Pat Oliphant for December 03, 2009

I cannot help but chuckle at this. After 8 years of eschewing media and hiding in undisclosed locations, Cheney won’t shut up. Now his daughter is all over the media as some kind of expert. Sheesh. He’s working behind the scenes to get the next war started.

Prepping for the war with Iran?

Love it. Wish someone had done it 8 years ago.

Please!! Mr. “I don’t have to tell the American people anything while I’m screwing them over, and if you criticize me you’re a traitor” Cheney ought to be shown a little “rendition” of his very own…

More Excellent Oliphant!

“Snort water”? Scott, you really need to read 1 Corinthians 13 in its entirety. The only possible cure for that bile which spills over in your comments is to fill your heart with love! A tin man can only clank!!

Yeah, I love Scotty talking Christianity one moment and approving water-boarding the next.

So a conservative preaching intolerance is tolerant?

“conservatives don’t preach tolerance…they practice it.”

Suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuurrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrreeeeeeeeeeeeeeee they do. So glad I wasn’t drinking anything as I read that corker.

‘Ey, Dick…

Say “My daddy drives a truck!”

HAHAHA! av8tor, you’re the comedian of the day!

What’s with all the focus on the old news story of Cheney. I think it’s time for Mr. Oliphant to tackle the day to day goings on in Washington. There’s much fun to be had there. Just yesterday - The Jobs Summit, more money for war, etc.

One nail is not going to do it.

And when you do hammer those nails in, use a power hammer!!

The University of Toronto has just released a research study on Anger In Amerian done by “anger expert” Scott Schieman – I wonder if that’s our Scott?

Needed two nails for the forked tongue.

@dtroutma - perhaps a handful of nails just to be CERTAIN!

Gore expounds on one thing, and that thing doesn’t undermine EVERYTHING that Bush did. However Cheney is just plain disrespectful of EVERYTHING that Obama does. So your analogy is tripe.

av8tor – Never have I sucked at the public trough. Unless driving on roads, using airports, watching sports in taxpayer funded stadiums and having the gov’t underwrite my student loans (long-since paid off) is sucking at said trough.

So take your broad brush and stick it.

Clinton/Gore: “Keep an eye on Osama Bin Ladin. He’s planning something, using planes as weapons.”

Bush/Cheney: “Osama Bin Ladin’s not the threat, Saddam Hussein’s the threat.”

BOOM!

BOOM!

I like this toon!

Thanks for the links Senor, got a good laugh out of them.

Bush 41: “While we hoped that popular revolt or coup would topple Saddam, neither the U.S. nor the countries of the region wished to see the breakup of the Iraqi state. We were concerned about the long-term balance of power at the head of the Gulf. Trying to eliminate Saddam, extending the ground war into an occupation of Iraq, would have violated our guideline about not changing objectives in midstream, engaging in “mission creep,” and would have incurred incalculable human and political costs. Apprehending him was probably impossible. … We would have been forced to occupy Baghdad and, in effect, rule Iraq. The coalition would instantly have collapsed, the Arabs deserting it in anger and other allies pulling out as well. Under those circumstances, furthermore, we had been self-consciously trying to set a pattern for handling aggression in the post-cold war world. Going in and occupying Iraq, thus unilaterally exceeding the U.N.’s mandate, would have destroyed the precedent of international response to aggression we hoped to establish. Had we gone the invasion route, the U.S. could conceivably still be an occupying power in a bitterly hostile land. It would have been a dramatically different–and perhaps barren–outcome.”

Bush 43: “Hey, this guy tried to kill my Dad!”

Bruce4671 said ”I’m done”

Of this forum? I hope not, please stay.

Like Joe Biden said on the Daily Show - “Funny how the guys that got us into this (mess) are now trying to tell us how to get out of it!” He was speaking to the opposing party in general, but if the show fits, Mr. 6 deferments- I have better things to do- wear it nailed to your tongue right on top of the book !

I propose that we now call the Democratic Congress “theWeekEnders”, thus to commemorate their recent love for working on the weekends…

And you are experienced in Structural Engineering how, human?

yes! and the same goes for algore, and all his trite ecobabble,

Please shut up the r/l attack dogs…as a neilson-viewer I turn off EITHER of them and restart the satV. We do not care what they think anymore, period

CWR – he is however a MUCH louder banger of the war drum than Clinton ever was. Hence the issue is hypocrisy. “Oh I’m much to busy to fight…. but I’ll send as many others in my place as I can.”

@ Church - true, he’s innocent until proven guilty. Everyone is. Yet I think he’s been a fair bit more disrespectful (politically) towards Obama than Gore was to Bush. Just imo.

As for what Bush and Cheney had to do with 9/11, there are some things we will never know. Yet as far as I’m concerned, there’s definitely reason for them to shoulder some of the blame for letting it happen.

Why? Because Clinton left a unit working on Bin Laden, Bush ignored it (until 9/11). When there was a presidential briefing about the threat Bin Laden posed, he didn’t do anything either - as far as one can tell. Cheney, as VP, should have contributed with advice and experience, so he doesn’t get a free pass either..

We may never know for 101% sure just how the WTC fell, or the Pentagon was hit, but 9/11 happened on Bush’s watch. And he can not claim he never could have known, or that it was only other people’s fault. After getting the briefing folder, he was informed there was a thread. From that point on, anything that happened since was partly his responsibility, since he was at the helm. It was, to use the expression, on his watch. Here, btw, is the declassified text: http://news.findlaw.com/hdocs/docs/terrorism/80601pdb.html . I’m not going as far as saying Bush is the one responsible for 9/11, I don’t have anything proving that - simply that he shouldn’t be off the hook either.

As for Cheney mouthing off on all channels, hah. His die-hard fans will still cheer him, the rest will find him as repulsive as always.