Comments on: Cheney Blasts Obama On Afghanistan Before Speech and Accuses Obama of Giving “Aid and Comfort” to Terrorist Enemy

By: tDent

tDent — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 08:45:45 +0000

Sorry, it is needed to hold any office, not just presidential office. Still dose not apply to trials for non-citizens.

By: tDent

tDent — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 08:42:54 +0000

Is it just me, or is Cheney saying that we should take one of the basis of the establishment of our country and throw it out the window? Article 3, Section 2, of the United States Constitution requires that all criminal trials be heard by a jury. It also specifies that the trial will be heard in the state the crime was committed. Yes, I realize what Khalid Sheikh Mohammed has done, and yes I believe that he deserves to be punished, but it is not my, Cheney’s, your, or anyone’s decision to ignore the United States Constitution.

Cheney stated, about the trail of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed
"One of their top people will be given the opportunity, courtesy of the United States government and the Obama administration, to have a platform from which they can espouse this hateful ideology that they adhere to."
"I think it’s likely to give encouragement, aid and comfort to the enemy.”

Cheney used the phrase “Aid and comfort” which is taken directly from Article 3, Section 3, of the U.S. Constitution in the description of a treason to the United States. Is he implying that the current administration is committing treason? I have never heard a precedent in which obeying the United States Constitution is an act of Treason. In fact by ignoring the U.S. Constitution Article 3, Section 2, in this manner sets a precedent in which any person can be denied a Trial by Jury. If that is the case we might as well throw away the entire Constitution, one of the very documents that makes our country great. If you ignore even one portion of the constitution then you demean the entire document. If you can ignore one basic right, then you can ignore them all. If you believe that because he is not a citizen of the United States, read the Constitution. Other than holding Presidential Office there is not one mention that any right given to us by the Constitution is limited to those who are citizens. In fact the last lines of Article 3, Section 2 state that everyone is given the right to trial no matter who they are.

By: StockBoySF

StockBoySF — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 04:37:29 +0000

So let me get this straight…. Cheney believes he's fighting the terrorists by pulling troops out of the search for bin-Laden and he claims Obama is aiding and abetting the enemy by actually sending in more troops to fight the terrorists. Does not make sense unless Cheney believes that America is the enemy.

By: DLS

DLS — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 03:49:09 +0000

“How long do pace makers last for?”

Judging by the Cheney-phobes, definitely through 2012 in Cheney's case. (I'm not so sure, however.)

By: spirasol

spirasol — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 14:58:34 +0000

The worst of what America is, is represented in this man. Dignified people probably just turn away, block their ears. I must be at least as vile as he for all I want to do is have him rendered here, right now, with the undersized chair in the middle of the room and the bright light over head. When his eyes are blocked it becomes more difficult to defend, it becomes and inward experience, and it is hard to know from where, what direction the next question, the next convincing hit will come from …………….Dickie, I need to know what transpired in the secret meeting with energy czars? No Dick, no lawyers, no calls, no rights, habeas has been suspended for all enemies domestic and foreign?

By: JSpencer

JSpencer — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 14:17:54 +0000

Thanks daveinboca and DLS for the Bizzaro comic excerpts. You've both got it down cold.

By: kritt11

kritt11 — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 13:06:31 +0000

The thing that really stands out is Cheney's hypocrisy. When he was in office, any criticism of Bush's war policy or decisions about the War on Terror was akin to treason, or considered appeasement. Remember all of those comparisons to WWII? Bush was cast as Churchill, and protesters of his policies as Chamberlain.

Now that he is a “bystander” he feels free to protest Obama's war policy.

By: kathykattenburg

kathykattenburg — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 08:31:59 +0000

Nobody knows. And Republicans wish he would shut up already more than anyone else.

By: kathykattenburg

kathykattenburg — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 08:30:38 +0000

They can be replaced, willy.

By: kathykattenburg

kathykattenburg — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 08:29:23 +0000

Well, Shannon something — that blogger from Alaska who now writes for The Huffington Post — called Sarah Palin a “sociopath” on Keith Olbermann last night. And there's been talk of a Cheney/Palin ticket in 2012. Think on that one for a while and scream.

By: ProfElwood

ProfElwood — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 06:19:00 +0000

Why is anyone, other than Democrats, listening to this guy anymore?

By: kritt11

kritt11 — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 06:18:08 +0000

I have no problem with former VP's or presidents speaking out as long as what they come up with is good for the nation as a whole and not just stated in order to create more divisive partisanship. Obama will never make a right move as far as Cheney's concerned just because he's a Democrat. He has been on the attack since day one and refuses to give the new administration a chance to succeed.
We have no precedent of an attack dog former VP, and I agree with others here who point to Cheney's dismal record of achievement on Afghanistan while in office.
His credibility while part of the Bush administration was nonexistent, and we have him to blame for invading and destroying a country that never attacked us.
If Obama took his time coming up with a policy on Afghanistan, all the better. Cheney prefers the rush to war so that multinational corporations will profit, even if other people's sons and daughters are killed in the process. His 5 deferments during Vietnam speak for themselves.

By: mlhradio

mlhradio — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 05:40:58 +0000

I never did agree with the whole “former presidents/vice-presidents/etc should not speak ill of the current administration” argument – as a private citizen, Cheney should have just as much of a right to express his opinion as any other private citizen. One should not attack him because of that point.

Rather, one should attack him because his opinions are just plain *wrong*. Attack him on the merits (or in this case, the lack of merits) of his argument, not whether or not he can express it.

By: willy1

willy1 — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 04:21:43 +0000

How long do pace makers last for?

By: daveinboca

daveinboca — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 04:08:08 +0000

What DLS said. And Beasley is obviously projecting his own clinical mental problems onto Cheney. And his daughter too. Always the sign of a psycho to blame the kids too….

By: DLS

DLS — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 03:26:23 +0000

“constantly on the attack, constantly demonizing, constantly dividing the nation [...] constantly offering a call to political, partisan arms — and a call for those on his side to stick their fingers in their ears when the other side speaks”

Yes, you folks have been doing this, time after time. All that's missing here from you is the panting.

By: Ron Beasley

Ron Beasley — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 00:54:34 +0000

At 63 I have disagreed with many if not most politicians but Cheney is the first American politician I considered to be evil. But then I realized he's not just evil he is literally insane – a psychopath. The real evil here is that he is given a soap box by the media.

By: dduck12

dduck12 — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 00:48:45 +0000

Cheney is good …………… for Democrats, bad for Republicans. If the more moderate Reps can't shut him and the moose kisser up, the GOP deserves to lose.

By: merkin

merkin — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 00:25:43 +0000

His was one of the desks the previous request for more troops sat on for eight months before the change in administrations. I suppose “ignoring” is Chaney‘s preference to “dithering”.

Cheney is attacking the straw dog about Democratic security failings he built up over the years rather than the actual policy.

By: Father_Time

Father_Time — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 00:24:21 +0000

Cheney is a typical American capitalist. He screams to high heaven for our people to go to war killing and slaughtering and being slaughtered for whatever reason that sustains and enriches the American business sector he himself belongs to, but to cowardly to actually fight any of them wars himself. So of course he would want people to believe that treason is disagreeing with his world view.