A new low for the Cheneys and their friends

* Cheney's daughter. Contemptible doesn't even begin to cover it, but we'll start there anyway.

The fear of a civilian trial has them both on edge it appears, as they have increased their lies that now include Bill Clinton! I am guessing they are fearful that evidence during the trial will/may surface that implicates Cheney/Bush with violating international laws. It is hard for me to believe this is only about a political strategy for the Republicans to gain momentum.

Monday, Feb 15, 2010 23:16 EST
A new low for the Cheneys and their friends
While the GOP bashes Obama for adopting Bush terror policies, the U.S. makes gains against the Taliban and al-Qaida
By Joan Walsh



An extraordinary array of Republicans have been bashing the administration for "Mirandizing" Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab over the last few days -- including Lindsey Graham, Kit Bond, Rudy Giuliani, Mitch McConnell and Michele Bachmann, to name a few -- even as the media admirably did its job reporting that the Bush administration had Mirandized every single terror suspect caught on its watch as well. Despite those facts, former Vice President Dick Cheney stepped up the attack on Obama Sunday on ABC's "This Week" -- and also admitted he's a war criminal (but more on that later.)

Meanwhile, U.S. forces captured the most powerful Taliban leader they've grabbed since the war began in 2001, and intelligence sources tell Newsweek they've broken up a big al-Qaida plot in Yemen and Pakistan as well. More on that later too.

Asked about the way the administration treated Abdulmutallab, Cheney skewered the White House. "The proper way to deal with it would have been to treat him as an enemy combatant," says Cheney. "They didn’t know what to do with the guy." ABC's Jonathan Karl confronted Cheney with the fact that his administration had done the same thing with attempted shoe bomber Richard Reid (he didn't say they'd done the same with every terror suspect Bush-Cheney caught) and the former vice-president had to concede, "We could have put him in military custody, I don't question that."

Then Cheney unleashed his full attack, and it turns out he's trashing his old boss, George W. Bush, not just Obama. Reminded of Bush administration boasts of convicting 175 accused terrorists in U.S. courts -- the approach Obama has continued -- Cheney replied, shockingly: "Well, we didn't all agree with that."

http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/joan_walsh/politics/2010/02/15/cheney_attacks_again

Give him a fair trial, then hang him for war crimes. We owe it to our country and the rest of the world.

But implies that combat was in effect.

By definition, a terrorist cannot be a combatant. Military and militia groups are combatants. Terrorists are criminals - BECAUSE the classic definition of a terrorist is a non-military non-militia organization that attacks civilian targets . . . .

But Cheney IS a republican no doubt - if you don't like something, re-define it, recharacterize it, lie cheat and steal - the pie-in-the-sky end always justifies the means.

enforcement. Try as I might, I can't find any role for the Vice President, let alone the former VP, in handling enemy combatants OR criminals. So maybe it is time to shut your pie hole, Mr. "Unitary Executive."

ilk = idiots

want to know why is Bush and Chaney srill at large?

with his trial and execution televised.

No consequences = no change in behavior.