Cheney: we can't withdraw every time "several" Americans get killed

[Cocoa]

http://www.wsbt.com/news/local/4437977.html

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“But what they're betting on is that the American people don't have the stomach for the fight,” Cheney told WSBT News. “Look back at Beirut in 1983, Mogadishu in 1993, when after several Americans were killed we then withdrew our forces.”

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[Philosoraptor]

1. I hope you die soon dick

[shadowknows69]

22. Best line in the movie "Broadcast News"

after Paul fires one of his workers
Paul Moore: Now, if there's anything I can do for you...
Employee: Well, I certainly hope you'll die soon.

[Hugin]

2. How's about several *thousand*, Dick?

Dick really is sick... sick... sick...

[Demeter]

3. I Suppose It Will Have To Be SPECIFIC Americans, Like

Happy, Grumpy, Dopey, Sneezy and Doc? (You can substitute the names of your choice there)

And don't forget Crazy!

[hobbit709]

4. Yeah, it's easy to be brave

Mr. I-had-other-priorities Cheney when you're far away in age and miles from the real troops.

[tinfoilinfor2005]

5. But we all know YOU'VE got the stomach for it, don't you?

Ghoul.

[Marr]

6. No, they just don't want YOUR fight, dick. They don't want to

die so you can steal money.

[rodeodance]

7. many of our troops don't have their brains or limbs after 'the fight" !

.....

[NNN0LHI]

8. Coming from a guy who got 5 draft deferments to avoid combat

Real nice, huh?

Don

[Cocoa]

21. "Cheney, speaking from experience" by Calvin Trillin

Cheney, Speaking From Experience

Calvin Trillin

When shells fall close and smoke is thick,
Real tough guys never run. They stick.
Or so says Five Deferments Dick.

No wavering--no he's a brick.
To cut and run would make him sick.
Or so says Five Deferments Dick.

Appeasers cannot take a lick,
But tough guys bite and gouge and kick.
Or so says Five Deferments Dick.

[eppur_se_muova]

30. Five Deferments Dick! Love it! I've been calling him DDDDDick ...

five D's for five defements, and I really like the rhythm of "Five Deferments Dick".

Although I kind of like "Darth Fudd" too.:)

[eppur_se_muova]

31. self delete -- wrong place

[DaveJ]

9. "American people don't have the stomach for the fight"???

No, the problem is You don't know how to fight. You can't even fire a shotgun straight, Dick.

You have no strategy for winning the peace. You are using our best young Americans as decoys you heartless bastard. Sending our best young Americans to be killed over there as to appease and simplify the job of the enemies.

[thecrow]

10. Then we shouldn't have gone to war

because "several" people got killed in NY, PA and Washington DC.

[rodeodance]

11. We know cheney did not have the 'stomach' to enlist!

[peekaloo]

12. Coming from a deranged motherfucker with a surgical implant

that keeps him from dropping dead or assists him as a member of the walking dead.

Fuck him. A friend of mine had a younger brother who was among the "several dead" in Beirut and it messed up him and his family for many years.

Suck on it, five deferment Dick.

[spanone]

13. He's just such a sensitive guy. Evil incarnate.

[rodeodance]

14. MORE. --if you can 'stomach' cheney!

....“What would you say to voters who are questioning Bush administration policies in Iraq?” Mason asked.

“It's always difficult anytime you take casualties,” Cheney answered. “We've now gone over five years without an attack in the United States; and that’s as a result, I think, that we've been aggressive and taken the fight to the enemy overseas.”

[AliceWonderland]

15. Who is THEY??

That is the second most disturbing thing about this article -- that the vice president can throw this out there, without any explanation who this evil THEY is, in Beirut, Mogadishu, Iraq... is this an emergent international Muslim conspiracy or dancing gnomes? How can we have a society where political leaders with access to the button can *get away with* saying such intensely stupid things? It's not that they say stupid things that's so joltingly appalling, it's that they get away with it.

The most disturbing thing about this piece is that the "journalist" conducting it didn't bother to ask.

[LeftishBrit]

27. I was wondering the same

The Iraqi insurgents? Al Quaeda? The Democrats? Anybody he doesn't happen to like?

This has been one of the problems all along: lumping together totally unrelated groups of people, whom Bush and Cheney just happen to think of as 'bad guys' - e.g. acting as though Saddam and his government were directly responsible for 9/11.

[dkofos]

16. I wouldn't have a problem with cheney dying in Iraq

Evil fucking asshole

[EmperorHasNoClothes]

17. No, Dick, "Several" is how many heart attacks you've had.

dumbass

[nancyr]

18. He needs to sacrifice one of his kids for this noble purpose.

[onethatcares]

24. no can do,

that pesky "don't ask, don't tell" policy gets in the way all the time.

[treestar]

29. He has other priorities for THEM

[genie_weenie]

19. Evil. "You can always hear the people

who are willing to sacrifice somebody else's life. They're plenty loud and they talk all the time. You can find them in churches and schools and newspapers and legislatures and congress. That's their business. They sound wonderful. Death before dishonor. This ground sanctified by blood. These men who died so gloriously."

Johnny Got His Gun, Dalton Trumbo

[acmejack]

20. His guts & their blood.

[leftofthedial]

23. the dickster hasn't finished making money yet

[stepnw1f]

25. "several"? Just "several"?! (nt)

[Jed Dilligan]

26. It would be poetically appropriate

if his heart failed.

[treestar]

28. So the opinions of others, in fact those you would label "terrorists"

control what we do, Dick?

We are going to get killed just to avoid being called cowardly by people we already supposedly think are cowards?

[eppur_se_muova]

32. OK, now we need a Cheney/English Dictionary.

Obvious entries include "several" and "final" (as in final throes). Hmmm, OTOH maybe it's a conversion table we need ... multiply everything by a thousand or so?