"Dick Cheney is a coward and a disgrace"

[ProSense]

DICK THE COWARD....

It was only a matter of time before Dick Cheney decided to trash the president again.

"As I've watched the events of the last few days it is clear once again that President Obama is trying to pretend we are not at war. He seems to think if he has a low key response to an attempt to blow up an airliner and kill hundreds of people, we won't be at war."

Let's review a few pesky details. First, it was Cheney's administration that released some of the alleged terrorists who plotted the attack into an "art therapy rehabilitation program" in Saudi Arabia, only to see them become terrorist leaders in Yemen. It was also Cheney's administration that gave Abdulmutallab a visa to enter the United States in the first place.

Second, let's compare some "low-key responses." President Obama addressed a failed terrorist attack three days after it occurred. Eight years ago, when a terrorist tried to blow up an airplane under nearly identical circumstances, then-President Bush waited six days before making brief, cursory public remarks. Five days after the attempted terrorist attack, then-Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld refused substantive comment altogether, telling reporters, "That's a matter that's in the hands of the law enforcement people." A White House spokesperson would only say at the time that officials were "continuing to monitor events."

Democrats, at the time, didn't launch an assault against the Bush administration, and we didn't see Al Gore condemning the White House. It simply didn't occur to Democrats in 2001 to use the attempted mass murder of hundreds of Americans to undermine the presidency.

Eight years later, Dick Cheney believes his principal responsibility is to destroy President Obama -- the man Americans chose to clean up the messes Cheney left as a parting gift after eight years of abject failure.

This recent piece from James Fallows continues to ring true: "The former vice president, Dick Cheney, has brought dishonor to himself, his office, and his country. I am not aware of a case of a former President or Vice President behaving as despicably as Cheney has done in the ten months since leaving power.... Cheney has acted as if utterly unconcerned with the welfare of his country, its armed forces, or the people now trying to make difficult decisions. He has put narrow score-settling interest far, far above national interest."

Dick Cheney is a coward and a disgrace.

[kentuck]

1. I agree with this article.

kentuck

[geckosfeet]

2. Just back from his trip to Yemen.

[patrice]

3. Dick Cheney et al are the CAUSE of this new level of Danger to the U.S. that's either SEDITION

or TREASON.

Yes, Terrorism was out there, we saw it on September 11, 2001, but our response to that, to ignore OBL and then to invade and occupy a sovereign nation only gave Terrorism "justification" to come after us even more.

And the ridiculous idea that we can chase these guys from country to country and piss EVERYONE off with collateral damage and that we stand even the remotest chance of ENDING it instead of perpetuating it into ETERNITY is so stupid as to not be possible, which leaves ONE thing: Dick Cheney et al KNOW it won't work

AND THEY DO NOT CARE THAT IT IS A FAILED POLICY!

Dick et al SHOULD be tried for Treason.

[patrice]

5. P.S. Get this point: They are PRETENDING that they believe what we are doing will succeed.

It's called CYA.

[duhneece]

44. They consider it job security for Cheney's cronies

It is job security for the entire 'defense industry.'
Sickening. Their lack of compassion reminds me of this observation on the nature of evil:
“In my work with the defendants (at the Nuremberg Trials 1945-1949) I was searching for the nature of evil and I now think I have come close to defining it. A lack of empathy. It’s the one characteristic that connects all the defendants, a genuine incapacity to feel with their fellow men.


Evil, I think, is the absence of empathy.”
Quotation: Captain G. M. Gilbert, the Army psychologist assigned to
watching the defendants at the Nuremberg trials

[patrice]

45. Yes and doesn't Hannah Arendt say something about how ordinary Evil is?

I haven't read her book, Eichman in Jerusalem, but have heard it mentioned a few times about her observation that Eichman was just this ordinary guy, nothing larger than life about him, nothing unusual in his thinking, just this normal guy doing what he was told.

[COLGATE4]

47. Yes - one of her books is titled "The Banality of Evil"

Showing how the most ardent Nazis were your normal, day to day German, not some super-villan master race.

[patrice]

48. I wonder why that sort of meme doesn't make more Americans stop and look at themselves and

one another.

[stevedeshazer]

4. BIG TIME.

:)

[Faryn Balyncd]

6. K & R . Thanks for post.

[gratefultobelib]

7. On NPR I just heard the comment that making attacks against our country a partisan

matter has never happened until now.

[otohara]

8. Die MF Dick, Die

I've been praying for 9 years and still he lives.

[Kdillard]

9. I would just settle for him shutting up.

[santamargarita]

25. I would settle for locking him up...

I was hoping this criminal would be in jail by now.

[BlueIdaho]

10. And here I thought...

once KKKarl divorced his wife so he could become Dick's full time sex slave the old bastard might just mellow out a little bit.

Silly me.

[BluDemocratGirl]

22. You got that right

and that's the price that they get for not staying their asses out of the spotlight. Cheney's wife will get through with him next.

[GoCubsGo]

11. Hey, Dick....

Why don't you remind us all who instituted that "failed" system in the first place? "Coward and disgrace" don't even begin to describe this waste of flesh.

[Cha]

12. Steve Benen..tellin' it like it is AGAIN!

Thanks Pro for bringing this on DU.

cheney the fucking coward hates America and wants it to fail and our corporatemedia is right there holding his fucking water.

[Zenlitened]

13. K&R (n/t)

[jotsy]

14. He who is unsurpassed as the one to preside over all matters of vice is not your ordinary,

run of the mill coward. IMHO, the most definitively damaging one in the history of the world. A broker of bogus babble who personifies the antithesis of the American principle. Our nation will not recover from the repulsive image of itself until such time as this real life human monster is made to answer for promoting his dogmatic warmongering. He packaged his misguided notions and profit driven agenda as prudent foreign policy, and put a world in peril in the process.

His crimes are so vast and varied, the only adequate punishment that occurs to me is to drop him via helicopter at any refugee camp in the middle east and let whatever justice might occur be at the hands of his most affected victims.

I know it is not very enlightened of me to wish for anyone to die screaming, but we all have our burdens to beat or bear.

[Enthusiast]

39. Yup. He is our own comic book villain

right here in living color. Incredible but true.

[Vidar]

15. K&R.

[johnaries]

16. Keep talking, Dick. You're just proving to the country

where Republican's priorities REALLY lie.

[FlyByNight]

17. War profiteer too

The "man" is, simply, a monster.

:puke:

[FarLeftFist]

18. Highly recommended.

[BrklynLiberal]

19. That is an insult to cowards and disgraceful people.

[Armstead]

20. FINALLY -- We agree on something /nt

[pleah]

21. K&R

[Jakes Progress]

23. Finally.

If you're gonna paste, paste the good stuff.

This I can agree with. The man should be in jail. When he dies, the world will be a better place.

[Capt. America]

24. Don't forget traitor and war profiteer.

[pjt7]

26. America needs a tough, old & ornery leader

but he ain't it.

FRAUD ALERT IS 1000% ON DICK C

[Hekate]

27. KnR

[braunfels]

28. Cheney's having a good time

Sticking it to Obamabi and the scared dems every chance he gets. He should be in prison but Obambi wants to "look forward".

[rasputin1952]

29. I've known that for years, and years....

he's always been a coward and always will be. That whole damn administration was FILLED with cowards...x(

[burning rain]

30. I expect Cheney to be an obnoxious prick...

but really, even he might have noticed by now that the returns paid by "we're tougher than the Dems" rhetoric have gone from diminished to finished, what with the drubbings Republicans took in 2006 and 2008. Besides being extremely vile, Cheney defines "stuck on stupid."

[rhett o rick]

31. Dick Cheney is a coward. nt

[Loudmxr]

32. And he hides behind the skirt of his daughter too!!

Ever notice that it is SHE that goes out on the question and answer shows while Dick only does one on one?:smoke:

[avaistheone1]

33. It's embarassing.

It nepotism at is lowest point.

[sabrina 1]

34. One way to shut them up is to start investigations into their

treasonous war crimes. Once again, Democrats decided that we had to move on and forget the past. These monsters never move on, they have been operating against this country for decades and they are still plotting to get their PNAC plans into action, including invading Iran.

They have all come out of the woodwork and are all over TV.

Chertoff, the man who let nearly 2,000 US citizens die, and lost a US city, is now offering his 'expertise' on how to deal with national security.

Bremer, the man who created insurgency in Iraq and probably got hundreds of our troops killed, not to mention how many Iraqis. And he presided over the disappearance of billions of dollars. Airc, he had to Iraq in disgrace as his failures there were too much for even the Bush administration to cover up.

They salivate over the possibility of a terror attack that kills Americans. I have no doubt about that. It worked so well for them the last time. The cold-hearted, monstrous creatures that they are, they care not one bit about anyone so for them to pretend they care, is simply disgusting.

Cheney, crawling out of his hidey hole to try to use this to further his dark-hearted schemes of more war, and to justify the torture which he lives in fear of being prosecuted for.

They are emboldened by the knowledge that Democrats will never go after them. This country will never be safe until we start taking care of our own home-grown terrorists like Cheney, Rumsfeld, Bremer, Bush and all their comrades in crime.

If Obama and Rahm thought that allowing them to get away with their crimes, would make them grateful to him, I hope now they ralize how foolish a thought that was.

Clinton did the same thing and his refusal to prosecute the criminals back then, came back to haunt us as it will again. But then, Clinton was close friends with Bush Sr. which explains a lot I didn't understand before ~ what we need is some outside entity to come here and clean up the mess we clarely cannot deal with on our own.

[DumbBassRepublicans]

35. Except for being....

a FIVE DEFERMENT, COWARDLY, IDIOTIC, LYING, MORONIC, SHAMELESS, PATHETIC, DISGRACEFUL, TRAITOROUS,
STUPID, GREEDY, FEAR-MONGERING, ANTI-AMERICAN, ASS-KISSING PIECE OF SHIT....

dick(head) cheney ain't all that bad...!!!

LOL...!!!! :evilgrin:

[TheKentuckian]

36. Dick Cheney is one of the worst and most sorry pieces of shit in history

You'd like to think that's hyperbole him being a Murikan elected to high office and all but the facts will bear it out.

Hundreds of thousands or more killed, hypocrite, thief, traitor, seditionist, profiteer, coward, war criminal, bumbling fuck up, deprived people of or infringed on the civil rights of millions on end, lies of unimaginable magnitude, and he once shot a man right in the face for being a close personal friend.

And to think those are his good points.

[sheldon]

37. It says a lot about our people and our media,

That a scumbag like cheney isn't shunned, or jailed, or quietly removed.
It truly saddens me that our society is so blind and ignorant.

[Enthusiast]

38. Listen.

Yes Deferment Dick is a disgusting asshole. But it doesn't matter because in the eyes of the "media" his every utterance is of great import. His, and every RW figurehead. The media is out to harm the Democratic Party in any way they can and they are doing a fabulous job of it.

[era veteran]

40. Chickenhawk traitor

I would love to build the gallows we hang you from, no that might take too long. A lamppost like Mussolini's would suffice.

[Vermontgrown]

41. Totla recall...

Dicky and company seem to forget about how badly their regime handle the country. Mr.Five deferments never fought anything except his creepy old lady. They set out early to ruin this country and where we are today is directly traced back to Dicky and company. hat's scary is that people actually listen to this freak.

Amen

[midnight]

42. Dick Cheney has Cadillac health care, and he is greatly paid by his

corporate connections that continue to well under Obama. Can't he just go play golf somewhere. What does he have to complain about? I guess his glass will always be half empty....

[penndragon69]

43. May DICK Choke and depart

as he is having oral sex with el rushbo.
Those two NAZIS deserve each other, in the sleazyist ways.

[CTyankee]

50. My guess is that his congestive heart failure will kick in within a few years and

we won't have Cheeney to kick around any more. He won't last long, don't worry. His condition is not good, prognosis-wise. But keep it up Dickie! Love that spunk! Spunk your shrivelled litte heart out, mkay?

[ChiciB1]

46. Well, Prosense... A Post Of Yours I Can FINALLY Red!! Off With The

DICK'S HEAD!! Out, out DAMN SPOT! Get Thee AWAY!! I could keep going, but it would be redundant!!!
Whatever... THE MAN is a WACKAMO Insurrectionist AND MORE!!

[saltpoint]

49. Recommended. I didn't like Dick Cheney in the Ford administration

and I like him a lot less now.

Great post, ProSense.