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Matalin says Armitage 'devoid of courage'
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Posted on 04/19/2009 8:00:45 PM PDT by Def Conservative

(CNN) — Mary Matalin, a former adviser to Vice President Dick Cheney, sharply criticized former Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage Sunday for his comments about the CIA's Bush-era interrogation techniques.

In an interview with the English language service of Qatar-based network Al Jazeera last week, Armitage said: “I hope, had I known about it at the time I was serving, I would’ve had the courage to resign. But I don’t know. It’s in hindsight now.”

In response, Matalin told CNN's John King on State of The Union: "If Richard Armitage, as the number two guy in the State Department, didn't know [about the interrogation techniques], not only is he devoid of courage, he is completely incompetent."

(Excerpt) Read more at politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: armitage; cheney; libby; marymatalin; matalin; richardarmitage; sleepingwiththeenemy; turncoat
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1 posted on 04/19/2009 8:00:45 PM PDT by Def Conservative
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To: Def Conservative
We already know Armitage is a liar and a coward, for his behavior during the Plame affair.
2 posted on 04/19/2009 8:04:37 PM PDT by Travis McGee ("Foreign Enemies And Traitors" will be ready the first week of May.)
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To: Def Conservative

Wow—reading the lib’s comments at the end of the article shows there is a parallel universe in America.

Mary Matalin is smart, but I can’t get over her making it possible for James Carville to reproduce.


3 posted on 04/19/2009 8:05:20 PM PDT by exit82 (The Obama Cabinet: There was more brainpower on Gilligan's Island.)
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To: Def Conservative
Finally! A Republican who has balls.

Figures it would be a woman.

4 posted on 04/19/2009 8:05:30 PM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all. -- Texas Eagle)
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To: Travis McGee

Darn, you beat me to it.

Let me pile on and mention Armitage’s praise of Iran as a Democracy. A man that makes me retch.


5 posted on 04/19/2009 8:05:38 PM PDT by sgtyork (The secret of happiness is freedom, and the secret of freedom, courage. Thucydides)
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To: Def Conservative

What does she think of her husband who called the tea party goers as a bunch of aged cranks?

How do you stay married to a man who would hurt his country in the advancement of a political party?

I have done with Mary Matlin.


6 posted on 04/19/2009 8:08:12 PM PDT by Bahbah (Typical white person-Snow white)
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To: sgtyork

You can’t pile on enough for a lowlife POS like Armitage.

I’m amazed he hasn’t been given a position in the Obama admin.


7 posted on 04/19/2009 8:08:36 PM PDT by Travis McGee ("Foreign Enemies And Traitors" will be ready the first week of May.)
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To: Travis McGee
"We already know Armitage is a liar and a coward, for his behavior during the Plame affair."

Yup, If the commies ever come for you, pray that you don't have a neighbor like Richard.

8 posted on 04/19/2009 8:08:37 PM PDT by cookcounty (Sarah Palin: The Alaskan Democrats' Gingko Biloba: "...d'oh, NOW I remember... back in 1991....")
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To: cookcounty

Yep, he’d either be a Kapo or an informant for the Gestapo.


9 posted on 04/19/2009 8:09:23 PM PDT by Travis McGee ("Foreign Enemies And Traitors" will be ready the first week of May.)
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To: Travis McGee

No one wants him . He like scott the press idiot are toxic. No one wants to get near either one of them. The stench rubs off.


10 posted on 04/19/2009 8:16:43 PM PDT by fantom
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To: Def Conservative

Richard Armitage is Colin Powell’s Butt Boy. He should crawl up there and die. When it comes to perfidious back stabbing crap bags Armitage could sprinkle David Gergen on his Corn Flakes.


11 posted on 04/19/2009 8:16:55 PM PDT by Anti-Bubba182
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To: exit82

“Wow—reading the lib’s comments at the end of the article shows there is a parallel universe in America.”

I also read some of those but quickly realized that my cup had runneth over very quickly - angry people; didn’t they win?


12 posted on 04/19/2009 8:18:17 PM PDT by Rembrandt
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To: Bahbah
Matalin and all of the other ‘Political Operatives’ are nothing more than amoral mercenaries. I don't condemn her for her choices now just as I never cared about what either she or her husband said in the past.

She's rich, well televised and so is her husband. Just more of the Family Business.

13 posted on 04/19/2009 8:19:08 PM PDT by TCats
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To: TCats

TCats, you could not be more right


14 posted on 04/19/2009 8:23:04 PM PDT by Bahbah (Typical white person-Snow white)
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To: Rembrandt
"angry people; didn’t they win?"

They are the kind of people who are terminally angry. Whether they win or lose is immaterial to their anger.

Mentally ill people are attracted to the political left. It's their kind of bizarre, parallel universe, centered on hatred.

15 posted on 04/19/2009 8:27:29 PM PDT by ChicagahAl (Don't blame me. I voted for Sarah.)
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To: Travis McGee

^5. Yes we do!! And I for one cannot believe, that being the case, he is even in this position. Could they pick a worse candidate? scratch that, yes I am sure they could.


16 posted on 04/19/2009 8:27:45 PM PDT by gidget7 (Duncan Hunter-Valley Forge Republican!)
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To: exit82
Mary Matalin is smart, but I can’t get over her making it possible for James Carville to reproduce.

Carville is not of this earth...

17 posted on 04/19/2009 8:28:00 PM PDT by citizencon
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To: exit82
"Wow—reading the lib’s comments at the end of the article shows there is a parallel universe in America."

I just can't figure out how those warped liberal minds function on a daily basis. It must really suck carrying around all that phony outrage and hatred daily.

18 posted on 04/19/2009 8:30:42 PM PDT by skimask (When you deal with people who value death over life traditional means of deterence will not work)
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To: exit82

Any (woman) who could marry and pro-create with a
low-life, scum-bag,POS, like JC, has no credability
with me.


19 posted on 04/19/2009 8:33:51 PM PDT by gigster
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To: Rembrandt; exit82; skimask

The voting majority (and most Americans) are under a strong delusion. I’m convinced that is only going to get worse.


20 posted on 04/19/2009 8:37:15 PM PDT by anniegetyourgun
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