Cheney: Hopes of civilized world rest on U.S. terror war victory

[sabra]

http://www.mlive.com/newsflash/michigan/index.ssf?/base/news-37/1158680349257970.xml&storylist=newsmichigan

Cheney: Hopes of civilized world rest on U.S. terror war victory

WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Dick Cheney cast the global war on terror on Tuesday as a "war of nerves," borrowing a phrase Harry Truman used to describe the Cold War. Cheney asserted that the hopes of the civilized world depend on a U.S. victory.

"We are not going to let down our guard," Cheney told a convention of automobile dealers. He said President Bush "will not relent in the effort to track the enemies of the United States with every legitimate tool at his command."

...

"The war on terror is a test of our strength, a test of our capabilities, and above all a test of our character," Cheney said.

"We know that the hopes of the civilized world ride with us. Our cause is right, it is just and this nation will prevail," Cheney added.

[VegasWolf]

1. Then he is saying that there is no hope. nt

[saigon68]

11. Apparently every illegitimate tool TOO

track the enemies of the United States with every legitimate tool

[mom cat]

14. Especially the illegitimate tools.

[VolcanoJen]

2. Does that include the hunt for Osama Bin Laden, Dick?

The war on terror is a test of our strength, a test of our capabilities, and above all a test of our character," Cheney said.

Because if fighting the war on terror includes capturing the man responsible for 9/11, then by your own standards, I'd say we're failing the "test. Dick.

[grytpype]

3. If the fate of the civilized world depends on Bush & Cheney, we are fucked

Thank goodness he's lying.

[orwell]

4. Translation:

..."we" are civilized, "you" are not.

Therefore we can treat you like animals...

I'm glad we cleared that up.

[dkofos]

5. cHeney just pisses me off

Does anyone that doesn't work for this evil cocksucker really believe him??

[AngryOldDem]

6. Hey, Dick: Define "civilized world" n/t

[Ganja Ninja]

19. He means Halliburton's bottom line. n/t

[Amonester]

7. The (real) civilized world to Darth "torture" Chenious:

"Go f**k yourself"

Yeah: the (real) civilized world hopes to see you rot in your well (and long...) deserved prison cell for all your war crimes (and more).

[gratuitous]

8. Man, they're really reaching now

No longer is it just a smoking gun that turns into a mushroom cloud; now it's the fate of all civilization everywhere, right down to your toothpaste and choice of footwear. Everything's at risk, and if you lot in America don't wake up, and that right soon, you'll lose it all because you didn't fall in behind the Bush administration, civilization's last best hope for survival.

Is anyone else unimpressed with this line of reasoning, or is it just me?

[Mr_Jefferson_24]

9. Darth Dick's idea...

...of a "civilized world" involves a near term, significant, planetary wide, reduction in the human population by whatever means necessary. Think about it, and then try to think like he does---you just don't see dead people going around engaging in uncivilized behavior, they don't march in protest, they don't vote, they don't bitch about anything, and they don't consume precious resources.

What might we reasonbly expect Darth Dick to make of these facts?

[Swede]

10. I don't think so.

Radical Islamics are criminals,but they cannot destroy civilization.

[savemefromdumbya]

12. CHENEY has made the world worse - civil war, more anger at USA

[bluerum]

13. What a megalomaniac!

"We are not going to let down our guard," Cheney told a convention of automobile dealers.

So,, I wonder if they were used car salesman? Maybe they were contingents from GM and Ford looking for some freaking idea why they can't make a go of their businesses all of a sudden.

Maybe Chainey and the shrubbish administration should look at improving the hopes of thousands of laid off auto workers in this country before claiming that stealing oil and land from sovereign nations is a just and noble cause.

Maybe I am as disgusted as I can be with the whole lying lot of them.

[goforit]

15. Cheney is the creator of terrorism. He is Alqeada

[xxqqqzme]

16. he who wields the power addresses

automobile dealers while the his puppet gets the UN stage. No wonder he always has that snarl on his face.

[cliss]

17. Car Dealers? Wtf?

Why is Dick "Dead-Eye" Cheney making speeches to car dealers? What would car dealers care about the war on terror.

They are just interested in making a few bucks.

[JohnnyRingo]

18. Beyond ridiculous

Why not say the fate of the solar system depends on democracy in Iraq?
The entire universe is counting on an end to Islamic terror?
...And only Buxh and Cheney can save mankind in our greatest struggle known since the Big Bang.

Coming to a theater near you.

[rodeodance]

20. .Cheney characterized as "just plain wrong" a federal judge's ruling .....

.....Cheney characterized as "just plain wrong" a federal judge's ruling earlier this month rejecting the administration's plea to throw out a lawsuit over the wiretapping program. "We hope it will be reversed on appeal," the vice president said.

U.S. District Judge Garr King in Portland, Ore., said he was not persuaded by the administration's argument that going ahead with the case would harm national security. It was the latest of several differing rulings on a program the administration says is essential to fight terrorism, but that civil-liberties groups decry as an overreaching of presidential authority.

Cheney said that, to President Truman, the term Cold War was "an expression he never much cared for and seldom used. He called it the war of nerves. When you think about it, that's an apt description of the kind of challenge America is now facing."

"The war on terror is a test of our strength, a test of our capabilities, and above all a test of our character," Cheney said.

[bdamomma]

21. Oh shut the hell up dick head!

maybe cheney's ass should go to Iraq, 5 deferments huh Dick????

[olddad56]

22. In a way, Dick is right...

The hopes of the civilized world does ride with us. We get out and get those people out of office, the 'civilized' world does have a little chance. None with Bushco in the middle east.

[robbibaba]

30. I agree.

I think these guys speak in code. They know that they themselves ARE the terrorists. that makes most of what they say true. I think they say this kind of shit for laughs.

[Occulus]

23. War of nerves?

Game of chicken?

:wtf:

[BigDDem]

24. The civilized world

is in it's last throes.

[rodeodance]

25. He speaks as though other countries do little to fight terror.

[semillama]

26. What does he mean by "victory?"

How do you win against a technique?

[crim son]

27. The hopes of a civilized world rest on the unlikely

occasion of the complete disappearance of the bush cabal, all neocons and most republicans. Otherwise yes, we're all doomed.

[karlrschneider]

28. In a civilized world, that chickenshit bastard would be in jail.

For life.
:grr:

[Rex]

29. Don't worry Dick, you will be remembered as the worst VP in history.

Thank Zod he is old.

[ninkasi]

31. He rejected the chance

five times to test his character in VietNam. It's too late now, Dickhead. We know your character, and it's evil.
As far as civilization depending on the outcome of the war in Iraq, we have forfeited our right to be considered a civilized country when Bush and Darth Cheney ordered torturing people. Civilized societies do not use torture, nor do they use collective punishment, which we are also doing in Iraq. He can go "Cheney himself.