Dick Cheney: Barack Obama 'trying to pretend'

[kpete]

Source: Politico

Dick Cheney: Barack Obama 'trying to pretend'

Former Vice President Dick Cheney accused President Barack Obama on Tuesday of “trying to pretend we are not at war” with terrorists, pointing to the White House response to the attempted sky bombing as reflecting a pattern that includes banishing the term “war on terror” and attempting to close the Guantanamo Bay detention center.

“We are at war and when President Obama pretends we aren’t, it makes us less safe,” Cheney said in a statement to POLITICO. “Why doesn’t he want to admit we’re at war? It doesn’t fit with the view of the world he brought with him to the Oval Office. It doesn’t fit with what seems to be the goal of his presidency – social transformation—the restructuring of American society.”

Cheney was joining a chorus of Republicans who have criticized Obama following the Christmas Day attack, in which a Nigerian suspect is accused of trying to blow up a loaded airliner with a bomb stitched into his underwear.

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Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1209/31054.html#ixzz0bBGuUSYc

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From Cheney's Full Statement:

“He seems to think if he closes Guantanamo and releases the hard-core al Qaeda trained terrorists still there, we won’t be at war.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1209/31054.html#ixzz0bBVuKSbU


As for who released the "hard-core al Qaeda trained terrorists" behind this particular terrorist attack, Dick Cheney has nothing to say. Let's remind him:
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/men-believed-northwest-airlines-plot-set-free/story?id=9434065

[and-justice-for-all]

1. Fuck you, you murdering asshole!!

PS: SHUT THE FUCK UP!

[Solly Mack]

2. and the war criminal rears his head

because his war criminal ass isn't in prison where it belongs

The affront isn't that Cheney spews bullshit, the affront is that he's even free.

[MidwestTransplant]

3. If you criticize boy king, Cheney called you unpatriotic.

[Roland99]

4. Crusades vs. Jihad...the Sequel

Fuck off, DICK.

[fascisthunter]

5. should have held this fucker accountable

now he gets to say whatever he wants because he hasn't been held responsible for ANYTHING! This is not a country of Kings and Queens, damnit, this is supposed to be a democracy, which allows "We the People" to hold our reps in check.

[Serge A Storms]

6. why would anyone care what the "Big Dick " says

[marmar]

7. We are at war with terrorists, namely radical cleric Richard Cheney.

[Cirque du So-What]

11. Just a couple days ago, someone asked where The Dick of Death had been hiding

Speak of the devil...

[shadowknows69]

8. Ok, isn't it time to put Uncle Dick in the home now?

My grandmother is 98, and barely remembers her family, but she has more sense than this putz.

[robo50]

40. I think we have a big spread being readied for him at GTMO...!!!

He'll fit right in with the waterboarding guards we can leave there too.

[orbitalman]

9. SCREW Dick Cheney & the horse he rode in on.

[AlbertCat]

10. So....

Is Obama "trying" to pretend, or is he pretending? What does Dick mean? Pretending like Dick and Dubya were pretending we had no terrorist problem Jan -Aug 2001? If Obama is just "trying" to do that, then we're STILL better off than 8 years ago.

[go west young man]

12. Fuck this deranged idiot already. His 15 minutes is up. And fuck his ridiculous daughter as well.

[earcandle]

13. Cheney is the great pretender... he pretends us into all kinds of carnage and decisions to

support his war against humankind and his homeland made security industry built by his own hands.

If we refuse to use it, he will lose it.

Atlas Wept for Cheney for too long

[City Lights]

14. Go fuck yourself, dick.

No one care what you think, you lying traitor.

[bemildred]

15. How's that heart doing, Dick? nt

[Union Yes]

16. And Obama protects this murderous tyrant. nt

[Raschel]

17. Has any previous VP been this critical of a sitting President before? This seems

unprecedented. Maybe I'm wrong.

[MadMaddie]

42. I think you are right!

Dick has shown no respect to President Obama since he took office. Dick and his minions have broken protocol left and right to attack the president.

[47of74]

18. Not surprising that dried up old turd would say something like this

Obama should say to Cheney STFD and STFU.

[struggle4progress]

36. And not surprising that Politico sought and published this vacuous noise

[Kolesar]

19. At least Nixon had the taste to go away and shut the f*ck up ... eom

[louis-t]

20. "If Obama wipes his ass with his left hand, it makes us less safe"

Dick "the Dumbass" Cheney

[Zoeisright]

21. Cheney is a total waste of oxygen and water.

He has brought nothing but carnage and destruction to this world.

[impik]

22. Go to hell, evil asshole.

Fuck this man already.

[area51]

23. Cheney sez Obama has a goal of "the restructuring of American society"

That's nice. Kind of like the republinazi goal of restructuring of American society by using NAFTA and H1-Bs and L1s, etc, to make sure that as many Americans remain unemployed as possible, and the republinazi goal to make sure healthcare remains reserved for the wealthy in this country. :eyes:

[Betty]

24. glad Obama has decided not to allow any investigations

of dick and his war crimes. I see his kindness is paying off.

[seeinfweggos]

25. Dick and Bush released the guys who planned this. Is that how the "war" should be waged?

[mvd]

26. Did I read something here?

I don't care what war criminals say. Cheney should be irrelevant.

[mstinamotorcity]

27. Who needs to listen

to the Shooter. We are at war. We happen to be in two wars that are on part because of the Dubya/Shooter administration. Had Shooter read and took the reports of the terrorist cell that was plotting 9/11 we would not be in a war in Afghanistan.Had he not lied about weapons of mass destruction we would not be in a war in Iraq.So if i didn't know any better i would think that the Dubya/Shooter administration are the breach in security.But we all know that war is the specialty of the cons.:sarcasm:

[Wizard777]

28. It sure beats the hell out of pretending people care about what you think.

:rofl:

[Mike Daniels]

29. Dick's continuous comments is all one should need to guess that he or his daughter will run in 2012

Bush has basically avoided commenting on most situations that involved Obama's presidency. Yet, Cheney continues to put in his two cents with his spawn then doing the rounds on all non-FOX News stations.

Make no mistake...There will be a Cheney on the Republican ticket somewhere in 2012.

[kestrel91316]

30. I won't say what I think should be done to the dickwad.

[robo50]

41. Does it have anything to do with waterboarding him? n/t

[kestrel91316]

55. Well, that's the first course.

[CRH]

31. Amazing he can pretend his PNAC terrorism doesn't count, ...

How many people have terrorists kill since the year 2000? How many people have the Afghan and Iraq wars killed as a result of the PNAC's policies? Did the PNAC's policies make the world a safer place for anyone? So, who is the terrorist?

[mvd]

32. Also, I thought that they didn't like criticism of the President..

during a time of war, and that they like Presidents with broad power? Typical neocon hypocrisy from Cheney.

[CRH]

38. Hypocrisy, sure and the price of not putting them in jail, ...

is having them free to spew their poison, and again attempt to realize relevancy. The danger is, out of jail, they someday might find another figure head to acquire the throne. I thought we had seen the last of their influence after the Reagan Bush years, but eight years later they were back, in force, with force. It only took the figure head, to appoint the entire scurrilous lot, regardless of previous convictions or congressional reprimand. I was surprised they were unable to find a spot for Ollie North, all the others slithered in.

IMHO it is a big mistake not to pursue their crimes, foreign and domestic, and raise the bar of what is expected and accepted from our elected officials, whose actions are perpetrated in our name and at our expense.

But, if wishes were horses beggars would ride.

[mbperrin]

33. Is Cheney still alive?

Or is just visiting? Good gawd.

[Uncle Joe]

44. Cheney never was alive, he is the pale horse, all he knows is death. n/t

[bluestateguy]

34. And that means we do not criticize the president in a time of war

THAT is not allowed, for it gives aid and comfort to the enemy.

[DemoTex]

35. Sierra Tango Foxtrot Uniform

Cheney tried to pretend (very poorly, indeed) that he wasn't really the president.

[47of74]

43. As well as Sierra Tango Foxtrot Delta!

[NuttyFluffers]

37. i'd rather listen to Count Chocula than him, at least the Count is more relevant.

though he does look a little bit more like Frankenberry...

[Jamastiene]

39. Oh, look. Dick Cheney 'trying to pretend' he's president.

He needs to go the fuck away. :eyes:

[harun]

45. Good grief, this is one relic from the cold war that's past his prime.

[BluDemocratGirl]

46. Here's Dickehead again talking shit!

Somebody needs to put an Oscar Meyer sausage in between his dentures and call it a m.f. day! He to stop FORGETTING that HE and the Bush croonies has STARTED the fucking war!

[laylah]

47. Fuck him! The evil bastard! nt

[Johnny Harpo]

48. AH! Dick Cheney Trying To Pretend He's Still The Vice President

n/t

[Blasphemer]

49. He's got a lot of nerve with all the blood on his hands. He needs to go back into hiding... nt

[nookiemonster]

50. Everyday Dick laughs,

because we won't do a fucking thing about the shit he's done.

It's a damn shame really.

[Arkana]

51. That's funny--I'm "trying to pretend" that Dick Cheney isn't the Penguin.

It's not working.

[AndrewP]

52. I'm stating the obvious here, but who gives a fuck what DICK thinks!

[sendero]

53. And Dick Cheney has been trying to pretend..

... he's human, but nobody's buying it.

[Thor_MN]

54. Dick, anytime you want to compare the civilian death toll during your first year to this admin's

speak up, otherwise STFU!!!

[RedCloud]

56. Just try cheney for his war crimes and then he will shut up.

Freaking hypocrite rarely spoke a word as "VEEP". Instead masterminded torture for his personal sadistic satisfaction.