With his five deferments during Vietnam, Cheney lies to promote Iraq war to West Point class

[ProSense]

Cheney Urges Call To Arms At West Point Commencement

POSTED: 12:06 pm EDT May 26, 2007
UPDATED: 12:14 pm EDT May 26, 2007

WEST POINT, N.Y. -- Vice President Dick Cheney on Saturday urged the 978 new graduates of the U.S. Military Academy to provide leadership to troops fighting terrorists in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Noting that West Point is about 50 miles north of where terrorists struck lower Manhattan on Sept. 11, 2001, the vice president said, "Nobody can promise us we won't be hit again."

He received standing ovations before and after he spoke to a crowd of about 20,000. To the emerging Army second lieutenants, Cheney appealed for them to defend freedom against those who would destroy it and carry forward the academy's values of duty, honor and country.
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"We're fighting a war over there because the enemy attacked us first," Cheney said. "These are men who glorify murder and suicide. Terrorists are defined entirely by their hatreds."

The terrorism fight now centers on Iraq, the vice president said, because that is where the enemy has massed. "The security of this nation depends on the outcome," Cheney said.

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[TwilightGardener]

1. Egregious lies, being cheered on by the warrior class. Let 'em go and get their asses

shot off--they're too stupid to see through this bullshit, then they deserve what they get.

[liberal renegade]

2. this husker would have to agree

the fact we have a draft dodger for Veep and an awol CIC is mind boggling, the fact that men and women in uniform respect the ass-wipes, is even more so.

[TwilightGardener]

5. Yep--my husband is in the Air Force (so you can guess where we're

stationed at, LOL!) and he sees through this bullshit, but he works with the 30-percenters and True Believers every day. He's got five years left until retirement, so he has to hang on that long, but he won't be too sorry to get out and away from this rah-rah warrior support for two guys who have either avoided, or shit on, the military for most of their lives.

[liberal renegade]

8. The big O

just south of the bigger 0

[TwilightGardener]

11. Once you get on it, you can't get..you know the rest!

[SpiralHawk]

9. A standing O for FIVE Deferments Cheney

These West Point Jokers must have been liquoured up on kool aid.

I wouldn't follow him or Commander AWOL to a hamburg joint,
never mind a war based on lies...

[SharonAnn]

3. We should have a war! You should go fight (and die)! Hypocrite!

[VP505]

4. I really

sympathize with the Grads, having to suffer listening to that 5 deferment coward telling then about something he did,'t have the balls to do himself. I am pretty sure every grad learned enough while there to fully understand how full of crap Cheney and Bu$h are. Unfortunately for them being in the military they have no voice and no choice and must put on the charade of cheering and applauding.

[acmavm]

6. What was it P. T. Barnum said about a sucker being born every

minute?

Apparently Cheney was speaking to the product of 20,000 minutes. Or maybe this latest generation has moved up the schedule and we're mass producing 'em by the second.

[Itchinjim]

7. " You must fight 'em over there....

so people like me don't have to fight 'em over there"! Sneers the the wicked Dick.

[Bitwit1234]

10. He shouldn't get too excited about bombing and war

after all his pacemaker might explode. This is one sick man. If all he can think about in life is war, war, war why in the hell did he do the "republican shuffle" you know cut and run during the Vietnam War.

[kurth]

12. Evil to the core

through and through.

[L. Coyote]

13. SAME OLD LIES: Cheney Reasserts al-Qaida-Saddam Link

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=975882&mesg_id=976828

Cheney Reasserts al-Qaida-Saddam Link
Apr 6, 2007.
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20070406/D8OB3GRG0.html

WASHINGTON (AP) - Vice President Dick Cheney repeated his assertions of al-Qaida links to Saddam Hussein's Iraq on Thursday as the Defense Department released a report citing more evidence that the prewar government did not cooperate with the terrorist group.

Cheney contended that al-Qaida was operating in Iraq before the March 2003 invasion led by U.S. forces and that terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was leading the Iraqi branch of al-Qaida. Others in al-Qaida planned the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.

"He took up residence there before we ever launched into Iraq, organized the al-Qaida operations inside Iraq before we even arrived on the scene and then, of course, led the charge for Iraq until we killed him last June," Cheney told radio host Rush Limbaugh during an interview. "As I say, they were present before we invaded Iraq."

However, a declassified Pentagon report released Thursday said that interrogations of the deposed Iraqi leader and two of his former aides as well as seized Iraqi documents confirmed that the terrorist organization and the Saddam government were not working together before the invasion. ..............

[Vickers]

14. "We're fighting a war over there" You ain't fighting SHIT, fatboy.

You didn't fight when your country needed you...you pussied out.

Hell, you can't even hunt birds without shooting somebody in the face, you drunken baboon. What good would you be in a forward area? You'd get fragged so goddam quick you wouldn't even have a chance to shoot yourself in the foot.

[TwilightGardener]

15. He's so fucking foaming-at-the-mouth delusional now, even Gates

and Rice are going around him. Fucking lunatic, and his fucking dry-drunk sidekick.

[L. Coyote]

16. K&R

[WinkyDink]

17. Self-revelatory: "These are men who glorify murder and suicide. Terrorists are defined entirely by

their hatreds."

YOU, DICK, are a TERRORIST.

[ProSense]

18. Expecting too much from wicked Dick

From Talking Points Memo:

At the risk of sounding picky, is it too much to ask the Vice President to refer to the protections of the Geneva Convention and the Constitution of the United States as good things? Perhaps protections that he's proud of?