On Rush Limbaugh’s radio show this afternoon, Vice President Dick Cheney attacked the House Armed Services Committee Chairman Ike Skelton (D-MO) for refusing to use the phrase “global war on terror.” Cheney said Skelton exhibited “flawed thinking” and was “dead wrong on this.”
As ThinkProgress reported, in attacking Skelton, Cheney is also attacking President Bush, former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, and Joint Chiefs Chairman Richard Myers — all of whom have stated that the “global war on terror” is misnamed. Rumsfeld explained:
It is not a ‘war on terror.’ Terror is a weapon of choice for extremists who are trying to destabilize regimes and (through) a small group of clerics, impose their dark vision on all the people they can control. So ‘war on terror’ is a problem for me.
In his defense of the phrase “global war on terror,” Cheney repeated his long-running canard that Iraq was linked to 9/11. “There’s no way you can segment out” the war against terror networks, Cheney said, because al Qaeda (through Zarqawi) was “operating in Iraq” before “we ever launched into Iraq.”
In fact, last year’s Senate Intelligence Committee report found, “Saddam Hussein attempted, unsuccessfully, to locate and capture al-Zarqawi and that the regime did not have a relationship with, harbor, or turn a blind eye toward Zarqawi.”
Transcript:
LIMBAUGH: Yesterday I read that Ike Skelton, who chairs — I forget the name of the committee — in the next defense appropriations bill for fiscal ‘08 is going to actually remove the phrase global war on terror, because they don’t think it’s applicable. They want to refer to conflicts as individual skirmishes. But they’re going to try to rid the defense appropriation bill — and, thus, official government language — of that term. Does that give you any indication of their motivation or what they think of the current plight in which the country finds itself?
CHENEY: Sure — well, it’s just flawed thinking. I like Ike Skelton; I worked closely with Ike when I was Secretary of Defense. He’s Chairman of the Armed Services Committee now. Ike is a good man. He’s just dead wrong about this, though. Think about — just to give you one example, Rush, remember Abu Musab al Zarqawi, a Jordanian terrorist, Al Qaida affiliate; ran a training camp in Afghanistan for Al Qaida, then migrated — after we went into Afghanistan and shut him down there, he went to Baghdad, took up residence there before we ever launched into Iraq; organized the Al Qaida operations inside Iraq before we even arrived on the scene, and then, of course, led the charge for Iraq until we killed him last June. He’s the guy who arranged the bombing of the Samarra Mosque that precipitated the sectarian violence between Shia and Sunni. This is Al Qaida operating in Iraq. And as I say, they were present before we invaded Iraq.
There’s no way you can segment out and say, well, we’ll fight the war on terror in Pakistan, or in Afghanistan, but we can separate Iraq, that’s not really in any way, shape, or form, related. That’s just dead wrong. Bin Laden, himself, has said, this is a central battle in the war on terror.

Dick is really dragging bottom if he has to get his spew out via Bush Limpwad…………….
April 5th, 2007 at 4:04 pmWell, I prefer “global war on TERRORISTS” personally ; )
April 5th, 2007 at 4:04 pm“Dick” is a determined liar.
Karma’s a b*tch, Dicky….
April 5th, 2007 at 4:05 pmcheney is a sad little sociopath.
April 5th, 2007 at 4:05 pmDICK: “I like Ike Skelton……”
I wonder if a chill ran down Skelton’s spine at that moment?
April 5th, 2007 at 4:06 pmJust lie dick, 20 per cent of the population will believe anything you say.
April 5th, 2007 at 4:07 pmHey, I just saw Jesus on a slice of toast.
Dick Cheney and John McCain; anyone ever see them together at the same time and place? Just askin’.
April 5th, 2007 at 4:07 pmThe Bush administration fights terror with terror.
Heckuva job, Georgie.
April 5th, 2007 at 4:08 pmHeckuva job, Dickie.
Heckuva job, Condi.
Heckuva job, Donnie.
Well, I prefer egomaniacal jakeoff over “sociopathic jakeofff” personally.
April 5th, 2007 at 4:08 pmYet I now officially rename this conflict ….THE WAR TO ESTABLISH AMERICAN HEGEMONY !Oh dick cheney already said that …sorry.
April 5th, 2007 at 4:09 pmWhy does anyone listen to Cheney as he is a delusional nut. He has been wrong on everything he says. He want war and is making himself RICHER.
April 5th, 2007 at 4:09 pmThere should be a global war on Neocons. They are the real terrorists.
April 5th, 2007 at 4:09 pmIt sounds like he could use a waterboarding.
April 5th, 2007 at 4:09 pmMessage for Ike Skelton:
Whatever you do, do NOT go duck hunting with Deadeye Dick.
You might not come back.
April 5th, 2007 at 4:10 pmRun, Dick, Run! What a gift that would be!
April 5th, 2007 at 4:14 pmI’d live to kiss Dick for what he said on the glorious Rush program today.
April 5th, 2007 at 4:19 pmThe “global war on terror” is just war marketing bullshit…to justify american imperiaist capitalism…Stay the hell out of other country’s…the world hates us for good reason… The terrorists have WON…we no longer have a free republic but instead, BUSHChaney and his gang of truebeliever brownshits have imposed a thuggish autocrazy….Down with all these traitors (I fear them much much more than one hundred Zarkawis….and wish they would join him in the “everafter”…
April 5th, 2007 at 4:19 pmCheney went off the reservation a long time ago. He is unhinged from reality.
April 5th, 2007 at 4:20 pmoff topic - but hear this…
a bit ago randi was talking about some neoCON pundits on the msnbc about the british sailors who were just returned, calling them cowards and saying that charges should be brought against these sailors…
WHAT !?!
… still looking for links…
April 5th, 2007 at 4:20 pmCheney & Limpballs. What a pair!
Strike that…GROW A PAIR, draft dodgers!
Let’s see. Cheney had 5 deferrments & Rush had a cyst on his ass.
Was that cyst Cheney?
Chickenhawkshits.
April 5th, 2007 at 4:21 pmBTW, what a horrific collection of crypto-Nazi wingnut freaks have their pictures featured at thinkprogress.org today…
April 5th, 2007 at 4:26 pmBush is now known as a stand up liar about everything that comes out of his mouth. Cheney knows that Pelsoi has been told the information about crimes and secrets with Syria and the rest of the Middle East. So it’s time to save himself and his company as he needs the money that is called SUPPORT OUR TROOPS. Yes it’s not for the troops and Cheney made promises that he might not be able to deliver. Halliburton’s CEO Dick Cheney has had the blank check for 6 years and people have been paid to do as their told now Pelosi and the American people are in the way. The lies are out and the world leaders see that the rubber stamp policy isn’t working anymore. Smear Pelosi as Bush sends his GOP gang to find out what was talked about. The Middle East leaders are smarter then Cheney and Karl as Bush is just in the job title. Bush is back on the ranch drinking and smoking drugs. He is only called out to read what has been written for him. Remember he said he get the information about what’s going on from the news paper. Cheney might not be a need to Halliburton anymore if he can’t deliver that money. The Middle East will most likely take over and kick Cheney to the curb.
April 5th, 2007 at 4:26 pmJake says:
I’d live to kiss Dick
Jake, you’ve already sucked enough for one man, give it a rest.
April 5th, 2007 at 4:26 pmSorry,
I’d LOVE to kiss Dick for what he said on the glorious Rush program today.
(I’d live too…)
April 5th, 2007 at 4:27 pmI’d love to kiss Dick too Jake!
April 5th, 2007 at 4:28 pmTurtle: “Run, Dick, Run! What a gift that would be!” - - Two weeks on the campaign trail and Darth would stroke out.
April 5th, 2007 at 4:28 pmI’d live to kiss Dick for what he said on the glorious Rush program today.
I just threw up in my mouth a little.
April 5th, 2007 at 4:31 pmPatty says:
I’d love to kiss Dick too Jake!
I think the truth is coming out!!! It’s a step boys! Maybe the two of you can kiss it together.. Capt Spurt will be here any time to clean up your mess..
April 5th, 2007 at 4:32 pmwow, hot and heavy since i was on last…
April 5th, 2007 at 4:34 pmYes, because loving to kiss Dick is so much better.
April 5th, 2007 at 4:35 pm“A senior U.S. government official said groups such as Jundullah have been helpful in tracking al Qaeda figures and that it was appropriate for the U.S. to deal with such groups in that context, ABC News reports.”
The US is funding Pakistani militants who execute and videotape deaths of Iranian government officials. And Cheney is the main person behind this. If that his idea of “responsibility” then I think Cheney is a very bad boy, and Pelosi needs to give him a spanking.
April 5th, 2007 at 4:36 pmyeah, and sinking fast………..
April 5th, 2007 at 4:37 pm“global war on terror” = PNAC blueprint.
These freaks such as Cheney, limpballs, Kristol .. are out there on right wing dominated media deliberately conning the public in order to keep the PNAC blueprint plans going. WHO is really paying for this? Certainly not those enjoying the profits of our illegal deeds we call war.
April 5th, 2007 at 4:38 pmCan she spank me too?
April 5th, 2007 at 4:39 pmCheney never said that Bush, Rumsfeld and Myers were dead wrong. Look at the transcripts. TP is lying…again.
April 5th, 2007 at 4:39 pmit’s the FACT that the 3 stooges(bush,Rummy, and Myers) said that they didn’t want the GWOT moniker, JUST LIKE the ASC…
April 5th, 2007 at 4:42 pmSince when has avoiding the truth ever been a problem for you before Patrick1?
April 5th, 2007 at 4:43 pmI’m not sure who I should be siding with here.
:D
LOL
April 5th, 2007 at 4:46 pmOnly a liberal would believe in the truth. I trust my faith and that’s all I need.
April 5th, 2007 at 4:47 pmI’d LOVE to kiss Dick for what he said on the glorious Rush program today.
(I’d live too…)
Comment by Jake — April 5, 2007 @ 4:27 pm
I’d love to kiss Dick too Jake!
Comment by Patrick1 — April 5, 2007 @ 4:28 pm
:|
So whats all the hubbub over gay marriage?
April 5th, 2007 at 4:49 pmbob the hacker - are you here now?
randi rhodes wants you to call her 866.303.2270
if you heard cheney speak this weekend… hurry!
April 5th, 2007 at 4:49 pmWow not another lame ass comment from jake, I think every time he posts, we should just link to his comment on how much he would like to kiss dick.
April 5th, 2007 at 4:52 pmIs there any truth to a report to Cheney making a speech in NC implying they may look for a way to void the 22nd Amendment? If it’s true it would confirm what I feared and suspected from this criminal cabal since 2004, except that I thought they would resort to martial law. But I don’t put ANYTHING past these fascists at this point.
April 5th, 2007 at 4:52 pmrandi rhodes wants you to call her 866.303.2270
if you heard cheney speak this weekend… hurry!
Comment by katy
I see you are listening too…
April 5th, 2007 at 4:54 pmThis is more FUD to side-track the greater good. Saddam and his WMD that didn’t exist are gone. Saddam’s sons are gone and all of his holdings. Billions of $$$ are gone along with thousands of lives. So why are we still there (tick-tock, tick-tock)?
April 5th, 2007 at 4:54 pmNo no no no no.
Jake clearly said he would “LOVE” to kiss Dick.
April 5th, 2007 at 5:01 pmOnly a liberal would believe in the truth. I trust my faith and that’s all I need.
Comment by Patrick1
Patrick has become what he fears most — an extreme fundamentalist.
April 5th, 2007 at 5:01 pmOnly a liberal would believe in the truth. I trust my faith and that’s all I need.
Comment by Patrick1
You’re mistaking faith for stupidity, speaking of which using stupid to describe that comment would be an gross understatement.
April 5th, 2007 at 5:05 pmI’d LOVE to kiss Dick for what he said on the glorious Rush program today.
(I’d live too…)
Comment by Jake — April 5, 2007 @ 4:27 pm
I’d love to kiss Dick too Jake!
Comment by Patrick1 — April 5, 2007 @ 4:28 pm
Now, if ANYONE here cannot see the obvious truth of hypocrisy in the REPUBS, here it is!!!
Kiss Dick!
I guess it takes a lot of faith to come out of the closet! Congrats to you Jackie and Patricia!!!
The boys at 442nd Infantry loved that one!!!
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha
April 5th, 2007 at 5:09 pmJake Loves To Kiss Dick.
Another Repuke closet case outed.
April 5th, 2007 at 5:09 pmPatrick Wants To Kiss Dick Too!
All the Repuke trolls are coming out of the closet today!!
April 5th, 2007 at 5:10 pm“Only a liberal would believe in the truth. I trust my faith and that’s all I need.” - Stupid Inbred Repuke Troll.
This is proof positive that the Repukes live in a fantasy Bizarro World of their own creation. They hate the truth. They hate facts. They hate science. And they hate anybody who isn’t just like them.
This is called a psychotic break with reality and these Repukes are clinically INSANE. Get a net!
April 5th, 2007 at 5:12 pmGEE, I GUESS Karl FAT-F*CK Rove IS TRYING TO MANUEVER Torticola FRANKENCheney TO THE EDGE OF THE PRECIPICE SO HE CAN PUSH Torticola OVER THE SIDE…Karl’s ALSO BUSY STAMPING ON GONZO’S BLEEDING FINGERS AS THEY TENACIOUSLY CLING TO THE EDGE OF THAT SAME PRECIPICE!!!!! FRANKENCheney KNOWS HIS DAYS ARE NUMBERED SO HE’S DETERMINED TO GO OUT IN A BLAZE OF GLORY—OR IS THAT A FOUNTAIN OF SHIT??????? SEEING AS HE’S OPINING ON Limburger’s TRAVESTY OF A TALK SHOW, IT MUST BE THE STINKY LATTER!!!!!
April 5th, 2007 at 5:18 pmLibs don’t believe we are at war. Libs don’t believe America is in danger. Libs believe is we can just appease the terrorists in Iraq by cutting and running, they will be satisfied.
Newsflash, the President has made it clear they will follow us home if we leave Iraq. The Cresent flag will be hanging over Washington if we lose in Iraq.
April 5th, 2007 at 5:24 pmYou expect this kind of nonsense from Rush because he is concerned about ratings and ensuring that his show gets sponsors that can sell stuff to Rush’s listeners. The only power Rush really has is the ability to influence the Viagra market.
However, when you get the VP of the United States apparently believing the same tripe, then it is a different ballgame. Remember, the VP has his finger on the nuclear trigger. (Technically, Bush has the finger in place but likely Chaney controls whether Bush presses or not. I would venture to guess that Boy Bush thinks his finger is really pressed against a video game controller).
Hearing the most powerful person on earth (using the ability to willfully destroy the earth as a measure of power) make these kinds of statements is really scary.
April 5th, 2007 at 5:25 pmNewsflash, the President has made it clear they will follow us home if we leave Iraq.
Comment by fire(dick)head — April 5, 2007 @ 5:24 pm
Yeah, like that would ever happen. You have to have some imagination to believe that.
April 5th, 2007 at 5:32 pmThe Cresent flag will be hanging over Washington if we lose in Iraq.
Comment by firehead — April 5, 2007 @
Yeah I am going to live my life sans fear, how about you? or would you like a side order of freak to go with your paronia?
Face it man Bush has been right about very little, why do you think his statements about them following us home are accurate?
April 5th, 2007 at 5:33 pm
April 5th, 2007 at 5:50 pmI’m confused, is it kiss Dick. or kiss Dick’s dick?
Cheney: wrong in life, soon to be dead
April 5th, 2007 at 5:53 pmSo…Firehead…
In your flawwed logic, THAT means you would sit back and ALLOW that to happen?
“If” ever there was a remote situation that could be plausible, YOU can bet your *ss that the REPUBLICANS will be on the sideline like the WIMPS they are while the LIBS are fighting the battle!
April 5th, 2007 at 5:56 pmLibs don’t believe we are at war. Libs don’t believe America is in danger. Libs believe is we can just appease the blah blah blah blah blah…..
Comment by direhead — April 5, 2007 @ 5:24 pm
:D
You guys are gonna have to start telling me when its open mic night.
April 5th, 2007 at 5:56 pmI guess Cheney got another deferment from this war…he has his head so far up his ass, he can’t see daylight.
April 5th, 2007 at 5:57 pmNewsflash, the President has made it clear they will follow us home if we leave Iraq.
Comment by cryerhead — April 5, 2007 @ 5:24 pm
:|
And just how would you propose that they do that, skippy?
Being as they don’t have a Navy, or a long range Air Force and all…..
:|
Wait, let me guess.
The breast-stroke.
April 5th, 2007 at 5:59 pmDick & Rush This nations two biggest piles of BS
April 5th, 2007 at 6:00 pmLibs don’t believe we are at war. Libs don’t believe America is in danger. Libs believe is we can just appease the terrorists in Iraq by cutting and running, they will be satisfied.
Newsflash, the President has made it clear they will follow us home if we leave Iraq. The Cresent flag will be hanging over Washington if we lose in Iraq.
Comment by firehead
We went after an innocent third world country already war torn with minimal army if that and with a population of half under the age of 16 years of age with OUR ‘Shock and Awe’ dropping 4000 bombs in a 48 hour period of time, and you call that war????? And FOR WHAT?
I am with the rest of the world with the definition as they call it like it is:
April 5th, 2007 at 6:12 pmA US LED INVASION
Beautiful … here’s a man that has been DEAD WRONG (as in 700,000 dead and counting) about everything and he’s telling us other people are wrong?
Who the hell is listening to this puke anymore anyway?
April 5th, 2007 at 6:13 pmThe Cresent flag will be hanging over Washington if we lose in Iraq.
Comment by quagmirehead — April 5, 2007 @ 5:24 pm
Thank you Besty Ross.
:|
Unfortunately however, the Iraqi flag is adorned with Kufic script and 3 stars.
There is no crescent on it.
Get a job.
April 5th, 2007 at 6:18 pmThe Cresent flag will be hanging over Washington if we lose in Iraq.
Comment by mirehead — April 5, 2007 @ 5:24 pm
Ok. Lets take geniuses idea here and explore it for a moment.
Lets assume that after we leave, they decide to start building transoceanic ships and airplanes. Then they all climb into them, and head over here.
When they all get out, there will be at most, about 26 million of them.
There are 400,000 million of us.
:|
Seems like we’d win.
April 5th, 2007 at 6:25 pmEven after we subtract 50 million republicans who apparently would lay down their arms and surrender, that still leaves 350 million of us real Americans.
I’m sure we’d win.
:
I’d put a yard on it….
April 5th, 2007 at 6:26 pmSorry. 400,000,000
left out some zero’s…
:D
April 5th, 2007 at 6:28 pmQUESTION???
When has CHENEY EVER been right?
April 5th, 2007 at 6:30 pm#67, I’m not saying they will all get on a ship over, I’m saying the terrorists will find their way over, little by little. Right now, we are distracting them in Iraq. We are fighting them there so we don’t have to fight them there.
And one of you jerks said Iraq was an innocent country. They defied 17 UN resolutions. Even Clinton admitted they had wmds and considered invading Iraq.
So suck on that.
April 5th, 2007 at 6:34 pmRight now, we are distracting them in Iraq.
Comment by quagmirehead — April 5, 2007 @ 6:34 pm
Yes.
Our humvees filled with troops blowing up in the air are probably very distracting.
April 5th, 2007 at 6:38 pmI’m saying the terrorists will find their way over, little by little.
Comment by wirehead — April 5, 2007 @ 6:34 pm
Really?
You think they’re ALL in Iraq right now? You think all of Al Quaida just packed up and went to Iraq to get shot at?
Did you miss the CIA reports that Iraq is being used as a “TRAINING GROUND” for new Al Quaida recruits?
Did it ever occur to that pimple between your ears, that thee might be just a “few” supporters of Al Quaida in other countries, like gee, I don’t know, say…. Pakistan maybe…?
Get a job.
April 5th, 2007 at 6:41 pmEven Clinton admitted they had wmds and considered invading Iraq.
So suck on that.
Comment by firehead
So now Clinton speaks the gospel, according to fireant.
Pick a position and stick with it, pissant. Either Clinton’s a liar, or you believe what he says. You can’t have it both ways.
April 5th, 2007 at 6:46 pmAnd one of you jerks said Iraq was an innocent country.
Comment by tirehead — April 5, 2007 @ 6:34 pm
That must’ve been one of the other jerks.
But nice grammatics.
Guess the Speak-n-Spell thing didn’t work out for you, huh?
April 5th, 2007 at 6:48 pmEven Clinton admitted they had wmds and considered invading Iraq.
Comment by cryerhead — April 5, 2007 @ 6:34 pm
The key word there wingnut, is “considered”.
April 5th, 2007 at 6:51 pmSo suck on that.
Comment by Dickhead — April 5, 2007 @ 6:34 pm
I heard you had that covered.
April 5th, 2007 at 6:53 pmPick a position and stick with it, pissant. Either Clinton’s a liar, or you believe what he says. You can’t have it both ways.
Comment by Zooey — April 5, 2007 @ 6:46 pm
So now the trolls think Hillary is their expert. The trolls have been particulary disgusting today, watch out for Captain Kirk, he makes Jake tolerable.
April 5th, 2007 at 6:57 pmIt would be nice if they ever took a stand and stuck with it.
Only a liberal would believe in the truth. I trust my faith and that’s all I need.
Comment by Patrick1 — April 5, 2007 @ 4:47 pm
F**k you Jake, you make me sick. Hope you have fun in HELL!
April 5th, 2007 at 7:02 pmPus and Dick…
…should both be prohibited from going to work…
…their assets confiscated…
…and turned over to international authorities…
…by way of Egyptian interrogators…
April 5th, 2007 at 7:43 pmDeadEye Dick - He is so hate-filled that he’s slamming his buddy now, The Chimp. Yep, the GOP is eating their own.
April 5th, 2007 at 11:05 pmOne way to combat terrorism is by going after the contributing factors that lead people to become extremists. There is a close link between poverty and terrorism. The Millennium Goals were established in 2000 to put an end to global poverty. Perhaps our administration should be putting more of its focus on meeting those goals.
April 6th, 2007 at 12:24 pmIt seems strange that I don’t get credit for publishing that the war on terror was a misnomer and sent emails to several TV stations.
April 6th, 2007 at 1:07 pmTo my knowledge only Lou Dobbs picked up on it and explained my thought in a little more detail a few days later, then several other talking heads mentioned it, but it soon faded away again.
The original post was at http://www.foxnews-follies.com/ main_frame/ main_folder-2a/ 040728/ 040728-war.html
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How many UN resolutions have the Israel-US axis of terror broken? Additionally why the reliance on UN now? you spend half your time blaming prolif on UN incompetence. Also read COBRA II, your boys rummie and cheney were trying to cut enlistment and gut the military while they were making the Iraq plans–way before 9/11. Abbas is functionally the Clinton of MidEast now. Just as the spooks who run this place bought off Clinton during Contra with AFDC, Cheney has certainly bought off/blackmailed Abbas. My money is Cheney lives a lot longer than Abbas
April 6th, 2007 at 3:02 pmI finally figured out why the NeoCons don’t want the U.S. to set an exit date for Iraq. They must think we can sneak out when no one is looking.
April 6th, 2007 at 8:15 pmTwo or three weeks might go by before we are noticed to be missing. Genius plan…you know….don’t want to “tip our hand” F…ing brilliant
Cheney is a sad, defeated, desperate and dangerous man. The man is also an idiot, and a liar. If we were really intent on destroying Al Queda, we would have deftly strangled them by reducing the demand for oil through pure technological achievment progress driven by sheer force of tax incentive and using 1/3 of our “Defense” budget, and the Europeans would have been completely on board. Instead, we have our 23 year olds getting blown up by increasingly sophisticated devices, quite obviously purchased with oil money profits. Iran is on the way to owning nukes. There is little hope. In WW11, we were very smart. But the next global war will be over in about 1/2 hour, so no time for Midway. Get it ? Checkmate people. Sorry.
April 6th, 2007 at 11:03 pmI can see where the term “Global War for Terror” would be applicable. But “global war On terror?” Hardly…
April 7th, 2007 at 8:30 amGWOT - Gop War On Treasury
April 7th, 2007 at 10:13 amCheney should call the Iraq war “a global victory in my wallet!!”
He will continue to link 9/11 with Iraq to legitimize all the billions he has bilked from American taxpayers.
April 7th, 2007 at 2:23 pm#89
April 7th, 2007 at 2:36 pmRather Cheney and HIS COMPANY Halliburton mopping up in Iraq!
America should simply tell the world that we have won the war on terror and pull our military out of Iraq. Victory is that simple! Just think about it, everybody talking about America winning the war on terror and the terrorists; psychologically damaged, would have nothing left to inspire more soldiers to give their lives for. It would work!
April 20th, 2007 at 4:02 pmjoy