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Be Afraid, Cheney Warns. Be Very Afraid.
Kaitlynn RielyPosted: Feb 5th 2009 8:05AM
Filed under: Politics, Breaking News, News, Media, Notre Dame
Just when you thought the Bush-era warnings of Armageddon around the corner were over, Cheney strikes again.
The former vice president hasn't been seen in public since Inauguration Day, when he was rolling around in a wheelchair due to an injury sustained lifting boxes. But a few days ago, he gave an interview to Politico, in which he warns there is a "high probability" that terrorists will attack with biological or nuclear weapons in the next few years. He worries that now that his boss is out of office and back in Texas, the Obama administration policies will make the attacks more likely to succeed.
"When we get people who are more concerned about reading the rights to an Al Qaeda terrorist than they are with protecting the United States against people who are absolutely committed to doing anything they can to kill Americans, then I worry," Cheney said.
I think he's just worried we are not worrying enough now that he's not there to worry us.
But for all his worrying, Cheney is a confident man. Saturday Night Live recently mocked Dick Cheney, parodying him as a man with no regrets from his often-controversial eight years in the Bush administration. He told Politico he still thinks Guantanamo is a "first-class program" and said he believes one day files will be made public that show that policies like waterboarding were directly responsible for preventing another Sept. 11-like attack.
Cheney reminds me of another SNL creation: Debbie Downer.
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giles chauvin
10:15AM 10:15AM Feb 5th 2009
if cheney's so smart, why didnt he see the first one coming?
(I know, trick question)
he could have completed his words of wisdom with another like prediction that britney spears with have love and drug problems in the future.
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I am afraid
7:39AM 7:39AM Feb 6th 2009
Did you see the first one coming????When they pull all the troops out of Iraq,are you going to have enoungh guns and ammo to protect you and your family????From all of the terrorist in this country and the ones that are going to be shipped here because of Obama.
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secretdoc
10:25AM 10:25AM Feb 5th 2009
We won't really know if Cheney is right or not until Obama is out of office. If there hasn't been an attack then Cheney was wrong. If there has then Cheney was right. All the BS spouted back and forth until then is just emotional partisanship on a personal bulletin board level
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Mike
10:34AM 10:34AM Feb 5th 2009
You had ALL better hope he is wrong. I don't know him to form oppinion but he has some very good points. We are easy to judge and critisize others, but if this man ends up right, you and your kids will end up dead. I find it hard to believe the first priority of a new president is to take care of prisoners who had a hand in attacks on our country. There is something very wrong in that message. And by the way, where is all this "change" we are to have?? The only thing to change since the new president was elected are his promises. He can't even appoint a new person in office without baggage and controversy. Be careful who you laugh at, you just might end up, "very afraid".
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JMT
12:33PM 12:33PM Feb 5th 2009
Where is the change? Your ignorance is showing. Did you expect the change to happen the minute the inauguration was over? There is a lot of damage to reverse from the prior administration...Ya know, the one that said the economy in the US was strong back in August 2008, nothing to worry about.
As for Cheney, if these attacks were so easy to predict why didn't almighty George do something sooner? Oh yeah, we were busy in Iraq, again, why are we there?
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Rev. Branch
8:38AM 8:38AM Feb 7th 2009
It will take more than a few weeks to clean up eight years of greed dumb laws and lies. What color alert code has Cheney put the American people under RED FOR FEAR HIGH ALERT. These people are SICK.
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Geoff Barker
10:47AM 10:47AM Feb 5th 2009
What else is that evil sleaze bag going to say. He is just trying to justify the totally corrupt bush administration
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Mark Borg
11:30AM 11:30AM Feb 5th 2009
Cheny seems to be an arrogant snake ,
useles to anyone but himself . He hurt his
back lifting al the cash he's vacuumed up
from " donations " the past 8 years. Thanks for all you've fukked up for America Dick ! !
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Liberty4All
4:25PM 4:25PM Feb 6th 2009
Dude, I couldn't Agree with you more! I hope that c**k s**ker chokes on his vomit!! Him and his bush buddies!!
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Joe
11:59AM 11:59AM Feb 5th 2009
SELFISH SELFCENTERED AMERICANS..As long as their is no attack on our soil we are winning the war against terrorism. Thank God for Bush and Chenney..Obama out if attack on our soil,but if it happens in Canada,France ,or Poland it's OK. Rememebr India..Ignorant white rednecks.Go buy a gun..New Yorker here
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Mainaz57
11:59AM 11:59AM Feb 5th 2009
Paying for abortions all over the globe.... now thats change. Pardoning terrorist and supporting criminals and perperators, now that is change.
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Joe
12:08PM 12:08PM Feb 5th 2009
SELFISH SELFCENTERED AMERICANS As long as their is no attack on our soil guess we are winning this war..Thank God for Bush and Chenney.If it happens in Canada,France or Poland,who cares. Rememeber the recent attack in India.Attack on US soil Obama the president is out the door.You Ignorant white Rednecks.Go buy a gun and live in fear.New Yorker here
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Sarah
12:11PM 12:11PM Feb 5th 2009
Cheney in a wheelchair reminds me of Mr. Potter in "It's a Wonderful Life!" I hate Dick - seeing him with a cane makes him even more like the Penguin in Batman (the original TV show back in the Sixties) a la Jon Stewart. "Waaaack!"
Seriously, 9/11 did happen on his watch and he never got over it. Even his friends claim he has never been the same since that day. He went on a power grab we will all be paying for forever. Then he tainted the Gitmo detainees by torturing them, they now can't be tried in court - thanks, Dick!
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FireEagle
11:06PM 11:06PM Feb 24th 2009
Sarah === Dick was not at Gitmo !!! He did not torture..
Bob === Alot of people did not go to Vietnam, I did not go and so did alot of my friends. Bush did join the Guard. That is more than what I did. There were millions of men that did not go to Vietnam.
Bettybb..=== I think you are thinking of the impeached president Clinton he missed so many red flags that his butt is red.. He missed the cobart towers bombing, the world trade towers in 1993, the USS cole, In the 8 years that Clinton was president our soldiers were dying from terrorist attacks. Bush and Cheney did something about it. That is why we have been safe for 7 1/2 years..
Now we have a twit in the white house that wants to spend more money than all the wars that we have fought to help his cronies, and the labor unions. You complain about the cost of the war but we have just thrown away trillions of dollars that you and I will have to pay for over the next 30 years. Plus these programs will never go away.. In one month Obama has destroyed this country and we may never recover.
He has order a new fleet of helicopters for himself at the COST OF 11 MILLION DOLLARS, BUT HE IS CUTTING THE DEFENSE BUDGET AND SOLDIERS AND US WILL DIE SO THAT HE CAN FLY AROUND IN COMFORT.
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jan
12:26PM 12:26PM Feb 5th 2009
I find it scary that there are people here who think terrorism is a military matter, and whose understanding is so shallow that they aren't even aware of what goes on in other countries and the effect our policies have on people around the globe. This is important. It's critical. Do you people never has yourselves 'how' or 'why' anything happens? Are you so lulled by the mindless 'they hate us for our freedoms' inanity that you persist in a simplistic kindergarten mindset?
Cheney would appear to. We were safe for 7 years BEFORE 9/11, too. He and like-minded buddies have done untold damage to us and put us in a much more precarious position. Either he is completely devoid of introspection and critical thinking or he truly is a very immoral individual.
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rob will
1:03PM 1:03PM Feb 5th 2009
Cheney who ? ? ?
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Hairgal99
1:59PM 1:59PM Feb 5th 2009
Cheney and ALL GOP's just need to KEEP THEIR F#%*@# MOUTHS SHUT!!! THEY ARE THE ONES WHO GOT US INTO ALL THESE MESSES AND NOW WE HAVE TO CLEAN UP THEIR BULLS@#^$! I'am soo sick of the GOP NOT taking an ounce of 'responsibilities', its just plain SICKENING!
And 'now', what Cheney is a frickin' 'PROPHET'!?
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Chris
2:05PM 2:05PM Feb 5th 2009
This criminal belongs in Guantanamo. Americans have been subjeacted to the worst kind of brainwashing. FEAR. WAKE UP!!!!!
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ploofl
2:32PM 2:32PM Feb 5th 2009
Dear Republicans - we won - shut up.
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William B. Bizzell II
6:15PM 6:15PM Feb 5th 2009
My business career was in preventing and/or minimizing catrastrophic losses, e.g. Fire, Liability, Earthquake, environmental pollution, etc. From that point of view, it made good sense that the President and Vice President should avoid being in the same place at the same time. I didn't like it then and don't now; but Risk-Avoidance, I thought; that's all it was. But these half-baked assertions of imminent Doom after he has left office have caused me to re-think Mr. Cheney. That's the problem with Paranoia: you can't PROVE that his fears are wrong ! You also can't PROVE that his fears aren't SELF-FULFILLING ! That is, that Iraq, Iran, or somebody won't take his fears as policy-predictions, and act accordingly. I don't know Mr. Cheney. I don't call him a paranoiac. But I'm just as glad he's out of the decision-making loop at last.
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