Cheney must end reign of destruction

[BuyingThyme]

Cheney must end reign of destruction
By Mark Mansperger, Special to the Herald

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Let's examine his major claim: The Bush policies, which he undoubtedly had a huge hand in crafting, kept us safe.

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It is rather amazing that culpability still is somehow evaded. The Bush/Cheney failures actually began in the late 1990s, when they criticized the Clinton administration for the cruise missile strike against al-Qaida in Afghanistan, which obviously was the right thing to do.

Later, when Bush/Cheney assumed office, they seemed to be unaware of the danger terrorism posed, even though the millennium bomber, just to name one threat, recently had been thwarted.

It was abundantly clear that we were being targeted by terrorists, yet there is no evidence of significant attention aimed at the problem.

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Another attack could just as easily be blowback from what he's done as anything else. Our nation needs to move beyond Dick Cheney.

http://www.tri-cityherald.com/962/story/605784.html

[Tangerine LaBamba]

1. The best answer -

when the Bush/Cheney defenders say "They kept us safe for seven years," the only reasonable - and accurate - response is "Yeah, but they were in office for eight years."

[BuyingThyme]

2. Or, "No, they were only in office for eight months."

[TahitiNut]

3. In the Tricycle Herald?? (aka DryShitties Herald)? Heads are exploding on the Mid-Columbia.

:rofl: Doc "The Corrupt Dwarf" Hastings must be pissed.

:rofl:

With his bleak ambiance, frequent sneer and caustic tone, Cheney is akin to some creepy character out of an Ingmar Bergman film. An unabashed exploitation of 9/11 and fear mongering are his standard practice.

Amen.

[Motown_Johnny]

4. Let's ignore his major claim, and just point out that everything he did was illegal

regardless of it's results.

Torture isn't outlawed because it is ineffective, it is outlawed because it is immoral.

Don't play his game. The only response to every thing he says should be "But isn't that against international law and doesn't that make you a war criminal?"


End of story

[metapunditedgy]

5. No... Cheney's game is to set himself up as the point man or fall guy, if necessary.

Every time Cheney speaks, ask, what about the other people in the administration who worked to carry out torture policies? How will they be prosecuted? Lots of people need prosecutorial attention.

[BuyingThyme]

6. kcik

[JuliantheApostate]

7. Ahh, good ole Dick Cheney...

My favorite Cheney moment had to be declaring that everyone had been mistaken for the past 200 and some odd years, and that the Vice President was not in fact part of the Executive Branch. Instead, he existed in some previously undiscovered middle ground between the Legislative and Executive Branches, which conveniently was not subject to oversight from either one. What a douchebag.