Cheney crawls out from under his rock...again...
POSTED BY: Niki2
UPDATED: Thursday, October 2, 2025 17:35
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Is that man truly sick, does he do it just to try and save Dumbya and his "legacy", or is he just trying to keep up the Republican line? I can't help wondering. If he's serious about the crap he spouts, boy, were we lucky things weren't even WORSE!! He gives me the willies.
If you can stomach it, here’s part of the interview of that sneering meglomaniac:
http://abcnews.go.com/ThisWeek/video/exclusive-interview-cheney-part-9
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Former Vice President Dick Cheney, in an exclusive appearance on ABC News' "This Week," offered a sharp critique of the Obama administration's handling of national security and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, saying any achievements over the past year largely stemmed from policies implemented under President George W. Bush.
If [the administration is] going to take credit for [Iraq's success], fair enough ... but it ought to come with a healthy dose of 'Thank you, George Bush' up front and a recognition that some of their early recommendations with respect to prosecuting that war were just dead wrong," Cheney told ABC News' Jonathan Karl.
Earlier Sunday, Vice President Joe Biden said on NBC's "Meet the Press" that Cheney "either is misinformed or he is misinforming" about what policies have been most effective in combating terrorists. Biden has also suggested that Iraq may end up being one of the Obama administration's greatest successes.
"Obama and Biden campaigned from one end of the country to the other for two years criticizing our Iraq policy," Cheney said. "If they had had their way, if we'd followed the policies they'd pursued from the outset or advocated from the outset, Saddam Hussein would still be in power in Baghdad today."
On Afghanistan, Cheney said he is a "complete supporter" of President Obama's decision to send more troops to the region and praised the selection of Gen. Stanley McChrystal to head the effort.
But the former vice president repeated his rebuke of the administration's handling of suspected terrorists, including would-be Christmas Day bomber Umar Abdulmutallab. Following the attempted attack on Dec. 25, Abdulmuttallab was interrogated for 50 minutes, read his Miranda rights and has been arraigned in U.S. federal court. The Obama administration also has promised to close the detention center at Guantanamo Bay, try several high-profile suspected terrorists in U.S. federal courts and repatriate others abroad.
Cheney said the Mirandizing and detention of convicted shoe-bomber Richard Reid by law enforcement officials in December 2001 was appropriate at the time because military commissions were not yet operational. "We hadn't had all the Supreme Court decisions handed down about what we could and couldn't do with the commissions," he said. Reid was arraigned in U.S. federal court but never faced a trial because he pleaded guilty.
"I do see repeatedly examples that there are key members in the administration -- like Eric Holder, for example, the attorney general -- that still insist upon thinking of terror attacks against the United States as criminal acts of war," Cheney said.
Cheney: Biden 'Dead Wrong' on Chances of Another Attack . Cheney said the Obama administration's "mindset" is putting the country at risk of a terrorist attack and cited as an example Vice President Biden's recent statement that another attack on the scale of 9/11 is "unlikely." "I just think that's just dead wrong," Cheney said. "I think the biggest threat the United States faces today is the possibility of another 9/11 with a nuclear weapon or a biological agent of some kind. And I think al Qaeda is out there -- even as we meet -- trying to do that. "You have to consider it as a war," Cheney said. "You have to consider it as something we may have to deal with tomorrow. You don't want the vice president of the United States running around saying, 'Oh, it's not likely going to happen.'"
The former vice president acknowledged that the debate over whether to trea
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If Bush & Cheney were so wrong, why did Saddam Hussein Obama Bin Laden retain their CIA director and Secretary of War, and continue their wars?
http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/ceeffb3d10/mccains-incredible-twohead
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By that logic, wouldn't you be saying that Bush keeping Tenet on was a sign that Clinton was a genius, PN?
Mike
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Yes. Thank you Bush for going into Iraq and killing thousands, both U.S. military, its supporters and innocent civilians so we could remove a dictatorship. If getting rid of a dictatorship was the main goal of attacking Iraq, then why was that not made clear to the people and not the rhetoric about weapons of mass destruction and terrorists.
Which brings up another point. What gives us the right to oversee the removing of dictatorships and creating democracies? Do we have some special mandate to start a war with any nation we feel does not meet our standards? Are our own standards so high that we can claim this right? If another nation feels it has higher standards of personal freedom have the right to invade and dictate their standards on us?
And this guy still defends waterboarding. We have just witnessed a former soldier waterboard his four year old child. Does that not tell him the destruction such acts cause. This act of a father to his child shows the damage it does, not only to the victim of torture, but also the persecutor of this act. We, the United States, at the end of WWII, put Japanese on trail for war crimes and amongst them was waterboarding. So we go from condemning it in WWII to justifying against suspected terrorists.
Please go to Wikipedia to see the full background of waterboarding. It is to long to quote the entire article here.
And this takes me to another point. How many new terrorists filled the ranks of the extremist Al-Qaeda after learning of our torturing? We proved to them that we are the devils that they have claimed. Albeit the war on Iraq was also enlisting new members to their ranks.
Sorry for the rant. Cheney gets under my skin.
http://www.imdb.com/mymovies/list?l=28764731
Traveler
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"I do see repeatedly examples that there are key members in the administration -- like Eric Holder, for example, the attorney general -- that still insist upon thinking of terror attacks against the United States as criminal acts of war," Cheney said.
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"You have to consider it as a war," Cheney said. "You have to consider it as something we may have to deal with tomorrow."
Contradict yourself much, Dick? I need to watch the full video to see if Karl called him on that one.
ETA: Niki, that first quote in not correct. What Cheney said is "I do see repeatedly examples that there are key members in the administration -- like Eric Holder, for example, the attorney general -- that still insist upon thinking of terror attacks against the United States as criminal acts, as opposed to acts of war."
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Originally posted by traveler:
Yes. Thank you Bush for going into Iraq and killing thousands, both U.S. military, its supporters and innocent civilians so we could remove a dictatorship. If getting rid of a dictatorship was the main goal of attacking Iraq, then why was that not made clear to the people and not the rhetoric about weapons of mass destruction and terrorists.
Which brings up another point. What gives us the right to oversee the removing of dictatorships and creating democracies? Do we have some special mandate to start a war with any nation we feel does not meet our standards? Are our own standards so high that we can claim this right? If another nation feels it has higher standards of personal freedom have the right to invade and dictate their standards on us?
And this guy still defends waterboarding. We have just witnessed a former soldier waterboard his four year old child. Does that not tell him the destruction such acts cause. This act of a father to his child shows the damage it does, not only to the victim of torture, but also the persecutor of this act. We, the United States, at the end of WWII, put Japanese on trail for war crimes and amongst them was waterboarding. So we go from condemning it in WWII to justifying against suspected terrorists.
Please go to Wikipedia to see the full background of waterboarding. It is to long to quote the entire article here.
And this takes me to another point. How many new terrorists filled the ranks of the extremist Al-Qaeda after learning of our torturing? We proved to them that we are the devils that they have claimed. Albeit the war on Iraq was also enlisting new members to their ranks.
Sorry for the rant. Cheney gets under my skin.
http://www.imdb.com/mymovies/list?l=28764731
Traveler
or removing democracys and establishing dictatorships....
Bush/Cheney may have been the worse, but they are not alone in their actions...
I find it hard to think of another US administration post WW2 anyway who didn't pull something similar, somewhere...
and the Japanese the US put on trial for waterboarding were executed... it says alot about how the US perceives justice internationally when Obama gave blanket immunity to everyone involved... I think he should have been stripped of his peace prize for that alone.
Perhaps this is a problem with the amount of power lying with the executive in the US ?
Maybe some kind of limits need to be put into place ?
Either you Are with the terrorists, or ... you Are with the terrorists
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Well, if Dumbya/Cheney was any example: Hell YES!
Perhaps this is a problem with the amount of power lying with the executive in the US ?
And yes, we've been doing the same thing for generations...however, I find what the Dumby administration did far more egregious than anything we KNOW about what others did. Out-and-out torture, warrantless wiretaps...anyone else would have been impeached a dozen times over!
But hey, let's go after a guy who can't keep it in his pocket and lied about it. I wonder if anyone actually knows all the lies--about AMERICA, about important things--Dumbya et. al are guilty of? Or if we'll EVER?
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Quote:Yep. All of Obama's successes are solely thanks to W/Cheney. Of course, the economy and the national debt have nothing at all to do with the previous administration and how dare anyone suggest such a thing!
Originally posted by Niki2:
If [the administration is] going to take credit for [Iraq's success], fair enough ... but it ought to come with a healthy dose of 'Thank you, George Bush' up front and a recognition that some of their early recommendations with respect to prosecuting that war were just dead wrong," Cheney told ABC News' Jonathan Karl.
How typical of the Faux/Republicans.
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You got it! "We did the good stuff; don't blame us for the bad stuff!" Hey, works for them! 
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Either you Are with the terrorists, or ... you Are with the terrorists
Life is like a jar of Jalapeño peppers.
What you do today, might Burn Your Ass Tomorrow"
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