Dick Cheney, still blindly beating the drums of war

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By Dana Milbank Opinion writer September 10 at 9:59 PM

It was just like the good old days.

Scooter Libby was in the front row. Paul Wolfowitz was in the second. And on the stage was Dick Cheney, beating the drums of war.

“The situation is dire, and defeating these terrorists will require immediate, sustained, simultaneous action across multiple fronts,” the former vice president proclaimed in a pre-buttal to President Obama’s prime-time speech on fighting the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria.

“We should immediately hit them in their sanctuaries, staging areas, command centers and lines of communication wherever we find them,” Cheney told the audience at the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank.

“We are at war,” he said, and “we must do what it takes, for as long as it takes, to win.” This means “we should halt the drawdown of our troops in Afghanistan,” that we should “take military action if necessary” in Iran, and give “full backing and support” of those fighting the Muslim Brotherhood.

In summary: War, war and more war.

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[democrank]

1. Quite a war-mongering speech

from someone with five deferments.

[katmondoo]

2. Is this the sequel to the next 100 year war

[Romulox]

3. Oooooh! I hope the President doesn't hear this, and get ideas! nt

[sabrina 1]

4. The consequences of not arresting and briinging War Criminals to justice. Sort of like not

arresting Serial Killers, their appetite for slaughter only increases.

That man is pure evil but he's 'immune' from prosecution apparently. At least in this country.

I have a suggestion for him, now that he has a new heart. He is more than welcome to sign up, aren't we signing up Vietnam Veterans these days, and head off to war himself.

Who is this 'we' he speaks of? 'We must do whatever it takes'??? Or I would settle for a good old-fashioned duel between him and whoever the latest 'enemy' is.

That is one sick human being.

[Mike Daniels]

5. Really can't wait for this MoFo to keel over...

I don't think I've ever said that about any leader (although Putin is getting close).

I'm going to relish the fact that Cheney's either going to have to buried on private ground or have a 24-7 guard around his final resting place just so it doesn't get desecrated within hours of him being laid to rest.

[PearliePoo2]

6. No kidding..his burial place will HAVE to be in an "undisclosed location".

Just thinking about his grave site is giving me the urge to pee.
murderous fuck.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

7. This ^ ^ ^ ^

[pansypoo53219]

8. shame cheeney was their WOMB.

[woo me with science]

9. K&R