Is Dick Cheney encouraging terrorists?

[pscot]

Jonathon Alter thinks so. He told Rachel Maddow tonight that Cheney's comments are likely to give terrorists the idea that Americs is vulnerable. Spreading the idea the President Obama is soft on terrorism could encourage terrorists to launch an attack in the belief that we are weak and unprepared. Alter suggested to Rachel that the President should call Cheney to the Whitehouse andtell him to knock it off. No link, but if you can find it on Youtube, it is worth watching.

[spanone]

1. with every muscle in his body.

cheney is drooling for a successful terrorist attack

[NYC_SKP]

2. Dick Cheney IS a terrorist. He practiced terrorism for eight years.

Right here in America.

:patriot:

[Mz Pip]

3. He's been pulling this shit for years

I remember the crap he spewed during the 2004 election. Electing Kerry would send a message to the terrorsts that we were weak. what needed to be said was that no matter who won the 2004 election the US was united in the defeat of those who wished to harm us and our allies.

Cheney couldn't say that. He went for cheap theatrical hyperbole. It worked in 2004 but it stopped working in 2006 and 2008. I don't think peple with half a brain will be fooled again by his bullshit.

He's not for protecting America. He's for the advancement of his political party. If he can politicize a failed attempt to bring down a plane he will do it.

He should be arrested for aiding and abetting the enemy IMHO.

[havocmom]

4. Of course. They are good for his business interests

Plus he's a cruel asshole.

[rwheeler31]

5. Of course he is he has a degree in tearing down this country.

[pscot]

6. If he were put on trial for war crimes

it would give him something to do besides starting shit that grownups will have to finish, which is what he and Lil George did for 8 years.

[vixengrl]

7. Giving aid and comfort to the enemy--Our Dick?

Um, yeah, probably. And doesn't give a damn--yea, definitely.

I wouldn't be surprised if he got down on dimpled knee each night and prayed to whatever spectral, howling entity entertained his notions of a deity that this nation did get struck again--just to show the librals it can happen at anytime (like it happened to his woefully unprepared "grown-up administration back in 2001--no thanks to Bush and Cheney both blowing off the counsel of the previous administration and the advice from experts in the field and even the PDB's regarding terror, and him going nine months into his vice-presidency not ever doing thing one re: counterterrorism like he was supposed to set up a task force to do--mostly playing instead with the top-secret compains of his figuring on a extra-sectret energy report).

Yep. It could happen to anyone, and anyone in Cheney's position would argue for enhanced interrogation methods to inquire not just about the network that planned the attack, but about connections to a more-or-less unrelated entity that one rather would like to make war on if it simply had better targets--as Don Rumsfeld might have said in an unguarded moment....and not necessarily to facilitate the finagling of no-bid Halliburton contracts out of the West Wing whilst still having any pecuniary interest in that company--because that shit would probably be illegal.

Anyone might do things like that, and still pretend to love America.

And one might smile, and smile, and still be a villian, even if the face in question was a permanent snarl.

A sometimes innocent snarl? A friendly snarl, interviewed by Mike Allen, or John King, and still viewed as credible? A snarl lampooned by comedians like Jon Stewart, but not by the mainstream media?

He's a something, that Dick Cheney. If it exceeds the bounds of good taste, or even enters the boundaries of slander, I'll resist calling him an out and out traitor, refrain from saying it looks like war profiteering meets war criminality, and I will never, never say aloud that I think in his heart, he considered it his right to do all of it, and his privilege to benefit from all of it--like some medieval warlord or something, with no concept of belonging but privilege and power, and no notion of right and wrong except what benefits his own domain. I won't say it aloud or mean it, you see--

I'll only say that's what I sometimes speculate happened, here. And that's mere conjecture--full of sound and fury, signifying nothing--

Except to those that have eyes that see and ears that hear. And they might not even believe me--only look and think back....did he ever lie uncomfortably? I would say--no. He lied with the ease of a pro. And he lied for war--and ....

....

What did the South Park saying add?


....Profit?

Not that he makes a financial statement anymore. And if his wife, son-in-law and daughter are all up in Lockheed Martin involvement--oh whatever. We have nothing connecting ol' Dick to that nonsense but circumstantial evidence--circumstantial he was the grown-up in office that pushed for a war that companies he was involved with profited from....

But I am not connecting those dots, it's crass and the reality is that anyone who would sell not just their soul, but their country, for money, would be the lowest of all possible low people--"traitor" would be too good, you know what I mean?

So I am not saying Dick Cheney is a traitor. Nuh-uh, not me. If he was, he should be tried and jailed for certain, if not worse, but I am not necessarily saying there is every evidence of "yes he is". I am saying probably. And I'm saying I don't know. And I'm saying there's some circumstances, M'kay?