Colin Powell’s former chief of staff: Cheney is ‘evil,’ his fearmongering is ‘assisting’ al Qaeda.
Colin Powell’s former chief of staff: Cheney is ‘evil,’ his fearmongering is ‘assisting’ al Qaeda.
Weeks after President Obama was inaugurated, Dick Cheney gave an interview to Politico slamming Obama’s detainee policies and warning that he was making America less safe (charges he repeated again last Sunday). Lawrence Wilkerson, Colin Powell’s former chief of staff who left the Bush administration in protest, wrote an essay on the Washington Note last evening slamming Cheney’s fearmongering. Wilkerson calls Cheney “evil” and says his detainee policies were only “assisting” terrorists:
Cheney went on to say in his McLean interview that “Protecting the country’s security is a tough, mean, dirty, nasty business. These are evil people and we are not going to win this fight by turning the other cheek.” I have to agree but the other way around. Cheney and his like are the evil people and we certainly are not going to prevail in the struggle with radical religion if we listen to people as he. [...]
But al-Qa’ida will be back. Iraq, GITMO, Abu Ghraib, heavily-biased U.S. support for Israel, and a host of other strategic errors have insured al-Qa’ida’s resilience, staying power and motivation. How we deal with the future attacks of this organization and its cohorts could well seal our fate, for good or bad. Osama bin Laden and his brain trust, Aman al-Zawahiri, are counting on us to produce the bad. With people such as Cheney assisting them, they are far more likely to succeed.
Wilkerson also writes that Powell and Richard Armitage “labored to ameliorate the GITMO situation from almost day one” but that Rumsfeld and Cheney were “[s]tanding resolutely” in the way and would “have none of it.”
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Terrorists want to instill terror. Cheney has been giving them a helping hand for eight years.
March 18th, 2009 at 6:57 pmBetter late than never. Let’s hear some more from the rational fringe. The radical fringe (Cheney and Company) have not only worn out their welcome, they have dang near destroyed us.
March 18th, 2009 at 6:58 pmActually, Cheney has been creating terrorists and terrorism for about 40 years.
March 18th, 2009 at 6:59 pm.
Assassin Cheney’s model…
… If you can’t beat ‘em, be ‘em.
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March 18th, 2009 at 6:59 pmMax-1, its more like if you can’t find’em, make’em.
March 18th, 2009 at 7:02 pm.
Wilkerson is correct…
… The detainee policy and the TORTURE program only strengthened al-CIA-duh’s resolve.
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March 18th, 2009 at 7:03 pmHoodathunk,
March 18th, 2009 at 7:04 pmThat’s pre 9/11 thinking there.
How is it that evil finds it’s minions?.Bush, Rumsfeld, Addington, Yoo, Gonzo etc.
March 18th, 2009 at 7:04 pmIt’s one thing to be bad but doing what they have done wrapped in a flag while holding a bible..That is truly the evil part.
When will the Constitution and the laws of America be enforced? When will the traitor, war criminal Cheney be imprisoned? Can America be saved much less restored? Where is the outrage? Yes, it is misplaced! Yes, Americans are confused. And, yes, America is getting what it deserves.
March 18th, 2009 at 7:06 pmPre 9/11? The Republicans have been manufacturing boogie men for my entire life. Just take Cuba, 40 years ago they had a possibility of being a problem. Now just how scared should we be of a little island with no links to anything of consequence yet the word is still out there.
Republicans have no qualms about making up enemies to be feared.
March 18th, 2009 at 7:09 pm“It’s one thing to be bad but doing what they have done wrapped in a flag while holding a bible..That is truly the evil part.”
It is no different than being wrapped in a suicide vest and holding the koran.
Extremism is extremism, regardless of which side of the fence the extremist is on.
March 18th, 2009 at 7:09 pmAmen, Nevar.
March 18th, 2009 at 7:10 pm.
Wilkerson was one of the first to OUT Powell, Cheney and Bush for their “SEXING UP” evidence concocted before the UN. The mobile units were cartoons… the aerial shots were decades old… the WMD’s FALSE!
And yet,
Impeachment was off the table.
Why, in America, are corrupt criminals venerated over those that expose them? The King has no clothes, yet their subjects(al-la Pelosi) wait in line to try the pants on. WTF???
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March 18th, 2009 at 7:11 pmThat’s risky to say, since Dick Chaney had a assasination team.
March 18th, 2009 at 7:12 pmI think even evil is too kind for Chaney at this point.
Nevar Says:
It is no different than being wrapped in a suicide vest and holding the koran.
Extremism is extremism, regardless of which side of the fence the extremist is on.
Point taken and agreed.
March 18th, 2009 at 7:13 pmJudging from the pic, I’d say Dick is a real candidate for Metamucil. If he wasn’t so bound up he might be a nicer person.
March 18th, 2009 at 7:13 pmHoodathunk,
March 18th, 2009 at 7:14 pmpre 9/11(/snark)? perhaps? maybe? chill?
I hear ya, Max. And apologies.
March 18th, 2009 at 7:16 pmCheney is very good at instilling terror, much better than terrorists who have a grudge against the U.S. foreign policies. He’s a terrorist that has a grudge against the middle-class.
Just look at the Trillion plus we are into because he and his ilk terrorized this country into an invasion of Iraq.
March 18th, 2009 at 7:18 pmThat is Old Testament thinking– an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth mindset.
He repudiates the New Testament message with his “we are not going to win this fight by turning the other cheek” dig at Jesus.
He took to the shadows at the speed of darkness. What a sad, frightened, angry person.
March 18th, 2009 at 7:19 pm10 Hoodathunk Says:
Republican fearmongering is well documented. They demonstrated it quite clearly when France did not want to join Bush on his Iraq fiasco, and suddenly it became hip for the wingnuts to hate the French. It was the hate de jour.
Republicans must have scapegoats. It is essential to give them strong feelings of unity. It is one of the fourteen common denominators of all fascist regimes.
March 18th, 2009 at 7:19 pmBush, Cheney, Rumsfeld are NO DIFFERENT than Osama Bin Laden. Republicans ( like Pete Sessions of Texas) are as much TERRORISTS as the TALIBAN.
The Bush administration has killed more americans than those who died on 9/11!
March 18th, 2009 at 7:21 pmA little cya for you, Mr. Wilkerson? Trying to preserve some reputation now?
Afraid Rove would send you on a small plane somewhere if you blew the whistle when it would’ve helped?
Powell should have the guts to stand up and try to cover his own ass, too.
March 18th, 2009 at 7:22 pm“Dick Chaney had a assasination team.”
I am not willing to put “Cheney’s team” in the past tense.
March 18th, 2009 at 7:23 pmHe is the point man for very powerful and well hidden corporate entities. The oil industries and the arms industries he has served very well over the years.
Cheney was the driving force behind the Iraq invasion, George W.Bush was nothing more than a slack-jawed dummy on his knee.
As long as he is willing to spout his hatred and fear mongering, his corporate masters will prop him up, pay his bills, and do his dirty work.
Hoodathunk,
Yes, Our leaders/Elected Officials have been very good at creating “reasons” (read enemy) to go to war because after all…
… There’s a killing to be had at making war, NO?
It’s an industry that brings home the bacon, so to speak, to local communities. Boeing, Raytheon, G.E. etc… wouldn’t be so big if it wasn’t for the military industrial complex.
However, one can not bake a cake without the wet ingredients, so what shall one do but go around stirring up a little trouble here, assist a radical fringe militant there, take out one foreign leader so as to replace them with a former US Ambassador.
Simply put, since 9/11…
… The chickens are coming home to roost. That piper must be paid. Why must America foot the bill so as to keep those who foment such aggressions back against us be “BAILED OUT” by CONgress by keeping legal measures unavailable at convienient times?
I’m just as p.o’d about what has been done in our name as you are.
March 18th, 2009 at 7:27 pmkrystalview,
I saw Pete Sessions at the end of the Durbin hearing yesterday on the drug wars in Mexico. He felt the need to point out that the druglords can get their guns from other countries too so the fact that most are coming from the US is a-ok and that the 2nd amendment will never change in this country.
March 18th, 2009 at 7:29 pmWell..even though I’m progressive I am for the 2nd amendment but it does’nt mean that we should be selling assault weapons to Mexican drug cartels..What an ass that guy is.
It is no different than being wrapped in a suicide vest and holding the koran.
It is different. Cheney is alive.
March 18th, 2009 at 7:30 pm“And its 1,2,3 4, what are we fighting for? Don’t ask me, They don’t tell me why. And its 5,6,7,8, open up the pearly gates. Don’t bother to ask why, Cheney is just gonna lie.”
March 18th, 2009 at 7:33 pmChuck Feney,
I would ask, what life time are we trying to “WIN” in?
In Christ’s time, the right and left side mattered. “Turning the other cheek” refers to standing your ground, forcing your accuser to backhand you. Forcing them to show their contempt for your being. The right hand was used for constructive purposes… eating, greeting, etc. The left was for cleaning one’s @ss, slapping a face, etc. And then, only the palm was appropriate. To backhand someone across the left cheek, was the ultimate act of disrespect.
If anything, Cheney is advocating turning tail and not facing those who seek to harm you… you know, like the coward Cheney is.
March 18th, 2009 at 7:37 pm“It is different. Cheney is alive.”
Thanks, Juan C.
Cheney is all the more hideous for his power and corrupt soul.
March 18th, 2009 at 7:38 pmWilkerson has been a whistleblower and screaming from the rooftops for a long time now, he has street cred. He was there. And he spoke up. (Check out The Fall of the Hosue of Bush for just one reference)
Don’t look at what people say. Look at what they do.
Bush moved to a Texas suburb, happily free of the brush which was his obsession for eight years. Did Cheney move back to Wyoming? No. Google “COG”. And don’t believe Cheney’s protest-too-much comments about not receiving intelligence reports anymore and “I’m on the outside now.” Yeah, right. Look at his bio. Bet there’s a bunker under the bunker.
When you look deep into the abyss the abyss also looks into you…Neitzsche
March 18th, 2009 at 7:39 pmTime to slow my butt down. Lets try that again.
“And its 1,2,3, what are we fighting for? Don’t ask me, they don’t tell me why, just give me a brand new lie. And its 5,6,7, open up the pearly gates. Ain’t no time to wonder why, Dick Cheney is just gonna lie.”
Apologies to Country Joe.
March 18th, 2009 at 7:40 pmp.s. Chuck Feney,
The Old Testament said nothing about turning the other cheek…
… But Jesus Christ did in the New Testament!
Can we get a ruling from the big “D”(aka RupturedAllReady) on this?
March 18th, 2009 at 7:42 pmGimme an F!
March 18th, 2009 at 7:42 pm“Where have all the hippies gone, long time passing”
March 18th, 2009 at 7:44 pmGimme a U!
March 18th, 2009 at 7:45 pmMax_1, the only cheek Dick recognizes is the back one that he positions to blow another great nasty for the rest of the world.
March 18th, 2009 at 7:46 pmGimme a C!
March 18th, 2009 at 7:46 pmHoodathunk Says,
How about this one.
Tin soldiers in Cheney’s death squad
March 18th, 2009 at 7:49 pmWe’ll finaly know the score
This summer we’ll see the handcuffs
Lest his ticker gives out before
I have to say I don’t believe in “evilness”. We have an inherent system of moral values, therefore we tend to describe almost any situation with moral judgements. I try to resist myself against this.
People kill for 3 reasons:
1) Passion. You find your wife with another man. You snap and kill them.
2) Impulse. You are sick, you have schizophrenia or another pathological desease due to lack/ excess of a chemical in your brain.
3) Profit. You are going to benefit out of it.
Cheney, as much as almost anybody in any government that agrees to make an aggresive action, knowing that innocent and guilty people is just going to get killed, kills due to the 3rd reason.
There is no evil in my opinion. Just AIG: arrogance, incompetence and greed. Heh.
March 18th, 2009 at 7:50 pmJuan C. Says:
There is no evil in my opinion. Just AIG: arrogance, incompetence and greed. Heh.
March 18th, 2009 at 7:50 pm
Emphasis on the arrogance and greed. :-)
March 18th, 2009 at 7:50 pmGimme a K!
What does that spell!?
March 18th, 2009 at 7:52 pmWilkerson has never shirked from speaking his mind. Too bad no one ever listened to him.
March 18th, 2009 at 7:53 pmSince Cheney spoke, we have heard from Chuck Hagel and now Lawrence Wilkerson, I hope that this is just the beginning of a swelling chorus of condemnation on Cheney.
Hey, Zoo!!
Easy, it spells: F U C K
March 18th, 2009 at 7:54 pmYou get a star, Juan. :-D
March 18th, 2009 at 7:55 pmaw, it doesn’t just spell f-u-c-k, it spells BUSH/CHENEY. Can you say synonyms?
I know you could.
March 18th, 2009 at 7:58 pmand, Hi Zooey!
March 18th, 2009 at 7:58 pmget this guy a slot on the daily show..seems to be the only “real” news outlet these days anyway..
March 18th, 2009 at 7:59 pmMarie Says:
Wilkerson has never shirked from speaking his mind. Too bad no one ever listened to him.
Since Cheney spoke, we have heard from Chuck Hagel and now Lawrence Wilkerson, I hope that this is just the beginning of a swelling chorus of condemnation on Cheney.
Right on! I think the farther in time we get from those 8 years, more people will feel the pressure, that Cheney et al had on them, disappear.
March 18th, 2009 at 8:00 pmMy responce to every neo-con claim – “in your mind”.
March 18th, 2009 at 8:00 pmGawd, I hope I live long enough to see Bush/Cheney&Co humiliated, charged, tried and found guilty.
March 18th, 2009 at 8:02 pmI want them to pay, in body and mind, for what they have done.
I want to see the Bush and Cheney names go down in infamy, along with Benedict Arnold, John Wilks Booth, and Tomothy McVeigh. (I know I am missing some equally infamous criminals, but you get my point.)
Old hippies never die, they just always smelled that bad.
Especially to Republicans. They hate patchouli and pot.
March 18th, 2009 at 8:03 pmAs Marie said, Wilkerson was one of the good ones — one of the few good ones, back when it really mattered.
March 18th, 2009 at 8:06 pmHas this guy’s boss, Colin Powell, ever admited to being coearced into lying for the Bush cabal? It’s a damn shame that a man like him would get taken down buy a cabal of crime.
March 18th, 2009 at 8:06 pmWe may not be able to see Bush and Cheney punished, and history may not remember them as the dastardly criminals we want them to be remembered as, but we can work to make sure no Republican ever is put in a position of authority again.
March 18th, 2009 at 8:07 pmNew England Indy Says:
Has this guy’s boss, Colin Powell, ever admited to being coearced into lying for the Bush cabal? It’s a damn shame that a man like him would get taken down buy a cabal of crime.
When one lays down with dogs, one will probably get fleas.
If anyone, including Powell, wants to regain their self respect, it is time to accept the flea powder. Nasty and no fun but the only choice.
March 18th, 2009 at 8:10 pmWhen one lays down with dogs, one will probably get fleas.
If anyone, including Powell, wants to regain their self respect, it is time to accept the flea powder. Nasty and no fun but the only choice.
I agree wholhartedly..But think of those that the MSN has let back into the fold of relivence..Delay, Rove,Ole Newt,goes on and on.
March 18th, 2009 at 8:14 pmBut true..no respect there..got it..lol
March 18th, 2009 at 8:16 pmZooey Says:
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Gimme a K!
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March 18th, 2009 at 8:21 pmHow come everytime I say “f” you say “k”
wow – i’m either being “too hard” on Bush’s guys, or not “hard enough” against the blue dogs….
…where the hell is this leading?
March 18th, 2009 at 8:22 pmThank you, Mr. Wilkerson, for calling it as you see it. Too many times no one has questioned Darth Sidious as he chews and snarls his way through yet another fear-mongering interview. Thank goodness you have the courage to publicize the truth. I just hope Sidious, aka Cheney, crawls back under his dark cowl and hides himself away. But unfortunately for the country, he probably won’t.
March 18th, 2009 at 8:25 pmYou say potayto, I say potahto, let’s call the whole thing odd.
March 18th, 2009 at 8:25 pmcolin powell – one of the good ones – how much did that help? what was different because of Powell or Wilkerson? what did Dick and Dubbie not get to do because of them?
how in the hell can people be hanging evan bayh in effigy on the one hand and defending Bush staff on the other?!?
March 18th, 2009 at 8:25 pmtombaker, it could be a variation of the Spanish Inquisition. Maybe they’re going for the French Revolution.
March 18th, 2009 at 8:26 pmIs Cheney promoting fear, unrest, and human conflict simply to survive at this point? Cause that would be evil…
March 18th, 2009 at 8:28 pmApe-man, Cheney promotes fear, unrest and human conflict because he likes it and he makes money from it.
March 18th, 2009 at 8:30 pmi don’t get it.
y, that’s good that wilkerson said that, but what does it accomplish? cheney’s not the vp anymore. it can’t monday-morning-quarterback us out of anything that’s already happened.
who needs concern trolls – we’ve got more than enough self-doubt and second-guessing to go around!!
March 18th, 2009 at 8:33 pmI appreciate what Wilkerson wrote but I’m not quite buying the bit about Powell and Gitmo. If his old boss felt strongly enough he would have resigned in protest.
http://www.pufferfishblog.com/
March 18th, 2009 at 8:37 pmSorry Danny, but if Powell had felt that strongly about it, he would have stood up on his hind legs and bellered rather than cut and run. Resigning in protest without protesting is chicken feces.
March 18th, 2009 at 8:42 pmI think Cheney IS evil. You can actually see the evil emanating from him in waves. The man is flat out creepy
March 18th, 2009 at 8:43 pmWhen Darth Cheney dies, he will be buried in a Porta-Potty. That’s a good thing because there will be thousands of people lined up to piss on his grave (I plan to get there early).
March 18th, 2009 at 8:46 pmIs that sneer frozen permanently on Cheney’s ugly face ?
March 18th, 2009 at 8:47 pmRush is the leader of the republic party. Cheney is the leader of al-Qaida for the republic party. See? Pretty simple.
March 18th, 2009 at 8:49 pmHooda,
The problem is, a high ranking official can’t just outwardly protest against the administration in which he serves? Powell did the stand up thing, and resigned, once he figured out he couldn’t live with the environment in which he found himself. What better way to show his disagreement with the administration’s policies, as professionally as possible?
March 18th, 2009 at 8:56 pmNot only that, but Cheney and Co., by lying and cheating to push their policies, also weakened our intelligence capability. They were evil MORONS.
March 18th, 2009 at 8:56 pmchat Says:
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—weird porn link?
March 18th, 2009 at 9:01 pmtom, if that was reply to me, I didn’t say Powell was one of the good ones, I said Wilkerson was. Wilkerson was one of the first people in the administration to come out publicly with statements condemning the shit they were pulling. If nothing else, he gave some credibility to what we were saying out here.
March 18th, 2009 at 9:18 pmtombaker,
Because Wilkerson was the wistleblower of the Powell UN lie.
From the movie, No End In Sight.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwdsm-Oux4o
The Movie, No End In Sight
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6182969183854471645&ei=AZ3BSfbxIqmyqAOX1uXCAQ&q=no+end+in+site&hl=en
Opening statement before the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Rights.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOSxRmZvVug
Confirmation of murders, same hearing as above…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8o7dQ0sSr9c
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March 18th, 2009 at 9:19 pm#74 FLAGGED
March 18th, 2009 at 9:21 pmrikki-tikki-tumbo Says:
Hooda,The problem is, a high ranking official can’t just outwardly protest against the administration in which he serves? Powell did the stand up thing, and resigned, once he figured out he couldn’t live with the environment in which he found himself. What better way to show his disagreement with the administration’s policies, as professionally as possible?
Professionally? The man is a decorated soldier so he should walk, pardon me, run away from a fight? Resigning and shutting your face about why is pure cowardice. If he felt strongly enough to resign, why didn’t he feel strongly enough to fight?
I haven’t heard him stepping up since his resignation.
March 18th, 2009 at 9:22 pmRalph, I agree about Wilkerson. His positions and statements would have carried a great deal more weight if his CO had backed him.
March 18th, 2009 at 9:23 pmI have mixed feelings about Colin Powell, but I don’t think it’s fair to expect heroism from anyone. He may have been aware of Cheney’s assassination squad.
March 18th, 2009 at 9:28 pmok – i never meant to be a dick about it – i will not fail in the future to give wilkerson his due. max and ralph, thanks for the info.
too bad the msm wasn’t better able to hear his whistle blowing, damn their liberal bias!
March 18th, 2009 at 9:29 pmtombaker,
N.p.
I think your question about who made a difference should be directed toward Ms. Pelosi, perhaps she can illuminate as to why neither impressed her enough to make a difference.
Just like Sibel Edmonds and Valarie Plame…
… Seems they’re also insignificant to the real D.C. Madame, Pelosi, too.
Watch, Kill The Messenger.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6063340745569143497&ei=VZ_BSZbWNpaEqQPT8Ky9AQ&q=Sibel+Edmonds&hl=en
mouth agap!
March 18th, 2009 at 9:30 pmrikki-tikki-tumbo Says:
Hooda,The problem is, a high ranking official can’t just outwardly protest against the administration in which he serves?
Pardon me, but this one irks. Every military person swears a similar oath to the Presidents…to defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic. It is even more demanding of an officer. He had a duty to his country. Resigning is an option for an officer in disgrace. Standing up for the Constitution is not a disgrace, it is a duty.
Powell resigned because he could not perform his duty as an officer.
March 18th, 2009 at 9:32 pmWhat annoys me at this point (well one of many things), is that the outrage of America can only be elicited by FINANCIAL issues. Cheney lied, tortured, no-bid contracted, fomented war, and is partly responsible for the deaths of thousands of Americans and many thousands of Iraqis and Afhanis. And what has this country more upset? $165 million dollars in unwarranted bonuses. This nation has truly lost all sense of priority and its identity. Just look at that tool Glenn Beck. The torture and deaths of living people cannot elicit tears, but stimulus packages bring forth a cascade of emotions in the guy. Sickening.
March 18th, 2009 at 9:34 pmTbone, the financial issue is first. The rest have to find a place in the line.
March 18th, 2009 at 9:39 pmWiley, another irk, if we can’t expect heroism from one of the most senior members of our Armed Forces, what planet do you live on?
March 18th, 2009 at 9:41 pmHoodathunk:
March 18th, 2009 at 9:50 pmPerhaps I wasn’t clear. My disgust is not because we are upset about legitimate grievances about the economy now, and other issues must be put on the back burner. It is that the majority of this country FAILED to be similarly outraged all throughout the Bush Administration when they were committing far worse crimes. The nation should have FLIPPED OUT on Cheney and Bush back then and threw them out on their butts. Now, we have to hope that these thugs eventually get dealt with appropriately.
I hear you, tbone. Just think where we might be is a former SOS and war hero had stood up and said things were screwed up when he realized it. Heroes do matter and Powell was as close to one as we have seen in a while. He had a hammer and traded it for a couch.
March 18th, 2009 at 9:55 pmcol. lawrence wilkerson on rachel maddow -
E X C E L L E N T .
keep safe, sir.
March 18th, 2009 at 9:59 pmThat is… if and only if the US is interested and regaining TRUST (which is fundamental for the economy too!)and moral standing in the global community.
How can the US and UK say to the World that Mugabe is a War Criminal when Chenney, Rice, Perle, Yoo, Wolfowitz, Rumsfeld, D. Feith, amongst many other scum are still not held accountable for War Crimes? How can the World look seriously to the USA when Congress and the AG are not doing their jobs to appoint a Federal Prosecutor? These people are criminals. Plenty of evidence! Didn’t Rice on a Congress hearing interrupted a Senator to say: “Let be clear here… the US does not condone and does not Torture.(words of effect)”?
How many times Bush told on TV that “The US does not Torture”. They knew very well what was going on. They had meeting at the WH discussing the “Torture program”. Rice must respond under oath about that!
So they lied and lied and lied. How can someone still believe in the 9/11 official fiction?
March 18th, 2009 at 10:27 pm
Cheney needs to go on one of his drunken hunting parties and shoot himself in the face. Please do Dick.
March 18th, 2009 at 10:49 pmWHO asked ya for “protection?” WHO in he11 lied to accomplished a sneak attack on a weaker country? WHO invaded and occupied a sovereign nation? WHO used our finest to hunt down and kill a head of state, his family and civilians?
WHO! MF! WHO!!
A dirty, mean, nasty MF like you. Indeed!
Pure evil arrogance there, I tell ya.
you don’t know what President Obama will do in any given situation. But them again he wouldn’t make shit up to suit his ego/super ego like you pappy.
So diplomacy is “turning the other cheek?” GTFOOH
Turn the other cheek? We know what you do doing your “fight/war.” You run and hide six stories deep in some bunker like a little weak b1tch. Hide again instigator. RUN! You have been wrong since nixon.
What make President Obama reasoning suitable sane is that he listens to intel from intelligent people and doesn’t make it up on the fly. Madman.
The United States of American was “attacked” under chimpy’s “watch.”
We were safe from “attack” for exactly 60 year.
I agree, buckshot-cheney is making it worse all over the place. he just identified his enemies as “evil people.”
he’s an old fart with 1916s ideas that are way pass its “prime.”
you’re a RACIST!
For real!
It’s time for you to take your medicine.
March 18th, 2009 at 11:52 pmPeople are saying that the al Qaeda threat is just hype, but not in the Muslim World or continental Europe, especially not in Spain that had it worse than the US. The few real al Qaeda diehard at Guantanamo said they would plead guilty only if they could be assured of getting the death penalty.
If these madmen discover their cause is hopeless, rather than falling on their sword, will commit isolated acts of terror to take a dozen or so people with them and it will look like Obama had failed.
Terror alert bright orange,
see,
“Terror attack may be imminent”. And the good news, “Piracy being dealt with without US getting bogged down in a new war, good news that we should learn from”
http://capitolhillblue.com/cont/node/15268
http://capitolhillblue.com/cont/node/15937
Al Qaeda vowed to drive the US out of Saudi Arabia, but the US withdrew troops back in 2003. It wanted to stop the US from sending troops to Pakistan, but Bush never did.
So the US screwed up its inteligence gathering looking for a domestic attack, the years none were scheduled.
March 19th, 2009 at 12:09 amLawrene Wilkerson spoke truth to Cheney! Lawrene Wilkerson is a good and courageous man.
March 19th, 2009 at 12:20 am96 RichardKanePA Says:
Stuff happens. What’s important is how you deal with it. Making it a pre-emptive political football the way Cheney want’s to do is counter productive at best and treasonous at worst.
March 19th, 2009 at 12:29 amSo, what of instead of “heavily-biased U.S. support for Israel,” al-Qa’ida was upset with the US because of “heavily-biased U.S. support for South Korea.” Would that mean that the US should abandon South Korea? Since when do the opinions of terrorists dictate US foreign policy?
What a moron.
March 19th, 2009 at 12:51 amOlbermann was right back in February…
March 19th, 2009 at 1:50 amhttp://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036677/#29043314
Cheney and his croneys Wolfowitz, Rumsfeld, Rove, et al., if left to their own devices, would have surely turned this nation into a fascist regime. They embrace and practice fascism and xenophobia in all they do.
March 19th, 2009 at 2:23 amGoogle this folks–and someone talk to the appropiate authorities–Please. Google Secretary of Transportation, NOrman Mineta’s testimony of a Dick Cheney stand down order on 911 [in the Situation Room] as the MISSLE was coming into the Pentegaon.
March 19th, 2009 at 3:28 am> Juan C. Says:
> I have to say I don’t
> believe in “evilness”.
as a devout moral relativist, i agree with you for the most part… “good” and “evil” are star warsian terms made up to make us feel like we can easily ascertain friend from foe..but I do beleive in positive and negative energy, and I beleive that cheney is surrounded by a dark seething miasma of negative energy…I beleive people have auras and his is quite black
March 19th, 2009 at 3:55 amTo Hoodathunk,
Personally, I think most of the Bush Administrated should be in jail. I am a major Obama supporter. However, to blame the Reb’s for ‘manufacturing boogie men’ in the case of the Cuban Missle Crisis, are you nuts? First, President Kennedy was president, hardly a Rebublican!. We had many many very clear pictures of various nuclear missles in crates, on railings, being assembled, and 90 miles off our coast. And no ties to anyone???????? The entire economey was supported by the Soviet Union, whose leader was poundin his shoe at the UN saying he was going to destroy America. Yes sir, I believe we had a real problem..yet Pres. Kennedy was able to solve the situation without one shot being fired. There is the difference, hopefully Obama follows that tact.
March 19th, 2009 at 4:57 amDoes anyone have the answer to this. Cheney enters vp office worth around 40 mill. He leaves office worth how mush?????? Did he take the same losses to his retirement account as most of us? Do his comments help his stock profolio or hurt it.
March 19th, 2009 at 8:12 amBush, Cheney, and Rumsfeld should be in prison awaiting execution for war crimes, treason, torture, violations of international law, and violations of the U. S. Constitution. Oh, and by the way, if we need anyone to “pull the switch” on Cheney, I volunteer. This country would be so much better off without the likes of these guys.
March 19th, 2009 at 8:57 amArchie B Says:
Can you elaborate?
Sure, Archie, it’s easy. All you need to do is quit drinking so many beers and watching to much television.
Exercise helps the brain function better too, and it will give Edith a chance to vacuum under the cushions.
March 19th, 2009 at 9:02 amEvil, yes. But also incompetent. That’s today’s Republicans. It would all be funny if people weren’t getting killed.
March 19th, 2009 at 9:18 amColin Powell’s former chief of staff: Cheney is … fearmongering
Thanks for the update pal.
Do let us know if he starts showing off vials of white powder and investing cartoon bio-weapons labs as part of his fearmongering routine.
Next up, Michelle Malkin has a problem with someone being racist.
March 19th, 2009 at 9:32 ambyng.king Says:
Since when do the opinions of terrorists dictate US foreign policy? What a moron.
Since it’s not only the terrorists who think the US-Israeli relationship needs to be analyzed.
March 19th, 2009 at 12:39 pmCheeney:“we are not going to win this fight by turning the other cheek”
Cheeney insults our intellegence and Jesus in one sentence, but i bet he sent shivers up the spine of neo-cons…
I guess when cheeney discredits Jesus [turn the other cheek] he doesn’t count paying off the enemy. now that is called kissing terrorist ass. Stupid cheney!
March 19th, 2009 at 2:56 pmThe problem with people like Wilkerson (and I see he learned well from Powell) is that they only speak out AFTER they leave office – to get attention, write a book, go on a talk show, etc. That is disgraceful… leadership means speaking out when you see or suspect a wrong doing and in the case of Cheney vis-a-vis Wilkerson, I suspect it goes back many years.
March 19th, 2009 at 3:17 pmY’all are gonna wake up one morning with a little sheet head at your door giving you the option to convert or die. In the course of battle, it is my contention that the combatants should agree to a level playing field. Consequently, we should have sent the Gitmo boys back home the smae way we got some of our troops back….in pieces, beheaded and full of pork guts. Read your history, you morons. The fundamentalist Muslim has only one caliphate and that is the subjugation of everything that is not Muslim. The only difference between this war and the Crusades is the weaponry.
March 19th, 2009 at 4:35 pm