Dick Cheney, Incompetent Hypocrite
By Larry Johnson on February 4, 2009 at 5:58 PM in Current Affairs
Dick Cheney, former vice president, reaches new lows of desperation in trying to smear the Obama Administration as a cowardly bunch of surrender monkeys. Cheney’s tin ear apparently extends to his appreciation (or lack thereof) of irony. Cheney helps expose the identity of an undercover CIA officer and is a key player in the Bush Administration, who utterly failed to bring Bin Laden to justice and he wants to lecture Obama on protecting America. Here’s the reality–Cheney and Bush failed to fully punish those who attacked us and now, according to Cheney’s own words, left us more vulnerable. Here’s what he told Politico:
Former Vice President Dick Cheney warned that there is a “high probability” that terrorists will attempt a catastrophic nuclear or biological attack in coming years, and said he fears the Obama administration’s policies will make it more likely the attempt will succeed.
In an interview Tuesday with Politico, Cheney unyieldingly defended the Bush administration’s support for the Guantanamo Bay prison and coercive interrogation of terrorism suspects.
And he asserted that President Obama will either backtrack on his stated intentions to end those policies or put the country at risk in ways more severe than most Americans — and, he charged, many members of Obama’s own team — understand.
“When we get people who are more concerned about reading the rights to an Al Qaeda terrorist than they are with protecting the United States against people who are absolutely committed to do anything they can to kill Americans, then I worry,” Cheney said.
Protecting the country’s security is “a tough, mean, dirty, nasty business,” he said. “These are evil people. And we’re not going to win this fight by turning the other cheek.”…
But he said he worried that “instead of sitting down and carefully evaluating the policies,” Obama officials are unwisely following “campaign rhetoric” and preparing to release terrorism suspects or afford them legal protections granted to more conventional defendants in crime cases.
The choice, he alleged, reflects a naive mindset among the new team in Washington: “The United States needs to be not so much loved as it needs to be respected. Sometimes, that requires us to take actions that generate controversy. I’m not at all sure that that’s what the Obama administration believes.”…
“If you release the hard-core Al Qaeda terrorists that are held at Guantanamo, I think they go back into the business of trying to kill more Americans and mount further mass-casualty attacks,” he said. “If you turn ’em loose and they go kill more Americans, who’s responsible for that?”
Listen up you big Dick, if you guys had spent your energy on tracking down Osama Bin Laden and his deputy, Ayman Zwahiri rather than squandering our nation’s wealth and blood in Iraq and exposing the identity of a covert CIA officer and her network of spies then we might be safer. But by your own admission the terrorists are still in a position to harm America because you guys fucked the dog.
Dick Cheney, I despise you and all you stand for. You are a self-indulgent coward. You dodged the draft but had no qualms about sending the sons and daughters of others into a war we did not need to fight. You helped divert the United States from the mission of destroying Al Qaeda in Afghanistan. You promoted Republican policies to persecute homosexuals and yet insisted on protecting your lesbian daughter.
Your hypocrisy and callowness are breathtaking. Like some shallow teenager you pledged to protect and defend the Constitution and then promoted policies and practices that violated not only the Constitution but the rule of law in general. You blithely ignore international agreements–e.g., The Geneva Convention, The International Declaration on Human Rights, , the Federal torture statute, 18 U.S.C. 2340 2340A, section 1003 of the Detainee Treatment Act of 2005, 42 U.S.C. 2000dd and the Convention Against Torture, Common Article 3.
Let’s hope for karma. Please travel to Europe. Give the Government of Spain a chance to arrest you for war crimes. At least you would enjoy the legal protections you so gratuitously dismiss as nonsense. You are a stain on the reputation of America. One thing about Barack Obama–he was never a damn draft dodger while his country was at war. Not so with you Dick!
by Ronald Scott
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