Dick Cheney Criticizes Obama National Security Appointees In Speech
Source: AP
By BOB MOEN 02/10/13
CHEYENNE, Wyo. -- Former Vice President Dick Cheney said Saturday night that President Barack Obama has jeopardized U.S. national security by nominating substandard candidates for key cabinet posts and by degrading the U.S. military.
"The performance now of Barack Obama as he staffs up the national security team for the second term is dismal," Cheney said in comments to about 300 members of the Wyoming Republican Party.
Cheney, a Wyoming native, said it was vital to the nation's national security that "good folks" hold the positions of secretary of state, CIA director and secretary of defense.
"Frankly, what he has appointed are second-rate people," he said.
Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/02/10/dick-cheney-obama-national-security_n_2656804.html
Projecting much, Mr. Cheney? Look in the mirror, along with your buddies, Bush and Rumsfeld. You three are the main culprits that got us into, not one, but two un-winnable wars. How many hundreds of thousands have died, and continue to die, thanks to the three of you?
BTW, who was president during 9/11/01? Also, close to 50 people died at diplomatic posts during the Bush administration. Were you and your cronies in Congress outraged about those deaths? Did you drag the Secretaries of Defense and State in front of Congress to testify about those 50 deaths? I think not.
Hypocrisy, thy name is the Republican Party.
Botany
(70,516 posts)Remember 9-11? You, W, and Condi had 70+ warnings and you still missed it.
Demeter
(85,373 posts)Left Coast2020
(2,397 posts)Should be.
Aviation Pro
(12,172 posts)....number of attacks on American soil by foreign terrorists since January 2009: 0
Number of fucking, preventable attacks on American soil by foreign terrorists that killed 3000 Americans and plunged the nation into a decade long war between January 2001 - January 2009: 1
Number of Osama bin Laden's killed by Navy SEALs since January 2009 as ordered by the CINC: 1
Number of Osama bin Laden's allowed to escape between January 2001 - January 2009 as bungled by Monkey McClown: 1
Number of guys shot in the face by a walking fuckstick: 1
Did I mention go fuck yourself Walking Fuckstick?
Go fuck yourself, phlegm.
JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)trusting statements of a tortured prisoner and believing badly forged documents to name just two.
Can there be a worse national security staff than Bush/Cheney's considering the War in Iraq and their failure to really deal with Afghanistan? They couldn't find Bin Laden when he was in the same town as a Pakistani military base?
The number of "mistakes" made by the Bush administration with regard to national security and Cheney dares to criticize Obama?
freshwest
(53,661 posts)another_liberal
(8,821 posts)I assume the old blood just ain't getting to the old brain like it used to? This Dick Cheney as elder statesman crap could become really too sad to watch, if someone doesn't soon decide to keep him away from microphones.
JoeBlowToo
(253 posts)We have always been at war with Eastasia!
Deny and Shred
(1,061 posts)No matter, I love Big Brother.
Coyotl
(15,262 posts)At least the country is no longer being run by second-rate, obsequious sycophants of parasites and war mongers, Dick!
trusty elf
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Mnpaul
(3,655 posts)Two words come to mind - John Bolton
hobbit709
(41,694 posts)Deny and Shred
(1,061 posts)Douglass Feith. A third word was Brownie. You could fill a phone book with the second rate clowns from W - Bremer, Mukasey, Gonzales, Ashcroft, Wolfie, Chertoff, Kerik for starters.
To install a man who openly expressed zero faith in collective action and was outright dismissive of the UN like Bolton, as UN envoy, is defeating the purpose and insulting.
Beacool
(30,250 posts)I can't stand the walrus-mustachioed jerk!!!
Baitball Blogger
(46,736 posts)Our weakest link in our security response was Dick Cheney. Bush delegated to him and Cheney was pursuing a strategy that would have streamlined everything through the Red Cross.
DallasNE
(7,403 posts)Rice is the one that was responsible for following up on the August 6th PDB advising that bin Laden was determined to strike inside the US with hijacked airplanes listed as an option. She too failed to act on data coming from FBI offices in Minneapolis and Phoenix about "pilots" only wanting to learn how to fly a jet liner and not how to take off or land those aircraft.
Gonzales is the one that wrote the legal opinions ending Habeas Corpus and authorizing enhanced interrogation methods (torture). We still suffer from the damage caused by these decision as we relearn that you can't put the toothpaste back in the tube.
The thing that sets Cheney apart is just how vile he is in his personal attacks on policy differences. He is the meanest jerk ever to hold a national elected position and his damn daughter is in the same mold. With his approval rating he should just shut the f*ck up because nobody cares about anything he says anyway.
Beacool
(30,250 posts)madrchsod
(58,162 posts)Martin Eden
(12,870 posts)That's what the headline should be.
Mockingjay
(31 posts)I don't think Chenney's heart is pumping enough blood into his empty brain! Other than morons who listens to this piece of excrement? Seriously?
SaveAmerica
(5,342 posts)Turbineguy
(37,343 posts)we should expect anything else?
graywarrior
(59,440 posts)Go cheney yourself, Mr. Fuck! Got something against peace, do you?
BainsBane
(53,035 posts)Slither back under your rock, Dick. No one wants to hear from you ever again.
jsr
(7,712 posts)aint_no_life_nowhere
(21,925 posts)to do something that meets with Big Dick's approval.
dmosh42
(2,217 posts)dmosh42
(2,217 posts)Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)Cheney needs a brain transplant, Rumsfelt with his beady eyes let's not forget Brownie hecka good job Mission Impossible, I could go on and on, Cheney doesn't need to do anything but apologize to the families of troops injured and killed in their useless war. Cheney might pride himself for fooling the republican but it did not work with the Democrats.
Beacool
(30,250 posts)So is Rumsfeld. They were far more dangerous precisely because they are smart. What they are is evil.
2naSalit
(86,646 posts)those wars were the quickest and funnest (for them) way to bankrupt America and cast the majority of us into a shock doctrine reality. the Enron project was taking too long and they got caught... And the wars were also a doable smokescreen to whisk away any notion of accountability while eveyone was looking "over there" in warville.
triplepoint
(431 posts)Last edited Sun Feb 10, 2013, 04:09 PM - Edit history (1)
Just like when you shot your buddy in the face, so did you do to this country during your reign of error/terror.
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Heccuva Job There Brown_Eye!
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Ok...Let's Get to It: The bush CRIME family's March of Convicted Felons:
Courtney Stadd, NASA chief of staff, was sentenced to 41 months in prison for conspiracy. (2012)
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Scott Bloch was appointed by George W. Bush to head the United States Office of Special Counsel and was sentenced to one month in prison for Contempt of Congress and sentenced to one year of un-supervised probation. Bloch had hired Geeks on Call to scrub his computer of files before they could be examined by Congress. (2010)
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Lewis Libby (R) Chief of Staff to Vice President Dick Cheney (R). 'Scooter' was convicted of perjury and obstruction of justice in the Plame Affair on March 6, 2007 and was sentenced to 30 months in prison and fined $250,000. His sentence was commuted by George W. Bush (R) on July 1, 2007. The felony remains on Libby's record though the jail time and fine were commuted.
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Jack Abramoff CNMI scandal involves the efforts of Abramoff to influence Congress concerning U.S. immigration and minimum wage laws. See Legislative branch convictions. Convictions within the Bush administration include:
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David Safavian (R) GSA (General Services Administration) Chief of Staff, found guilty of blocking justice and lying, and sentenced to 18 months.
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Roger Stillwell (R) Staff in the Department of the Interior under George W. Bush. Pleaded guilty and received two years suspended sentence.
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Susan B. Ralston (R) Special Assistant to the President and Senior Advisor to Karl Rove, resigned October 6, 2006 after it became known that she accepted gifts and passed information to her former boss Jack Abramoff.
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J. Steven Griles (R) Deputy Secretary of the Interior pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice and was sentenced to 10 months.
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Italia Federici (R) staff to the Secretary of Interior, and President of the Council of Republicans for Environmental Advocacy, pleaded guilty to tax evasion and obstruction of justice. She was sentenced to four years probation.
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Jared Carpenter (R) Vice-President of the Council of Republicans for Environmental Advocacy, was discovered during the Abramoff investigation and pleaded guilty to income tax evasion. He got 45 days, plus 4 years probation.
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Mark Zachares (R) staff in the Department of Labor, bribed by Abramoff, guilty of conspiracy to defraud.
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Robert E. Coughlin (R) Deputy Chief of Staff, Criminal Division of the Justice Department pleaded guilty to conflict of interest after accepting bribes from Jack Abramoff. (2008).
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Lester Crawford (R) Commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration, resigned after 2 months. Pleaded guilty to conflict of interest and received 3 years suspended sentence and fined $90,000. (2006).
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Claude Allen (R) Advisor to President Bush on Domestic Policy, Allen was arrested for a series of felony thefts in retail stores such as Target. (2006) He was convicted on one count and resigned soon after.
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Darleen DruyunPrincipal Deputy Undersecretary of the Air Force for Acquisition, Druyun pleaded guilty to inflating the price of the contract to favor her future employer and to passing information on the competing Airbus A330 MRTT bid (from EADS). In October 2004, she was sentenced to nine months in jail for corruption, fined $5,000, given three years of supervised release and 150 hours of community service. She began her prison term on January 5, 2005.
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Legislative branch
Jack Abramoff CNMI scandal involves the efforts of Abramoff to influence Congressional action concerning U.S. immigration and minimum wage laws. See Executive branch convictions. Congressmen convicted in the Abramoff scandal include:
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Tom DeLay (R-TX) The House Majority Leader was reprimanded twice by the House Ethics Committee and DeLay resigned 9 June 2006. Delay was found to have illegally channeled funds from Americans for a Republican Majority to Republican state legislator campaigns. He was convicted of two counts of money laundering and conspiracy in 2010 and sentenced to three years.
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Michael Scanlon (R) former staff to Tom DeLay: working for Abramoff, pleaded guilty to bribery.
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Tony Rudy (R) former staff to Tom DeLay, pleaded guilty to conspiracy.
James W. Ellis (R) executive director of Tom DeLay's political action committee, Americans for a Republican Majority (ARMPAC), was indicted by Texas for money laundering.
John Colyandro (R) executive director of Tom DeLay's political action committee, Texans for a Republican Majority (TRMPAC), was indicted by Texas for money laundering.
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Bob Ney (R-OH) pleaded guilty to conspiracy and making false statements as a result of his receiving trips from Abramoff in exchange for legislative favors. Ney received 30 months in prison.
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Neil Volz (R) former staff to Robert Ney, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy in 2006 charges stemming from his work for Bob Ney. In 2007 he was sentenced to two years probation, 100 hours community service, and a fine of $2,000.
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William Heaton (R), former chief of staff for Bob Ney (R), pleaded guilty to a federal conspiracy charge involving a golf trip to Scotland, expensive meals, and tickets to sporting events between 2002 and 2004 as payoffs for helping Abramoff's clients.
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John Albaugh (R) former chief of staff to Ernest Istook (R-OK) pleaded guilty to accepting bribes connected to the Federal Highway Bill. Istook was not charged. (2008).
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James Hirni, (R) former staff to Tim Hutchinson (R-AR) was charged with wire fraud for giving a staffer, Don Young (R) of Alaska, a bribe in exchange for amendments to the Federal Highway Bill. (2008).
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Kevin A. Ring (R) former staff to John Doolittle (R-CA) was convicted of five charges of corruption. Doolittle was not charged.
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Duke Cunningham (R-California) pleaded guilty on November 28, 2005 to charges of conspiracy to commit bribery, mail fraud, wire fraud and tax evasion in what came to be called the Cunningham scandal. Sentenced to over eight years in prison.
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Bill Janklow (R-South Dakota) convicted of second-degree manslaughter for running a stop sign and killing a motorcyclist. Resigned from the House and given 100 days in the county jail and three years probation. (2003).
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Vito Fossella (R-New York) US Congressman convicted of drunken driving in 2008, later appealed but then pleaded guilty in 2009 to same charge.
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Larry Craig Senator (R-Idaho) Married Senator and critic of Clinton's affair, plead guilty to disorderly conduct in a Minneapolis airport men's room in June, after having been arrested on a charge of homosexual lewd conduct.(2007).
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Reference Link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_American_federal_politicians_convicted_of_crimes
Beacool
(30,250 posts)I saw the destruction up close. I was in the North Tower that morning. The PATH train station was located underneath it. Terrible day!!!
liberal N proud
(60,336 posts)rocktivity
(44,576 posts)Since its FIRST civil war.
rocktivity
The Wizard
(12,545 posts)Bossy Monkey
(15,863 posts)(that is, for war crimes (just to be absolutely clear).)
Third Doctor
(1,574 posts)is some chickenhawk asshole with 5 deferments acting as if he is a guru on national security. Hagel was actually in the line of fire and has shrapnel in his chest to prove it. He got them in a war that you dodged DICK. The worst mistake in on our history was to invade Iraq. Thousands dead and billions of tax dollars wasted for what? Oh and 9/11 happened on your watch DICK but that just cements your experience right? This torturer, liar and war profiteer should be in jail and it's black mark on a justice system who will crack down on weed smokers and digital downloads but will turn a blind eye at this man.
blue neen
(12,322 posts)bluestateguy
(44,173 posts)Just applying the same standard that Bush and Cheney demanded during their years.
lonestarnot
(77,097 posts)mike dub
(541 posts)(so, no offense to cheeeny's family, etc) but I'm going to seriously go out, buy a bottle of champagne, and celebrate the day his life comes to a close. Won't care what day it is- and yes I'll wait 'til noon if it's a Sunday. G*d, what a monumental hypocrite and a**hole.
And if I go before him, I'll come back as a songbird and poop on his head.
PatrynXX
(5,668 posts)ahem why hasn't he been charged with war crimes yet? Oh because he was technically president for 8 years. Richard Nixon is less corrupt than this angel of death.
DollarBillHines
(1,922 posts)Remember that one?
okwmember
(345 posts)but slowly as these assholes say more and more outrageous shit, I'm beginning to believe that this is all just a crazy plot to make my and the heads of all reasonable people explode. When I read this, it literally makes my head hurt as it instantly floods with all the failures (security and otherwise) of the Bush administration.
Okay, deep breaths and a hearty Fuck You to Dick and all his cronies!!!
John2
(2,730 posts)has served and got training in military leadership schools, I'm very comfortable with our Commander in Chief and the decisions he has made so far. I'm definately comfortable with his Secretary of State and Defense nominee.
One of main issues with Romney and Ryan were Foreign affairs. I felt if those two would have won, we would be on the course to World War III. The neocons and warmongers like Senator McCain would have owned amateurs like Romney and Ryan. Neither ever been in the military and both were warmongers, Vietnam and Iraq just like Cheney and Bush. I think President Obama at least had knowledge about the consequences of War and his grandfather also served in World War II. So he had an appreciation for people that actually served.
Coolest Ranger
(2,034 posts)raisedcatholicvet
(12 posts)This SOB should be in jail and he has a donated heart?
chuckstevens
(1,201 posts)Hey DICK:
01. Michael Brown (Heck of a job, Brownie)
02. John Bolton (War is always the 1st resort)
03. John Ashcroft (Remember folks: the voters in MO. voted for a dead guy over him in a Senate election!)
04. John Yoo (Sociopath)
05. Jay Bybee (No basic concept of constitutional rights)
06. Paul Wolfowtiz (itching for a war from day one)
07. Ari Fleischer (Reassured the public with "Americans better be careful about what they say" after 911)
08. Donald "We know where the WMD's are) Rumsfeld
09. Margret Spellman (An Education Secretary who didn't believe in public education)
10. Scooter Libby (Treasonous Fuck who knowingly outed a CIA agent because her husband expose their big lie)
I'm sure DU user can add on!
PS: DICK: How would we know if Obama's picks are second rate considering the FUCKING GOP KEEPS BLOCKING EVERY NOMINEE PUT FORTH?
City Lights
(25,171 posts)Cleita
(75,480 posts)He should be keeping a very low profile these days.
judesedit
(4,439 posts)lsewpershad
(2,620 posts)lsewpershad
(2,620 posts)please remind me who is this Dick.
aquart
(69,014 posts)I wonder when his contract with Satan runs out?
Tennessee ploughboy
(13 posts)If I were the president, I would hold Cheney's comments up as proof of the soundness of my appointees. -HMH-
xxqqqzme
(14,887 posts)I can live the rest of my life without ever hearing your name or whatever grumpy old fart BS you are spreading and be totally content and happy.
Who cares what his oxygen starved brain is promoting this week?
Joey Liberal
(5,526 posts)Other than Faux News? ....
olddad56
(5,732 posts)NICO9000
(970 posts)When is this vile piece of shit just gonna croak? It's sickening to see him slithering in the spotlight year in and out. Just hurry the fuck up and die, Dick. Just make sure that rotted corpse of yours gets the Mussolini treatment.
Hosnon
(7,800 posts)Dyedinthewoolliberal
(15,577 posts)The press should be all over this. That's how old I am, I remember when they would do things like that!
RiverSong
(35 posts)president like this.
He's always above and beyond what's right and proper - better than anyone else and doesn't care about common courtesy and political etiquette.
I don't remember ever wishing anyone dead before but the phrase: why doesn't he just die? comes to mind every time he does this.
But with his money and pull we'll be putting up with Robo-Dick forever!
Beacool
(30,250 posts)I don't wish him dead, but I would be happy if we never heard again from him and his daughter too. At least Bush Jr. has had the grace to stay mostly out of sight and out of politics.
Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)Hey, dick are you still hunting?
mountain grammy
(26,623 posts)Zoeisright
(8,339 posts)YOHABLO
(7,358 posts)tabasco
(22,974 posts)HughBeaumont
(24,461 posts)What sort of robotic heart does this guy have keeping him alive?
Myrina
(12,296 posts)burnsei sensei
(1,820 posts)who involved us in two wars, eviscerated our economy, caused the suffering of millions, the death of uncounted thousands.
Damn him to hell.