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laststeamtrain Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-21-09 09:10 PM
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Remarks by former Vice President Dick Cheney
Source: Fox News

Remarks by former Vice President Dick Cheney
Center for Security Policy

As prepared for delivery
October 21, 2009

Thank you all very much. It’s a pleasure to be here, and especially to receive the Keeper of the Flame Award in the company of so many good friends.

I’m told that among those you’ve recognized before me was my friend Don Rumsfeld. I don’t mind that a bit. It fits something of a pattern. In a career that includes being chief of staff, congressman, and secretary of defense, I haven’t had much that Don didn’t get first. But truth be told, any award once conferred on Donald Rumsfeld carries extra luster, and I am very proud to see my name added to such a distinguished list.

To Frank Gaffney and all the supporters of Center for Security Policy, I thank you for this honor. And I thank you for the great energy and high intelligence you bring to as vital a cause as there is – the advance of freedom and the uncompromising defense of the United States.

Most anyone who is given responsibility in matters of national security quickly comes to appreciate the commitments and structures put in place by others who came before. You deploy a military force that was planned and funded by your predecessors. You inherit relationships with partners and obligations to allies that were first undertaken years and even generations earlier. With the authority you hold for a little while, you have great freedom of action. And whatever course you follow, the essential thing is always to keep commitments, and to leave no doubts about the credibility of your country’s word.

Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,569006,00.html



Hold on to your hats, the crazy wind is blowing.
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Thrill Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-21-09 09:12 PM
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1. "To Frank Gaffney and all the supporters of Center for Security Policy"
I stopped reading after that line
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Webster Green Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-21-09 09:25 PM
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3. Gaffney is surely one of the most evil scumbags on the planet..
"Birds of a feather" :puke:
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Name removed Donating Member (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-21-09 09:35 PM
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Bozita Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-21-09 10:30 PM
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9. Gaffney tops the "A" list of GOP spokeswhores specializing in warmongering.
That's why we don't see him every day.

Unlike that crosseyed mofu who seems to live in my teevee set.
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classysassy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-21-09 09:17 PM
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2.  Rummy and deadeye Dick
the worst of the worst.
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Bozita Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-21-09 09:26 PM
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4. Must be his daughter's day off.
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sicksicksick_N_tired Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-21-09 09:27 PM
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5. I don't know why I bothered,...everytime he opens his mouth, he reaffirms my position on him.
WAR CRIMINAL! TRAITOR! DICK-THE-DICTATOR!!!
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beac Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-21-09 09:54 PM
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7. The only remark I ever want to hear out of that war criminal's mouth is "I'm sorry"...
right before he receives his sentence at The Hague. :mad:
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tanyev Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-22-09 07:45 AM
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17. I'd be happy with "Hey! Don't I get to make one phone call?"
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MrMickeysMom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-21-09 10:24 PM
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8. "I thank you for this honor"? I'll give ya "honor", you criminal...
I'll honor your over-due perp walk in a high security prison, you Godamned STAIN on American history.

You miserable puke...

Dick and his whole pack of wolves can honor us with a quick indictment, imprisonment.

Then, let Vlad, the Impaler come back from the grave to have his way with your inflated stuffed superfically containing a barely beating heart.
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keopeli Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-21-09 10:44 PM
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10. Stunning. Hubris.
Reading between the lines...

Most anyone who is given responsibility in matters of national security quickly comes to appreciate the commitments and structures put in place by others who came before. {Like the Geneva Conventions. The Bill of Rights.} You deploy a military force that was planned and funded by your predecessors. {...by choice. don't forget that part. it was a pre-emptive war of choice with no causus belli.} You inherit relationships with partners and obligations to allies that were first undertaken years and even generations earlier. {and then you trash every one of them, using only the parts essential to your singular goal.} With the authority you hold {stole} for a little while, you have great freedom of action. {because you ignore all laws and constitutional limitations.} And whatever course you follow, the essential thing is always to keep commitments, {to those who paid to get you where you are} and to leave no doubts about the credibility of your country’s word. {In other words, when we tell you to do something, you just do it and don't be f*%$in tryin to tell us what to do, got it? Now, give us that god-dammed oil before we have to come blow your flippin heads off!}

At least, that's the way it reads to me...
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BrklynLiberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-21-09 11:12 PM
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11. I wish this man would be ignored by the media....
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troubledamerican Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-22-09 12:17 AM
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12. Trenchcoat Mafia Award.
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earcandle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-22-09 12:21 AM
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13. You left my country credible in its Word?
I don't think so.

I am still angry about WTC7 taking down all of the mortgage deeds so that the Credit Default Swaps
and derivatives cannot be traced. Those people in those homes should declare that they own them
and leave the onus on the banks to prove otherwise with the deed and mortgage loan records.

Not to mentio 911 and New Orleans.

Here is what we think of you, outside of your cronies who pretend each other are great.

Atlas Wept

And if you still are impenetrable, try this:

Lullaby_For_Hamza

maybe that can help you have a heart.
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FarLeftFist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-22-09 01:23 AM
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14. Republicans forget were dealing with human lives...
If I went to Afghanistan and huddled up all the soldiers and announced "How many of you want to stay here and die raise your hand" you might only get a few hands from the crazy fucks. If I then asked "How many of you want to go home to your families" there would be tens of thousands of hands in the air. Fuck your life Cheney, you never did shit for your country but betray it. 9/11 happened on your watch and there's no taking it back. And the worst part is you made a profit off the deaths of American soldiers, live with that you fascist fuck.
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Hubert Flottz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-22-09 04:10 AM
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15. The Golden Body Bags Award?
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LynnTheDem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-22-09 05:22 AM
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16. " leave no doubts about the credibility of your country’s word." Uh huh.
"There is no doubt Iraq has WMD."

"We will, in fact, be greeted as liberators."

"They're in the last throes, if you will, of the insurgency."

"Go fuck yourself."
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guitar man Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Oct-22-09 09:07 AM
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18. Put the SOB in jail
That'll shut him up. :grr:
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