Cheney: History will say Bush made America ’safer’ and ‘more hopeful.’
By on May 3rd, 2008 at 11:30 am
Cheney: History will say Bush made America ’safer’ and ‘more hopeful.’
Speaking in front of more than 400 people Friday night during a sold-out reception at a hotel in downtown Tulsa, Oklahoma, Dick Cheney said that history will be very favorable to the Bush presidency:
“When the history is written, it will be said this is a safer country and more hopeful world because George Bush was president,” Cheney said.
UpdateMike Allen reports that Cheney drew laughter with his opening line: "I don't care what you say, I'm not running again."
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Dream on Cheney.
May 3rd, 2008 at 11:32 amCheney is delusional.
May 3rd, 2008 at 11:36 am“When the history is written, it will be said this is a safer country and more hopeful world because George Bush was president,” Cheney said.
Monumental deficits, rampant contractor fraud, feeble efforts at border control, politicizing the legal process for gain, and no government control makes me feel very hopeful - for next year.
May 3rd, 2008 at 11:37 amthey must've passed out the happy brownies beforehand to ensure the crowd hung on every word as true. luckily the rest of the country doesn't fall for this b.s. any more.
what amazes me about this story is three words: "sold-out reception"
how??
May 3rd, 2008 at 11:39 amNo Dick, it won't.
Every single one of us on this blog and others will remember what you and George have done to this country, and we will remind them.
May 3rd, 2008 at 11:42 am"sold out reception"...do you mean cronnies er people actually PAID to hear this traitor talk?
May 3rd, 2008 at 11:43 ammake that cronies
May 3rd, 2008 at 11:44 amI would bet the local R party told the local faithful to get their asses to that reception.
May 3rd, 2008 at 11:47 amSafer and more hopefully? Thats the best you can come up with Dick? They really have lowered the bar on this one, but its still about 100ft above bush's lil head.
May 3rd, 2008 at 11:48 amTulsa is an Oil Town. what do you expect? And yes the auditorium was full of sell outs. They sold out our country, our military, and our grandchildren so they could make huge profits on their oil-field investments.
May 3rd, 2008 at 11:53 amHistoriana will shower the Bush Presidency with sweets and flowers
May 3rd, 2008 at 11:55 amCheney drew laughter with his opening line
So Tulsa has 400 sociopaths. That's about right for an oil town. Bet each attendee was an oil exec.
sold out reception
Yes. Everyone there had sold out long ago.
May 3rd, 2008 at 11:55 amThe only people that would write that would be part of the 28%er crowd.
May 3rd, 2008 at 11:56 amLeaving aside Iraq and Afghanistan, the perfect symbol of the Bush presidency is Katrina. "Safer and more hopeful" is hardly a description of the on-going struggle that is Katrina.
May 3rd, 2008 at 11:56 amDamn. Beaten to the punch.
May 3rd, 2008 at 11:57 amMy guess is when history is written and Bush goes down as Worst President Ever, Cheney and the other neocons will blame it on "librul historians".
Either that or they'll try to claim that they were duped by the "librul" Bush.
May 3rd, 2008 at 11:57 amA sold out audience in Tulsa. That explains it. A bunch of Okie redstate, ultra-conservative, hyper-evangelical, overly-hypocritical, gas-guzzling, Ford F6000 driving, redneck a**holes. These are the same fu(ktards who voted for Bush in the last two elections. These are the same a**wipes who are part of the 24%-ers. Idiots who would defend the crimes of Bush/Cheney to the death. Fu(king morons.
May 3rd, 2008 at 11:58 am“...more hopeful world because George Bush was president,” Cheney said.
That's actually true. The world hopes he leaves quickly and never again comes back.
May 3rd, 2008 at 11:59 amCheney's still addicted to Rovian politics. He knows the opposite is really the case. But he's played the game of turning political weaknesses into advantages for too long, and become too wedded to the partisan fight, to ever give an honest appraisal. He'll be saying the same when he (finally) dies.
May 3rd, 2008 at 11:59 am"Tulsa is an Oil Town."
Damn. Beaten to the punch.
If by "oil town" you mean a refinery across the river from downtown, that regularly belches sulfur oxides into the surrounding air, then, yeah. But they've mostly lost the oil-related infrastructure, and replaced it with aerospace.
May 3rd, 2008 at 12:03 pmOK City, now there's an oil town. KBR is a very large presence there.
May 3rd, 2008 at 12:05 pmIt would be nice to hear Cheney speak - to a tribunal in The Hague as he trys to spin this kind of horse crap! With Bush sitting at the same table. I would buy a ticket for that. Too bad it would have to be The Hague as our spineless Congress is too busy trying to figure how to write a stern letter to hold these criminals accountable.
May 3rd, 2008 at 12:06 pmMore hopeful, yes, for a progressive president. Bush's America is government for the uber-rich, and that segment is therefore 'safer' and 'more hopeful' for these destructive policies to continue. No kids they have to send into combat.
Those who haven't been victims of Bush's economic terrorism, or those who care enough about those victims, make up what's left of real America. And we need to rebuild on that version of America.
May 3rd, 2008 at 12:06 pmCheney drew laughter with his opening line: "I don't care what you say, I'm not running again."
And hoots, snorts & guffaws with his ridiculous flattery of Bush...
May 3rd, 2008 at 12:06 pmWell, when you're viewed as an abject failure in your own time, you can either accept that as having some validity, or hope that some future generation will see things differently. Cheney/Bush are choosing the latter.
Bush has shown us that arrogance and incompetence is a dangerous combination, and such individuals make horrible leaders.
May 3rd, 2008 at 12:12 pmConsidering where this administration pegs on the credibility meter, why would anyone expect anything but utter nonsense to be spewed?
May 3rd, 2008 at 12:12 pmCheney is a bastard who eats his Cheerios with a carton of oil.
May 3rd, 2008 at 12:14 pmSatirev: I'm with you on that. They all take an oath to uphold the Constitution and with what has been allowed to occur, their oath is worthless. We The People need to take back our country. Get active. I have confronted my Congressman several times on this. Censure is all he would offer - very lame!
May 3rd, 2008 at 12:16 pmHistory will say that MURDEROUS WAR CRIMINALS Bush and Cheney are BURNING FOR ETERNITY with their MASTER Satan and
TRAITOR Ronnie Reagan, now DEAD...
May 3rd, 2008 at 12:17 pm"Everything President Dinkledoofus and Vice President Evil touched turned to crap." - History.
May 3rd, 2008 at 12:18 pm“When the history is written, it will be said this is a safer country and more hopeful world because George Bush was president,” Cheney said.
Only if a Republican is doing the writing!
May 3rd, 2008 at 12:19 pmAnd this is why the Bush Library will rely on the services of a designer rather than an historian.
Oh, don't worry Dick, history will remember...
PEACE
May 3rd, 2008 at 12:20 pmAmericans feel Safe
This poll was taken in September 2006, I can't find any newer:
I'm willing to bet the number of people who don't feel safer today is much higher.
Americans are "satisfied" (meaning hopeful)
Again, I didn't take the time to find a more recent poll but if I remember rightly, that satisfaction number definitely has not gone up.
May 3rd, 2008 at 12:22 pmDick Cheney is a murderous psychopath.
May 3rd, 2008 at 12:23 pmDid you know that Cheenee was once the Suckcretary of Defense?
May 3rd, 2008 at 12:24 pmwith CAPITAL letters total BS ----- Lies, Deceit, Greed, Arrogance and total Incompetence are the hallmarks that history will record about the entire Bush Administration.
May 3rd, 2008 at 12:25 pmRegarding Cheney's quip about not being VP again, hey I endorse the idea. Can you imagine how attractive the American public would find a McBush/Cheney ticket? Especially since Cheney is 67, not too many years behind McBush.
May 3rd, 2008 at 12:25 pmOne can only hope the writers of history are more competent than the Bush White House Team that produced the Lessons Learned report on Hurricane Katrina. Fran Townsend promised a robust investigation but left out the "ro". How does a critical examination omit any mention of 24 patients perishing in LifeCare's LTAC hospital? Surely, the Carlyle Group affiliate warranted at least one citation as it was the largest number of patient deaths in any hospital post landfall. I guess the lesson learned is don't let the Bushies write their own history. They surely can produce fiction.
May 3rd, 2008 at 12:26 pmRight on, Bilbo.
You do know that your middle name is Hussein, right?
May 3rd, 2008 at 12:28 pmThat's bizarre!
Okay, Barfly is closest to being right! I live in the Midtown area of Tulsa, OK.....Let's not call Tulsa an "oil town". More likely, the upper half of the citizenry are living off "oil" trusts set up for them by parents and grandparents who really lived in the "oil town of Tulsa".
"Sold out" in Tulsa is about 400 people in the Crown Plaza Hotel, (which I am sure Cheney considers a dump) and these 400 are probably true believers in the Bush ideology. They paid $1000.00 a plate to hear this evil man speak for 20 minutes. It was to replenish the Republican coffers.
Facts. The recession has not affected OK or Tulsa to the degree it has had in other states.
Fact. Oklahoma is a state of hypocrisy, where we (not me) register republican, often vote democratic, (except in Presidential elections, which always go Republican). Those in the know use any and all Federal help available and then gripe about those "on the take".
I could go on and on, but the one thing all of us Democrats know..........if you are applying for a job in Tulsa, don't let them know you are not republican...likely you will not get the job.
Almost every post on "Cheney in Tulsa" was correct. I was appalled at the small number of protests held at his appearance.
May 3rd, 2008 at 12:30 pm"I don't care what you say, I'm not running again."
Bullshit! When the War Crimes Tribunal gets after his ass he will be running as hard as he can, carrying his shotgun. He better heed the advise of Satchel Paige: "Don't look back, they may be gaining on you."
May 3rd, 2008 at 12:36 pmThey sure are getting a head start on re-writing history aren't they?
May 3rd, 2008 at 12:40 pmAnd Cheney has always been open and honest and has never told you a lie, has he? This is a worthless thug.
May 3rd, 2008 at 12:40 pmHi! I'm Frank History; you may remember from such Public Service movie shorts as "Duck and Cover", "Reefer Madness" and "Plan Nine From Outer SPace". But I'm here today to tell you about the greatest President That Ever Lived--George W. Bush.
Did you know that like Abraham Lincoln, George Bush could never admit to a lie, and was interested in slaves? And that just like just like George Washington he liked cutting down trees and brush for no good reason?
Here's just a few of the wonderful things that 'Dubya Did' Ah-ha!
Increased the value of oil
Reduced the cost of the dollar on international markets
Helped employ millions of Chinese
Reduced dependence on badly-made American products
Eliminated the mortgage crises by eliminating mortgages
Reduced the demand on government-run health-care system by reducing health, care.
Reduced the size of government to a couple of dozen executives and one political party
Eradicated the evil of torture by eradicating the word “torture”
And of course that impressive list of achievements doesn;t include all the fantastic things he did in secret, like the time he....Oh Wait! Silly me! That's a secret!
As the saying goes, 'if I told you, Cheney would have to have me killed! Ah-ha-hah!
Any whoo this is 'Favourable' Frank History,signing off for now...and you're welcome!
May 3rd, 2008 at 12:41 pmbarfly Says:
If by “oil town” you mean a refinery across the river from downtown, that regularly belches sulfur oxides into the surrounding air, then, yeah. But they’ve mostly lost the oil-related infrastructure, and replaced it with aerospace.
I used to visit late in the sixties. V. friendly town(but I didn't realize everyone thought I was Leon Russel). Every other building downtown seemed either a bank or an oil-related concern. Surely there're still 400 petro execs to come laugh with the killer behind the throne.
May 3rd, 2008 at 12:42 pm'History' will write that once the Bush administration is GONE, America (and the rest of the world) will feel safer and more hopeful (in fact 'history' is already writing that). ,
May 3rd, 2008 at 12:46 pmWhy is it that virtually every picture that I have seen of Cheney he is always snarling?
May 3rd, 2008 at 12:46 pmOh yeah, right Dick. We all agree that the US is better off.
Heckuva Job, Dickie.
May 3rd, 2008 at 12:48 pmIt is the absolute unrepentant and shameless attitude in the face of overwhelming failure and corruption in this administration that should distress us all. This administration exists to perpetuate its image and its image alone. We have seen the administration adopt Orwellian language, Stalinist propaganda techniques and the Big Lie practices of the Third Reich. The retention of a design firm instead of a panel of historians to showcase the Bush administration's history at the King George Memorial Library and Temple of Self Worship starkly demonstrates this point.
There is a real danger to our democracy. We have seen the sins of past administrations (Nixon, Regan) forgiven or underplayed to preserve the public confidence in our government. The Republican elite and their wealthy, conservative allies have only used the leniency as a clear signal to further their antidemocratic goals.
Until these people are tried, convicted and put to death; our democracy will not be safe. Leniency, compromise and other half measures have only permitted elitist, anti-democratic forces to grow in this country. The time for half measures have ended. They will never learn their lesson if they become media stars as a reward for their crimes (Liddy, North), assume high paid jobs as lobbyists or simply have their sentences commuted by a fascist president. Unfortunately, now they and society will only learn when these criminals swing at the end of a rope.
May 3rd, 2008 at 12:48 pmYes, all those predictions he's made in the past have been so right on. Your crystal balls are fogged and cracked, Dick. The tea leaves have mold on them that is apparently making you halooosssinate.
Just livin' on Tulsa Time, after midnight, going on back to Tulsa just one more time. Gotta go to Tulsa, first train we can ride. One side's ice and one is fire...If they look into the past like that, well baby your just too blind to
see.
May 3rd, 2008 at 12:49 pmCall me a CYNIC, but for some reason, I do NOT think so -- but then again, I had to "think fast".
May 3rd, 2008 at 12:52 pmJMOHR..
I agree, except for the death penalty part. But then that is "the American way" in most states, isn't it? To be honest I'd only protest such a punishment on principle.
May 3rd, 2008 at 12:59 pm"darlineishere Says
Fact. Oklahoma is a state of hypocrisy, where we (not me) register republican, often vote democratic, (except in Presidential elections, which always go Republican). Those in the know use any and all Federal help available and then gripe about those “on the take”."
Please explain Inhofe to the rest of us? Last time I checked he was an Okie (R). Isn't your other senator the guy who sterilized poor girls without telling them?
May 3rd, 2008 at 12:59 pmOne little post script to my post #46....to Barfly. If you think that "one little refinery across the river from downtown Tulsa" has a bad smell, you should have had a smell-0-meter on the evening Cheney flew into Tulsa. the stink was "over the top" and still rising. It went down as soon as Cheney's plane left.
I am surprised there was no comment on the amount of fuel it took to fly one republican from Washington to Tulsa, OK. We all pay for it!
May 3rd, 2008 at 1:08 pmThey really should stop letting the Vice President speak in public when he's been drinking.
May 3rd, 2008 at 1:13 pmWhy do I get the sense that Bush's new library at SMU will be like the Biff Tannen's Casino Hotel & Museum from Back to the Future 2?
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May 3rd, 2008 at 1:14 pmI think Dick of Chainie, leader of Bizarro World, is having oxygen deprived from his brain because of his heart attacks, and instead, oil and sh*t is pumping instead.
May 3rd, 2008 at 1:17 pmCheney says, "I don't care what you say, I'm not running again."
Two possible interpretations:
1 - He's planning to move to Dubai and become CEO of Halliburton again, to receive his payoff for lining their pockets during the past 7+ years.
2 - He and Chimpy plan to convert this country into a dictatorship before a new administration can assume office.
There seems to be no happy ending here, although #1 is far less scary than #2.
May 3rd, 2008 at 1:18 pmCheney the Chraitor
May 3rd, 2008 at 1:21 pmDick Cheney said that history will be very favorable to the Bush presidency
"History" is written by the victors, not the vanquished...
Until the fascists are vanquished--overthrown, imprisoned, exiled, executed--they win.
so in that respect, at least, he's probably right...
May 3rd, 2008 at 1:23 pm"Strap-on" Dick Cheney and the Idiot Freak GW Bush will pay a very high price for messing around with the American people. Lying, twisting facts, manipulating a criminal war, messing up the economy, wasting our resources, ignoring the needs of 9/11 1st responders and war veterans, their involvement in 9/11, the truth will surface. The idiot and his butt-buddy Dick Cheney are CRIMINALS. And, history will judge them as CRIMINALS.
May 3rd, 2008 at 1:24 pmBumper sticker
Dick Chraitor
May 3rd, 2008 at 1:24 pmthese guys always say that when they are horrible. and they are right because the US history i was taught has always been a lie
May 3rd, 2008 at 1:25 pmWe'll see how their effort to re-write history goes. So far bush has finally gotten the methodist university to agree to his propaganda (library) but the actual methodists in the area are in revolt about it. They do not want their ministry associated with the gop for obvious reasons......they are not christain.
May 3rd, 2008 at 1:35 pmthe gop has vanquised themselves....they are no more victors now than they were in 1930.
May 3rd, 2008 at 1:37 pmtokin librul Says:
Dick Cheney said that history will be very favorable to the Bush presidency
“History” is written by the victors, not the vanquished…
Until the fascists are vanquished–overthrown, imprisoned, exiled, executed–they win.
so in that respect, at least, he’s probably right…
The people always win in the end.
May 3rd, 2008 at 1:41 pmIt I won the lottery, I would set up a fund to purchase seats at these Repugnifu(k speeches, to allow other minded folk in to stir the shit somewhat. Me thinks that is good for democracy.
May 3rd, 2008 at 1:43 pmJeannie See Says:
Why is it that virtually every picture that I have seen of Cheney he is always snarling?
His face is in a state of permanent snarl due to his attainment of master evildoer.
May 3rd, 2008 at 1:45 pmSorry Lil Dick,once the 27% are dead and buried there will be no one left to swallow these delusions.You sir and your boss are war criminals.
May 3rd, 2008 at 1:49 pmHistorically, the time in which the US has been the least safe coincides with Bush being President. The only thing Bush (and Cheney) can do to make America safer is to leave office. The claim made by that Dick is relative to the worst attack in US HISTORY. That's a hell of a mulligan, quite a black mark on the ol' record. How do you credit such a horrific attack as a good thing?
May 3rd, 2008 at 1:50 pmJeannie See Says:
Why is it that virtually every picture that I have seen of Cheney he is always snarling?
Because he's very shy, and is timid about showing his softer, caring side?
I think I just threw up in my mouth a little...
May 3rd, 2008 at 2:03 pmSince Cheney is such an expert on history, he must surely be familiar with the following quotes by Adolf Hitler. Please consider and draw your own conclusions.
The man who has no sense of history, is like a man who has no ears or eyes.
The great strength of the totalitarian state is that it forces those who fear it to imitate it.
I believe that I am acting in accordance with the will of the Almighty Creator: by defending myself against the Jew, I am fighting for the work of the Lord.
Mein Kampf Note: The word "Jew" can conveniently be replaced with any other group of people.
Those who want to live, let them fight, and those who do not want to fight in this world of eternal struggle do not deserve to live.
Mein Kampf
The art of leadership. . . consists in consolidating the attention of the people against a single adversary and taking care that nothing will split up that attention. . . . The leader of genius must have the ability to make different opponents appear as if they belonged to one category.
Mein Kampf
Any alliance whose purpose is not the intention to wage war is senseless.
Mein Kampf
Armies for the preservation of peace do not exist; they exist only for the triumphant exertion of war.
Mein Kampf
Who says I am not under the special protection of God?
After winning elections of 1933 in Germany
The German people are not a warlike nation. It is a soldierly one, which means it does not want a war, but does not fear it. It loves peace but also loves its honor and freedom.
To Reichstag in Berlin February 1936
I don't see much future for the Americans. It's a decayed country. And they have their racial problem, and the problem of social inequalities . . . Everything about the behavior of American society reveals that it's half Judaized, and the other half negrified. How can one expect a State like that to hold together - a country where everything is built on the dollar?
Remarks January 1942 recorded by Martin Bormann, published in Hitler's Table Talk (1953)
It is not truth that matters, but victory.
Strength lies not in defense but in attack.
We will not capitulate - no, never! We may be destroyed, but if we are, we shall drag a world with us - a world in flames.
And finally, as two-fer.
"What luck for rulers, that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler
“You can fool some of the people all the time, and those are the ones you want to concentrate on.” — George W. Bush, spoken at a Washington Dinner, March 2001
May 3rd, 2008 at 2:10 pmHistory will say that cheney is out of his friggin mind.
May 3rd, 2008 at 2:20 pmAnswer for # 59. I wish I could explain "Inhofe" to anyone. I can only hang my head that he is from Tulsa. His arrogance knows no limits. He is a republican and the repuglicans keep sending him back.
The other one (Coburn?) is so conflicted that his own mother would find it hard to explain him.
I will stand by my words. Oklahoma is a state of hypocrisy, both emotionally and politically.
May 3rd, 2008 at 2:26 pmDark Cheney has remembered another so called Leader who say almost the same thing about himself.
Hitler thought of himself as the greatest warlord, the supreme judge, the greatest architect, etc. These ideas of grandeur, so unself-consciously
Now look what History has to say about Hitler now. Looks like George W. Bush will have his place in History right next to Hitler. Now Dark Cheney will push those two aside once Americans find out just how much damage Dark Cheney has done in the pass 7 years. Nixon is feeling a little bit better in hell now that George W. pushed in down a spot.
May 3rd, 2008 at 3:09 pmDick Cheney is just stupid when he says this idiotic shit.
"You can crap in one and and shit in the other to see which one fills up first" (Grumpy Old Men).
Only problem is, Bush and Cheney crap in both hands - all the time.
May 3rd, 2008 at 3:56 pmCheney: History will say Bush made America ’safer’ and ‘more hopeful.’
May 3rd, 2008 at 4:40 pm...the same way the US was greeted as 'liberators' and the 'insurgency' (correct name is: freedom fighters) was 'on its last throes'...
Cheney: History will say Bush made America ’safer’ and ‘more hopeful.’
May 3rd, 2008 at 4:47 pm...only if we let D. Feith write history...
History will wonder and marvel how we, like the German's, allowed the Nazis come to power. They will be amazed at our cowardice and complicity in it all by taking impeachment "off the table." They will be astounded at how in so short a time we ruined a once great power
May 3rd, 2008 at 4:48 pmLet me puke before I post my thoughts.
May 3rd, 2008 at 4:53 pmHow many things can one man be wrong about.
Let me count the ways.
On second thought, I actually have stuff to do today, so a comprehensive list of shit Cheney's been wrong on will have to wait until I buy several reams of paper...
May 3rd, 2008 at 5:00 pmHey! That isn't chocolate they're throwing at us! It's dried dog turds!
May 3rd, 2008 at 5:01 pmWhat was that thing about history being the set of agreed upon lies?
May 3rd, 2008 at 5:05 pm.
History will judge...
Not you Mr. War Criminal, Richard B. Cheney, the WORST EVER VICE PRESIDENT OF THESE FIFTY UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
.
May 3rd, 2008 at 5:26 pm"Why should they, of all people, believe that his administration is suspect to the point of disablement? Well, consider the catalogue not of rumors but of acts which might come to be interpreted as grounds for impeachment: the 'bribery, high crimes and misdemeanors' that the Constitution lays down. It is a crime for the President to obstruct justice or hamper in any way the execution of the laws of the United States. If his personal aides commit crimes or obstruct justice, the President is held accountable, a hard fact that Mr. Nixon has never hinted he will concede. Yet, so far, his Vice President has resigned to avoid a heavy jail sentence for a whole catalogue of 'high crimes.' His old Attorney General and closest adviser is under indictment for fraud. So is his old Secretary of Commerce. No less than thirteen of his onetime top aides have either been convicted of crimes, or pleaded guilty, or been indicted, or been fired for misdemeanors."
(Alistair Cooke, Watergate, Act Three, November 9th, 1973)
May 3rd, 2008 at 5:33 pmDr. Matt #14:The only people that would write that would be part of the 28%er crowd.
And the only ones to read it will be those that attend colleges that turn out such as the ilk as that blonde bimbo involved w/turd blossom and his aide who all w/ the help of Gonzo politicized the justice dept.
(I can't think of their names!?!?)
May 3rd, 2008 at 5:50 pmWhy is Cheney still making speeches and not in prison?
"Principle is okay up to a certain point, but principle doesn't do any good if you lose." - Dick Cheney, espousing Rethuglican family values
May 3rd, 2008 at 5:57 pmHistory will remember that Bush & Co. did more damage to America than her enemies could ever dream about, now that Bush has set the precedent that the U. S. Constitution is "just a goddamn piece of paper." I guess Bush thinks that the American flag is just a goddamn piece of cloth, too - why not tear that up while yer at it, George?
May 3rd, 2008 at 6:53 pmOh, give me an f'n break. I just saw this thread. Cheney will go down as the greatest manipulator in all American history. This man is an egomaniac. Look at at 'HIS" background, not his VP'ishness. If any historian worth their salt says Cheney made a valid contribution towards the safety of mankind I will personally work towards removing their doctorate.
May 3rd, 2008 at 7:10 pmStudies by the 16 intelligence agencies of the US have already said that the invasion of Iraq has made us LESS safe.
May 3rd, 2008 at 7:26 pmYeah, I feel safer already.
Ain't it grand what will be done in the name of making us safer?
Yes, sir...I feel so gosh-danged, safer than safe, mmm mmm mmm, warm all over knowing ALL our elected officials are boning us up the a$$.
May 3rd, 2008 at 7:49 pmleftright...
May 3rd, 2008 at 7:53 pmThere were no terrorist on 9/11! It was a military operation made in america!!! Plus, there was no conection between Saddam Hussein and 9/11/al-queida SI-FI fitction. Get yourself informed!
leftright Says:
No terrorist since 9/11. He brought the fight to them. You can’t deny that!!
May 3rd, 2008 at 7:47 pm
Yes, he brought the fight for Oil, Military-Industrial Complex, and Israel to the 4100 solders killed, 25000 permanently injured, and a million Iraqis. He also brought the fight to the Constitution, which is in fact null and void, and tanked the American economy.
May 3rd, 2008 at 7:54 pmsacopenapa Says:
leftright…
There were no terrorist on 9/11! It was a military operation made in america!!! Plus, there was no conection between Saddam Hussein and 9/11/al-queida SI-FI fitction. Get yourself informed!
May 3rd, 2008 at 7:53 pm
Damn Coincidence Theorists!!! Bush, Cheney, Amy Goodman, and Noam Chomsky told us it was 19 Arabs with box cutters being directed from a cave in Afghanistan.
From Firesign Theatre:
Zion, oh mighty Zion, your bison now are dust
May 3rd, 2008 at 8:00 pmAs your cornflakes rise ‘gainst the rust-red skies,
then our blood requires we go…
Marching, marching to Shibboleth
Hi leftright! What's happening? I sort of find your premise flawed from the get got but I am willing to hear your case
May 3rd, 2008 at 8:01 pmThey might smile but it will be while shaking their heads and saying "what a poor stupid dip shit".
May 3rd, 2008 at 8:07 pmNo major US cities lost since New Orleans. Oh thank you great glorious leaders Cheney and Bush (snark)!
May 3rd, 2008 at 8:33 pmwhy is cheney still running around loose instead of being where he belongs in a straight jacket under psychiatric care?
May 3rd, 2008 at 8:33 pm.
leftright, since Bush ALLOWED 9/11 to happen, we have lost 4,060 troops, 25,000 wounded and gotten bogged down in a conflict in the Middle East that will cost us over $3 TRILLION and destroy our military EXACTLY as OBL wanted. And according to our 16 intelligence agencies, it has made us LESS safe. We have lost allies and gained enemies. All based on 935 recorded lies.
May 3rd, 2008 at 8:39 pmI'm glad Cheney could cite so many reasons for his declaration about how great the Bush administration has been.
Actually, it would have been a news item if he could have come up with just one single reason to back up his allegation. Just one.
And Cheney was the one that was suppose to provide the gravitas for the Bush administration? I'm still waiting to see it.
May 3rd, 2008 at 8:45 pmSince Cheney MADE 9/11 happen and Because the FEMA camps are waiting, that is where every dissenter will be sitting commenting on Cheney until they die....
May 3rd, 2008 at 9:20 pmOBL is irrelevant. It is the global elites who wanted this for America. THEY OWN us. Deal with it, serfs.
only in places like oklahoma would someone like dick cheney get a laugh after the comments he said above
May 3rd, 2008 at 10:04 pmkdcostak, only in America (and only in these times). Sick, but true.
Those 27%ers, don' 'cha 'no.
May 3rd, 2008 at 10:22 pm“When the history is written, it will be said this is a LESS safer country and more HATEFUL world because George Bush was president,” Cheney would have said, if he weren't lying.
May 3rd, 2008 at 10:43 pmAnd then some, Buckie. Read the latest post on my blog to see just how LESS safe we are becoming.
It sucks!
May 3rd, 2008 at 10:44 pmYou all think you have problems with "Cheney in Tulsa"!!!!
I opened my "Tulsa Whirled" and saw that ugly face staring at me with the headline "Cheney praises Bush in Tulsa".
Ughhh!
May 3rd, 2008 at 10:59 pmChaney the draft dodging bum talks to his choir of traitor's--these so called American's who use the flag to damage this great nation. They care nothing about America.
May 3rd, 2008 at 11:41 pmThe only thing this administration does with the flag is strangle us. They have no use for the flag, the constitution, or anything else American unless it's our money.
They are useless pieces of $hit - one and all.
May 3rd, 2008 at 11:48 pmUh huh . . . like I'm finally going to start believing Cheney?
May 4th, 2008 at 3:40 amHistory will say it's a sad ass consolation prize you wound up in prison for your crimes of f*%$ing this country sideways.
Bush/Cheney-Prison 09'
May 4th, 2008 at 10:16 amNo figure of history - and that means NO ONE - can to decide for themselves what history will say of them. Cheney and Bush can put frosting and sprinkles on their version of events, but it is only the historians and policy experts, as well as public opinion, that will etch their legacy.
Worst. President. Ever.
May 4th, 2008 at 12:07 pmOnly in the GWB Sewage Liebrary.
May 6th, 2008 at 8:12 am