Speaking today on CNN, former Vice President Dick Cheney lashed President Barack Obama over the loss of a surveillance drone in Iran, saying that he should’ve doubled down on being caught spying with an overt attack on Iran.
“The right response would have been to go in immediately after it had gone down,” Cheney insisted, saying that this could have been accomplished either with a ground invasion aimed at “recovering” the lost drone or by bombing the area until the drone was destroyed.
When pressed on whether or not bombing Iran would have “potentially led us into a war with them” in a later interview, Cheney cited the bombing of a Marine barracks in Beirut in 1983, saying that was “Iranian-supported.”
The unspoken answer then is not only would attacking Iran because a US spy drone was lost probably have led to a war with Iran, but that Cheney thought this would be a good idea. He went on to insist it would be a “fairly simple operation.”
ahhhh, wise words from a man who should otherwise be serving time in federal prison for treason or and international one for war crimes…
Fierce competition for worst mass murderer, but cheney is #1; followed closely by never elected partner in crime bush and obomber !
Well said.
I think it is Cheney who should be attacked. The guy is a complete nutter!!!
i think he should be sent to prison and continuously violated by those even more cruel and sadistic than himself….that would be most fitting
FUNNY, how when China downed our spy plane with it's crew of 24 were held by China the Bush/Cheney team talked tough but did NADA China did give the plane back, in pieces… Bush told the Chinese NOT to board the plane….. China did not even answer…. They just stole all the intelligence and technology and sent the pieces back.. So Cheney needs to recommend what they practiced….. Not delusional BS…!!
The difference is that China, unlike Iran can defend itself. Don't you know that bullies only pick on the weak?
Yea how dare the Pakistanis defend their airspace. it's not like we wouldn't be ok with it if Pakistan or anyone else sent spy drones over our airspace right Mr.Cheney?
What a miserable old bastard.
his face alone would bring down a pred
Cheney should be given a choice: either he personally is on the lead helicopter that goes into Iran to retreive the drone (thereby giving him a chance to make up for hiding behind his pregnant wife's skirts to avoid military service during Viet Nam), or else he is arrested, put on a C-130 to Guantanamo and waterboarded on live, global television for the purpose of exposing exactly What he knew about the so-called Terror Event/Coup of September 11, 2001, and exactly When and How and With Whom he knew it (giving him a chance to tell the truth about something at least one time in his life before he dies).
Actually, Obama should attack Cheneys house and have all the top secret electronics ripped from his chest.
Go fly a kite, Cheney. Then go straight to Hell1
“fairly simple operation.”… Hey, isn't that what Wolfowitz and the Cheney cabal said about Iraq? I wonder how that turned out? And losing that plane AND its flight crew, well, that was different. That wasn't on the watch of a black, democratic President. Everyone knows if something bad happens to a good old white boy from Texas, like losing a spy plane or starting a war everyone with a brain told him couldn't be won, well, that was someone else's fubar.
Yeah, just like Iraq was a "cakewalk".
What a nut case.
Anyone (sane at least) might think that the plan is to go to war with Iran anyways. http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/12/13/panett…
Can we put Cheney on a drone, and fly it over Iran?
Somebody shut this B—— up
It does not say much or auger well for america and its people to have a torturer/war criminal as a VP or even still a "president"in the form as george bush.
Why isn't this miserable misogynistic excuse for a human being not already in shackles in front of the International Criminal Court for war crimes & crimes against humanity?
How many ostensibly 'friendly' nations have made it clear that any of these war criminals that set foot on their territories would be subject to arrest & trial for these war crimes? Spain, Germany, and Malaysia are 3 at least that come to mind.
Where is the well-equipped & funded (Soros?) version of Code Pink that is willing to kidnap & extreme rendition these war criminals to a country willing to prosecute these 'ugly bags of mostly water & poop'? I mean, come on, people … a few flash-bangs, tasers, handcuffs & bag over head, a fast car, and a private jet are all that's needed …
"Why isn't this miserable misogynistic excuse for a human being not already in shackles in front of the International Criminal Court for war crimes & crimes against humanity?"
Because the four years of Bush inflicted on us by Gore, and the four-more-years of Bush inflicted on us by Kerry left the country in a state of post traumatic stress disorder. Then, to lift themselves from that state of shock and despair, the country deluded itself into thinking that either Mr. Hopey-Changey or orgasm-deprived Hillary-the-warrior-princess could set us on a new course.
Aaaaaaah! the momentary relief of time-worn delusion.
Then reality strikes back, and we discover what we should have known from the start(I knew it): that Obama would prove to be yet another spineless, wimp, loser, empty-suit, sell-out, who from day one would care only about draping his impotence and failure in fantastical rhetoric and thereby enable him to win reelection for another four years.
Now we get to see whether he can pull it off, his one trump card the fact that Americans are saddled with two equally repugnant equally corrupt political parties.
Which plate of sh*it will Americans choose to be force-fed from this time?
I think we need an Occupy Cheney, several Occupy Bush(s), an Occupy Rumsfeld, and I think we need an Occupy Wolfowitz. If we had a President with even the slightest Constitutional backbone, those Unitary Executive powers Obama 'inherited' from Dubya and expanded upon would be used to throw the whole PNAC cabal into FEMA camps right alongside the Wall Street Mobsters that created the economic meltdown.
Sadly, we don't have and from now on likely never will have such a President.
I think if Cheney had done anything wrong the great Patrick Fitzgerald would have brought him before the court.
Now, Rod Bladgoevich…that's a real international criminal…and the other governor of Illinois who is in jail now for having something supposedly to due, kind with selling driver's liscenses…that's real criminal activity.
Not killing 1 million Iraquis. That's given life to our video game industry and provided thousands of jobs.
He refers to an incident that happened 28 years ago as a justification? You notice he said it was 'Iranian supported' which might mean it was a bit of a stretch to link it to Iran (always naturally for political purposes). An ounce of truth for a ton of lies?
What we need is an economy, NOT WW3 !
Too bad that Cheney and Bush could never figure that one out.
War is the health of Cheney's tribe of monsters, and WW3 would be the mother of all economic dreams-come-true for Cheney and his business pals.
What an evil man Cheney is, nothing destructive is beyond his imagination.
Commander Cheesenuts and his crack team of commode commandos can lead that operation.
"Cheney cited the bombing of a Marine barracks in Beirut in 1983, saying that was “Iranian-supported.”"
God, the dumb bastard has it completely backwards. The marine barracks were a legitimate military target that was bombed only after we got involved in Lebanon and (among other things) started shelling villages from our ships.
Iran has what's coming for them after their involvement with the bombing of Marine barracks in Lebanon and callous embassy bombings. One day the "Supreme Leader" will be hung high.
Hey, moron! Don't know what you're doing on this site, but blowback is inevitable when one tries to run an empire.
That Marine barracks was atatcked AFTER – AFTER – the USS Missouri blasted the S*** out of a whole bunch of villages in Lebanon. The US troops deployed in Lebanon were never neutral or impartial from day one.
Kultz. You don't even know the meaning of your name you dumbass Khazar Jew who embraced Judaism a few cinturies ago to become the parasitic desease which spread all over Europe and US. You call yourself American but inside your loyalty stands for Israel which makes you like the Shia who express what is not in their heart. Beat it and find place for yourself with your ADL & JDL terrorist who roam around terrorisin Americans. Your day will come when you change your name to Don & Steve.
Wow, and some of my comments don’t get posted here…
I’m actually a Mizrachi Jew. My great-Grandparents were ethnically cleansed from Iraq during the farhud.
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Woow..woow. Suddenly you became expert in history. Well idiot..you own prophets (May Allah's Peace Be Upon them) David & Jesus cursed you. You gave hard time to the beloved Moses (PBUH) denounced you after you disobeyd him several times and started worshipping calf which you made it from the gold you stole from the Egyptian. Now you stole from the American like you stole from the German. History repeats itself when it comes to stealing another nation's wealth. Always the Jews involved. I still put it this way..You better go to city hall and get your application forms for name changing before it's too late. The sleepin giant (American) about to explode or better to head back to the land you stole from the Palestinians. Either way you will lose at the end. What's taken by force will be taken back by force.
1) the notion iran had something to do with that bombing has never been supported by even a shred of evidence
2) you cant blame the lebanese for wanting foreign invaders out of their country….after all, do you think we would sit time if some arab invader had a marines baracks in the middle of DC??
Iranian history didn't begin last year, fool- the US and our Western accomplices have a long and distinguished history of interfering with Iranian/Persian internal political and economic interests. I really wish it were different, but Iran has a whole bucketload of reasons to not trust us and regard everything we do in the Middle East as directly detrimental to their interests. Instead of alienating Iran, we need to be opening them up and courting them as allies- even as enemies they are a heck of a lot more open and honest with us than has been our erstwhile "ally" of Israel, just think of how much better things would be if Iran were allied to us in the region. But no, Israel won't have it, so the drums of war beat on to whatever tune Tel Aviv decides upon.
We all know what a Klutz is. Some one that trips over his own brain. Iran had nothing to do with
the bombing of the Marine Barracks. Our very best Allie did that fine job, just as it done with the world trade center and was complicite in the OKC bombing. The Government cover up of all of
these situations should be proof enough for anyone to come to the conclusion that those in the high echelons get their orders from those that control this government and they hate the Muslims and Christians.
One mentioned the spy plane shot down by the Chinese. That plane was in international airspace. We had a very good reason to do something but Cheney and Bush allowed the chinese get our most sensitive electronic spy equipment. The drone in Iran was clearly in iranian airspace.
Chenney will support any action which makes him richer and kills our kids. It really is that simple with him.
That's provided we were told the truth in the first place. Anything coming out of the mouths of DC politicians is automatically suspect. You'd have thought there was a self destruct system on board though.
Let's all hope for that inevitable fatal heart attack to relieve us from the vile crap that spews from his grotesque mouth. Let him return to his father, Satan, where he belongs.
Jimmy Carter tried the smash and grab shenanigans already. Why don't you ask him how well that turned out?
The sickest man in America!
Tell me Mr. Cheney, how do you find this LOST drone so you can retrieve it or destroy it? The Ground lost communication with this UAV causing it to fly a contingency route which ultimately ended up in it landing itself. It was unlucky that the GNC software worked on this UAV, for if it didn't the vehicle would have crashed instead of landing itself.
Does anyone understand what LOST means? This UAV had a "lost comms" with its controlling Ground System. The on-board SW triggered a contingency route to try to fly back to the GS. The contingency route somehow did not back it back to the GS. The UAV lost altitude while in Iran and (unlucky for us) landed in Kashmar where it is flat. This is why the vehicle is pretty much intact.
If we knew where the UAV was we would have had the opportunity to recover it or destroy it, time and location entering into the risk of so doing.
Simply put, WE DID NOT KNOW WHERE THE UAV WAS.
So you believe everything the government tells you through its MSM stenographers?
The drone must be brought back ALIVE!
Cheyney is a wise man. But our brave young fighting drones should not be thrown into a landfill like common American soldiers. Our brave young fighting drones cost millions. Soldiers are produced through sexual reproduction, cheaply and we have a lot of them.
Drones take years to develop. This young fighting drone must be brought back Alive, fully in tact. If we need to trade 1,000 Palestinians through a deal with the Israelis…let's do it!
Let's get our priorities straight!
I am shocked by Dick Cheney, a man I admire…that he would suggest such a thing.
Cheney gets my vote for the most vile and disgusting member of all of America's degenerate political class. In a field of evil, he is still bad enough to be in a class by himself.
This crazy man was in charge of the defence dept and know very well that a decision to go in has to be supported by the top military, If the military generals proposed to Obama to go in he would have said yes. Bubling Cheney playing bravado outside politics. If he was in the governing party he would think twice before descrediting his own words. Iran simply isn't Iraq. He also needs some 10 trillions to launch another bleeding war which won't last at US terms and conditions.
Where does the U.S. find its politicians? Do they have a special cesspool that is home to such reptilian monsters as Cheney and George W and Obama?
All I can hope is that someone might nuke the cesspool and kill all future deranged reptiles.
Faint hope, I guess.
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Here's your rifle, Dick. And here is your parachute. Watch your step climbing into that airplane and we'll call Tehran and tell them you are on your way to kick their asses all by yourself!
Chickenhawks like Cheney get OTHER SAPS to do their fighting for them.
So is it safe to assume that if an Iranian surveillance drone violated U.S. airspace and we captured it through whatever circumstances, Darth Cheney would be okay with Iran bombing the U.S. until we returned it?
Does this show the mind and soul of a war criminal? Let us go to war and kill, kill, kill because we lost a SPY plane…sure show's where his heart is.
We violate sovereign air space of another country, crash our un-maned plane so we have the right to invade them? Just how would we feel, or what would we do if this happened in our own country?
All a big scam, they want them to keep it it is still being used for surveillance, and its whereabouts are know, probably sending back responder ping's as we speak via rfid etc:
Shut up you CHICKENHAWK,and go back to GERMANY
What a MORON THIS MAN IS
Stick it
God, Cheney's a bastard.
Like Kissenger, he just doesn't know when to shuffle off the planet.
The military hates this man with a passion. Am surprised that he is still alive….. or whatever.
Cheny has nothing to live for so he don't care what happens to the rest of the world. In his defense, he did shoot a lawyer, so he is not all bad.