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Cali_Democrat

(30,439 posts)
Sun Jun 22, 2014, 07:26 PM Jun 2014

Cheney to Critics: Don’t Waste Time ‘Debating What Happened 12 Years Ago’


by Evan McMurry | 10:51 am, June 22nd, 2014

On This Week with George Stephanopoulos Sunday morning, Former Vice President Dick Cheney responded to a week’s worth of scathing and bipartisan criticism of his Wall Street Journal op-ed arguing for more American involvement in the crisis in Iraq, telling Jon Karl that relitigating the original 2003 invasion was distracting from contemporary threats.

“If we spend our time debating what happened eleven or twelve years ago, we’re going to miss the threat that is growing and that we do face,” Cheney said. “We’re missing the boat, we don’t understand that nature of the threat, and we’re unwilling to deal with it.”

http://www.mediaite.com/tv/cheney-to-critics-dont-waste-time-debating-what-happen-12-years-ago/
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Cheney to Critics: Don’t Waste Time ‘Debating What Happened 12 Years Ago’ (Original Post) Cali_Democrat Jun 2014 OP
Well... sheshe2 Jun 2014 #1
I.e. Forget my record of crimes and errors, and listen to me now daleo Jun 2014 #3
9/11, on the other hand, must never be forgotten. OnyxCollie Jun 2014 #2
Oh, Dick, you (literally) heartless SOB dixiegrrrrl Jun 2014 #4
Beat me to it-- there is no debate... TreasonousBastard Jun 2014 #13
Oh yeah, Dick.You would love for people to stop talking about it. SummerSnow Jun 2014 #5
Don't debate his failure, he and Bush created this mess and now he thinks he knows how to fix it. Thinkingabout Jun 2014 #6
A warped, frustrated, old man Uben Jun 2014 #7
cheney's plea from the garbage can of history.. Cha Jun 2014 #8
History Mr. Cheny, Demands we debate what happened 12 years ago rustydog Jun 2014 #9
Why this evil charlatan is even taken seriously deutsey Jun 2014 #10
Our media lurves the neocons Cali_Democrat Jun 2014 #18
" ... and pay no attention to that man behind the curtain." lpbk2713 Jun 2014 #11
This message was self-deleted by its author Cali_Democrat Jun 2014 #16
Well said Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jun 2014 #17
What's the matter Dick? GP6971 Jun 2014 #12
Never underestimate these scumbags. Stuart G Jun 2014 #14
Hell is too of a good place GP6971 Jun 2014 #15
he shares this belief with obama so why are DU people so mad at him nt msongs Jun 2014 #19
Would that we had prosecuted this war criminal gratuitous Jun 2014 #20
You know, when we made the mess we're trying to blame Obama for? 6000eliot Jun 2014 #21
shame on our pathetic media for giving him a forum spanone Jun 2014 #22
Hmmm! Check out that look on his face... Frustratedlady Jun 2014 #23
Yeah, I bet that's what you want, Dick. stevenleser Jun 2014 #24

sheshe2

(83,728 posts)
1. Well...
Sun Jun 22, 2014, 07:34 PM
Jun 2014
"I worry about today is that there will be another 9/11 attack, and next time it will be with weapons far deadlier than airline tickets and box cutters.”


I guess the Dickster forgot all about those fueled planes crashing into the Twin towers and the Pentagon. He only remembers tickets and box cutters. Oh and Dick...that HAPPENED on YOUR WATCH!

Thanks Cali_Democrat, that man makes my blood boil!

dixiegrrrrl

(60,010 posts)
4. Oh, Dick, you (literally) heartless SOB
Sun Jun 22, 2014, 07:38 PM
Jun 2014

WE are NOT debating anything that happened 12 years ago.
We KNOW and remember all those years.
The only person bringing it up is YOU.

Thinkingabout

(30,058 posts)
6. Don't debate his failure, he and Bush created this mess and now he thinks he knows how to fix it.
Sun Jun 22, 2014, 07:40 PM
Jun 2014

He took aim and missed, he needs to go away. If he is trying to get a job for Liz, shut up and let her think for herself but in the meantime keep making new websites begging for money.

Uben

(7,719 posts)
7. A warped, frustrated, old man
Sun Jun 22, 2014, 07:42 PM
Jun 2014

Cheney needs to shut up and fade away. He had his day and he blew it. Of course, I'm sure he's worried about his Halliburton holdings in Iraq, but he'll be okay without it. I'm sure he feels a couple of thousand lives is an okay price to keep him from losing money.

rustydog

(9,186 posts)
9. History Mr. Cheny, Demands we debate what happened 12 years ago
Sun Jun 22, 2014, 07:45 PM
Jun 2014

You have been called a War Criminal by foreign courts for your participation in starting this atrocity 12 years ago. How many innocent dead now?

We have arrested people recently who were Concentration-camp guards during WW-2. They didn't start WW-2 but they participated in atrocities. And, history ensures they are held accountable. YOU started the Iraq war you lying coward...Maybe it will catch up to you and Georgie-boy, and Rumsfeld, and Rice and Bolton. You may face a trial you lucky bastard. You won't be "renditioned" to Gitmo and tortured simply because you are suspected of being bad...
I'm not holding my breath. But you are dead wrong Dick. We need to debate this continually.

deutsey

(20,166 posts)
10. Why this evil charlatan is even taken seriously
Sun Jun 22, 2014, 07:47 PM
Jun 2014

by our news media says a lot about where their true allegiances are (i.e., the same ones Cheney has).

 

Cali_Democrat

(30,439 posts)
18. Our media lurves the neocons
Sun Jun 22, 2014, 08:53 PM
Jun 2014

Notice how Wolfowitz and the rest of those assholes have been all over the media recently.

Response to lpbk2713 (Reply #11)

GP6971

(31,133 posts)
12. What's the matter Dick?
Sun Jun 22, 2014, 07:54 PM
Jun 2014

Your cash flow about to take a hit? As if you don't have enough......none of it "honestly earned". Congratulations.......I didn't think you could hit a new low, but you proved me wrong.

Stuart G

(38,414 posts)
14. Never underestimate these scumbags.
Sun Jun 22, 2014, 08:22 PM
Jun 2014

The last ring of hell is too high for them.
.Since the media is playing to this asshole, then, more is to come..

GP6971

(31,133 posts)
15. Hell is too of a good place
Sun Jun 22, 2014, 08:41 PM
Jun 2014

for these assholes. Amazing that all the neocons have been trotted out on the MSM, notably Faux. Wrong then, wrong now. But who listens?????

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
20. Would that we had prosecuted this war criminal
Sun Jun 22, 2014, 11:49 PM
Jun 2014

But that would be lookin' backwards to the past, instead of forward to the future. And it would criminalize politics. And something else, but I sort of forget what. What's important is that we get these criminals back in public, acting like their crimes never happened. "Oh, that'll never happen; those guys are washed up. Nobody will ever take these guys seriously again."

Yeah. Right.

Frustratedlady

(16,254 posts)
23. Hmmm! Check out that look on his face...
Mon Jun 23, 2014, 12:11 AM
Jun 2014

Is he holding back tears, finally feeling some remorse or sad because no one is taking his advice? It has to hurt when even Megyn "Legs" Kelly jumps him about their record during the Iraq fiasco.

Poor baby! NOT!

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