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By David Edwards
Sunday, June 22, 2014 12:32 EDT
Former Vice President Dick Cheney on Sunday insisted that he did not intend any disrespect when he suggested that President Barack Obama was guilty of treason by trying to undermine the United States before leaving office.
In a Wall Street Journal op-ed last week, Cheney and his daughter Liz said that the president was determined to leave office ensuring he has taken America down a notch.
He went on to suggest that Obama was a fool if he intended to work with Iran to prevent violence in Iraq.
In this op-ed, you suggest the president is a fool, ABCs Jonathan Karl pointed out during a Sunday interview with Cheney. That is the word you used, only a fool would take the approach hes taking in Iraq right now.
It almost seems like youre accusing the president of treason, that hes intentionally bringing America down a notch, Karl noted.
Cheney did not deny that he had accused the commander-in-chief of the United States of treason, but he insisted that he had not just called Obama a fool over the violence in Iraq.
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http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/06/22/dick-cheney-doesnt-intend-any-disrespect-by-suggesting-obama-guilty-of-treason/
mysuzuki2
(3,521 posts)when I say "fuck off."
LisaLynne
(14,554 posts)Things just happen with your Dick Cheney!
Mnemosyne
(21,363 posts)merrily
(45,251 posts)And, obviously, "traitor" is a much more respectful term for a head of state than "fool."
And, these are not the droids you're looking for, either.
Journeyman
(15,031 posts)the guards would not let Cheney publish bitter foolishness in the newspaper, nor would he be allowed access to be interviewed on TV.
JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)tea and oranges
(396 posts)In fact if the various fuckety-fuck-fucks (did I get that right?) had been prosecuted after Iran-Contra, they wouldn't have around for Iraq.
madokie
(51,076 posts)lostincalifornia
(3,639 posts)DRoseDARs
(6,810 posts)eom
merrily
(45,251 posts)lostincalifornia
(3,639 posts)If that got them out of office then they could prosecute
stevenleser
(32,886 posts)Clause 5: Speaker and other officers; Impeachment[edit]
The House of Representatives shall chuse [sic] their Speaker and other Officers; and shall have the sole Power of Impeachment.
merrily
(45,251 posts)Article II. The Constitution does not give Congress that power.
While Bushco were in office, Congress could have impeached Bush and Cheney, the penalty for a conviction in an impeachment being only removal from office, but it could not have prosecuted them. However, Pelosi took impeachment off the table very soon after she got the gavel.
After they were out of office, the Obama administration could have prosecuted, but, with respect to Bushco, Obama announced his administration was going to look forward, not back, also not very long after he took over. (Funnily enough, "Forward" was also his campaign slogan in 2012).
Holder even decided there was not enough basis to so much as write a letter to the bar associations of the lawyers involved. Clinton got impeached AND disbarred, but Holder could not find a basis to write a letter complaining. (BTW, no one needs a basis. People write bar associations negative things about lawyers all the time, even off the wall things.)
And, when a Spanish judge decided he was going to go after them on international law grounds, our government had a word with the Spanish government and the judge was not heard from again on that score.
Bette R. Daize
(43 posts)....has quite obviously only served to embolden our real enemies, the Neo-cons (to put it in their own favorite fear-porn phraseology). And notice how they never miss a chance to crawl out from under their rocks to thank him for the favor?
merrily
(45,251 posts)yeoman6987
(14,449 posts)He had the Senate and Housefrom 2009-2011. However, would ACA have been passed? Probably not because at least those two years would have been spent on investigation and perhaps trial. And who knows if anything would have come from it.
Cha
(297,234 posts)SammyWinstonJack
(44,130 posts)Warren Stupidity
(48,181 posts)who should have his transplant repossessed.
Louisiana1976
(3,962 posts)tanyev
(42,558 posts)That is rich.
Baitball Blogger
(46,709 posts)recognize when he's a lying sack of shit.
surrealAmerican
(11,360 posts)... if he had intended disrespect? Is "go fuck yourself" his only disrespectful phrase?
Triana
(22,666 posts)Dick Cheney shouldn't be asked anything about anything. As one of the profiteering architects of the invasion and occupation of Iraq, he should be shunned as the parasite and psychopath he is. In an intelligent debate, he'd long since have been made a pariah.
Seriously, media. SERIOUSLY? At long last, have you NO morals, NO ability to foment meaningful debate and NO skill in reporting on important news of our day without fellating corporate dick? Considering who owns and controls you (corporations) - I guess not.
Louisiana1976
(3,962 posts)Gidney N Cloyd
(19,835 posts)Soon the media will abandon all pretense and it will be obvious they only have him on for the outrageousness factor.
Skittles
(153,160 posts)he's been proven wrong over and over and over
freebrew
(1,917 posts)he makes more $$$. How does anyone listen to this fake human? Why in hell does ANY reporter give him a platform to spew his vile shit?
A prison in Antarctica in July would be too good for him.
And that's not what I really think, that would be cruel.
barbtries
(28,794 posts)and i blame the media for giving him a platform. it is just gone in this country.
Bette R. Daize
(43 posts)....1) He is NOT scum. Scum is far above his level of baseness, and 2) every time the media reports his arrogant rantings, it helps to remind us that it is not too late to demand that he and his other odious war profiteer pals be brought to justice. If they don't report this crap, all their crimes will be swept under the rug and forgotten forever. The media is helping to remind us how wrong it is that they are walking around, enjoying the riches they reaped from the millions who died and/or suffered from their lies. Have we had enough yet?
barbtries
(28,794 posts)with very few exceptions. example: the op ed dick and his daughter wrote ran in the WSJ. no, the media is not reporting on their crimes, it's helping them rewrite history.
Bette R. Daize
(43 posts)considering who owns the media, what would we expect? Time to do something about that as well. Turn off network news and never buy another Rupert Murdoch rag again, WSJ included. And don't forget to tell their advertisers why. If you don't feed the beast, they can't survive to rewrite anything. In the meantime, the blowback these cockroaches received especially this time around, gives me hope that no one (even the conservatives) is buying their story anymore and we are finally getting to the point of outrage when we do something about this. Let's hope that the history rewrite includes a new chapter that sees them finally brought to justice. Positive outcomes start with a positive direction.
barbtries
(28,794 posts)don't even have a tv. DU and fb (media matters, bill moyers, others) is where i get my news and has been for years.
but recently i watched all the president's men with Robert Redford's commentary, and he had quite a bit to say about the degraded state of the press these days. back in the days of watergate you didn't just bop up in front of a camera and assert, "some people say..." and then just shoot a load of crap the way they do on fox. you had sources, you followed a story where it took you, not where some right wing power monger wanted you to go.
i don't know where the positive direction is going to come from as long as money is power and speech both. i think it's going to take a revolution, but there's a lot of needless suffering between now and then, which i do not expect necessarily to see happen in my lifetime (i'm 58).
2banon
(7,321 posts)spanone
(135,832 posts)fuck cheney
Eleanors38
(18,318 posts)Mnemosyne
(21,363 posts)lpbk2713
(42,757 posts)there will be media outlets only too happy to give the asshole coverage.
Darth and his BushCo pals should be behind bars for committing the most
flagrant crimes in history. Instead it hardly even raises eyebrows. This is
how it is when people have well connected friends and money to burn.
Louisiana1976
(3,962 posts)Retrograde
(10,136 posts)when Cheney was in residence there? I seem to remember reading about a lot of top-secret excavation and construction at the time: has anyone ever followed up on it, or is this going to be another ongoing mystery, like what happened to the billions in cash we sent to Iraq?
bobduca
(1,763 posts)I seem to recall that the consensus was that they added "hardened" bunker facilities at the vp house post 911.
Puppetmaster needs protection more than the puppet?
Blue Owl
(50,374 posts)n/t
C Moon
(12,213 posts)NewJeffCT
(56,828 posts)toffee-nosed malodorous pervert. I fart in his general direction.
adieu
(1,009 posts)it's the best tool to scuttle any attempts by the GOP to become significant at the national level, and that disgust might even trickle down to the state and local levels.
JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)fate. His record in history will read: Here lies a cowardly, vile, angry, greedy, ugly, spiritually void, loveless man whose lies and crimes rank him with the lowest villains of history.
Watch Rachel Maddow's report on Iraq: Why We Did It.
http://www.msnbc.com/maddow-why-we-did-it
Cheney was the mastermind behind the great crime that was the Iraq War. And it isn't over yet.
Instead of using solar and wind energy and moving forward into history, the Cheney/Bush bunch hijacked our democracy in order to fill their pockets with the bounty of stolen oil. They set history back by a generation. What hope can they offer? What solutions do they have to sell other than more war, dying children, devastated landscapes? Why are the warmongers on TV?
And McCain? Is he the face of beginning dementia? He should retire his deteriorating mind and malicious spirit to Arizona, sit in the sun and enjoy the confusion and mysterious decline of his dotage. What spite. What anger. What a bad loser.
McCain and Cheney: two lives without grace.
Republicans end their lives in bitterness. Nasty bunch. No compassion. In old age, they pay the price.
Ichingcarpenter
(36,988 posts)Cheney........
I speak NATO
ECHOFIELDS
(25 posts)Cheney proves that hindsight is not always 20/20
Rhiannon12866
(205,360 posts)malthaussen
(17,195 posts)Which anyone paying attention already knew.
-- Mal
blue neen
(12,321 posts)That goes for his worthless daughter, too.
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)rock
(13,218 posts)I would merely mean the amount of respect he is due.
rdking647
(5,113 posts)war criminal dick cheney
MurrayDelph
(5,294 posts)when I say I wish all of his internal organs should reject his body and voluntarily eject themselves via his throat.
rbrnmw
(7,160 posts)what was your approval rating when you left 11% ? I bet it's -11% by now. Go crawl back in your hole and leave us alone
CaptainTruth
(6,591 posts)Http:/www.strongeramerica.com
With "your" email addresses. So far I've submitted a few dozen addresses like FuckYouCheney@yahoo.com, WAR_CRIMINAL_CHENEY@yahoo.com, Burn_In_Hell_Cheney@yahoo.com, You_Lied-People_Died@yahoo.com etc etc etc.
Of course they don't have to be real addresses.
Have fun & make your point!
BlueJac
(7,838 posts)What a country!!!!!!!! Amazing, idiots keep getting press coverage!!!!!!!!!!!!
WovenGems
(776 posts)Wasn't Cheney the model for Voldemort?
Hatchling
(2,323 posts)Voldemort was a much nicer person.
B Calm
(28,762 posts)Fuddnik
(8,846 posts)Go suck on it, you vile piece of human excrement.
That's putting it lightly.
ananda
(28,860 posts)And that was INTENDED disrespect!
49jim
(560 posts)getgo....when he faked his injury and was in a wheelchair for President Obama's inauguration. He wouldn't even stand for the bl**k man. What a pos!
Kingofalldems
(38,458 posts)indepat
(20,899 posts)libodem
(19,288 posts)Cha
(297,234 posts)orgasm. Am I allowed to say that on DU?
abakan
(1,819 posts)everything he says smells just like shit and has as much value.
Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)Office anymore. Oh, BTW, Obama has not hired Dick on an advisory board.
blackspade
(10,056 posts)He has no business talking shit about Obama.
Initech
(100,076 posts)Yes eat a big, steaming pile of horse manure, you treasonous, lying, mass murderer.
Doc Holliday
(719 posts)(raising one cheek in salute)
Beacool
(30,247 posts)Evil troll of a man........
heaven05
(18,124 posts)his 'darth vadar' heart would ....................
Alex P Notkeaton
(309 posts)You've kept the Devil waiting too long as it is!
gopiscrap
(23,761 posts)every time he opens his mouth it is disrespectful to all of humanity!!!
jmowreader
(50,557 posts)"Mr. Cheney, would you like to be placed in the guillotine face-up or face-down?"
Ever since Iraq flared back up and reared its ugly head, there's not a day I don't regret luring him back to the Morse bay to have the spurs taken off his shoes.
Helen Borg
(3,963 posts)niyad
(113,306 posts)I suggest that you complete several anatomically impossible acts upon your worthless waste of oxygen and resources. the sooner, the better.
Zambero
(8,964 posts)As I see it, one can only disrespect a person who was worthy of respect to begin with. Cheney does not pass muster with that test.
muntrv
(14,505 posts)go fuck yourself!
Thor_MN
(11,843 posts)a colostomy bag 8 hours overdue for emptying. He is an evil fuck who cares about nothing other than generating profits through military spending. The world would be a better place without him.
Amonester
(11,541 posts)But I am afraid it will only be done post-mortem.
Better late then never, I guess.
Harry Monroe
(2,935 posts)lexx21
(321 posts)Sorry to anyone here who is named Richard and goes by the name Dick. This was an intentional slight on the former VP of the US who got us into a damn war, not to all of the others who happen to share the same name.
Jefferson23
(30,099 posts)sick administration's complicity and is now running a PR campaign to change it.
TeamPooka
(24,226 posts)DailyGrind51
(4,815 posts)"The government of Iran is the world's leading exporter of terror," Cheney said less than a month after Bush's January 2002 "axis of evil" speech.
On the campaign trail, Cheney has often boasted of how the Bush administration helped shut down an underground network supplying nuclear technology to Iran, which he called one of "the world's most dangerous regimes" in an August campaign speech in Davenport, Iowa.
Halliburton, meanwhile, has defended the business deals with Iran that intensified under Cheney.
"It is neither prudent nor appropriate for our company to establish our own country-by-country foreign policy," Halliburton said in a January statement amid criticism of its Iran deals.
(I always thought that selling weapons to a supposed enemy was treason?)