutely NOT. I was never aware and to this day have seen no proof
that any of our brave men and woman were the recipients of any type of
chemical or biological agents.
XNS:
Mr. Vice President, how did you feel, as a person who avoided service in
Viet Nam, to have been in charge of the American military machine, and
order hundreds of thousands of Americans into a battlefield that you
yourself would not step onto some 30 years ago?
Vice President Cheney:
I resent you slander towards my honor, courage, and patriotism.
During the Viet Nam Era I was a student and like millions of other
students was deferred from the draft. I did not "AVOID" serving and I
resent your implications of such.
XNS:
Well Mr. Vice President, according to the facts you were at the University
of Wyoming in 1965, Did graduate work there in 1966 and stayed on to
attempt a Ph.D. through 1968 and then became a Congressional Fellow
around 1969. Surely you could have joined the military to help fight
the scourge of communism rather then going to Washington for a safe
political position.
Vice President Cheney:
There you go again trying to discredit me. Look, like most people
today, I knew back then, instinctively, that the war in Viet Nam was
wrong and as such I thought that I could best serve my country and
help those millions of fine men and woman who served so admirable in
Viet Nam by going to the political battlefield in Washington D.C. to
fight on behalf of those fine Americans in a way that I could never do
in Viet Nam. In many ways I was like a Navy SEAL working deep inside
enemy lines, in this case the LIBERAL Democratic Congress that created
the whole damm Viet Nam mess to begin with.
XNS:
I am sure the fifty thousand plus who died in Viet Nam and the over
Ten Thousand Viet Vets who have since committed suicide would be glad
to know that they had a Republican friend fighting for them back home
in the political jungle of Washington D.C.
Vice President Cheney:
Like many unsung heroes, I served my country in secret and silence to
perform a larger good for my fellow Americans.
XNS:
Getting back to the Gulf War, Mr. Vice President. The first President Bush
has insinuated that much of the Gulf War Syndrome can be attributed to
mass hysteria on the part of American military personnel who have
talked themselves into becoming sick. He is claiming that the 80,000
plus American service personnel, many still wearing their country's
uniform and others whose lives are ruined through poor health and
still others who are now having deformed babies are, for the most
part, hypochondriacs.
Vice President Cheney:
Well, I am no doctor or psychiatrist, but President Bush one may well be
correct. What we have here may be mass hysteria caused by liberal
politicians who would love to see this Gulf War Syndrome blow up in
the face of American Conservative Republicans. I think that what we
should do now is to form a commission to study this whole matter and
report back to the American Public at some later date.
XNS:
Mr. Vice President, were you aware that 14,000 chemical alarms in Gulf War
theater were going off 3 times each per day, on average, during the
air and ground wars according To sworn Department of Defense testimony
before the U.S. Senate.?
Vice President Cheney:
No I was not. As you know the Department of Defense is a hugh
bureaucracy and information has a way of being lost or put aside. I
tried to trim the DOD and make it more responsive, but I was fought
tooth and nail by the Liberal Democratic Congress. If what you say is
true then this should be looked into, I say.
XNS:
Mr. Vice President are you aware of the meeting on November 10, 1993 in an
unclassified briefing for Members of the U.S. Senate, in response to
direct questioning, that then Under Secretary of Defense, Dr. John M.
Deutch said that the Department of Defense Was withholding classified
information on the exposure of U.S. Forces to biological materials
during the Gulf War?
Vice President Cheney:
Well, John is a good man, but he was surrounded by incompetent people
whom I believe were feeding him false and erroneous information, and
this I believe was a good example of it, much like current President
Bush was given false and erroneous information about Iraq's weapons
of mass destruction, by the incompetent CIA, FBI, NSA, British Intelligence,
Russian Intelligence, and others.
XNS:
Mr. Vice President, what are you currently doing to help get to the bottom
of this Gulf War Syndrome tragedy that is so severely effecting many
of the men and woman whom you ordered into combat and now seem to be
abandoned by those like you who were charged with their security.
Vice President Cheney:
Well, I take every injury and causality that occurred during the Gulf War
as if it were my own son or daughter. I am so proud of those fine men and
woman who fought and served so bravely for me and my president, the great
George Bush. While I wish I could devote more time to this matter, I am
currently very busy as the Vice President, helping and guiding the current
President Bush, As such I don't have as much time as I would like to deal
with the Gulf War Syndrome. If I had the time I would visit each and every
person who claims to be a victim of this issue to let them personally know
how much I respect them for the service they gave to help keep America
great and for their contribution in laying the foundation for a New
World Order.
XNS:
Thank you Mr. Vice President for taking time from you busy schedule to
comment on this matter.
(XNS) with the four major players of the First Gulf War. This interview
was help outside the FOX NEWS studios with former Secretary of Defense and
current Vice President, Dick Cheney, as he waited to pick up his daughter
from her sexual-orientation-reversal therapy session.
XNS:
Mr. Vice President, were you aware at anytime during your tenure as
Secretary of Defense that American military personnel were subjected
to biological or nerve agents while serving their country under your
leadership during the First Gulf War?
Vice President Cheney:
First of all, let me state that being the Secretary of Defense and
running the day-to-day affairs of those fine young men and woman who
served their country so admirably was without a doubt the finest hour
of my life. I can never put into words how proud I was of each and
everyone of them for there noble endeavor. To answer you question:
Absolutely NOT. I was never aware and to this day have seen no proof
that any of our brave men and woman were the recipients of any type of
chemical or biological agents.
XNS:
Mr. Vice President, how did you feel, as a person who avoided service in
Viet Nam, to have been in charge of the American military machine, and
order hundreds of thousands of Americans into a battlefield that you
yourself would not step onto some 30 years ago?
Vice President Cheney:
I resent you slander towards my honor, courage, and patriotism.
During the Viet Nam Era I was a student and like millions of other
students was deferred from the draft. I did not "AVOID" serving and I
resent your implications of such.
XNS:
Well Mr. Vice President, according to the facts you were at the University
of Wyoming in 1965, Did graduate work there in 1966 and stayed on to
attempt a Ph.D. through 1968 and then became a Congressional Fellow
around 1969. Surely you could have joined the military to help fight
the scourge of communism rather then going to Washington for a safe
political position.
Vice President Cheney:
There you go again trying to discredit me. Look, like most people
today, I knew back then, instinctively, that the war in Viet Nam was
wrong and as such I thought that I could best serve my country and
help those millions of fine men and woman who served so admirable in
Viet Nam by going to the political battlefield in Washington D.C. to
fight on behalf of those fine Americans in a way that I could never do
in Viet Nam. In many ways I was like a Navy SEAL working deep inside
enemy lines, in this case the LIBERAL Democratic Congress that created
the whole damm Viet Nam mess to begin with.
XNS:
I am sure the fifty thousand plus who died in Viet Nam and the over
Ten Thousand Viet Vets who have since committed suicide would be glad
to know that they had a Republican friend fighting for them back home
in the political jungle of Washington D.C.
Vice President Cheney:
Like many unsung heroes, I served my country in secret and silence to
perform a larger good for my fellow Americans.
XNS:
Getting back to the Gulf War, Mr. Vice President. The first President Bush
has insinuated that much of the Gulf War Syndrome can be attributed to
mass hysteria on the part of American military personnel who have
talked themselves into becoming sick. He is claiming that the 80,000
plus American service personnel, many still wearing their country's
uniform and others whose lives are ruined through poor health and
still others who are now having deformed babies are, for the most
part, hypochondriacs.
Vice President Cheney:
Well, I am no doctor or psychiatrist, but President Bush one may well be
correct. What we have here may be mass hysteria caused by liberal
politicians who would love to see this Gulf War Syndrome blow up in
the face of American Conservative Republicans. I think that what we
should do now is to form a commission to study this whole matter and
report back to the American Public at some later date.
XNS:
Mr. Vice President, were you aware that 14,000 chemical alarms in Gulf War
theater were going off 3 times each per day, on average, during the
air and ground wars according To sworn Department of Defense testimony
before the U.S. Senate.?
Vice President Cheney:
No I was not. As you know the Department of Defense is a hugh
bureaucracy and information has a way of being lost or put aside. I
tried to trim the DOD and make it more responsive, but I was fought
tooth and nail by the Liberal Democratic Congress. If what you say is
true then this should be looked into, I say.
XNS:
Mr. Vice President are you aware of the meeting on November 10, 1993 in an
unclassified briefing for Members of the U.S. Senate, in response to
direct questioning, that then Under Secretary of Defense, Dr. John M.
Deutch said that the Department of Defense Was withholding classified
information on the exposure of U.S. Forces to biological materials
during the Gulf War?
Vice President Cheney:
Well, John is a good man, but he was surrounded by incompetent people
whom I believe were feeding him false and erroneous information, and
this I believe was a good example of it, much like current President
Bush was given false and erroneous information about Iraq's weapons
of mass destruction, by the incompetent CIA, FBI, NSA, British Intelligence,
Russian Intelligence, and others.
XNS:
Mr. Vice President, what are you currently doing to help get to the bottom
of this Gulf War Syndrome tragedy that is so severely effecting many
of the men and woman whom you ordered into combat and now seem to be
abandoned by those like you who were charged with their security.
Vice President Cheney:
Well, I take every injury and causality that occurred during the Gulf War
as if it were my own son or daughter. I am so proud of those fine men and
woman who fought and served so bravely for me and my president, the great
George Bush. While I wish I could devote more time to this matter, I am
currently very busy as the Vice President, helping and guiding the current
President Bush, As such I don't have as much time as I would like to deal
with the Gulf War Syndrome. If I had the time I would visit each and every
person who claims to be a victim of this issue to let them personally know
how much I respect them for the service they gave to help keep America
great and for their contribution in laying the foundation for a New
World Order.
XNS:
Thank you Mr. Vice President for taking time from you busy schedule to
comment on this matter.