Me thinks Cheney's going off the deep end

[cynatnite]

I did a search for Cheney in the news and these are the top three. Anyone else see a pattern?

Cheney Says Guantanamo Prisoners Well Fed
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050624/ap_on_go_pr_wh/cheney_guantanamo_1

Cheney knows where bin Laden is hiding, but not exact 'address'
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/afp/20050624/pl_afp/usattacksbinladen_050624140615

Cheney: Iraq will be 'enormous success story'
http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/06/23/cheney.interview/index.html?section=cnn_latest

[DoYouEverWonder]

1. I hear long term usage of heart meds

will do that to a person.

[goclark]

3. He also takes EVIL Pills nt

[madmax]

2. Nah

He's just a liar.

[havocmom]

6. Yep. We just see the same old pattern

Lies followed by more lies

[Ishoutandscream2]

28. Yes, a pathological one

And he lies so well!!! Even he believes his own lies.

[whistle]

4. Is Cheney clutching at his chest at all?

[dogday]

5. He said the Downing Street Minutes were wrong

http://www.drudgereport.com/flash2.htm

[jazzjunkysue]

27. This just in: Moon made of cheese.

President has a brain. GOP is representative government.

[SalmonChantedEvening]

7. "We did not just hit an iceberg!! I REPEAT! We did NOT just hit an

ice ...glub glub glub glub"

[salin]

8. bet that some GOPers wish he would go back to hiding

in an undisclosed location... except for fundraisers, of course.

[Dora]

9. Cheney has the Midas Touch, with one difference

EVERYTHING he has ever been involved with eventually turned CRAPTASTIC, whether it was politics or business. Rolling Stone did a great piece on that a little while back.

[Dora]

13. Here's the article from RS. It's worth a read.

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/_/id/6450422

-snip-

The Cheney jinx first manifested itself at the presidential level back in 1969, when Richard Nixon appointed him to his first job in the executive branch. It surfaced again in 1975, when Gerald Ford made Cheney his chief of staff and then -- with Cheney's help -- lost the 1976 election. George H.W. Bush, having named Cheney secretary of defense, was defeated for re-election in 1992. The ever-canny Ronald Reagan was the only Republican president since Eisenhower who managed to serve two full terms. He is also the only one not to have appointed Dick Cheney to office.

This pattern of misplaced confidence in Cheney, followed by disastrous results, runs throughout his life -- from his days as a dropout at Yale to the geopolitical chaos he has helped create in Baghdad. Once you get to know his history, the cycle becomes clear: First, Cheney impresses someone rich or powerful, who causes unearned wealth and power to be conferred on him. Then, when things go wrong, he blames others and moves on to a new situation even more advantageous to himself.

"Cheney's manner and authority of voice far outstrip his true abilities," says Chas Freeman, who served under Bush's father as ambassador to Saudi Arabia. "It was clear from the start that Bush required adult supervision -- but it turns out Cheney has even worse instincts. He does not understand that when you act recklessly, your mistakes will come back and bite you on the ass."


Perhaps it will be Cheney who is our greatest hope!

[cynatnite]

16. I'd hate to think that fucker turns out to be a blessing in disguise n/t

[Dora]

21. A blessing is a blessing

If the blessing is Cheney, then I'll gladly take it. The way I see it, if Cheney is their weakest link and ultimately proves to be their downfall, there is nothing he can do to make himself look good. If he goes down, he will go down hard and so will all the other dominoes.

[JohnyCanuck]

18. Too bad this time it's the USA who gets a chunk ripped out of its ass

He does not understand that when you act recklessly, your mistakes will come back and bite you on the ass."

No matter what a fucked up mess he helped create and how many people he sent to their death, the Big Dick himself will never want for the comforts of life.

[Dora]

23. Unless he drops dead.

Let's not forgot he has heart problems. The true "comforts" of life are actually out of his reach. There is much that Dick is wanting, and he knows it. You can see the torment and avarice in his eyes. No amount of bullet-proof, leather-upholstered Suburbans or political gain will ever be enough for him. His heart is a cinder and his "life" is nothing but the shallow but endless pursuit of material gain and political domination.

Yeah, he has money: whatever. I don't have money, and I bet dollars to donuts that I'm a bazillion times happier than that stinking rat bastard.

The man has the stink of loser on his breath.

[SharonAnn]

17. or the Reverse Midas Touch, everything turns to "sh-t", or the

Midas Muffler touch where everything he touches turns into a rusty muffler.

[Dora]

24. Or the Mighty-Ass touch.

We can see where this is going.

[undeterred]

10. "We will succeed in Iraq, just like we did in Afghanistan."

Um, what exactly did we succeed at in Afghanistan?

[cynatnite]

12. Maybe he's talking about this:

Afghan heroin output growing rapidly, Russia says

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20050624/wl_nm/russia_afghanistan_drugs_dc_1

PUGUS, Tajikistan (Reuters) - Russia, whose last border guard left the Tajik-Afghan border last week, said on Friday Afghanistan's heroin output was growing at breakneck speed and presented a threat to the world community.

"The area sown to opium poppy is rising, and there must be no illusions about it," Russian Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov told journalists on the sidelines of a defense ministers' meeting of nine ex-Soviet states.

"Heroin output is growing by leaps and bounds, and this is Europe's problem, to say the least, although in fact it is a topical issue for the international community as a whole."

[undeterred]

15. Maybe so!

:shrug:

[ikri]

25. A bizarre point of view

Would be that since there's a nice new pipeline running through the country and that opium poppy production is at an all time high, the Afghanistan Economy is probably stronger now than it has been for years.

If all you ever thought about was money, you might be able to claim that Afghanistan was indeed a success.

Considering all the money that's floating around in Iraq right now from rebuilding projects (you know the ones, rebuilding the infrastructure that was so cleverly blown up in the invasion and rebuilding the oil pipelines as they get blown up), embezzlement, Antiquities smuggling, etc. I'd guess that the Iraqi economy is probably stronger now than it has been for 15 years.

Of course if you don't believe that money = success then you're obviously a liberal whacko living in a reality-based fantasy.

[Oreo]

11. Disgusting arrogant bastard

From the cnn article.... why hasn't this man been locked up yet?

The vice president also told Blitzer that "we've got a pretty good idea of the general area" where al Qaeda mastermind Osama bin Laden is hiding, but he said, "I don't have the street address."

Asked to identify the general area, Cheney demurred, saying he wouldn't talk about intelligence matters. Pressed on when bin Laden might be captured, he said, "What, do you expect me to say: Three weeks from next Tuesday?"

"I'm convinced eventually we'll get him," he said. <--- Dya think?

Cheney also rejected calls for closing the detention facility for terror suspects at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, saying the inmates there "are serious, deadly threats" who will "go back to trying to kill Americans" if they are released. <--- why don't you at least charge them with something?

He also defended the treatment of prisoners by the U.S. military at Guantanamo, telling Blitzer, "There isn't any other nation in the world that would treat people who were determined to kill Americans the way we're treating these people."

"They're living in the tropics. They're well fed. They've got everything they could possibly want," the vice president said.

Except their freedom you fucker. Prove that they're guilty and not just random people picked up off the streets.

[patdem]

22. When we send you to the Hague we'll call it a European Vacation

How's that dicky boy?

[wakeme2008]

14. Add in "They're living in the tropics" as if prisoners

give a rat's ass where their prison is. :grr:

[SammyWinstonJack]

19. What a smart ass!

Doesn't have the street address! What a major league asshole, BIG TIME! Is this a joke these sick bastards? Chimpy jokes about looking for WMD under his desk in the oval office and the audience roars! Condiliar says they could have prevented Sept. 11th if they would have had the flight numbers and now Dickhead Cheney says they know the general location of Osama Bin Forgotten but quips he doesn't have the street address! :banghead: :grr: :mad: Anyone who thinks these greedy murdering thugs give a rat's ass about anyone or anything but themselves and all the money and power they can grab, is seriously deluded.

[NewJeffCT]

20. As somebody else posted - Cheney is the new Baghdad Bob

Remember, the hilariously funny Iraqi spokesman that said the invading American forces were being routed, and similar?

Cut to Dick Cheney this month...

[leftofthedial]

26. these fascist bastards have been off the deep end from the start