Cheney: Americans have accepted terrorism challenge

[Nottingham]

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/front/2164742

Cheney: Americans have accepted terrorism challenge
Associated Press

Americans have accepted the challenge to combat terrorism and one day scholars and historians will look back upon the courage and determination the nation has shown, Vice President Dick Cheney said tonight.

"The world is depending on the United States of America," Cheney told those who paid $750 a plate to attend an anniversary celebration to raise money for the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy at Rice University. "Sometimes history presents clear and stark choices. We have come to such a time. ... We accept the great mission that history has given us."

Cheney said the war on terrorism, which began for the United States on Sept. 11, 2001, began years earlier for those who wished to harm America.

"We must do everything in our power to prevent terrorists from ever acquiring weapons of mass destruction," he told the black-tie crowd which dined on quail, lobster and tenderloin. "America requires a new strategy. A good defense is not enough."

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Cheney scare the hell outta me! Look at this quote
"A good defense is not enough."

What that means is US is taking the Offensive and Premptive strikes are the Cheney WAY! :bounce:

I don't even think Baker really agrees with him but he does fear him :bounce:

[loudnclear]

1. Just think, noe of these bastards will be alive in 2050!

That's the most hopeful thing I can say!!

[burythehatchet]

2. I pray that this man'e heart goes gently into the night - very soon

but alas, there will be another to replace him

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

3. Can you imagine...

The experimental and unproven(some would say...DEMONIC!!!) medical procedures that are being used on him to keep him alive?

Probably costs enough to supply free health care, for life, to everyone on DU.

[0007]

21. He will go!

I hear the black angel calling now.

[The Zanti Regent]

26. Who said it's his heart?

I bet it's Chandra's heart wanting out of that evil body!

[moof]

4. must remain calm, breath deeply & keep repeating

shoving the knitting needles thru the temples is a permanant solution to a hopefully temporary dictatorship.

[Sinistrous]

5. I shudder to think how short a time it will take

before this perverted sound bite will gain currency.

"Americans have accepted the challenge to combat terrorism..."

Damn you for despoiling my language, Mr. Cheney!

[Nottingham]

6. He is like a tape recording Terrorism 9/11 WMD Blah Blah Blah

He just keeps saying Lies And more Lies! Unbelievable

and the Republicans just keep paying him more & more money





:evilgrin:

[Jack Rabbit]

Speaking at a $750 a plate dinner

Cheney only speaks to GOP audiences nowadays. Only willful fools will listen to him.

[Nottingham]

9. Republicans Eating up the Garbage How Apropo!!!

:puke:

[0007]

30. The freepers eat pure shit

this garbage ain't nothing!

[peterh]

31. Lapdogs paying $750 for a can alpo…

Now that’s apropos…

[RapidCreek]

43. Yea...ever notice how this pimp never speaks to the public?

The fucker is like Dracula....he only shows himself in rooms full of folks paying 750 bucks for a corndog. Then again....if your dumb enough to pay 750 bucks for a corn dog, your dumb enough to believe anything!

RC

[Ms. Clio]

7. Take the terrorism challenge!

As Michael Ledeen said, "If we just let our own vision of the world go forth, and we embrace it entirely and we don't try to be clever and piece together clever diplomatic solutions to this thing, but just wage a total war against these tyrants, I think we will do very well and our children will sing great songs about us years from now."

[Solly Mack]

8. Historians will one day call Cheney the lying piece of garbage he is

and when they do, republicans will call that "revisionism"

fuck'em all

[TXDemGal]

12. We can hope that legitimate historians will one day tell the truth

about Crash Cart and this regime. I'm convinced that I'll have been long dead by the time that happens, though.

[goforit]

10. Ohhhh my. Chenny chenny chenny ,honey...

hang it up!!!

We all know you've caught red handed!!!

It's time for your white jacket bucko!!!

[gulliver]

11. The new theme: "Americans ain't chicken."

Bush hit on this too with his "Americans aren't the running kind" claptrap.

Americans aren't the running kind, and they aren't stupid either. The first rule of fighting is to fight only as a last resort. Bush and Cheney broke that rule. They fought as a first resort and it was a world class f-up. The wrong fight. A hugely expensive fight. And no good reason.

And two Vietnam chickenhawks, Bush and Cheney, now find the gall to prod Americans on their courage and honor.

How repugnant.

[saigon68]

40. BRING EM ON--- The AWOL Chimpanzee June 2003

And his side kick the Cowardly Cheney--Draft Dodger Extrordinaire!!!!

[ConcernedCanuk]

13. __ I say "BullPuckey" - - that's the polite version for "Bullsh_t"

. . The USA is going to be remembered for starting the war of all wars

Granted, there needs to be an effort to combat Terrorism, but it comes as no suprize that the USA is just using it to advance their own adgenda, and I think alot of the world sees through that facade

You don't have to be a brain surgeon to realize that alot of the world HATES the USA, and the rest of us are just sort of plain disgusted with the USA's antics

Put me in the "disgusted" group

[diamond14]

14. (pic)...caution...shield your eyes...it's cheney....(laugh, cough!)

thanks to http://www.bartcop.com

[lebkuchen]

15. Just as the CATO institute had mentioned on CNNI late August

Condi and Cheney would be preparing the US for a "30 year generational commitment" to "democratizing" (Christianizing?) the Middle East "at the cost of hundreds of billions of dollars."

[diamond14]

23. a "30 year generational commitment" = the DRAFT....nt

.

[lebkuchen]

32. The draft is inevitable, in my opinion

I do hope you are ineligible. If not, and if all else fails, you will have to leave the country. Others have.

[Mari333]

46. They are forcing our sons and daughters to stay in

wont let them out when their time is served..ad hoc draft already going on. I.E. they wont let them OUT.

[Don_G]

16. I Don't Think So

After all their support of the NRA and all of the money the PNC threw toward Rush and the Free Republic, I don't see where their words will deflect a fifty-cent bullet when the Right decides to take action once they realize they've been used and badly.

Not my words, theirs:
http://www.libertypost.org/cgi-bin/listarticles.cgi?114

[The Backlash Cometh]

17. My Gawd! This man must be high on meds.

Is there any way to require a psychological testing of the V.P., especially when it was never expected that a V.P. would have as much power as Cheney?

[truthisfreedom]

18. "a good defense is not enough." good advice... for Democrats. OFFENSE!

OFFENSE! OFFENSE! OFFENSE!

it's a good time for us to be on the offensive, and that's being proven by the wide acceptance of Dean and Clark and Kucinich and everyone else who is brave and tough enough to get out there and point out what a dangerous bunch of goons have highjacked our country.

[Saudade]

19. Cheney

The fact that a lying, cowardly, corrupt person like Dick Cheney has a position of leadership in America is definitive proof that something is deeply wrong with our political system.

Cheney is at the very center of all that is rotten in the Bush administration, the lies used to justify invasion, the Plame scandal, secrecy, the oil industry influence, ruining the environment, blatant profiteering from war, and so on.

The man has zero credibility, no charisma, and obvious contempt for the American people and for facts.

I just cannot figure out why he isn't held accountable, ever.

[lovedems]

20. When are they going to get off it?

It was laughable for a week or two, watching them continue to lie when we knew they were busted. Now it is pathological, I honestly think they are starting to believe the lies they are spewing! I really wish they would get off the "Terrorists want to harm Americans" because we are freedom loving people. Does anybody know how much bullshit that is???????? Terrorists want us out of the middle east! They don't give a shit how short our skirts are! I highly doubt History will look favorably on this administration. When my children are old enough to understand, they won't. That goes for any of their friends who enter our house. I will indoctrinate all of them. Just doing my part.

[leesa]

22. I don't think they will be as successful selling the bogus war on

terrorism as they were selling the bogus wars on communism and drugs. Just an excuse for stealing other countries resources and for selling armaments.

War on terrorism is the most ridiculous ever. If Americans would put their thinking caps on for even ten minutes, they would realize it is impossible to wage war against a warring technique and that bombing will ALWAYS increase the numbers of people wanting to retaliate against you.

But, but, but...the World Series is on...much more important.

[ameriphile]

24. Americans have also accepted

the challenge of voting Cheney's skanky a$$ out of office!

[cliss]

25. Excellent post, Gulliver

my thoughts exactly. I think the most heinous, sinister thing about what these people have done, is they have taken every good asset in this country, and they used it to their advantage.

For example, they played their patriotism card early on, in the early stages of the war. They know Americans are patriotic, and they exploited it. Many people in my office started wearing American flag clothes, and they hung little flags. Don't agree with this war? That means you're not patriotic!

Next, they used our sympathy for women, and vulnerability, all in one package. Enter Jessica Lynch, the femme du jour and saving grace for the war planners.

We've seen their blatant use of national symbols and monuments. Bush & Mt. Rushmore, Colon in front of the Washington monument, his face turned upward with a hopeful, dreamy look.

Of course, they have maxxed out their Fear Card. Witness the latest tape of Bin Laden. Mixed reactions, mostly lots of yawning.

These people have taken EVERY ASSET the US has, not only monetary but emotional & spiritual, and RAN THEM INTO THE GROUND.

And this confirms my belief that Americans, and only Americans can correct this situation.

[demdogg]

27. New to board need to reply to post

I am not ignoring the topic but I have an IMPORTANT Idea to share. ALL OF US NEED TO VOTE BY ABSENTEE BALLOT TO STOP THE REPUBLITHUGS FROM STEALING ELECTIONS WITH THEIR CONTROLL OF COMPUTERIZED VOTE MANIPULATION...WILL Y'ALL HELP ME SPREAD THE WORD?? REQUEST ABSENTEE BALLOTS FOR ALL ELECTIONS UNTILL WE ARE SURE WE CAN VERIFY OUR VOTES....THANKS AND YEAH CHENEY SUCKS BTW

[Cooley Hurd]

33. Welcome, Dogg!

Although you're new here, you have a firm grasp on what threats our nation is facing, not from Al Qaeda, not from North Korea, but from the dark forces within (i.e. the Repuglican Party). Welcome!!

[cliss]

28. Yes, Dem Dog

EXCELLENT SUGGESTION. I'm going to do that. Oregon doesn't have the rotten reputation that Florida does regarding vote tampering, but who knows? The Ream-publican party has deep, sinister roots everywhere.

Welcome to the DU!!! :pals:

[peterh]

29. Another case of being out of touch….

“the world is depending on the U.S.”…..Uhhh, dickface, most of the world basically hates us and those that don’t, are wondering how a wonderful country got hijacked. But then, you do have your tiny minority agreeing with their palms firmly in the up position.

[Zhade]

34. Sorry, TRAITOR, you don't speak for me.

TWOT (the war on terra) is an excuse for endless war and crackdowns on our rights.

FUCK YOU, Cheney.

[Rex]

35. Just replace the word terrorism with communism

wash, rinse, repeat... :eyes:

No Mr. Cheney, history will pen you and the rest of your corporate pirates as the WORST thing to happen to America...EVER.

[tlcandie]

36. Yup, I've accepted the terrorism challenge!!!

I'm passionate and fully charged to rid the WHorehouse of the terrorists that reside there!!!

You betcha I'm up to the challenge!!! :bounce:

[earthman dave]

37. The challenge: find an excuse to take over the middle east. n/t

[BloodyWilliam]

38. Sweet merciful Christ...

<"We must do everything in our power to prevent terrorists from ever acquiring weapons of mass destruction," he told the black-tie crowd which dined on quail, lobster and tenderloin. "America requires a new strategy. A good defense is not enough.">

Fucking scary.

Welcome to the 13th Crusade.

To anyone in power who might be reading this, I officially in know way endorse the assassination of our leaders. But if Cheney and his kin go, whether by heart attack or bullet, I will refuse to mourn him.

[Bush sucks Dick]

42. I'll not only not mourn

I'll party!

[Nottingham]

39. Terrorism and All of a Sudden a Bin Laden tape appears

threatening the US! .............What timing....

Its like its being coordinated :bounce:

[ByeDick]

41. Cheney Knows What He's Talking About

ter·ror·ism
noun

1. The unlawful use or threatened use of force or violence by a person or an organized group against people or property with the intention of intimidating or coercing societies or governments, often for ideological or political reasons.

2. Dick Cheney strong arming his bogus yellowcake story into the State of the Union Address on January 28, 2003

[9215]

48. LOL I was just looking up the definition

of terrorism when I saw your post.

I agree with Cheney, now that we know who the real terrorists are our challenge is to see him and the rest of the cabal out of office and preferably behind.

[young_at_heart]

44. I don't understand why Cheney is SO powerful?

How did this particular man get to be in the position of frightening everyone?

[ByeDick]

45. He is the fourth branch of government

Cheney answers to no one.

Rice, Powell, Rumsfeld, Ashcroft, etc. can all be called before Congress to answer questions in a process known as checks and balances.

Cheney answers to no one.

Cheney can't even be fired by Bush himself. Cheney is not a cabinet officer and he is not administered by Bush.

Cheney took an elected position and turned it into the fourth branch of government.

This is what a Constitutional crisis looks like.

[Nottingham]

47. Yes Bye Dick! Cheney has taken the VP job and Made himself

a power that weaves in and out not beholden to ANYBODY

And he keeps digging those tunnels under his house deeper and deeper

Bush is the puppet and Cheney is the puppet master. :bounce: