Cheney "regrets" Iraq War Casualties & Blames Bush

[elehhhhna]

Fox New’s Bret Baier told Dick Cheney, “You are portrayed by your opponents and some in the media as this sinister figure, as this cold-blooded warmonger who doesn’t care about the number of body bags going back.” Cheney said he regrets the casualties, but added, “Obviously, the President bears the major part of the burden. He’s the man with the authority to commit the force.”

http://thinkprogress.org/

[SpiralHawk]

1. Typical republicon Chickenhawk

NO HONOR FOR CHICKENHAWK CHENEY OR COMMANDER AWOL

REPUBLICONS = NO HONOR. They prove it again.

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7. Stick a fork in it

Hey...it's plastic!

[elehhhhna]

2. kpete please post your excerpts --

your OP was much better than mine, then you beat me to delete!

You rock.

[Roland99]

3. "I lied us into this with my hooks in every dept. but, hey, not *my* fault!!"

Fucking scumbag piece of shit!!!

:mad:

[kpete]

4. keep yours

I deleted mine
and Peace to you elehhhhna!

[Infomaniac]

5. Sounds like Cheney's Practicing Testimony for the Hague

The Iraq War is not his fault. The preznit did it. Basturd.

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6. They're starting to cast each other overboard

Delicious.

At Nuremburg that approach didn't fare too well.

[City Lights]

8. What a stand up guy the Dick of Death is!

:sarcasm:

[SpiralHawk]

15. "The Dick of Death." - Clint Eastwood, Unforgiven

The Dick and his five military deferments, and Commander AWOL, are UNFORGIVEN by the American men and women he has sent to overseas death with his republicon Nation Building and profiteering scheme.

[City Lights]

24. You got it!

:hi:

[Lil Missy]

9. Oh, that's rich.

:eyes:

[Donnachaidh]

10. A NEW low for Baghdad Dick

He doesn't even have the balls to stand up and admit all his evil. IMPEACH this jerk -- send him to the Hague.

[Demeter]

11. Definitely Senile

I hope they got it on good quality tape or disc!

[seafan]

26. The official transcript of this exchange between Bret Baier at FOX and Cheney:

The only thing that will direct this country toward the light will be to impeach Dick Cheney and George W. Bush. There is no turning back.



May 10, 2007

QUESTION: You are portrayed by your opponents and some in the media as this sinister figure, as this cold-blooded warmonger who doesn't care about the number of body bags going back. I know you read the casualty reports every day. I know you and Mrs. Cheney visit wounded troops privately. And I saw you in Iraq with troops in Iraq. But how do you feel about the cost of this war in blood and treasure four years later? And I guess the question most Americans have is how much is enough.

THE VICE PRESIDENT: Well, obviously, any casualty is to be regretted. Nobody likes to be in the position where they have to make those kinds of decisions. Obviously, the President bears the major part of the burden. He's the man with the authority to commit the force.

This is not a new problem for me. I served as Secretary of Defense during the Gulf war. I went to the services at Arlington after it was over with for the 148 killed in action that we couldn't bring home again. We got everybody else home, but we couldn't get them home. And when you see the wounded and the price they paid for their service to the nation and talk with the families of those who have been killed or wounded in action, it's a very emotional experience, and it ought to be. Nobody should ever be in a position of authority to take that for granted.

But I also have strong feelings about the cost if we don't act, about the cost if we allow the United States to be run out of town, so to speak, by al Qaeda. We saw what happened on 9/11. 9/11 had a lasting significance in my mind because it was a watershed event where what was going on in a country thousands of miles away in Afghanistan, where training camps had been established in the late '90s, where al Qaeda had been trained, put together the attack that came to New York and Washington on 9/11 and killed 3,000 of our fellow citizens armed with airline tickets and box cutters.

The real threat we face today is the possibility of an al Qaeda cell in the midst of one of our cities armed with a nuclear weapon, and if they ever were to achieve that, and we know they're trying, but if they were ever to pull that off and detonate a nuclear weapon in one of our major cities, it would rival all the casualties we've suffered in all the wars in over 200 years of American history. So this question of saying, you know, we're suffering casualties, isn't the cost too high, I don't think it is when you lay it over against what it is we need to prevent.

And one of the lessons we learned on 9/11 was that we can't hide behind our oceans and ignore what's going on in the Middle East and be safe and secure; we have to be actively and aggressively involved there. We've got to go after the terrorists. We've got to go after states that sponsor terror. We've got to go after people that can provide them with that kind of deadly capability.

Right now, Iraq is the centerpiece in that global war on terror. Al Qaeda has made it that way. Osama bin Laden has said that. That's where, in fact, we're operating now against al Qaeda on a consistent basis. It's not the only issue that's involved in Iraq by any means, but we need to get it right in Iraq. We need not to fold our tent and go home. If we do that, all we do is validate the al Qaeda strategy.

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http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/05/20070510-12.html

NO, MR. CHENEY. YOU AND YOUR PUPPET IN THE WHITE HOUSE HAVE MADE IT THAT WAY.

[Ganja Ninja]

12. BWHAHAHAHAHA!

Now they're all starting to point fingers at each other. I can hardly wait for the war crimes trials to begin. I suspect within 3 years these guys will all be staring a prison cell in the face.

[Rev. Mother Ramallo]

13. He's not blaming Bush...

He saying the President is more grieved than even he is... just more excuses.

[WinkyDink]

17. True, but isn't the ambiguity dee-licious?!

[sutz12]

14. "I was just following orders."

Now where have I heard that line before?

:sarcasm:

[WinkyDink]

16. Translation: "Hey, I just wanted to LOOT the place! Bush is your PsychoKiller!"

[MrSlayer]

18. You know, just when you think he can't be any more pusillanimous and amoral...

He says something like this. He at once says he "regrets" the carnage but he doesn't have to care about it as much because he's not the President. As was said above, this is a new low for someone that sets the bar really, really low.

[Virginia Dare]

19. Dick Cheney playing the blame game...

well, I guess we see who the neocons are throwing under the bus. I expect Poppy will be simultaneously puking and crying in public very soon.

[Kolesar]

22. Hey, have you ever been served a plate of Japanese gourmet food?

Remember that Naked Gun spoof when President Bush's seafood was moving around on the plate? Well, it's like that with added smells.

[NewYorkerfromMass]

20. As Kerry said, DICK, you ARE PRESIDENT!!! nt

[catmandu57]

21. Turning on each other

I see. This ship of fools is taking on water fast it can't stay afloat much longer.

[jwirr]

23. Wonder how *ss likes being thrown to the lions?

[Solly Mack]

25. Oh, so NOW - suddenly - he's JUST the VP?

LMAO

What a news dump so far...

all geared toward disinformation and manufactured reality shaping

[rosesaylavee]

27. Say WHAT!

So that's what they mean when they say 'no honor among thieves'. (Sorry thieves for comparing you to * and Dick)

[jazzjunkysue]

28. What will the child decider do when he's finally abandoned by everyone?

I mean, he's only been a puppet figurehead. When the rats finally all "blame" poor little george and they stop moving his lips and writing his statements for him, and let him hang, what will he do?

Interesting question. Everyone knows Darth Cheney hates the little smirker, but what will happen when geroge is the only one left standing in the white house and he really has to be president?

I bet he never even considered the possibility, until this little Judas moment with the dark lord.

[Bucky]

29. Once again, Dick Cheney is fucking awesome!

"It wasn't me, your honor. It was my sledgehammer who killed my neighbor. Believe me, I was trying to hold it back the whole time!"

See, we make fun of him having a gargantuan penis, but apparently his balls are even bigger!
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[SayWhatYo]

30. For really?

That seems a bit low, even for him.