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Trying To Pretend We Are Not At War

30 Dec

From our former beloved Pres. Dick Cheney, the one who got us into two wars and lost both of them comes another silly speech.

“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. He seems to think if he gives terrorists the rights of Americans, lets them lawyer up and reads them their Miranda rights, we won’t be at war. He seems to think if we bring the mastermind of Sept. 11 to New York, give him a lawyer and trial in civilian court, we won’t be at war.”

Despite the fact that he was not equal to the task as he waited most of his life for, he really has no right to slam Pres. Obama. Especially given the fact that Obama did not immediately attack someone as Cheney and McCain would’ve done.

Pres. Obama has increased the number of troops in Afghanistan and proven that he knows we are at war. President Cheney is just upset over the fact that he totally lost the Afghanistan war. By walking away from it he thinks he is now an expert on who we are at war with.Pres. Obama has vowed to get to the bottom of whoever planned this and get them. That is pretty much an indication in my mind that Obama knows we are at war.

I wish there was a way to get into Pres. Cheney’s face and let him know what fool he is. He wholeheartedly supported Rumsfeld as he murdered thousands of our own troops and now he seems to want to be an expert on warfare. He might want to consider he is pretty lucky that he is not in prison, the same way that his English counterpart Tony Blair might soon be.

Dick Cheney constantly shows us how weak and ineffective he really was. The only thing he was effective at was creating more terrorists and more terrorism.how long before he is screaming about how we should be attacking Yemen as John McCain has already done.

But Dick Cheney method was to attack Al Qaeda where they were and then follow them around and knee-jerk actions as they move from place to place when he could have stopped them in their spot to begin with. All he had to do was execute the war he started in Afghanistan properly and completely. The man is a failure.

 
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Rep Joe Wilson

11 Sep

Most of this post will be taken from Keith Olberman who nailed this situation perfectly. Joe Wilsons Unbeleivable behavior is inexcusable.

And finally, as promised, a Special Comment about the shout of “You Lie” during the presidential address to the joint session of Congress last night on the matter of health care reform.

The 43rd president of the United States lied the nation into the war, lied 4,343 of his fellow citizens to death in that war, lied about upholding the constitution, and lied about weapons of mass destruction.

He lied about how he reacted to al-Qaida before 9/11 and he lied about how he reacted to al-Qaida after 9/11. He lied about getting Bin Laden, and he lied about not getting Bin Laden.Health Care Heckling

He lied about nation-building in Iraq, lied about the appearance of new buildings in the nation of Iraq, and lied about embassy buildings in nations like Iraq. He lied about trailers with mobile weapons labs in them, and he lied about trailers with Cuban prostitutes in them.

He and his administration lied — by the counting of one non-profit group — 532 times about links between al-Qaida and Iraq. Only 28 of those were by that President, but he made up for that by lying 231 times about WMD.

And yet not once did an elected Democratic official shout out during one of George W. Bush’s speeches and call him a “liar.” Even when the president was George W. Bush, even when he was assailed from sidelines like mine, even when the lies came down so thick the nation needed a hat he was still the President and if he didn’t earn any respect, the office he held demanded respect.

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Former President Cheney Failed

31 Aug

The man who would be president is again running his trap.

Cheney is claiming that an investigation into past torture practices is political and being done because of pressure from Democrats. He then stated the torture was responsible for saving thousands of US lives. From an administration official, who asked not to be identified in referring to Cheney’s claims:

In response, the official noted that a recently released 2004 report from the CIA’s inspector general concluded that “the effectiveness of the enhanced interrogation techniques are hard to measure.”

The official highlighted a page from the report stating, among other things, that “measuring the effectiveness of EITs, however, is a … subjective process and not without some concern.”

More evidence that Cheney thinks the president should be the sole law of the land is shown in this quote:

“the president is the chief law enforcement officer in the land.”

The administration has responded by reminding Cheney that the Attorney General is the law of the land and is pursuing this subject as provided by the laws he operates under.

This quote truly indicates what he has fought for all during his career since the Gerald Ford days. He doesn’t believe in the checks and balances between the Executive and Legislative branches of this government. he would have had Bush as a dictator with himself as the man behind the curtain if he could have.

Cheney bases what he did as president saved the US from further attacks. I feel this is a lie and his actions had nothing to do with anything. There is no real evidence that OBL had further attacks in the active stage or ready to perform here in the US. America is an open coutnry and is vulnerable to attack simply becuase Chenehy did nothing here to protect us.

Nothing Cheney did kept us safe. Nothing he did was right. No decisions he made were right. Nothing his administration did was right. Gonzalez, Hadley, Wolfowitz, Rumsfeld, Pearle, Rice achieved nothing except the creation of more terrorists in Iraq, Aghanistan and Pakistan. Iraq may be more docile that it was during the last 8 years but in no way does that mean all the people who lost family’s will forever be ingratiated to Cheney.

Cheney forgot Afghanistan. Now we pay the price for that by trying to win wars that cannot be won. If there is no country to submit then you don’t win wars. The Taliban may subside but wont go away no matter how many times you say you won.

Cheney Bush did nothing to win any wars till forced to. He could have won in Afghanistan but he turned that opportunity down.

He failed.

 
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Has OBL Won Again?

28 Dec

One most certainly has to wonder if Osama bin Laden hasn’t been successful once again.

We have the bombings in India very probably performed by terrorist functions from Pakistan. We now have India and Pakistan sending troops to both of the borders, and both appealing to the United States for military support.

Whom would the United States support in a conflict? The country who was taken many of our jobs away and are providing cheap labor for our on American corporations, or the country who is supposedly our newfound friend in the war on terrorism? With both countries via nuclear countries, what shape of that conflict take?

And would Osama bin Laden once again forced United States to CONTINUE to spend money on a conflict far from home?

I would imagine that our first impulse would be to negotiate a truce between the two. But even that takes energy and money away from solving our problems here at home. What will President Obama do to allow us to get through these times? That answer remains to be seen.

I think it is time for us to concern ourselves with our homeland and saving ourselves.  Sacrificing the USA for these countries is not an option IMO

 

 
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