Cheney blasts probe of CIA interrogations (‘I find that absolutely abhorrent’)

[sabra]

Source: MSNBC/The Elkhart Truth

BENTON HARBOR, Mich. - Former Vice President Dick Cheney held back no criticism Thursday of President Barack Obama, strongly questioning the administration's policy in Afghanistan and its approach to combating terrorism.

Cheney, speaking to the Economic Club of Southwest Michigan, was harshest when addressing a Department of Justice investigation into so-called "enhanced interrogations" used by the CIA and military on detained suspected terrorists.

"I find that absolutely abhorrent," said Cheney, who served under George W. Bush from 2001 to 2009. "It bothers the heck out of me that we would go after those people who have been instrumental in preventing further attacks against the United States."

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When the Bush administration re-evaluated its position on the Afghanistan war in late 2008, Cheney said, it passed on the results to the new administration instead of changing course itself. Obama followed that advice at first, he said, but now seems to be backing off.

"Our adversaries take heart from our hesitation and vacillation," he said, "because it underlies their basic strategy: If you kill enough Americans, you can change their policy."

Read more: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33714834/ns/politics-more_p... /

[supernova]

1. I wish Cheney a stroke or heart attack

that leaves him in a vegetative state for the next few years while the family wrangle over his $$$.

[The Wielding Truth]

4. We need not wish him ill. He will go soon enough, and his legacy is his punishment.

Although his treachery and disservice to our country should be held up as an example of the lousy way he used the power of his office.

[supernova]

12. He's too stupid to

feel the humiliation.

[Golden Raisin]

16. He's not stupid.

Quite the contrary. Evil, greedy, vengeful, treacherous, condescending, hateful and totally without a conscience, but definitely not stupid.

[Golden Raisin]

17. He's not stupid.

Quite the contrary. Evil, greedy, vengeful, treacherous, condescending, hateful and totally without a conscience, but definitely not stupid.

[Demeter]

34. And Stupid

His actions speak for themselves.

[The Wielding Truth]

26. His place in history will be a study in abuse of office/along with *.

[udbcrzy2]

11. Me too:) n/t

[supernova]

13. Welcome to DU, udbecrzy2

[SharksBreath]

24. No. Keep him Healthy. A Heart Attack is too good for him.

He needs to suffer and sit in a 5x8 cell.

[JDPriestly]

27. Not until he answers questions under oath about his role in the

illegal activities of the Bush administration. Then I leave it up to God and Cheney's own dark soul.

[Solly Mack]

2. A war criminal makes a predictable comment defending his war crimes

while attacking a sitting President that hails from the opposing party.


One sides cheers. The other side expresses outrage and scorn at the nerve of the man making such comments.

Same song, I forget which verse. (there's been so many)

Curtains

Next showing coming soon.

Because this periodic 'Cheney said' theatre obviously has more value than actually putting the war criminal in prison.



I'm just tired of the fucker continually being legitimized when he should be in prison

[barbtries]

3. he should be jailed

if only to shut him the fuck up. gawd i hate that ... that ... whatever it is.

i can't stand to listen to him talk, but can't help wonder if there's a little panic behind these outbursts. we all know that if Al Gore had run around the country and postured for the media about how terrible little gw was, the fucking republicans would have raised hell and he probably would have been jailed for treason or somesuch.

just pisses me off. fuck this bastard.

[Bitwit1234]

5. Sure he does

he thinks that might find evidence that ties him to approval of it. AND THEN PROSECUTION FOR WAR CRIMES...but this will never happen. Democrats don't have the spine to prosecute either bush or cheney.

But nothing stopped the republicans for going after Clinton and now Obama.

[EndElectoral]

6. Abhorrent? The man has obviously not looked in the mirror lately.

[clear eye]

40. I'll raise his "abhorrent" and put up a "revolting" and "nauseating" re: his own acts. n/t

[fascisthunter]

7. we find you to be far more abhorrent

may you live in misery.

[felinetta]

8. I smell fear. Just stick your head out the window and you, too, will smell Cheney's fear.

[Lil Missy]

9. How DARE Obama not follow his advice. THE NERVE!!!

What a jackass.

[Florida Blue]

10. Can you charge someone with war crimes after they are dead?

Perhaps the Justice Department will do it then "for the record".

[peace13]

30. Oh I hope so! n/t

[DebbieCDC]

14. I find cheenee absolutely abhorrent

IMHO

[Grey]

15. to quote Joe Biden...

"Who Cares"

[givemebackmycountry]

19. Thank You

The first thing the Bush administration did when they were "selected" by the Supreme Court in 2000 was rent a giant dumpster.
Then they took anything that had to do with the previous administration and they ran it out the back door and threw it away.
Then they went on TV and declared the "adults were in charge".
Then 19 of Poppy and "Dubyas" best friends from Saudi Arabia decided to fly some planes into some buildings and wreck our country.

Way to go.

Fuck Cheney with a spiked rubber dildo two times.
And his vile daughter too.

[Algorem]

18. he'll be blasting away at kids on his lawn pretty soon

[LeftHander]

20. Give him a plate of dead bats and baby arms....

he will shut up for ten minutes.

[ixion]

21. and anyone cares what dick thinks, because?

He was one of the most unpopular VPs in history, and yet the MSM still treat him with credibility.

[bdamomma]

22. keep talking dick you filthy man.

what a freaking hypocrite, if they focused on Afghanistan instead of invading Iraq for oil, maybe we could have gotten things in control out there. 8 years for what???

[newspeak]

42. well, then if he hadn't invaded Iraq

his buddies at Halliburton and Dynacorp couldn't have made a windfall on the backs of the taxpayers.

Yeah, I remember when they said that the adults were in charge. The president who took more vacations-the president who couldn't be bothered with the august PDB report-the president who needed to attack Iraq with trumped up intel-the president who in a time of war, thought it wise to cut taxes on the most wealthy of this country-the president who publicly, more than once, joked about hitting the trifecta after 9/11-the president who joked publicly about looking for WMDs while thousands have been killed-the president who had to hold Cheney's hand (and stipulate it would not be under oath) at the 9/11 hearings-the president who played guitar while NO drowned. God, I could go on and on about the "Dark side."

To me, Cheney is a classic sociopath and has shown more interest in his corporate interests and buddies, than the health of this country. And, what they have done to this country-I'm thinking it's close to treasonous.

[Amonester]

45. 8 years for helliburton's shareholder$$,$$,$$...

8 years against the majority of the people, with a big help from the complicit M$M corporations & wall $$$$$$$$$treet

chainy profit$

[City Lights]

23. I find it absolutely abhorrent that you are still a free man.

Fuck off, Traitor Dick.

[Hulk]

25. darth raises his ugly head again...

I sincerely look forward to the day I can urinate on this spawn of the devil's grave....hoping it seeps through to what is left of this shallow, disgusting human being.

[The Wizard]

28. "I find that absolutely abhorrent"

And most of civilization feels the same way about Dead Eye Dick.

[LiberalLovinLug]

29. Hey you bloated self-serving psychotic megalomaniac...

STFU!

[sofa king]

31. You know what prevented further attacks? My fucking vote, Dick.

And I didn't vote for your gangsters.

[jeremyfive]

32. Can't We Just Shoot Cheney in the Face at Short Range?

To Republicans, that is considered a gesture of "friendship".

[Raster]

33. Here is what cheney* really finds abhorrent: being tried for war crimes.

And the truth be told, cheney* did not serve "under" bush*, bush* served under cheney*. bush* may have had the title and the Oval Office, but he certainly did not have the power. I believe that was negotiated in advance MONTHS before the 2000 Selection. Look back through the cheney*/bush* administration: when appropriate, the seat of power always moved to its "undisclosed location."

bush* may have had the last laugh though by NOT pardoning Libby. With that one non-action, bush* was able to thumb his nose at cheney* and distance himself from cheney*'s act of treason. And make no mistake, the deliberate outing of Valarie Plame for revenge against her husband WAS AN ACT OF TREASON.

[laylah]

35. Please excuse my language but

FUCK him, the POS that led this country into the dire depths it is in today.

[BluDemocratGirl]

36. Now, I see who's the REAL "ditherer".

He has done that for 8 damn years. Dickhead Cheney is the stupidest of them all.

[Jackpine Radical]

37. This just in: Weasel finds investigation of henhouse murders "abhorrent."

[Devil_Fish]

38. Go fuck your self Dick. No one cares what a tresonous war criminal has to say.NT

[classysassy]

39. The destruction

of our country will come about,because of men like Chaney and his supporters.

[Vehl]

41. As Biden would say "who cares what cheney says!" . nt

[struggle4progress]

43. Cheney? Cheney who?

[Mari333]

44. ewww I knew I smelled a foul stench in the air that day

thats 30 minutes from here. stay out of Michigan you zombie you and your ilk have done enough damage.

[mstinamotorcity]

46. He is so busy

trying to fable-lies about his time in office. I am just waiting for him to keep talking so that we can get more to use against him. Cheney has been speaking with a fork tongue since before Dubya wanted to be President. Who do you think gave that idiot the idea that his 2.0 ass could be President. Cheney believes that he is going to get away with helping to destroy our country. But everyday we are going to remind each other of the hateful things that he and Dubya put on the American People. Dick Cheney can go piss up a f--king roach. Play in oncoming traffic. Sit in an enhanced interrogation chair in the middle of Iraq or Afghanistan. You know if these leaders had to get they ass out there like the ultimate fighting challenges and fight each other with just brut strength, most of them tricks would not be for war. Its easy to send someone to war when you don't have to go. Cheney is cold as the day is long. And don't think for one minute Dubya is as dumb as he looks. After all the President is supposed to know everything his corrupt cabinet is doing.And who's to say he didn't.