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kpete Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-21-08 04:01 PM
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kpete to dick: "I am proud to be a quitter"


"The war on terror is a lengthy enterprise, but it does not have to go on forever," he told more than 200 graduating cadets during the 127th commencement at the U.S. Coast Guard Academy.

"The only way to lose this fight is to quit. That would be irresponsible," Cheney said. "More than that, quitting would be an act of betrayal and dishonor. And it's not going to happen on our watch."

http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Sporting_10gallon_hat_Cheney_tells_Coast_0521.html
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Solly Mack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-21-08 04:02 PM
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1. me too
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havocmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-21-08 04:03 PM
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2. Chichen Hawk dick is always ready for others to fight
and more than happy to cash the profit checks when his battles turn our blood into his gold.

Pluck the Chicken Hawks
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angstlessk Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-21-08 04:05 PM
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3. your watch is almost over you creepy person...hope your defib holds out
the 'war on terror' is in reality a 'war OF terror' against the citizens of the united states...we know, and you know we know!
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TomInTib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-21-08 04:07 PM
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5. I hope it doesn't.
I'd like to see him crash and burn at some public appearance.

Get it on camera, so I can TIVO it and watch it a few hundred times.
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TomInTib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-21-08 04:05 PM
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4. WTF is up with the hat?
"Cheney, sporting a 10-gallon hat, said the troop surge in Iraq "has succeeded brilliantly."

Yeah, right, Podnah...
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Vincardog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-21-08 04:10 PM
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7. What is is is that these a$$hatters are all Posers. All hat and no cattle.
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warren pease Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-21-08 04:12 PM
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8. Another honorable inductee into the "all hat, no cattle" chicken-hawk hall of fame. n/t
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Lucky 13 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-21-08 05:49 PM
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13. He looks utterly ridiculous. If I didnt' HATE him so much, it'd be funny.
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Wetzelbill Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-21-08 04:09 PM
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6. Quitting is the wrong way to put it
No American believes we should all of a sudden let Osama bin Laden or any other terrorist waltz in and take over our country. But the "war on terror" is a rhetorical war. You can't win a rhetorical war. There isn't anything to win. Although you can lose one, simply because by fighting a rhetorical war in the first place you're setting yourself up to lose. Terrorism, which is essentially political violence, will always exist. As long as their are nation states that engage in political action's that piss other people off, irrationally or not, political violence will exist. That doesn't make it right, but that is reality. The best we can do is to intelligently combat political violence through law enforcement, good policy, diplomatic and sometimes military means.

But quitting? That doesn't make sense. Nobody is quitting anything. It's about fighting something properly, not doing something stupid and stubbornly clinging to that failed endeavor because you think it'll somehow work it's way into being right. Nope, it won't. The solution is to not do something stupid in the first place.
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magellan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-21-08 04:15 PM
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9. The fight was lost before it was begun because it was 100% fabricated
Cheney can jaw on all he likes about quitters and traitors, as I'm sure he will. It means nothing. It's like having your car stolen and blaming it on your spouse who warned you not to leave it running with the keys in the ignition.

Darth is a great big bag of foul hot air with his name-calling, nothing more. He's quite ridiculous.
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onethatcares Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-21-08 04:40 PM
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10. "a lengthy enterprise"??? wtf
an enterprise is the battleship in Star Trek, an enterprise in not the war on terror. An enterprise is a business,and war is a racket.
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Contrary1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-21-08 05:56 PM
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15. Not Star Trek, you traitor...
Edited on Wed May-21-08 05:58 PM by Contrary1
:eyes: He meant this enterprise:

a) a unit of economic organization or activity; especially : a business organization

Used in a sentence: This here "War on Terror" has been a fabulously lengthy enterprise for me and my best buds at Halliburton.
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onethatcares Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-21-08 06:40 PM
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18. I think that is to be
"an incredibly wealthy enterprise for me and my buds at Halliburton", Now, can you sing, "do you know the way to Dubai eeee?":toast:
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Tangerine LaBamba Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-21-08 04:53 PM
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11. You're not on "watch," you poseur
You're serving a term to which you were :::: pause for loud, hysterical laughter ::::: elected.

That means you're working for US. WE are your employers, you servant of the people.

I lack the words that might come close to expressing how much I despise this mutant.
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mulsh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-21-08 05:47 PM
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12. hey look a bad guy in a white hat.
n/t
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ThatsMyBarack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-21-08 05:50 PM
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14. Another phony cowboy.
:mad:
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madmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-21-08 06:09 PM
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16. white hat .... subliminal?
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Ikonoklast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-21-08 06:09 PM
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17. Looks like 200 gallons of shit in that ten-gallon hat.
Endless War = Endless Profits for me and my cabal.

Chaos as an economic theory, stable markets don't make you near as much money.

Oh, yeah, support the troops and all that bullshit as long as one of mine don't have to die.
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n2doc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-21-08 06:59 PM
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19. Proud to be a Bitter Quitter! n/t
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lovuian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-21-08 07:54 PM
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20. me too
I want out of there
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