Cheney sees mushroom clouds in the clear blue sky

[bigtree]

Cheney on Face the Nation, Sunday: http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/04/20070415.html

"The fact is that the threat to the United States now of a 9/11 occurring with a group of terrorists armed not with airline tickets and box cutters, but with a nuclear weapon in the middle of one of our own cities is the greatest threat we face. It's a very real threat. It's something that we have to worry about and defeat every single day."




"Asked about this the president downplayed a specific threat. "I'm not going to predict to you the methodology they'll use," Bush said.

"Just you need to know they want to hit us again.

http://www1.pressdemocrat.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070416/NEWS/704160404/1033/NEWS01

[hobbit709]

1. It's an even bigger threat

because it's most likely that a Halliburton subsidiary sold them the components-judging from their track record.

[WinkyDink]

2. "defeat every single day"??? This man is NUTS. Seriously INSANE.

[MadHound]

3. Sorry Dick, but your fearmongering is becoming less and less effective.

Another one trick pony he is, fear and terra all the time. But the thing is, you've overplayed it Dick, and people now just ignore the BS you spew.

[SpiralHawk]

4. If Cheney is worried about US security, why did he get 5 military deferments?

I mean, dude, we know you and your fellow republicon cronies are Chickenhawks.

You proved you don't give a damn about America's security a long time ago.

You republicons are into lies, perverted sex, and MASSIVE WAR PROFITS. Most Americans know it.

[TwilightGardener]

5. Yes, there isn't a day that goes by that I don't fight the fear of

nuclear holocaust. It is only my tremendous will and courage that gets me out of my bunker everyday. I don't know about y'all, but Shooter speaks for me! Thank God for his eternal vigilance!

[maine_raptor]

6. He's right, though.

Nuclear armed terrorists in the middle of one of America's cities is a huge threat. The problem is the probability of such a threat.

One of the ways you prevent such a thing is to have a strong intelligence network that is looking into it. Those who seek to destroy that capability for political purposes are those that we have to worry about and defeat every single day.

Know anyone like that, Uncle Dick?

Edit:Typo

[Stephanie]

12. yes, if someone were to destroy our intelligence networks for poitical gain...

that would be really bad, right Dick?

[Richard Steele]

17. We should pay people to keep track of things like that, full time!

Trustworthy people.
People with "Security Clearances".
People who wouldn't commit TREASON for their own
personal gain.

Too bad people like that are considered "Enemies
of the State" by Cheney and his Li'l Dictatortot
puppet.

[babylonsister]

7. Amazing, isn't it? The boy who cried wolf has lost any semblance of

trust from me.

[formercia]

8. With all the revenue Iran has

they can barely afford the technology to even remotely build a weapon, some cell of ner-do-wells in bumfuck Afghanistan is going to scrape up the cash and technical know-how to deploy a nuclear weapon?

Get real Dick.

[Raven]

9. Well, a dirty bomb set off in the middle of a city or at a sports

stadium is a concern and it has been for quite awhile BUT flushing billions of dollars down the Iraq toilet doesn't help us to protect against such a thing. This is just a ratcheting up of the "if we don't fight them there, they'll come here" argument and sane people know that the people who might be making dirty bombs are not in Iraq, they are probably here already or working away in one of our allied countries...like the UK.

The next favorite Cheney argument is that if we pull out of Iraq, we "embolden" the terrorists. Again, pouring billions down the Iraq toilet is the thing that emboldens the enemy, not protecting our ports emboldens the enemy.

Pulling out of Iraq is not a military loss, it would be a political loss for the Republicans and a personal defeat and humiliation for Cheney. This is, on a smaller scale, what Wolfowitz is doing. He is going to stay as President of the World Bank even if it means destroying that institution. These men all think exactly alike. It is their twisted ideology and their hubris that trumps all else.

[Red Zelda]

10. Is he watching "Jericho"?

[HereSince1628]

11. If he weren't the Puppeteer it'd be funny, but to think a world leader is so

into misleading the population he supposedly serves is tragic. Just plain tragic.

I used to laugh at my old man for this same sort of ignorance based on spreading fear rather than fairly assessing a risk. My old man had a really nice Left-Right cross that won him a couple of boxing trophies and broke my jaw and the roots on three teeth; but he didn't pull the strings of the American military establishment. I suspect Cheney's personality shares a lot with my old man. But Cheney's lunacy isn't limited to brutalizing his children. Cheney's madness is harming millions and creating a history that will continue to harm people for generations.

[DemoTex]

13. "Just you need to know they want to hit us again."

Antecedent they could easily refer to Bu$hco. Know what I mean?

[Eurobabe]

14. Cheney sees turd blossoms in the sky n/t

[mwb970]

15. Actually, the greatest threat we face is Cheney.

He has done infinitely more damage to America and Americans than the most wild-eyed terrorist could ever dream of.

Every screwup in the last six years, every insane policy, every administration scandal, they all point straight to Dick the Prick. He seems to have been behind every bit of "bad behavior" this most wretched of administrations has indulged in.

Cheney is the one and only person whose demise I would cheer. As soon as possible.

[Forkboy]

16. If the neocons have their way we may all be seeing them.

Coming to a town near you...