Cheney Worried That Iraq Withdrawal Will ‘Waste’ The Sacrifice By U.S. Troops
Cheney Worried That Iraq Withdrawal Will ‘Waste’ The Sacrifice By U.S. Troops
Tomorrow is the deadline for U.S. troops to withdraw from Iraq, a date Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki is calling a “great victory.” But in a new interview with Washington Times radio, Vice President Cheney was still pushing the U.S. to stay in Iraq, saying that withdrawal would “waste” the sacrifice of U.S. troops:
Mr. Cheney told The Washington Times’ America’s Morning News radio show that he is a strong believer in Gen. Ray Odierno, commander of U.S. forces in Iraq, and that the general is doing what needs to be done.
“But what he says concerns me: That there is still a continuing problem. One might speculate that insurgents are waiting as soon as they get an opportunity to launch more attacks.
“I hope Iraqis can deal with it. At some point they have to stand on their own. But I would not want to see the U.S. waste all the tremendous sacrifice that has gotten us to this point.“
Cheney said that he respects Odierno, who is concerned that there “is still a continuing problem.” Cheney was referencing Odierno’s comments from a CNN interview yesterday. However, Cheney left out the rest of the general’s comments, in which he said that he doesn’t see such “a breakdown in stability” likely to happen:
ODIERNO: Well, again, I think — I think it has to do with if we see a breakdown in stability in Iraq; if we see a consistent increase in violence; if we see that the Iraqi security forces aren’t able to respond; if we have some event that it caused some instability, then that would cause us to, maybe, after we’re asked by the government of Iraq, to help.
I don’t see that right now. I believe we’re on the right path. And I want to make sure you understand that. I believe we are still on the right path. I think security and stability is headed in the right direction as we move through 30 June.
Furthermore, in an interview with CBS yesterday, U.S. ambassador to Iraq Christopher Hill said that in “overall trends, you see that violence in this year, ‘09, are considerably less. … We think, we are certainly ready to make this move and most importantly we believe the Iraqi forces are ready to take over this mission.”
Cheney has long been fear-mongering on U.S. withdrawal, hoping to keep troops in Iraq as long as possible. In April 2008 he made the misleading claim that al Qaeda would “acquire control” of Iraq’s oil resources if the U.S. left, also compared withdrawal to “betrayal.”
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You’re one of them that repeatedly lied to get this thing started dick.
June 29th, 2009 at 10:05 amI’d say that you are not only the cause of ‘wasting’ the efforts and sacrifice of the U.S. military but you have their blood on your hands.
It’s a legitimate concern. But, the troops have to come out at some point.
That concern will be vindicated or rejected based on what happens in Iraq after the troops leave.
I hope that Odierno is right. His position sounds reasonable.
June 29th, 2009 at 10:10 amDoes anyone else think that this is a bit rich coming from one of the very people who pushed for this illegal and unjust war in the first place?
I mean, I don’t disparage the real sacrifices that the troops have made in Iraq. Quite a few people I know are currently serving in both Iraq and Afghanistan.
However, hearing the neo-con concerned about wasting sacrifices makes me wonder why he didn’t care about that before the unjust war.
Oh wait, all he cared about was Halliburton. ;)
June 29th, 2009 at 10:11 amIt was Cheney’s lies that caused the deaths of those soldiers in the first place — now he’s concerned that their lives might be “wasted.”
June 29th, 2009 at 10:12 amOil-greedy, war-mongering, fear-monger, Cheney is the waste of human life.
I wonder when Cheney will finally realize that he’s no longer the VP and that his opinion is not important. The nerve of Cheney to contradict General Odierno – as if he would know better?! As if he’s been in Iraq with the troops?!
June 29th, 2009 at 10:15 amGee, it’s funny how Obama who “BAAAAW NEVAR HAD A REAL JEORB” recognizes that sunk costs shouldn’t affect future decision making, while the “CEO administration” remains blissfully oblivious to this basic business principle.
June 29th, 2009 at 10:15 amWho other than Repugnicans who want to be him really gives a rat’s Cheney what this vile bastard says?
June 29th, 2009 at 10:15 amIn April 2008 {Cheney) made the misleading claim that al Qaeda would “acquire control” of Iraq’s oil resources if the U.S. left, also compared withdrawal to “betrayal.”
Of course, Big Dick has an issue with ‘his’ interests not bearing fruition in Iraq. By now, big oil was supposed to have a monopoly on Iraq’s oil. They don’t.
So, Big Dick…you not only lost the ‘big prize’, but you also lost any honor, respect or dignity you may have had left.
America sacrificed it’s young warriors for you & a Cokehead’s pipe dream.
Now, you’re still attempting to fearmonger, delay & obstruct. You & Rummy’s lies go back all the way to our other worst President, Reagan. For 30+ years you’ve been trying to enable corporate profit over democracy.
You should be sitting in Gitmo with Bush & Dumsfeld. Do America a favor…go Cheney yourself & STFU.
June 29th, 2009 at 10:16 amCheney has zero military experience and is not living in Iraq as Gen. Ordierno is and has absolutely no credibility on Iraq’s ability to handle its’ own security after June 29. He seems to have no real respect for the general, the Iraqi security forces, the Iraqi people, our servicemen/women, or the American government & people. Typical Cheney. All mouth and no on the ground experience.
June 29th, 2009 at 10:22 amSo we should stay in the Middle East for what, the next four decades or so, just so as to not ‘waste’ the sacrifices that your bloody hand ordered?
Duck you Fick.
June 29th, 2009 at 10:25 amMr. Cheney told The Washington Times’ America’s Morning News radio show
I knew the Moonies had a newspaper, but they also have a radio show?
June 29th, 2009 at 10:28 amNow that I’ve tarred and feathered the messenger, I will have to say something that might not garner much approval here: I do actually agree with him to a point.
I do not agree that the US government has carte blanche to stay there indefinitely, but I do agree that withdrawing too quickly does risk those real sacrifices that the troops have made over there. The current general is exactly right, if it gets bad again we will have to sink back down into the bottomless pit.
Thankfully the situation in Iraq has some semblance of stability, and that the end of the tunnel does appear close.
June 29th, 2009 at 10:28 amYou know I would not be surprised if there were some neo-cons working for a defense company doing backdoor deals with some of these terrorist cells in Iraq that are stepping up violence.
June 29th, 2009 at 10:30 amLet Haliburton hire their own security.
June 29th, 2009 at 10:30 amFirst TP, it’s “FORMER Vice President” Dick What’s-his-name.
Second, FORMER Vice President Dick doesn’t want US forces to leave because 1) He and his buddies haven’t ripped control of the vast untapped oil from the Iraqis yet, 2) It would mean an end to the Haliburton “No-Bid” corporate welfare FORMER Vice President Dick and his fellow stockholders have enjoyed at the expense of the American Taxpayer.
June 29th, 2009 at 10:31 ammajii, This is no defense of Cheney but he was Sec. of the Army so he does has some military experience. At least at the high level.
I agree that he has no respect for the General or the current situation in Iraq.
Cheney is no longer in the loop so his blustering is sounding more like the fear monger he has always been.
June 29th, 2009 at 10:32 amNo, Cheney does not have a point.
June 29th, 2009 at 10:32 amHe didn’t care about the troops when he was hiding for eight years.
You have wasted over 4000 lives already, now you’re going to act like you care?
Please don’t allow this thread to become another stage for b-cup, he had his 300 post vanity thread yesterday.
tony and lido
THE INVASION AND OCCUPATION OF IRAQ WAS A WASTE FOR OUR SOLDIERS, OUR COUNTRY AND THE IRAQIS. THE ONLY PPL WHO BENEFITED FROM THIS MESS IS HALLIBURTON AND CHENEY AND ULTIMATELY THE OIL COMPANIES.
CHENEY SHUT THE F**k UP!
June 29th, 2009 at 10:34 amHow much blood, how many lives lost are enough to satisfy this evil bastard?
I wish I were a Christian so I could damn that bastard to hell.
June 29th, 2009 at 10:34 amSuch twisted logic.
If the Big Dick is correct, then why then would we ever end any war? Because the war dead would be a “waste” if we did? Were all the brave soldiers, sailors, airmen and marines considered “waste” at the end of World War II, or Korea, or Vietnam? I don’t think so.
No one should believe that the families of war dead (one of which was mine) would think that the loss of their loved one was in vein just because the battles ended. That is what they all fought for. To end the war they were in.
Those who died had the misfortune of being in the fight one day too many. They are gone, but they would not want another family to suffer that same loss just to somehow justify their own sacrifice. Their individual sacrifice is justification enough.
Dick Cheney is an insecure little man who sees his hawkish legacy threatened, and spins illogical yarns to make his previous actions justified, and to argue that they should be continued. Please now go away, you odd, evil, person, and stop spewing such garbage.
June 29th, 2009 at 10:35 amWar for profit is all that this cold shell of a human being knows. An old school neo-con that would prefer that we stay in Iraq despite contractual agreements, the will of both Iraqi and American citizens and the simple fact that we never should have been in Iraq in the first place. C’mon Spain, let’s set a date for war crimes trials allready because it has become soberingly obvious that our current Administration is afraid to waste any of it’s precious “political capital” in upholding our laws and doing what is right. We are a nation where all are equal under the law….unless you are an elected official of the Government.
June 29th, 2009 at 10:36 amDr. Hussein Matt says it well. The invasion of Iraq put our troops in harms way. Thousands of US military died and tens of thousands will carry the battle scars. To now use their sacrifice to further his cause is appalling.
June 29th, 2009 at 10:37 amVice President Cheney was still pushing the U.S. to stay in Iraq, saying that withdrawal would “waste” the sacrifice of U.S. troops:
Then why the f*** did you let your pet chimp Bush sign the withdrawal agreement, you lying chickenhawk?
Cheney is hoping for disaster, who is he kidding? The rightwing needs bad news because it’s the only thing they can hang their 2010 hopes on.
June 29th, 2009 at 10:39 ambackup Says:
It’s a legitimate concern. But, the troops have to come out at some point.
That concern will be vindicated or rejected based on what happens in Iraq after the troops leave.
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Dr. Hussein Matt Says:
When you invade a country for unjust reasons, there is NEVER an “appropriate time” or “best time” to withdraw.
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And so another classic B-cup straw man bursts into flames and is quickly reduced to soot and ashes…
June 29th, 2009 at 10:40 amI guess if you think going from 3 suicide bombings a day down to 1 is progress, then I guess we have stabalized the ares.
June 29th, 2009 at 10:41 amThey’ve been fighting the same battles for over 600 years and somehow we made things better. How?
tony and lido
Each day, thousands of people in this nation are arrested for possession of a small amount of pot. Many will have to serve prison sentences for this “offense.”
Cheney’s lies and machinations have contributed mightily to the horror show in Iraq, as well as the economic breakdown in our own nation.
Why isn’t Cheney in jail already?
Why do the MSM 24-hour yak fests continue to give that war criminal a platform?
June 29th, 2009 at 10:41 amCheney’s concern for the future is CheneySpeak for real concern about his tarnished image as a fiscally irresponsible, war-mongering, Arab hating, fat, white boy who screwed up but good. He wants us in Iraq until he is dead and all of this will be written off as what had to be done. Cheney is an idiot who gets too much press attention. Go away Dickey.
June 29th, 2009 at 10:42 amSo Cheney is just the #1 Concern Troll. STFU Dick.
June 29th, 2009 at 10:44 amCheney and the evil cabal of neocons would never just HOPE for bad news. They’re plotting it I’m sure. Like they have hundreds of times before, negotiating with terrorists to get their agenda met. He’s just coming out with this warning so that when his plan comes to fruition he can say, “I told you so.”
June 29th, 2009 at 10:47 amWhen asked for his reaction to the fact that Iranian dissidents are being tortured in the same exact fashion that U.S. troops used in Iraq, Darth Cheney replied, “It’s all Obama’s fault. If the liberal media hadn’t published pictures, our means and methods would still be secret.”
When asked for his response to the fact that these “means and methods” were actually producing false confessions in Iran, Darth Cheney said, “Well, of course, it was different in Iraq. We did the same thing but got different results.”
p.s. — Darth Cheney is insane
June 29th, 2009 at 10:48 amModerate Man Says: I do not agree that the US government has carte blanche to stay there indefinitely, but I do agree that withdrawing too quickly does risk those real sacrifices that the troops have made over there.
Withdrawing too quickly? It’s been SIX YEARS! “If it gets bad again” it’s not the American troops job to fix a disfunctional government/country.
If it gets bad again, and I expect it will, just remember there are three factions there that hate one another and have been battling one another for a millennium. One mans insurgent is another mans revenge taker. And that is not an American soldiers job to fix.
June 29th, 2009 at 10:48 amBy a large margin the points made on this issue hit the nail on the head: Too little too late Cheney.
You and your buddy George have the blood of 4300+ of our brave men and women on your hands.
This is not counting the scars, amputations, divorces, suicides, and family ruin resulting from your pompous action.
June 29th, 2009 at 10:49 amWhatever happens to Iraq rests squarely on the shoulders of Bush and Cheney. They sign the agreement we’d leave after they invaded for their own profit. Whatever turns to sh#t is their fault and nobody elses.
June 29th, 2009 at 10:50 amAccording to my Dick-speak to English booklet, Cheney’s comments translate into English as: “We can’t leave yet, we haven’t stolen all of the oil!”
June 29th, 2009 at 10:53 amWhat will happen in Iraq as our forces withdraw will be a power struggle between the newly disenfranchised Sunnis (who were the franchisees for the last four hundred years or so) and the newly empowered Shiites who are in the vast majority.
Expect a bloodbath. That has always been the inevitable result since March 2003. We’ve just held it at bay with the blood of 4300+ troops, plus the thousands maimed for life, both physically and mentally.
Congratulations, DickHead, you and your pet chymp screwed the pooch, now you’re trying to get out of paying puppy support.
June 29th, 2009 at 10:53 amNo, Dick, the fact that you were ever allowed to draw your first breath is a waste, you vile sack of evil.
June 29th, 2009 at 10:54 amExactly, you can’t invade a country to fix it. The people of a country need to fix it. The Iranians need to decide what kind of rule they want. And the Iraqis deserve our financial support for all the trouble we started there but still they’ll need to solve their onw problmes getting along. We can’t even figure out how to civilize Republicans.
June 29th, 2009 at 10:54 amI heard it will be Bill Clinton’s fault.
June 29th, 2009 at 10:54 amSo Cheney is against allowing Iraq the ability to determine how their country will be run. Why does that not surprise me?
I wonder what Cheney would have to say if Iran had invaded the USA, occupied us for 6 years and then refused to leave when we asked them to leave.
June 29th, 2009 at 10:57 amHey fleabag, why don’t you go back to licking your scrotum and give us a break today. Nobody is interested in you “what ifs” today.
June 29th, 2009 at 10:59 amHe is afraid that withdrawal will prove that it was a totally unnecessary war to begin with.
June 29th, 2009 at 11:02 amCheney really is a Dick. The dead troops & the 100s of thousands of dead Iraqis were sacrificed because of Cheney & Bush, their need for power, their greed for oil, & their devotion to their rich oil company & arms friends.
June 29th, 2009 at 11:04 amI would like to know who is behind this being called a “withdrawal”. It’s bad enough when political terms are bastardized, seeing military terms destroyed before my eyes is disturbing. Like government and military officials using the term “pre-emptive” to describe “preventive war”, this is not a “withdrawal”. Troops are pulling out of the cities, but they aren’t pulling out of Iraq, and they aren’t dismantling the bases and bringing the troops home. For whatever it’s worth, we are pulling back not out.
June 29th, 2009 at 11:08 amcheney’s logic is what keeps people sticking coins in slot machines! “I’ve invested so much that it would be a disservice to those invested coins if I leave now!” It is as flawed as his lies to get Americans into and killed in Iraq in the first place. cheney and the repubs only have one tactic left; criticize everything regardless of the logic and need to do it.
June 29th, 2009 at 11:13 amMr. Cheney told The Washington Times’ America’s Morning News radio show that –
Let me stop you right there.
Who cares?
June 29th, 2009 at 11:20 amI wish he’d quit bringing those things around here just to get ‘em immolated.
I mean, the flames are pretty and they toast marshmallows real nice, but that soot is building up on the windows and the lawn furniture.
June 29th, 2009 at 11:22 amHe would tell them they could stay as long as they like, if they gave a no-bid contract to KBR to build their permanent bases.
June 29th, 2009 at 11:24 amCheney is also being disingenuous about who is responsible for the timing of the troops withdrawing from the cities: It was his puppet administration that negotiated the Status of Forces Agreement, not Obama. He and Bush just kicked their mess down the road far enough so that anything that happens they can blame on Obama.
As Chuck Feney, I say to Dick, “Chuck Feney.!”
June 29th, 2009 at 11:28 amDick “we’re turning the corner” Cheney’s plan for Iraq has always been to stay there and keep fighting there forever and ever and ever. The reason for that is that the U.S.A. won’t really take a look at the causes and costs of that war until we stop fighting there. Once we withdraw, we’re going to want to take stock. And more and more of the country are going to realize the enormity of the evil that was perpetuated in their name. By keeping heroic soldiers in harm’s way so they can be idolized by our communities at home, he keeps attention delayed from noticing just what a monster he is.
June 29th, 2009 at 11:31 amHe says NOTHING about the 1000’s that died and were injured and the uncounted civilian deaths in a totally unjustifiable war. How does the bastid sleep at night?
June 29th, 2009 at 11:42 amSo, the catastrophic errors of the past ought to be used to justify more mistakes going forward? I don’t think so. The reason Iraqis are fighting Americans in Iraq is because we invaded their country. As soon as we leave, they will stop fighting us.
June 29th, 2009 at 11:42 amMr. 5-deferment draft dodger sure has a lot of chutzpah talking about the sacrifice of soldiers.
June 29th, 2009 at 11:53 amHang the war-profiteering war criminal already
Don’t forget his daughter Liz Cheney, that other scumbag who can’t shut her goddamned mouth. She is all over the 24-hour yackfests, spewing her lies and shouting down any opposition.
Is there any talented filmmaker out there who could do an expose on that Cheney clan?
June 29th, 2009 at 12:03 pmCheney Worried That Iraq Withdrawal Will ‘Waste’ The Sacrifice By U.S. Troops
First of all what does 5 deferment Dick know about any sacrifice of U.S. Troops?
Secondly is Dick saying our U.S. Troops sacrifice was a waste when we pulled out of Europe after WWI & WWII, after we left Korea, when we finally left Vietnam, when we pulled out of the first Gulf War????
Tell us Dick, why would this be a waste? You seem to want our U.S. Troops in harms way forever. And please Dick stop with the phony concern for our U.S. Troops, you don’t give a damn about them and never have.
June 29th, 2009 at 12:04 pmSuck it, Diok! Nobody gives a rat’s ass what you think. Crawl back into your man safe and suck you thumb, coward.
June 29th, 2009 at 12:16 pmDear Dick,
The only thing our troops ask is that you don’t put them in harm’s way unless it’s absolutely necessary.
You lied to our troops. You put over 6,000 of our troops in the grave for a pack of lies. You and Bush should be rotting in prison right now.
June 29th, 2009 at 12:20 pmSound familiar?
That’s Mir Hossein Mousavi from a TV broadcast during the recent Iranian elections
His campaign posters were emblazoned with the slogan, “Lying is forbidden.”
June 29th, 2009 at 12:21 pmTaking this mans thought process to the end, it would seem we will never leave there. Just in case the Iraq army cannot take care of itself. I guess if we stay there forever they will never need to. I will point out of course they if we had not been lied into the damn war in the first place, this whole discussion would be moot.
And I do consider all the lives of our military lost and wasted. Not because they did not do all they were asked, and more, but because without the lies, no one would have died. Cheney knows this. Even though he with his five deferments, and Bush with his cushy National Guard service, with the missing one year no record can be found, they and theirs will not have to fight in a war. A war they were more then anxious to send other children to fight.
Cheney is a sociopath. And Bush is what he is. What horrible chance in the universe made it possible for these two damaged human beings to find one another? A symbiotic relationship that did so much damage to so many lives.
And still he will not shut his mouth. He talks and talks and warns and spouts his fear mongering to any source that will ask his opinion. As if his opinion is valid or worth listening to. Eight years or more and he is still mongering. He should be forced to sit on a chair and listen to his own ramblings till the day his heart stops.
June 29th, 2009 at 12:31 pmLet’s see, if we are EVER get attacked by terrorists again which is pretty much a matter of if not when…..it will be all Obama’s fault. Now if Iraq fails which it has a LONG sectarian history of doing with or without US intervention it will be all Obama’s fault.
Let’s see what other impossible future gauntlet Cheney comes up with! The same guy who says the Economic collapes had nothing to do with him.
June 29th, 2009 at 12:33 pmPerhaps someone has brought this up at some other time, but…. is it possible that Cheney’s continuing desire for troops to remain are not just tied to finances — if our troops were not in that theatre any longer, then they are not in immediate danger of reprisals if, say, photos of torture are released, etc?
With the troops out of that theatre, would that somehow make it easier for prosecutions of warcrimes to occur (speaking from a strategic standpoint, if not a legal one)?
Just pondering.
June 29th, 2009 at 12:41 pmThis morning I went into the kitchen to make breakfast for myself. Unfortunately I wasn’t prepared. Or even remotely capable with my limited knowledge of preparing breakfast. The finest most capable chefs advised me and there were even experts knowledgable with the layout and situation of my kitchen warning me that I should use the bigger bowl. But NO I KNEW BEST!!! I poured gallon after gallon of milk on my cereal…. nearly 5000 gallons at last count and oh so many more gallons harmed and nearly destroyed in the process. But now my problem is that if I say to the world that if I don’t keep pouring thousands and thousands of more gallons of milk on my cereal that the first of the gallons of milk will have been wasted and you know that I shouldn’t really worry about wasting the first gallon or the 10,000th gallon because I really am the most special privialaged person in the world and MILK I don’t care about milk, who cares if I waste all the milk in the US. After all milk is such a common ingredient. Yes I need more milk .SOMEONE BRING ME MORE MILK!!!! POUR IT ON THE FLOOR … NO DON’T WORRY ABOUT POURING IT ON THE CEREAL… MILK I WANT MORE MILK…. MORE
June 29th, 2009 at 2:07 pmHey Dick, do us all a favor. The next time you have a heart attack make sure its fatal. I dont apologize for saying this either,this piece of sht has caused thousands of deaths for no other reason but oil,haliburton, and to make him and his buddys wealthy. I for one will celebrate as an American when he goes to hell.
June 29th, 2009 at 2:56 pmIt was the Bush/Cheney administration that negotiated the Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA) with Iraq that is governing the current withdrawal of US forces from Iraqi cities. Cheney lost the argument with Rice and Gates over torture and he is still fighting that battle. The same is probably the case with the SOFA. And we all have to listen to the sore loser continue to push his misguided neoconservative polices.
More information on the SOFA can be found at:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_Framework_Agreement
June 29th, 2009 at 3:20 pmI’ve been out since I posted earlier that Dick the dick has no military experience. And he doesn’t. I knew he was Sec. of the Army, but I meant on the ground, scared sh!tless, don’t know when my time may be up experience. Amount 5 deferment Dick has? 0
June 29th, 2009 at 3:49 pmJune 30 is being declared a national public holiday in Iraq… while the somewhat scant media coverage of this date may not parallel its significance, Newsy provides a summary of the media’s coverage thus far.
June 29th, 2009 at 4:02 pmPerhaps the Cheney-Bush administration should have developed a scenario for the eventuality that we would not be victorious and that we would not bring democracy to Iraq.
But what a shock, they didn’t have a plan. And all of a sudden the Great Draft Deferrer complains.
The sooner the Iraqis have the opportunity to fend for themselves the better off we and they are – and, BTW, we also help reduce the profligate spending the Republicans are suddenly so concerned about.
June 29th, 2009 at 4:37 pmHaving managed a trifecta of ruining the US, ruining Iraq, and giving the iraqi oil business to China (exactly the opposite of what he wanted) I can see why the chief dick is upset. Would to god the american media would simply put this idiot on ignore.
June 29th, 2009 at 4:38 pmYeah, Cheney made such a good investment of lives in Iraq didn’t he?
June 29th, 2009 at 4:47 pmso lets see
according to Cheney we cant leave Iraq because people there want to blow stuff up.
the people who want to blow stuff up are only there because they don’t like the fact that we were there
as long as we are there they are going want to blow something up
if we leave they will see it as their chance to blow something up
we can only leave Iraq when they no longer want to blow anything up
as long as we are in Iraq they will want to blow something up
so we can NEVER leave Iraq?
I think thats Cheney’s logic
June 29th, 2009 at 5:22 pmHey Dick, maybe you should have thought about that before!Thanks for nothin’, pal.
June 29th, 2009 at 5:57 pmshoo shoo Cheney…are you an idiot? First of all, the sacrifice you are talking about should not have happened in the first place…WHERE IS THE WMD????
June 29th, 2009 at 6:32 pmCheney, how do you like the historical perspective of this war.
Start a war without “just” provocation.
Invade a sovereign country, loot and destroy it.
Profit handsomely from the endeavor.
Kill 100s of thousands of people in the process.
Legalize torture.
Cheney/Bush will be sharing the distinction with some other infamous characters in history.
Cheney, get out of the way and let the real men fix your screw ups!
June 29th, 2009 at 7:07 pmWho cares what Cheney thinks, we should have never been there. Good ol’ Cheney became a Ghost President and whispering in the Congress ear stating about keeping them in. This was the extension until the end of June that was between Bush and the Iraqi President. July 1st we could be there illegally. We cannot go out into the street, our soldiers could be arrested.
June 29th, 2009 at 8:27 pmI sure wish someone would drop a house on the SOB!
June 29th, 2009 at 8:30 pmCHENEY’S STATEMENT IS LIKE A RAPIST CHASTIZING HIS VICTIM FOR NOT WEARING A DIAPHRAM BECAUSE SHE RISKS GETTING PREGNANT. No wonder Bush nicknamed him “Vice.” Cheney man only wants to be noticed as he goes out with a bang; so he mutters what he knows will put his angry old man face in the news. But he really never learned anything in all his years in Gov because for him our Gov was like a helpless steer from which he cuts himself sirloin steaks at will. Still, I welcome all his nauseating declarations because: a) it reminds Americans that while they suffered from the “ain’t my kid going to Iraq” disconnect syndrome, they cheered and voted for Bush/Cheney’s Iraq War in the hope that it would mean cheap gas to fill-er-up their SUVs. So now we’re supposed to stay until Maliki goves us the oil contracts Cheney wanted? Cheney would have just remained some corporate shyster, like Madoff, were it not for the fact that Mr&Mrs America voted Bush as the dummy and Cheney as the ventriloquist into the White House. Now Cheney dumped the dummy and is moving his lips instead of projecting through Bush. Good, good, good because now the chicken manure Dems in Congress will not be able to just take their health insurance pay-offs in silence. They will have to put Rumsfeld/Cheney under oath to answer questions about why heroic American moms and dads died in Iraq, leaving behind widows and orphans, in order to make Middle Aged America feel like it doesn’t need Viagra because it’s got gas in its tank.
June 29th, 2009 at 8:46 pmflight Says:
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Cheney, how do you like the historical perspective of this war.
Start a war without “just” provocation.
Invade a sovereign country, loot and destroy it.
Profit handsomely from the endeavor.
Kill 100s of thousands of people in the process.
Legalize torture.
Cheney/Bush will be sharing the distinction with some other infamous characters in history.
Cheney, get out of the way and let the real men fix your screw ups!
June 29th, 2009 at 7:07 pm
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June 29th, 2009 at 8:47 pmHere, here, I totally agree with you! Bush/Cheney is rewriting history, they think people don’t know how to us a computer.
I’m not big on name-calling. I think it is puerile and pointless. But in the case of Ex-VP Cheney, it is appropriate. Dick Cheney is a liar, a bully and a coward.
He should not be allowed to speak in public without a video tape of his past statements present to fact-check his self-serving contradictions and outright dishonesty. To an ignorant or unreflective person, Cheney’s arrogance instills confidence. That is why he must be followed by visual evidence of his past lies to dispel any benefit-of-the-doubt that his personae commands, There may be as many as one million dead, for whom justice requires that this man’s dark vision of the world does not shine in dim light of his duplicity and our timidity.
Dick Cheney lost his right to any presumption of integrity. No public media outlet should be allowed to let him lie, unchallenged by his past, without being accused of entering into a conspiracy with his neo-con-criminal-enterprise. If Dick Cheney is confronted with an honest perspective of the facts every time he opens his mouth in public, cowardice will drive him back into the comfort his bunker, where he belongs.
He must be told, with certainty, that his legacy is secure and uneradicable; The fact, the we passively allowed the stolen election of Dick Cheney and his side-kick, is indelibly fixed as America’s national disgrace.
When Dick’s digitally-enhanced heart finally stops stops driving his mechanistic soul, I want to be there with a can of red-spray-paint, as the first person to impose a vandal’s final comment on his monument. In blood-red-paint over his final-fixed set of dates, I want to spray: “SO!”
June 29th, 2009 at 9:13 pmREDUX… Fixed two typos… Sorry…jt
I’m not big on name-calling. I think it is puerile and pointless. But in the case of Ex-VP Cheney, it is appropriate. Dick Cheney is a liar, a bully and a coward.
He should not be allowed to speak in public without a video tape of his past statements present to fact-check his self-serving contradictions and outright dishonesty. To an ignorant or unreflective person, Cheney’s arrogance instills confidence. That is why he must be followed by visual evidence of his past lies to dispel any benefit-of-the-doubt that his personae commands, There may be as many as one million dead, for whom justice requires that this man’s dark vision of the world does not shine in dim light of his duplicity and our timidity.
Dick Cheney lost his right to any presumption of integrity. No public media outlet should be allowed to let him lie, unchallenged by his past, without being accused of entering into a conspiracy with his neo-con-criminal-enterprise. If Dick Cheney is confronted with an honest presentation of the facts every time he opens his mouth in public, cowardice will drive him back into the comfort his bunker, where he belongs.
He must be told, with certainty, that his legacy is secure and uneradicable; The fact, that we passively allowed the stolen election of Dick Cheney and his side-kick, is indelibly fixed as America’s national disgrace.
When Dick’s digitally-enhanced heart finally stops driving his mechanistic soul, I want to be there with a can of red-spray-paint, as the first person to impose a vandal’s final comment on his monument. In blood-red-paint over his final-fixed set of dates, I want to spray: “SO!”
June 29th, 2009 at 9:19 pmWhen Dick Cheney dies, there will be spontaneous celebrations around the world. Next to Pearl Harbor and 9/11, every American will remember where he was when he heard Cheney, the war criminal, has died.
June 29th, 2009 at 9:43 pmI still wonder if it’s possible to impeach little king
June 30th, 2009 at 12:29 amgeorgie bush and his number one henchmen, prince dick
cheney. We can only hope. But I think someday
historians will finally nail them as the WORST
pair of pols in our history!
Bet Prick Cheney loved the debacle in San Diego. His little storm troopers mazing little old ladies. The Cheney brand of big bad cowards whose fragile egos are easily ruffled. Dick why don’t you do us all a favor and keep you f@#king mouth shut. No one wants to hear from you.
June 30th, 2009 at 6:55 amIt’s time Iraq found out whether it can stabilize its internal conflict without U.S. troops in the streets. If it can’t, then so be it. It’s not the U.S. job to decide how other nations conduct their affairs, although Mr. Cheney apparently believes otherwise.
June 30th, 2009 at 7:34 amDoes anyone remember when terrorists attacked our country killing THOUSANDS of OUR citizens????? Anyone???? YEAH, that’s we went into war and tried to put presses on radical terrorist organizations in Iraq, Afganistan, and so forth to prove that we are the stronger power and that we will NOT stand down to them. Freedom isn’t free, and we have soldiers and civilians that gave their lives for OUR freedom, and all you want is PEACE??? For hundreds of years the Sunis and Shiites have been fighting and we are NOT going to make them stop hating us!! We have to bring evil down, because if the war is not over THERE then it’s going to be OVER HERE which is what we saw on September 11th, and NOBODY wants that. Cheney has done nothing wrong except fight for YOU–democrats and republicans alike. He wants what is best for our people, to protect them and unfortuantely you can’t protect US citizens with words of peace. Terrorists teach young children to kill as a way of sacrificing to be honored as a good person. Do you understand that????? I don’t think you do. We are not only over in Iraq to protect our CITIZENS we’re there to show that we WON’T give up or back down, when democrats are trying so hard to run from the problem and say it’ll all go away.
June 30th, 2009 at 9:47 amBy the way, how other countries handle their affairs BECAME our business in 2001. I’m proud that we stood up when we were tested.
June 30th, 2009 at 9:50 amCheney continues to amaze me. With his kind of logic, we should still be fighting the Revolutionary War.
Cheney, our best (patriotic service men and women) fight for dumb or not-understanble reasons, eg. the Bush adminstration.
June 30th, 2009 at 10:27 amThis cretin’s evil is boundless; why does he believe ANYONE would give a rat’s ass about his ‘opinion’ about ANYTHING?
Go back to hunting in Wyoming and pray no one shoots you in the face DICK; accidentally.
June 30th, 2009 at 12:22 pm