"We're fighting a war over there because the enemy attacked us first," Cheney to West Point grads

[Kadie]

VP Cheney speaks to West Point graduates
By MICHAEL VIRTANEN, Associated Press Writer
32 minutes ago


WEST POINT, N.Y. - Vice President Dick Cheney on Saturday urged the 978 new graduates of the U.S. Military Academy to provide leadership to troops fighting terrorists in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Noting that West Point is about 50 miles north of where terrorists struck lower Manhattan on Sept. 11, 2001, the vice president said, "Nobody can promise us we won't be hit again."

He received standing ovations before and after he spoke to a crowd of about 20,000. To the emerging Army second lieutenants, Cheney appealed for them to defend freedom against those who would destroy it and carry forward the academy's values of duty, honor and country.

"We're fighting a war over there because the enemy attacked us first," Cheney said. "These are men who glorify murder and suicide. Terrorists are defined entirely by their hatreds."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070526/ap_on_go_pr_wh/cheney_army_2;_ylt=AuQsRGw2lo5sDlDObzjaVlxsaMYA

[spanone]

1. It's a strange world when people stand up and cheer the architects of their deaths.

[lonestarnot]

2. Aren't you supposed to know about the world when you graduate Ivy League?

Did he get boooooooooo'd?

[TwilightGardener]

3. Oh, I'm pretty sure Dickster can promise us we WILL be hit again,

if it suits BushCo's purposes.

[GreenPartyVoter]

4. What a frickin nazi he is

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

5. Can't Evil Dick and those other fuckwits at least come up with

a new stupid lie?

[The Count]

6. "The enemy" - how conveniently vague....

"defined by their hatreds" - hatred of me, hatred of my business, hatred of my partners' business..."teraists, all.

[Straight Shooter]

7. "Terrorists are defined entirely by their hatred."

I have never read a more apt description of the bush administration.

[Neecy]

8. he's still conflating 9/11 with Iraq...

"We're fighting a war over there because the enemy attacked us first,"

Iraq...never...attacked...us....asshole.

[insidious]

9. Only Zombies

and die-hard rethugs still believe that bullshit but they are basically one and the same. It reminds me of what I recently shouted at a right wing tool just before I threatened to beat to him within an inch of his life: "If Argentina attacks you, what good does it do to blow Costa Rica off the fucking map, jackass?" The rock in his little moron head actually started to move a bit but by that time I was already completely pissed off, frothing at the mouth, and about to take action so he slithered off quickly back to his sordid and pathetic little existence with his health intact.

[lonestarnot]

10. You bad only zombies.