Someone who is an “expert” on fighting terrorism with torture, illegal wars and the unlimited detentions of US citizens, taxi drivers and sheep herders from the safety of his undisclosed bunker pops his head out to tell us the sky will be falling — soon, any day now, trust me — and it will be Obama and the Democrats’ fault, naturally:
Cheney said Obama would regret his commitment to closing down the Guantanamo Bay internment camp and ending harsh interrogations of terrorism suspects.
“These are evil people. And we’re not going to win this fight by turning the other cheek,” he said in the interview, conducted at an office near Cheney’s new home in Washington’s Virginia suburbs.
He said the “ultimate threat” facing the country since the September 11 attacks of 2001 was if extremists can unleash “a nuclear weapon or a biological agent of some kind” in the center of a US city.
“That’s the one that would involve the deaths of perhaps hundreds of thousands of people, and the one you have to spend a hell of a lot of time guarding against,” Cheney said.
“I think there’s a high probability of such an attempt,” he added.
“Whether or not they can pull it off depends whether or not we keep in place policies that have allowed us to defeat all further attempts, since 9/11, to launch mass-casualty attacks against the United States.”
Haven’t we heard this broken record endless YouTube loop before from the man who made billions for his former company while it electrocuted our troops and served them contaminated water? Besides, doesn’t he know that we have a fictional hero by the name of Jack Bauer who will protect us? I hear he’s been doing it for years.
Umm, did Dick see his shadow?
Vampires don’t cast shadows I’m told.
chimpy’s in texas.
Since I believe that in large part al Qaeda is a false flag operation ensuring MIC control of American funds and policy, I wouldn’t doubt that this is basically a ‘protection racket’ threat. I’d take it seriously. Continue to pay ‘us’ off through ridiculous gov’t contracts or else we’ll prove our point.
al Qaeda is a false flag operation
Exactly.
…that ex-Presidents and ex-VPs don’t criticize on the policies and decisions of their successors?
I realize that Carter did criticize Bush on the Iraq War, but indeed that was after the fact and when Bush demonstrated that he learned nothing from his mistakes.
On the other hand, leave it to Cheney to predict that something bad will happen.
And leave it to Cheney to take credit for avoiding another mass terrorist attack on American soil. But when it comes to avoiding problems with the economy?
Maybe they should have torturing executives from Wall Street.
Nobody could have foreseen…
Sounds so very familiar…
And so demonstrably wrong…
Hey, Sawgrass, that is a real funny remark about torturing execs from Wall Street. Maybe, we could do waterboarding on them with liquids from the East
River. Normally, I don’t believe in torture, but I think your idea is astonishing good.
People like Cheney really understand the power of the bully pulpit. He really understands that he needs media machinery for his distortions, he knows that his barbaric crap won’t stand up on its own without forums like Limbaugh’s behind him. If Cheney can’t control the media spin, he can’t succeed.
It’s a clear sign of how weak Cheney really is.
And now that he doesn’t control the media machinery like he did a few weeks ago, he still makes control of the catapult his foremost interest. He only talks to those who parrot his nonsense and don’t talk back.
He is sending out ‘protection racket’ warnings to try to extend the massive feasting of the Military Industrial Complex (‘Your wife and children are so lovely, it would be a shame if anything happened to them’).
I am sure it was Osama living in his office’s Man-sized safe. Just crack that sucker open when necessary…
Yes Dick someone will attack us sometime. If your still alive when it happens then I trust you to turn a profit.
it’s not that “we’ve heard all of this bullcrap before”.
it’s WHY does congress buy into it every time a rethug becomes president and goes down the warmongering path, and WHY does Obama and congress now insist on a surge strategy in Afghanistan which is 99.9 percent guaranteed to fail?