Please Go Away

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JK: This is a man who should either be (a) scorned or (b) ignored.
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Or (c) investigated, or (d) all of the above.

Call Central Casting.
I think we've found the perfect candidate for that "Spawn of Satan" role!

Joe, I agree with grape crush. I am ambivalent about your post, because the post only perpetuates his exposure in the media. Part of me wishes you just ignored this.

But if we don't tear up the Geneva Conventions then....the TERRORISTS WIN.

But god, seriously, from the week before the inauguration up to now, how many of these macho BS artists have we had to stand as far as lecturing about the dangers of being 'unserious' about terrorism, or how it'll be all Obama's fault if we're attacked again, and how Bush's policies have been vindicated time and time again.

It's rather sickening, the blindness they demonstrate, if only for their willingness to rely on force as not the last resort, nor the first resort, but the ONLY resort.

Any terrorist attack on the US would still do much, much less damage than the Bush Admin. Seriously, if we'd traded W and a draft pick for Osama Bin Laden and made him president...could we be any worse off?
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Also, you forgot to mention the targeting of journalists for wiretapping...again.

W's term didn't begin until September 12th 2001. Didn't you know that? Therefore nothing that happened in the time after Clinton left office through 9/11 is the Bush administration's fault.

It's worse than that kryptik. The use of the word "resort" implies they have some goal they are trying to attain. It's hard to believe, really, because it is so Orwellian as to be inconceivable in the real world, but they want the conflict for its own sake. Fear, for its own sake. The only way they can attain power is through fear, and demonization of their opponents. Iraq wasn't about any foreign policy goal, at all. Just getting the US on a war footing, because Americans support their war presidents.

It was hard for us radiclibs to suffer through eight years of Dubya without rooting for him to fail and go down as the worst president in American history. He deserved that for so many reasons -- from his theft of the 2000 election to his obvious character flaws that made him utterly unsuited for his position -- that it was hard sometimes not to forget that if he went down he'd take the whole country with him. So I rooted for his success even as I opposed almost everything he was doing, from his Iraq invasion to his ransacking of the public fisc.

Much good did it do. Dubya is accounted the worst president ever, and our worst fears for the country have been realized.

So is it any surprise that Dubya's eminence grise sallies forth to try to lay off as much of the blame as he can on the new kid? Dubya leaves the country in the deepest hole it's ever been in, but Obama hasn't yet filled it back up, so it's all the new guy's fault, or will be. I know you saw it coming, Joe, and wrote about it. You were hardly alone.

It's easy to say that we get the government we deserve. We allowed Dubya to get close enough to the presidency in 2000 that he was able to steal it from Al Gore's clutches, and then, with great help from Kerry's bumbling, we gave him four more years to make things even worse. But did we really deserve *Dick Cheney*? It may take a generation to recover from all he did. Meanwhile, the least he could do is fade into the woodwork and give the new administration breathing room to undo the mess he made.

Cheney is a grade 111 a##hole. Today both the Guardian and The Independent reported that the US government threatens to cut off intelligence co-operation if evidence in a case of a former Guantanamo occupant is made public. The judges wrote a biting critique. At some point the question was: will the present Obama Admin back up the threat. That is a typical "Cheney" act. Maybe we should Cheney to an undisclosed location in Cuba!

bobell, this is situation normal. Didn't you know that 9/11 was 100% Clinton's fault?
Accept no blame, never look back, always shift responsibility onto someone else.
Whatever happend to the Republican's being the pary of personal reponsibility?

Astonishing. Graceless, deceitful, incapable of accepting responsibility, right up until the end. 9/11/01 was Clinton's fault, and anything from 1/21/09 is Obama's fault.
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The man should die in a cell.
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Write some columns about Nuremberg and Cheney, won't you please, Joe?

g-crush: I'd say (c) arrested, but yeah, you got there first.

I think it's likelier we'll be more worried about the collapse of civil society than any terrorist attack. Bush-Cheney, abetted by the unholy specter of Reagan, did more damage to this country than did the filthy criminals of 9/11.

what everybody said!
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"go away" was my first thought, too.
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Andy: Fortunately in this case, unfortunately from time to time, JK's blog posts probably don't constitute "media exposure." But the story on the cable outlets this morning does. Very, very, tired of these guys.

g_crush has the right idea -- the problem is that the guy was VP of the United States, a position that is undeserving of being "scorned" or "ignored" absent the very public investigation and prosecution for his crimes.
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JK thinks that such prosecutions would be a distraction -- but as long as Cheney is not discredited through prosecution, he'll be out there providing a "distraction" with statements like this. Its not a question, then, of whether there is a distraction, its just a question of whether Cheney gets to choose the distraction, or the Justice Department does it.

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billiecat: I'd say (c) arrested
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Almost wrote that, but I'm under the impression that the days of incarceration without due process went out with the bush administration.
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Dick has earned himself a thorough investigation and a great, big, showy OJ-Simpson-style trial...the murder trial, not the recent one.

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...like the murder trial...Preview is mi amigo...

Joe –

I agree, as evidently do the otter commenters, with everything you say. The only question is this – did you just figure this out? I mean, talk about old news…
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If you just needed some text around a link to the latest Cheney blasphemy you could have limited it to "Cheney still an @$$#0£€."
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The only remaining question is why Politico would give this criminal an extension on his soapbox lease.

Seriously, if we take any more of their advice we'll be lucky if the nation's still in one peice by the end of the year. Nevermind how absolutely discredited his ideas are, he and his had their chance to implement them. They failed. All he needs to do now is go home, sit down, and shut the #$%& up.

http://trueblarg.wordpress.com/2009/02/04/just-die-already/

No Joke Line, Dick Cheney is a man who should be investigated prosecuted and punished but you don't have the courage to say that. You won't earn any brownie points by wagging your finger at Cheney when you and your Villager apologist crowd keep advocating for letting the sonuvab*tch walk free.

USS COLE rings any bells, Say Joe?

KHOBAR TOWERS perhaps?

AFRICAN EMBASSIES?

You are a LIAR: There were numerous WARNINGS throughout the summer of 2001, particularly around July 4th, as to the terror threat level being extremely high. Those warnings were issued by the BUSH administration, dipstick.

You're a disgrace, and a known liar.

Get off the board, BOZO.

PS: Skippy Obongo just nominated Ali Frankless to run the FBI.

 
This "man" is yelling fire in a crowded theater.
 
He should be c) prosecuted.

Try the whole lot of them, preferably at Nuremburg. I'm sure hulagate would be honored to be in the dock, too!

Shorter Cheney:
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With any luck, there'll be another spectacular terrorist attack on US soil so we can get back in the game. Politico, please help us lay the groundwork for the "Blame the Dems" campaigns of '10 and '12.