WASHINGTON (CNN) - Former Vice President Dick Cheney told CNN's John King Sunday that he believed President Obama's decision to eliminate the use of many of the most controversial interrogation practices used under the former administration had put the country at risk.
Asked whether he thought those moves had made the United States less safe, Cheney said he did. "I think those programs were absolutely essential to the success we enjoy, of being able to collect the intelligence that let us defeat all further attempts to launch attacks against the United States since 9/11," he said on State of the Union. "I think it's a great success story. It was done legally, it was done in accordance with our constitutional practices and principles..."
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Obama campaigned against those practices, said Cheney, "and now he's making some choices that in my mind will raise the risk to the American people of another attack."
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Dear Obama,
Arrest and prosecute this war criminal.
Thanks,
All of America
Please, Mr. Cheney, go back to Wyoming and enter with great gusto into retirement permanently.
Cheney's policies have exposed us ALL to greater danger. The use of torture and waterboarding and other Bush-era interrogation techniques have driven thousands of young men across the Middle East into the waiting arms of radical terror groups who might have otherwise stayed moderate. The arrogance he displays by suggesting that ending torture/waterboarding/etc.will "put the country at risk" is staggering to the point of incredulity.
At this point, I can't think of a person who represents a BIGGER danger to American values and safety than Richard Cheney.
no you made us less safe financially politically and internationally you right wing nut.
Pouring water over someone's face to simulate drowning is torture any way you slice it. Its a terrifying experience that no human being should have to endure. Cheney is wrong, and should be prosecuted accordingly.
Mr. Cheney, your opinions are not valued by the American people. Haven't you figured that out yet? Please go back to that life you built on BigOil. (It's a nice, comfy life, after all.)
Then, for the rest of your days (may they be long and healthy) please shut up.
What a pathetic person! Cheney is still trying to justify torture and illegal detention by trotting out the old "terrorist behind every bush" (play on words).
This dark person did (by manipulating people – especially the moron who was President) incredible damage to our country.
Good riddance! Hopefully he will some day understand that NO ONE cares what he thinks.
Yea, Chaney still touting your own horn, unfunded war kept of the books, violation of more laws that some people who are currently in jail. Anything you say is worth as much as a bridge in Alaska leading to Russia I am about to sell.
Bush and Cheney put the country at risk. They should have been impeached and should still be prosecuted for their crimes.
Ah, yes, Cheney hasn't changed a bit. When public opinion turns against you, clearly one must incite fear.
Remind me again why this war criminal has not been prosecuted yet?
Dick,
It's over. Go away.
Lou
Go back into hiding Cheney – guess what, we don't believe you, never did and never will.
These guys continue to delude themselves and the rest of the country. They were torturing people! All they got was lies...lies about WMD in Iraq etc. People will say anything under torture. This is not what our country is based on. It makes us as bad as the other guys not to mention we were breaking treaties doing it. Put this guy in jail.
Cheney’s campaign of fear continues to ensure financial support the defense companies he is involved with. It’s reprehensible destructive for Cheney to say such things – he has done enough damage to this country – Dick go away.
I have one word for Mr. Cheney, .... "BULL". It was not done according to our principles, which include more than the constitution, they include the Geneva Convention which was most certainly violated. Be careful not to become the monster you seek, Mr. Cheney... oh wait, I'm sorry, you already did.
I agree that torture OR safety is a false choice. There are proven interrogation methods that work to obtain information. In the long run, we need to be able to say that we did not become the terrorists we are fighting.
Take your sour grapes and go home, Mr. Cheney, and fade gracefully into the woodwork and let the new, younger, more pragmatic, intelligent government take over and try to clean up the colossal mess you and your neo-conversative, evangelical, narcissistic cronies created. If I never hear from Dick Cheney again, it would be okay with me.
I love that he believes not torturing people is dangerous. And totally legal.
Yeah, America was so much safer under the Bush Administration policies. Even are long-standing allies were building up strong resentments toward the U.S. because of the arrogance that Cheney and Bush call diplomacy. Cheney has forgot that the world is not long a place where the guy with the biggest bomb is the more respected. He's never understood that the world changed (and he forgot to change with it). He's obviously the worst Vice President at least of the modern era.
The American people have rejected the policies of torture and unlawful detention and rendition. Obama is cleaning up after one of the most destructive and evil administrations this country has ever had. Why are you giving air time and credibility to this man. He should be behind bars for crimes against humanity.
How can Cheney speak of risk to the USA after the Cheney/Bush administration allowed 9/11 and the destruction of the economy to happen?
Who's he kidding? This mentally unstable war monger along with his chimpanzee buddy Bush put this nation in graver danger yet. Why does anybody take ANYTHING this bozo says seriously?
I guess we'll find out over the next four years if this is more hot air from the failed Bush administration or naivety of the Obama admin. Wouldn't have McCain also stopped these practices too?
Now Cheney is talking openly taking responsibility for having tortured and violating the Geneva Convention, and why is he not yet in prison for war crimes?
wow! so we should torture???? this guy is so unbelievably frightening. his methods didn't work, the taliban has taken new strongholds, pakistan is on the brink of failure, and he thinks obama's methods are unsafe. it seems that everything cheney did, advocated, and destroyed (including our constitution) have led to a much less stable world. we have to do the opposite of this man's policies to succeed at all. crawl back under that rock you are no longer (vice) president.
Obama isn't putting the country at risk, unlike You and Bush who put country under all the while lining your pockets
If Cheney thinks it's a bad idea then President Obama is doing a great job. Cheney is a JOKE and he's a character from a Batman movie. THE JOKER. CNN love conflict and strife and Cheney is the man for the job.
Getting Cheney to say we were wrong is like getting rocks to stop being hard. Actually softening the rocks would be easier. Good riddence!!!
When is this guy going to go away already !?!?
I guess Cheney continues to believe that subverting the United States Constitution is the ONLY way to keep Americans safe from future terrorist attacks. Lets see...Imprisoning people without charges, holding them indefinately, labeling people "enemy combatants" who were not captured on the battlefield, listening to phone calls of private citizens, reading e-mails of private citizens and when the judiciary branch tries to question you or your colleagues claiming "executive priveledge" (how a private citizen like Karl Rove gets executive priveledge is beyone me).
These are things that when I was in grade school at the zenith of the Cold War I was told they did in the Soviet Union. We were told that we were better than they were because we lived in a country where they did not do such things. I never thought I'd see the day when my country was doing those very things and I'm completely in support of the current administration dismantling these measures.
If we decide to live in a police state under a dictator, the terrorists have truly won. Good riddance to Cheney, Bush and everyone else that brought us some of the worst 8 years of leadership in the history of the country. And as for keeping us safe?!?!?!? I believe the worst terrorist attack on US soil occurred on your watch.
Whatever you did must have been effective because it is more than co-incidence we've been spared more attacks since 9/11. Thanks for your best efforts to avoid these attacks during your administration. Oftentimes
unrecognized contributions are realized after the departure of political figures. Others may comment; "yes, and some negative contributions are also recognized." Fine, let everyone enjoy freedom of speech, the right to express opinions without fear of being incarcerated–Thanks for the FREEDOM we enjoy, but it doesn't come without a cost or price to keep.
So, by NOT torturing people we are putting our country at risk?
Our country was not founded on these principles. We have fought other nations for having done this very thing and now we act like our enemies acted?
Why is this man NOT in prison?
There is no justice in the country...
Is he evil? Or is he well-intentioned but wrong? Which is it, people? One or the other.
What can one say? 'Five Deferment Dick' has spoken and that's the law!!!
This OLD Fool is a has-been
Him and the Bush should be in Jail.
Cheney...you almost destroyed the country...nobody cares what you think.
Our country is at risk because the Bush/Cheney policies pissed the whole world off and the United States was not respected while they were in office. Cowboy diplomacy did not work for the past 8 years and it is about time we tried true diplomacy and speak with those that we have issues with.
History will prove that Bush and Cheney were the worst administration in our history......................they should be the next group tried at the Hague.
By the way, why is Cheney speaking more now than the last 8 years in office. Just shut up and go away to your ranch in Big Sky country.....count the stars and be quiet.
Haven't we heard enough fear-mongering from Dick Cheney? I just wish the media would stop giving him a forum.
What can we expect? Obama takes his foreign policy orders from the New York Times.
We owe Bush and Cheney a big debt of gratitude for keeping us safe. Obama is sending a big message to those who hate us that he is not going to be tough on them. I do not feel safe at all with this anti war liberal with no leadership experience in office. He appears to be in over his head and the financial market knows it. We cannot let this guy change our capitalistic system punishing the most responsible and hardest working among us. Some new rules in the financial market would be fine, let the free market system do its job. I well remember the threats from the Soviet Union saying that they would bring us down from within and it might take a long time. Obama has a Marxist mindset and associated with many who were. This is the "change" he was talking about. The MSM has been completely taken in by the "cool one".
Electing Bush/Cheney put us at risk. It will take some work, but Obama willput us back on course. I do believe there is a use for the waterboarding. Use it on Bush and Cheney until they tell us all the illegal acctions they took during the past 8 years.
My apologies to Mr. Cheney, but the fear mongering approach has run it's course. It's a shame that we could not use our collective intellect to interrogate those we needed to obtain information. Instead, we relied on brute force stupidity.
The public has had quite enough of our government operating outside of the will of the people. Moving forward, let's hope this new administration actually hears what the people want, and carries out our will.
Maybe it's time to use controversial interrogation techniques on this secretive, quintessential chicken-hawk to find out exactly what HE has done to put the country at risk.
Cheney lives in his own universe where torture, wiretapping and cherry picking intelligence materials are the norm. And anyone that doesn't agree, are hurting the national defense.
When I hear that from Darth Cheney I am glad I voted for change
Apparently Dick isn't a believer in Kharma. One of these days he probably will be.
The only thing we're at risk of is becoming more like the decent, fair and free country we were intended to be.
Cheney keeps coming back like a bad memory to haunt us spurred by media attention. It's time to move on and look forward to our recovery.
No. Cheney is wrong on this one, too. America has been a beacon of freedom, peace, democracy, flag, motherhood, & apple pie. His administration's degradation of everything American, attempting to lower America's standards of behavior below those of the worst dictators like Saddam, Hitler, and Pol Pot, have placed us, and indeed the world, in serious jeopardy, politically, economically, and militarily. Arrest the MF and his puppet Bush, give them a fair trial like Saddam, and the same fate.
And once again the evil that helped to make the world what it is today can't miss an opportunity to stir the pot of chaos! Why would anyone find reasons to interview this maggot of irrelevance?
This guy was part of the team that created the mess we are now and what we will be in for a very long time. What he says should be irrelevant now and forever.
Cheney has no credibility, whatsoever.
The proof is in the pudding, as they say. We haven't had a terrorist attack in the U.S. since 9/11 with the last administration.
I don't think the situation can be cured with a big group hug, this is WAR.
cheney – the whole world thinks differently. it's called progress. and you're a dinosaur. go home to wyoming, write your memoir and be done with it.
oh and be sure to take care of that heart of yours. your evilness has infected it
Big Dick, you and your cronies put the country at risk by deciding to invade Iraq rather than going after the terrorists that attacked us. Your spin on 'bringing democracy' came after you saw that you had screwed up thinking that the war was not going to be a "slam dunk"! Isn't it time you stopped lying and twisting facts.
Thank God you no longer have the power to put us in further danger. You, almost single handidly, increased our risk of retribution with your very existence and your blathering justifications for your own blood lust. Just shut the hell up...your reign of terror is over. Again, thank God.
Typical that Cheney would use the word "enjoy" in the same sentence as torture. There are many reasons for less terrorism, the least of which is torturing innocent prisoners. That is what terrorism is and how outraged we are at it. He makes no connection but just assumes we are winning and then takes credit for it based on horrific practices like keeping inmates in a half up and half sitting down position for 8 days at a time in a cell with music blasting and he "enjoys" the freedom we have from such practices.
And he sleeps at night. Makes you wonder.
Legal? Moral? best interest of the Country??? Give me a break!!
Why is cheney not being charged for WAR CRIMES??
He and Bush should be in jail !....Obama is putting the country at risk???....Give your head a shake Dick.... He along with the rest of the Rush Limbaugh far right GOP morons are trying to rewrite history. He takes no responsibility for the mess this country is in,,,
It was you Dick, You put the country at risk.......tried to turn us into the Halburton Reich.
You just dont get it .
Why isnt the Justice Dept arresting this man,......
obama lied .... the economy died. thanks to you obamunists the US will become third world , congrats on your "change"
Next time I hear this guy I hope it is a jailhouse interview from a federal prison somewhere.
cheney and bush should be in jail but obama is shooting from the hip on alot of his decisions.
The days of this man and his administration are finally over... Please, we don't need his opinions, in fact we didn't want them to begin with. Please Dick, go down to Texas... Grab your boy... and do a little quail hunting.
Hypocrisy - if the parties were reversed, we'd have a torrent of right-wing zealots decrying how un-American it is for a former Pres/VP to so undiplomatically criticize/undermine a sitting President. This is just the latest flavor of double-standard. A trillion dollars for "nation building" is ok, if a Republican is in charge, etc, etc, etc,
GWB was a major setback for this country, yet I think he has enough patriotism not come rushing back out of the gates to fan partisanship.
Usually a Republican former VP will not comment on the new administration but this is a unique set of circumstances. Obama is nation building within our own borders. He is perfecting the ideal Socialist State, learning from the procedural errors that delayed the flowering of the first attempt in Russia. Hurray for Mr. Cheney.
Grrrrrrrr.....The Cheney Monster comes out of its hole to instill fear in the villagers once more....which is all it ever did during its eight year reign.
They should send Cheney over to AIG to interrogate the executives who are about to get millions of $$ in bonuses.
Putting the country at risk? LOL. What a joke. YOU, Dubya, and Rove put the country at risk sport. Good thing we've got somebody in there thats willing to clean up YOUR mess.
Thank God for the end of this horrible man's time in Washington! He is evil! Now I'm listening to Cantor and his whining....I have always been a firm believer in the two-party, checks and balances system, but I'm now rethinking that belief; the Republican party is dangerous to our country!
The "risky" move is to continue to take this "hit man" seriously. This country is worse off for the subterfuge that originated from his office while he was Veep. No proof exists of any valuable information coming from any water-boarded detainee. If you keep repeating a lie long enough, people believe it to be true. Didn't Hitler use that technique?
Hey Dick, Just because you don't agree with something doesn't make it wrong. And talking about making the country less safe?? Talk about the Pot calling the Kettle black. Take a look in the mirror, Dick ... then you'll really see someone who made the country less safe.
Cheney said they did "nearly everything we set out to do" in Iraq .
He sure did. BEFORE 9/11 he had advocated war with Iraq and he found an excuse to do it.
He sure DIDN'T catch the people responsible for 9/11.
Dick Cheney's fearmongering reminds me of this old joke:
Doctor to patient: so, why do you keep snapping your fingers every 10 seconds?
Patient: It keeps the tigers and elephants away from me.
Doctor: But there isn't a wild tiger or elephant within thousands of miles of here.
Patient: Works, doesn't it?
Cheney and many others need to be investigated by independent agencies; him, Bush and most of the rest of Congress have done more to destroy this country than any goons from the Middle East.
dear folks, the cheney-rumfield administration put america at risk by their foolhardiness in thinking iraq could be defeated and pacified with only a 150,000 troops. contrary to their statements about taking advice of military planners they removed anyone that opposed and adequate force for the winning the war and pacifying iraq. the surge would not have been necessary if general shinceki (sp) and other military planners had been listened to instead of being steamrolled by rumsfield and cheney. the brightest spot of their cheny and rumsfield's policy was the arming of the sunni so that there might be a more evenly matched civil war rather than another genocide.tom
Dick just misses waterboarding people, who is still listening to this war criminal. Go back to your cave, he is cleaning up the mess you left behind.
Go away, scary old man. Your tactic of keeping Americans in fear is exactly what the terrorists want. That time is OVER.
Mr Cheney
With all due respect please stay away from the politics we don't need your advise anymore. Your Administration has crippled the entire nation (or should I say the WORLD) with those ideas & thoughts. I personally believe every human being is GREEDY but this Administration has crossed the limit to the WORST that man-kind can think of. Think about all those people cursing you, your family & your entire family tree. I'm 100% sure this Administration will be counted in WORST PEOPLE's list for the rest of the lifetime. Think of everything that has happened during your 8 years in Administration, I don't think anything went well when you all were here in power, and you still think you Cabinet did a good job, boy...
Honestly speaking Obama is trying something good to the best he can, if you cannot support (which as such you guys are not good at)him atleast be off his path. No wonder Joe Biden did not seek for your advise before he took the VP position, that was indeed a smart move by Joe (so they say "Stay Away From Junk")
FORMER Vice President Cheney continues to amaze. For the last eight years he has been mostly out of the spot light with few exceptions. Now he is attempting 'set the record" straight at every turn. It would be better if he were to return to his various undislcosed locations and remain there in silence while this adminstration does the work that the people have asked for. If he thinks that last 8 years was a success then he might want to answer these questions
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I come from Nebraska, a leaning GOP State, and Cheney was born in this state.
Even though he was born in this state, he is NOT a Nebraskan. He is a DISGRACE.
Criticism from Dick Cheney should be a badge of honor for any American.
Did Cheney put the country at risk when he ignored the intelligence that an attack was pending in 2001? Did the former Vice President risk our country's future when he sent us into a war we couldn't afford with faulty intelligence? What I really want to know is why the media is still so petrified of Mr. Cheney that they won't, at long last, ask him real questions? Why is Cheney still permitted to present brazen propaganda as factual analysis? What's wrong with you people, do you care about your own children?
Agreed. Well spoken, Mr. Cheney! If an enemy combantant needs a dunk in the water to provide information that begets our safety, I am all for it! And our Marxist leader Obama should be as well.
I would be very worried if Mr. Cheney DID approve of what Obama is doing to fix the messes Cheney helped create!
Cheney and his cronies need to be prosecuted for all their crimes against this country: the big ones (criminal negligance with Katrina; giving contracts to inept Halliburton in Iraq so the profits went right back into their friends' pockets; torture - which is NOT constitutional, by the way) and the small (taking animals off the Endangered Species list; putting land in our national parks up for sale to oil companies; relaxing water, food, and air standards; firing federal employees for politically motivated reasons; etc). Not to mention that the Bush economic practices of 8 years finally caught up with the country and put us in this terrible recession/depression, while Bush, Cheney, and all their oil-grubbing, Blackwater friends ended up with our $$ in their pockets. This man does not deserve a national platform, unless it's in his own defense at a nationally-televised trial.
"...done in accordance with our constitutional practices and principles…" Who's interpretation of the Constitution are you using, and would that be the AMERICAN Constitution or some other "model"?
Obama so far made one mistake. The mistake is not putting Cheney in prison. I am sick and tired of this fear mongering coward. He needs to stay off air or we will push Obama to lock him forever.
dave b, – despite your sour grapes – you will, because you live in a democracy called America, benefit from the change.
And by the way...all of this nonsense about security, terror, etc. Didn't the attack come on your watch Mr. Cheney? Huh...
At the very beggining of this mess I knew that torture was wrong, that was one of the very first things the US Army taught me. Why didn't we declare war? Why didn't we take these people as war prissoners? Why didn't we treat them as prisoners?
Instead we decided to make up the rules and torture. Why, because this old fool wanted to appear tough. Bush should have known better. And shame on any military commander who didn't stand up as this was going on or debated in house!
Maybe Mexico should hire Cheney to "take care" of their little drug war by torturing the cartel leaders?
Cheney is absolutely right. Obama's policies are bad for America. Look forward to a Romney win in 2012.
Dear Mr. Cheney: Please leave the Obama administration alone. You and your cronies were single-handedly the greatest threat to the security of our nation in the history of this free country. No one cares about you now. It's sad that CNN had to prop you up in a chair for an interview that probably only the NeoCons were watching. At least Dubya has had the decency to crawl back into a hole in Texas and stay there. Now it's your turn....please go home to Texas, Wyoming or to Virginia, but please, GO AWAY.
Dick Chency is wishing we get attached on Obama watch becasue Chency is a very evil person working for the DEVIL!
You Cheney bashers are much too naive to think clearly. The Bush Administration did not cause 9/11, but did whatever they had to do to get intelligence about who and where the enemy was and to apprehend them. I would not call the interrogation techniques torture -gasing the prisoners like the Germans did in WWII and cutting off the heads of American journalists like the Muslilms did is torture. Bush/Cheney kept our country safe for 7 years and now we're on Obama's watch. I hope our great country will continue to be safe under Obama without the intelligence techniques used by Bush/Cheney. God Bless America!!
FORMER Vice President Cheney, I respectfully ask that you SHUT UP! You and President Bush had your run, now it's time for you to retreat to private life as the former President has done and stop trying to get in the way of the Obama administration's effort to clean up your mess.
President Obama is the only thing standing between Dick and a "War" crimes indictment. I say, if he keeps trying to undermind the President, Obama should lower the hammer on him.
"Agreed. Well spoken, Mr. Cheney! If an enemy combantant needs a dunk in the water to provide information that begets our safety, I am all for it! And our Marxist leader Obama should be as well."
Yes, I agree with Robert and Mr Cheney, we need to create a Stalinist regime in which no one has any rights and were extrajudicial torture and executions carried out by the handful of dictators who rule us and where a tiny corporate board of dictators control all the wealth for the benefits of themselves...just like in Soviet Union or Mao's China. And it will called the Republican Revolution.
Jubcha Back March 15th, 2009 10:05 am ET
Dear Obama,
Arrest and prosecute this war criminal.
Thanks,
All of America! AMEN TO THAT!
PATHETIC. Please...he and BUSH put this country at risk for terrorism. They bred the hate that encourages terrorists to target us.
ONLY Cheney would call torture a "program" and use the word "enjoy" in the same sentence.
Bush/Cheney exploited America and American's. They invaded a country we had no business in. Thousands of American soldiers DEAD.. Thousands more wonded and left incapicitated. Thousands more with broken families. Thousands more left with the mental trauma of war. But wait...Haliburton stock is doing ok so we're fine.
dave b ...
I hate to be the one to break it to you, but the economy "died" (or "tanked" as I prefer to call it since it will eventually come back) on your man Cheney's (and W's) watch ... not Obama. You can't blame Obama for this one.
And here it is again, that old right-wing favorite, "the Democrats will let your children die!!!" When the Bush/Cheney administration saw the greatest ever loss of American lives to terrorism, and the greatest loss of American lives in war since Vietnam. The country sees through this old fossil.
this is from the guy who said DEFICITS ARE OUR DUE! anything cheney says is a lie.
It might be more the fault of the Americans that voted for Bush – Cheney, Twice?
luvinman29 March 15th, 2009 10:56 am ET
President Obama is the only thing standing between Dick and a "War" crimes indictment. I say, if he keeps trying to undermind the President, Obama should lower the hammer on him.
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You could not have say that any better. President Obama is the only one keeping Dick from being proscuted.
Cheney's is right and you know it. Obama's actions and policies are strengthening terrorists all over the world. You can already see it.
The next attack will be fully Obama's doing.
amb ... in some ways you're right. No the Bush administration wasn't solely responsible for what happened on 9/11, because a lot of the planning was going on before they took office, however that said, the planning continued to go on for the first 7 1/2 months they were in office leading up to 9/11 and if they had done their job prior to 9/11 like they should have they could have most definetely put a a stop to what happened that day, but they didn't so 9/11 happened and since he was "W" and "Dick" were President and Vice President on that day they are the ones that are ultimately to blame.
You have got to be joking. Obama hasn't been President long enough to put anyone at risk. I guess when you are guilty, the best think to do is blame everyone but yourself.
The Bush Presidency or I should say the Cheney presidency put our country at risk more than any other presidency on record. Between torturing and bullying people, having no reguard for anyone or anything except yourselves, your power and your money and threatening countries that didn't do exactly what you wanted and spending trillions of dollars with no regard for the people who will have to pay for your mess, you did more to hurt and endanger this country and put us in more danger than anyone. I am so glad you are out of power I could scream and I want to know when the war crimes trials will start. If anyone deserves to be put on trial, it is you and Bush
Mr. Cheney, let's get this right. You and the Republicans are WISHING for a terrorist attack so that the American people can turn on President Obama. The problem with that is that we know this and if a terrorist attack does happen, the American people will turn on you and your party and it will backfire in the Republicans face. We will always rally behind our President, especially one we know genuinely cares about the average American.
Get lost Mr. Cheney. Your time is up!
Bush/Cheney brought us to our knees financially,. There was no need for another terrorist attack.
For anyone of intelligence to believe or support what this man is saying is beyond me.
He was and is a dictator and was very instrumental in almost destroying our country.
CNN. shame on you for bringing this man into the limelight, headlining him and supporting his lies, thoughts and distortion.
I am an American citizen strong morals and principals, the kind you were raised with, and expect the leaders of our country to have some too. However, the past administration led our country without Any in regard to war, human life, human rights and the financial dignity of it's people. Mr. Cheney should be enjoying his retirement, and not commenting on the present administration since he was a Big part of the traversties we have today. I would like the AG to aggressively find out the Truth and prosecute those who betrayed the American people.
I am a 74 year old Korean War veteran.(17 months in country on the line). I am also a Law School grad. I have seen much change in the world in my life.The beginning of the end for the U.S. as I know it, came when Scalia, Thomas, Rhenquist, et. al gave Bush the job. Since then we have seen 9/11, Katrina, Iraq, Alberto Gonzales, John Yoo, Cheney, Abu Grahib, the escalation of torture, billions spent on the "war" on drugs, and moral and financial bankruptcy. Bush nominated two extreme right wingers (Roberts and Alito), to the SCOTUS who will continue to harm our country. We have more hatred against one another not seen since the Civil War and the Internet and the press show the low level of discourse that is now the norm.
Fake celebrities fill the new and places like Darfur are given short shrift. Now some idiots want to give a voice to one of the most hateful people in the U.S. because it will do?????? and to watch the Obama haters crawl out from their holes so that theycan glorify
Cheney at the expense of a man who has inherited the Bush-Cheney mess is beyond funny. It used to be God bless America-it is now God HELP America.
Why does CNN, in the name of free speech, waste everyones time putting on old hacks, such as Dick Cheney to air their outrageous behaviour. That war in Iraq could not in any sense of the imagination justify the loss of life of nearly 5,000 young American lives. Further to that the impoverishment of the American/World economy, which will take a long time to recover.
hey dick! where have you been hiding out the last few years? you and karl rove should go on a media tour trashing the new administration after not giving interviews until you were booted out. please go back into hiding!
Who can honestly believe anything this man says? You are giving a public platform to a man who has turned his back on his country and its Constitution in a twisted quest for personal power. Enough!
Studies show that the techniques used by the Bush administration are not effective. People will admit to anything so that the torture stops. Unreliable information we don't need.
In my opinion, cutting taxes and going to war was a bad policy for American, and fiscally irresponsible.
No attacks yet on the Obama watch. Didn't the Bush administration say the bottom line is no attacks on US soil after 9/11?
He seems to be insinuating that their policies reduced risk because nothing happenned but Obama's policies put us at risk and nothing having happenned is irrelevant.
Mr. Cheney.......it is obvious you have not an ounce of creditibility. You cannot continue with your politics as usual. With thousands of Americans dead, you have no merit. Bin Laden is still strong after 8 years, and the American people was left with an unstable middle east, unaccounted for monies, and most sad of all.....thousands of young men and women who are no longer with us. Mr. Cheney, you are not a decent man when you stood before the American people and told a "bold faced" lie to enter us into an un-called for war.
This man has got to be kidding.
The jokers that put us at risk are Bush and Cheney. Not only did they miss the clues to prevent 9/11, but they, through their words, policies, and actions, have made us the most hated country on Earth.
If we have any hope at a peaceful, prosperous future, it is because of President Obama.
Would someone please lock this clown up...!
50 somethings days into this new administration and it's "Obama's recession" (ha!)
7 months after Bush took office , 9/11 attack takes place ...and "he kept us safe". He did????
As for Cheney ,there's a special place for him...with fire and brimstone.
Two words to describe this guy. Scum bag. What a waste of time on the air waves. AC should not have given this a second and should have left him in his bunker to rot.
What a delusional man–and a criminal–openly espousing torture. If you don't think it was torture, check out the description of what occurred in America's clandestine prisons; a quick internet search of Mark Danner and "Torture and Truth: America, Abu Graib, and the War on Terror." IT WAS TORTURE, and everyone up to George Bush knew completely what was going on. There should be no protection for these criminals; they have shamed the nation.
A few incredibly misguided peopl seem to want to justify torture. Apart from the fact that very little actionable intelligence ever comes from it, it also prevents future prosecution, as charges are routinely thrown out due to the torture. Not that it's utility should even be an issue: in torturing, we lower ourselves to the level of terrorists, violate our solemn commitments, and put every American soldier in danger of receiving similar treatment. Read what was done, and ask if you would ever want your loved one to endure such inhumane brutality.
Cheney is 100% correct. Obama is ruining this country, and I truly have my doubts we will survive as a result.
Someone please lock this clown up...!
After eight years of ruling in secret and silence, now Dick is suddenly "chatty Kathy" Why is anyone even interviewing this scumbag? is he running in 2012?
@amb – saying Dubya/chaney kept our country safe is like me saying my fountain pen keeps away elephants. I dont see any. NO ONE can prove either way that they did or did not.
To those of you who think Cheney is a war criminal and should be brought to trial in the Hague.... be careful of what you wish for. If this happens just once, not even your precious Obama will be safe in the future.
Dick Cheney is a loser. He has no right to make comments about other administrations on protecting the US. Remember what a great job they did of protecting us when Bush came into office? 9/11…great job Dick and Bush. If you had been doing such a wonderful job as you claim we never would have been attacked in the first place.
I am always stunned when the bush apologists claim " he kept us safe from terrorists".
Buncha Bull.
Does eveyone forget the anthrax attacks which killed 5 people and put 17 in the hospital? That was the second terrorist attack under bushs' watch.
Or the Beltway Snipers who killed 10 and critically injured 3 before bushs' imcompetent goons stumbled on the culprits.
3 strikes your out !
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I can't think of a better endorsement for Obama's policies than these backbiting, unseemly comments from Darth Vader himself.
Try him for war crimes, then send him to Gitmo.
Since Cheney has been wrong on everything else so far, this is good news! If Cheney says we are in more danger, that means we aren't!
The only way what Cheney and Co. did was legal is because they got a yesman to tell them it was legal. They manipulated everything, including the American people to get their way. Cheney is an evil, dangerous man.
You mean decimating our military force in an unjustified war, allowing the Taliban to move back into Afghanistan and motivating recruitment of terrorist doesn'y put our country at risk? I'm sorry, but I missed that.
Well Dick, you and your horrible policies almost destroyed America, so I don't think we should care what you think.
Lets see...9-11 happened 9 1/2 months into Cheney's term. And when it happened there were no plans to address terrorism by Bush-Cheney.
How can this clown preach when he is the one who was on duty when 9-11 occurred??
"The Bush Administration did not cause 9/11, but did whatever they had to do to get intelligence about who and where the enemy was and to apprehend them." -amb
The Bush Administration may not have cause 9/11, but the had an opportunity to try to prevent it. Despite what he cronies say, Bush receive a PDB warning the Bin Laden was determined to strike within US. This is when the doing "whatever they had to do to" should of started. Also, when you say "enemy" of 9/11 do you mean Saddam. Sorry to burst your bubble, but Saddam and Iraq had nothing to do with that.
My "dear Cheney"..... the only thing i regret about 9/11 they killed innocent people instead of CHENEY'S & BUSH'S & THE ENTIRE ADMINISTRATION..... BIN LADEN IF YOU READ THIS COMMENT PLEASE NEXT TIME ONLY THE ABOVE......
If everything was done legally, than tell me why, the CIA destroyed all those 90 plus tapes??????? Just tell me, oh that is right, you are a liar and that is beyond you to tell the truth....
No – it's the decisions of Cheney, Bush, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, and Rove that put our country at risk. Obama is trying to clean up the mess they've created. THE PAST IS NOT MUTABLE.
Please let the 5th time be the charm ...
Obama's decisions are putting our country at risk! And what did your decisions today Sir? Wipe our country out! Took away all the values that made us the greatest nation on this planet! Made us hypocrite and the biggest lying nation in the world – just like we were another 3rd world country. So Obama is putting our country at risk? You took our country away SIR!
But I don't get mad at you anymore. You are not normal. For you to still think what you did was right and justified – you are one sick human being, if I can even call you that.
I wish you well though but just go away. Enjoy whatever life you have left with the billions you have earned at our cost and at the cost of our brave men and women as well as the innocent Iraqi civilians. Just go away.
It's decisive military actions in the right places at the right times that will keep America safest against terrorism. Tortured interrogation, in itself, is not what wins wars, and best defends a country against an enemy. The pre-emptive military strike is MOST reliable for results from great TECHNOLOGICAL intelligence. Not "shaky" tainted testimony from tortured suspects who are willing to say anything to stop their own torture at the hands of their captives......
Dick Cheney is a Bozo..............
Please, please, Cheney – go back to your "undisclosed location" and STAY THERE. You are a menace.
Mr. Cheney, you should be ashamed to live in this country and call your self an American. With the lies, deceit, violations of the constitution and geneva convention, warrantless wire-tapping, the patriot act – the list goes on – YOU and the BUSH ADMINISTRATION have made this country less safe by obliterating the very values that made this country once great. You sir, are a war criminal and the failure of the Obama administration to convict you and your cohorts will make America no better than some of the countries we claim to be more advanced than.
Why is this man on CNN? My goodness, have Americans not had enough of that administration? He should be tried as a war criminal.
The only thing Bush/Cheney and their supporters can say at this moment is "we have not had an attack after 9/11." Forget about doubling the national debt, two failed and mismanaged wars, unable to find Bin Laden, financial crisis, all they want to talk is "we have not had an attack after 9/11." They forgot to tell you, 9/11 shouldn't happen. These terrorists got into America legally, trained flying commercial airplane at US, hijacked airplans using box cutter, do you think these will happen again? Also they forgot to tell you, their irresponsible actions caused creating more terrorists during the Bush/Cheney administration. Remembered Bin Laden said "he wants to bankrupt US"? And he's almost getting closer to his goal. Folks, wake up, we need to have a "SMART" leader know how to fight terrorists. Bush/Cheney definitely DOES NOT belong to that category..
This is truly "Darth Vader" in a business suit. HE is the one who just doesn't get it. 9/11 was a tragedy and deserved our full response. But so was Pearl Harbor, so was Viet Nam, so was Korea, yet the government DID respond then but NOT at the cost of everything else. And if Dick Cheney can PROVE that ANY DEMOCRAT IN CONGRESS hindered our response to care for ALL of our country, then THEY TOO should be tried as traitors to the American people, thrown out of office and locked up. I have had enough of these pick-and-choose hacks who say they act on our behalf and still pursue their own agenda. You were ALL responsible for the good of the AMERICAN PEOPLE and THEIR WAY OF LIFE. Was this furthered by an unjust war in IRAQ that has cost us loss of life and limb for some of out best and brightest, not to mention the older guardsmen who had to serve because we were stupid enough to abolish the draft? I don't think so.
Old Man, leave, take the tragic memory of your so-called service with you and go cry in the corner because you didn't get your way to start World War III cause that's what you wanted. You and Bush were two lost figures in way over your head and lost sight of WHY you were there.
Don't go away mad, but please for God's sake just go away and let us, the American people, get our government back by never taking our eyes off Washington again and keeping these political hacks under OUR thumb.
Cheney remaining out of prison is testimony to the myth of America being a country of laws and not men. He is rubbing it in our faces.
This country will never truly be healed from the scars of BUSH/CHENEY until they are prosecuted and held accountable for the deaths of many thousands.
(Read Vincent Bugliosi's book for the most comprehensive accounting of their misdeeds, which are too numerous to itemize here)
Why are you people at CNN letting this vile, evil man try to rewrite history? We will not forget all that his administration has done to America. He should be tried for war crimes, not given a platform to spew his lies.
Cheney just would not shut his evil mind until he's ....
Interesting how he's still lounder than Bush even today. This miserable man is looking for happiness in detroying others. DON'T let him.
amb: "The Bush Administration did not cause 9/11"
Oh yes they did! Wake up! They were emphatically warned by Richard Clarke et al in January 2001 that this needed to be their top priority, but they laughed that off. Instead, their Justice Dep't. pursued porn and the Defense Department engaged in missile stupidity. When George Tenet drove to the White House in July 2001 they ignored his warnings, and when they received word attack was on its way in August, they did nothing. They had every opportunity to defend us and they didn't. That's their legacy. Don't dream it up some other way, it's unfair to the dead.
Steve wrote..The Beltway snipers were a terrorist attack? Boy that is stretching things a bit even for a liberal.
And now that Obama is in charge of the Iraqi and Afgahnistan campaigns since 20 January, does that make him a war criminal for civilian deaths that follows?
I agree fully with Cheney. Obama is just a talk. There is no substance He goes with the wind and he comes back with the wind. Perhaps walking on the water....
As a businessman who travels extensively outside the US, I can say with absolute certainty that Mr. Bush and Cheney made our nation and our citizens far less safe than they were before they came into office. Those of us who do not have the pleasure of government security and military escorts while we travel know that we have far less freedom than we had before. When you live in a bubble and pay your friends at Halliburton and Blackwater billions of dollars in no-bid contracts to protect you, things look a lot different than they do to most of us average joes.
No sir, your ego has already done that.
Dick Cheney is a war criminal and a sick, disgusting pervert. Why is CNN allowing themselves to be his clown?
No Cheney, it was YOU who put America at Risk. . .when YOU INVADED IRAQ!
And, you did it ALL FOR MONEY–HALIBURTON!
Why would CNN give this vampire a podium in the first place. The worst Admin in our nation's history, made Nixon and company look like law abiding citizens, King is obviously in the tank for the Rethuglicans, but even this is a new low.
Haliburton aka Dick Cheney are the ones that made billions in this war. The Iraq war has never been about 9/1, it's always been about profit and Bush/Cheney should go to prison.
Obama will put us back on track, Bush/Cheney's policies have threatened the US. Get lost.
Of course decimating the finances and economy of a country will also put it at risk of not being able to defend itself. Has Cheney ever read the book "the Rise and Fall of the Great Powers"?
CNN would serve this country well to show all of the posts and responses on Cheney over the air as opposed to commentary from political pundits and analysis after this incredulous interview. This man summons up sick and dreadful feelings in most of us.
Is he coordinating with bin Laden for another attack to prove his point?
Cheney and his gang have had thier high time running the country. Leave the US alone....Give it back to us. Thinkers, men of integrity of honor, wisdom and expirience and go look after you growing bank accounts.
Cheney is the biggest butt-hole ever to serve in public office – a frightening figure who deserves to be in jail, on moral if not criminal conviction...wish he would just find a cave and disappear forever.
Kevin in Ohio is really Joe the Plumber! What a loser!
Cheney is responsible for outing CIA agent Valerie Plame and formed policy which made our country to one of the most beloved to the most hated in the world.
You are right in saying history will judge you Dick and believe me we will never forget.
Why is the media always bringing the former administration on to critique the current one? Did Bush do that to Clinton? No. Did Clinton do it to Bush? No. Please stop. No one cares what these failures have to say.
Sorry, moron, if there is another attack, it will be because:
1. You and the shrub IGNORED intelligence about the 9//11 attack in August of 2001
2. You and the shrub have empowered al Queada in an area where they did not exist prior to your "accomplishment"
3. You and the shrub made finding Osama bin Laden the brains of the attack your number 2 priority, right behind grabbing all the oil you could for Halliburton in Iraq.
And so YOU and the shrub will ALSO be responsible for any future attack just as you were for the one on 9/11/2001
Why do we continue to give these Republican criminals a platform to spew their inflammatory rhetoric?
Just like these criminals taped the torture of individuals, I hope someone gets the moment Cheney's heart explodes on video, and posts it on YouTube.
I bet tha both Bush and Cheney are deep down hoping that there is a successful terrorist attack on US soil..
For the love of God.... why would we care what this war criminal has to say about anything! He and Bush lied throughout this abomination they call a well warranteed war! Bush was not bright enough to come up with the reasoning behind this war.... but Cheney was! Cheney, Rove, and the whole gang no doubt with the help of Daddy Bush masterminded this war... not the simpleton Bush! And we are paying the price with a financial melt down! But do they care? Hell NO! That is why they keep justifying this war! This is an UNwinable War! And the so called Bin Laden remains illusive! Disgusting... obscene!
Evidently Bush and Cheney were ones of the worst President and Vice President in history; however who was really responsible for that horrible administration? No doubt, the voters who voted them into office, not once but twice. It is great to exercise one's voting right but at least do it intelligently.
Bring back Dick Cheney! He kept the country safe (if you don't count 9/11), shepherded our economy (if you don't count fighting regulation from the financial industry), stood up for Americans (so long as they were at least millionaires), and served as an example of Christian values for the world to see (except for the lying, cheating, stealing, and killing). We might not be able to have Dick back just yet , but fortunately the Republican party has many more heroes just like him.
Obama's decisions are actually the first steps at restoring America to the place it held before the Bush/Cheney administration wrecked it.
The fallacy in the "we protected America for 7.5 years" argument is that the implication was it was the torture that helped. Very few people really knows if that is true. But we can deduce some things that are true because we tortured people. First, we stand in violation of the international laws that we want the rest of the world to respect, and have lost the moral high ground. Secondly, the evidence collected under torture is not admissible in court. This is preventing a reasonable wrap-up of Gitmo because Bush/Cheney didn't think the problem out that far. Finally, it doesn't acknowledge that subsequent attempts at terrorism in the US (yes, there have been several) have been foiled as much by good police work and cooperation than through torture. Torturing people actually prevents that kind of police work and cooperation because our natural allies don't trust us anymore.
Will we get attacked again? Yes. Will it be because we went soft on terrorism because we don't torture people anymore? No, not in the slightest.
Dear CNN:
I watch your ratings fueled news as little as possible--after your interview with Cheney (did not see), will not watch you ever. You, the media, are as responsible as anyone, for letting the Bush Administration get away with lies, starting a war, based on lies, particularly those planted by Cheney, lies that have led to our economic crisis,,,,etc. And, you're still letting this lying sack of sh.t continue his manipulation.
You are not journalists, you do not seek the truth, you just seek sensationalism...I hope Jon Stewart of the Daily Show aims his sights at the so-called "journalists" of CNN.
Anyone interested in the TRUTH, including Cheney's role in manipulating the Bush Administration.....please read Vanity Fair's February 2009 article "Uncovering the Darkest Secrets of the BUSH WHITE HOUSE. It's available at their website..."www.vf.com"
How much this CNN pay the old war monger, corrupt worm to appear on John Kings what ever show? John King and Cheney go way back, they were buddies when Bush/Cheney were trying to build a case against Saddam. Hope it was good for you Mr. King, it certainly hurt your credibility..
Take your fear mongering back to Wyoming and go crawl in a cave you disgusting beast.
This man is possibly the worst war criminal who ever existed in this country.
...and he doesn't come that far from being in the top 10 in History – from ANY country!
Mr. Cheney,
All I can say about your latest hate-mongering and lying is:
You have a very appropriate first name (it describes exactly what you are.)
Cheney is Gollum, and he craves to have it's precious ring back. But truly, the country needs to see Cheney being waterboard for 60 minutes, followed by an immediate redition to Somalia for a month, then three months in Guantanamo.
Everyman March 15th, 2009 10:29 am ET
The proof is in the pudding, as they say. We haven't had a terrorist attack in the U.S. since 9/11 with the last administration.
We have not had a meteor strike, a tsunami or a bid flu epidemic either. What is your point? 9/11 happened on their watch, and how they can spin this as a positive will remain one of the biggest snow jobs of all time. The people responsible for 9/11 are still running around free while we wasted our blood and treasure on a country that had nothing to do with the attacks. Good job Cheney..you and your cronies became very rich men running our country into the ground.
4300 dead Americans. 100,00 dead Iraqis. National debt tripled. Over a trillion dollars wasted. Corruption (Haliburton). And this clown thinks he got it right? At best he should be in prison. I guess in his warped mind he did get it right. How can anyone support this liar?
Someone please call the Church and schedule an exorcism for this man. I can't believe anyone is born with such darkness in their heart.
Just look at this man evil picuture looking just like the evil JOKER IN BATMAN!
"Kevin in Ohio"- If Cheyney is so right about Obama ruining this country, why are you still here? Run to CANADA! Hurry, while you still have time!
amb March 15th, 2009 10:55 am ET
You Cheney bashers are much too naive to think clearly. The Bush Administration did not cause 9/11, but did whatever they had to do to get intelligence about who and where the enemy was and to apprehend them
REALLY??? Please enlighten the rest of us as to where Osama Bin Laden is incarcerated
Cheney's just laying the groundwork to avoid all blame for an attack if – God forbid – one takes place. After all, he and W blamed the previous administration for an attack that happened well into W's term. Which, I guess, would mean that Bush I was responsible for the attack that happened a couple month's into Clinton's first term...yet someone Clinton owned that one too. Republican "logic" – from the party who wants everyone to take personal responsibility. Everyone ELSE but them, I should say.
i want a full investigation of the Bush/ Cheney administration.
if President Obama does not persue it he is a chicken, especially knowing who di us in on the economy who screwed us all on the iraq war spending. they are blood guilty!
TO phoenix 86; Its nice to see that you're still a know nothing moron that desperately seeks attention by posting mindless comments that don't count!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Cheney still doesn't even begin to get it. He and Bush have created a bunch of new terrorists and sympathizers while trampling all over the freedoms that make this country what it is, not to mention going to war in a country that had nothing to do with 9/11, lying their pants off the whole time they were in office, and driving the economy into a ditch. And he's worried about Obama's policies? Obama is doing the right things to get us back on the right path, and whenever another attack happens it may very well be due to the inflamed relations Bush and Cheney created for our country around the world, especially in the Muslim and Arab worlds. Go home, Dick, and keep your mouth shut. We need never hear from you again, except maybe at a war crimes trial.
9/11 Was formulated by Cheney and Bush to accomplish they're goal!!!! And I'm quite certain CNN won't post this because its the truth and its common knowledge that CNN isn't concerned with the truth only RATINGS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Cheney has a lot of nerve – his administration put us in more serious danger of a new attack – see the latest reports from the DNI which indicated that the world economic crisis is fuelinig a renewal for global terroists.
In addition – had Bush and Cheney not wasted our resources in Iraq, we might not be facing a rebuild Al Queda and Taliban in norther Pakistan now.
I have no idea why John King keeps putting these jerks front and center. Maybe John King is jocking for a position with Fox Noise.
True, the US has not had a major attack since 9/11/01. However, there was ample warning of potential terrorist attacks in the summer of 2001. NIE reports in August, 2001 indicated heightened communications between known Al Qaeda operatives, Richard Clarke the anti-terrorism advisor in the White House warned the administration of imminent potential terrorist activities, CIA analyses indicated possible terrorist activity, etc. All that information was there without the Bush/Cheney methods. The fact that the administration chose to ignore that information does not imply that torture, violations of constitutional law and violations of international law are necessary to protect the US.
What puts our country at risk is our foreign intervention and policing the world.
If my sister saw this interview this morning she's probably out buying more duct tape and plastic. CNN, do you realize that you were used to deploy the same old scare tactics that prevent us from healing? John King had to have know this was coming, but went ahead with it anyway?
@ Kevin in Ohio ....
All you libs on here should pay close attention to to Kevins post.
Should dems such as FDR, Truman, JFK, Johnson have been brought up on war crimes also. Following your misguided thought processes, I guess they would have.
Hypocrite losers.
Cheney is right. Obama and crew, in their youthful arrogance, haven't got a clue. They think that if they ignore a problem it will go away; or if they're nice to people, those people won't hurt them. Ignorance, in their case, will not be bliss. They cater to the uninformed, the uncaring and the simple minded by their current actions. No one said the previous administration did everything right, but they sure as heck didn't do everything wrong. Unfortunately, Obama seems to be heading down the "everything stupid" track. Heaven help us; it's a cinch the losers in DC can't.
How can you quantify the level of security risk we are under? You first have to identify in order to quantify.If you can identify then you should be able to do something about it. The fact that no one flew another airplane into any buildings latley doesn't mean Bush kept us safe. What happened is the Bush,Cheney team beggared this country to the point we will have a hard time defending America if a country with a standing army decided to attack. Cheney knew he had eight years to pick our pockets and man,he was good at it!
Republicans fear factors. Cheney and the previous president spent eight years in power and accomplish almost nothing.Their only accomplishment is two wars, a bad economy, a recession, deep national debt, and high unemployment.
Remember this when the next attack happens. It won't be on Bush's watch. It won't be due to his failed policies since Obama has already reversed them all. It will be squarely on the president's head.
CNN. I have a question . If this is the "State of the Nation", why do you continue to interview old, rich, white, hasbeens, with idiotic 5th grade questions.
I feel so disillusioned in this great country with perception of the things the media puts out......does it really matter WHO leads? I think the citizens are the protectors...Government is the people..never forget that!
i have no idea why John King keeps putting these jerks front and center. Maybe John King is jocking for a position with Fox Noise.
i WAS THINKING THE SAME THING ABOUT John King.
Dorothy in NC- you are exactly right. There is a term in psychology for what Cheney is doing. It is called projection. He is projecting the failures of the Bush administration onto the Obama administration.
Also, to those few out there who still believe that the Bush/Cheney administration kept our country safe and that Obama is going to destroy our country, I ask you to take the blinders off and look at what other countries are saying. I received emails from friends around the world on the election night praising Americans for our judgment in electing Obama. We lost credibility in the eyes of the world under the Bush administration. We are seen as fools. Now, I know your response is going to be, "Who cares? We are a superpower and we will do what we want in the world." The problem with that line of reasoning is that we will not be a superpower much longer if we continue to bully the world.
I CANNOT understand how the party who supports pro-life policies could spend the last eight years disregarding human life. It takes real cognitive dissonance to support executing mentally challenged inmates, stripping other humans of their rights, and torture, while preaching that human life is sacred and must be protected from the moment of conception. How hypocritical!
democrats = mushroom clouds and pestilence, etc.
Nice try, toolbag. That may have worked over 5 years ago. We've come to our senses. Now do us all a favor and whither away.