Dick Cheney Calls Obama's Torture Comments 'a Libel' Against CIA Interrogators

There is no use trying to argue logic with the illogical.

While Bush and Cheney were in office and Iraq, 4000 men died, so please. Iraq was the worst decision we have had in 40 + years and maby the worst decidsion ever. Cheney, is completely evil, his own mother gave him away as a child.

Dick Cheney is a greedy, war mongering ass. His tenure in Washington crashed the economy. No one should ever listen to this ass again!

Aloha,

Going snorkeling...See ya... wouldn't want to be ya

sandsnnydz
9:42AM Oct 22nd 2009

Where would these troops go, and what would they do, you moron. More importantly, why aren't you down at the recruiters office? Funny that Cheney got FIVE draft deferrments, and isn't offering to send HIS daughters to Afghanistan. Look dimwit...it took Bush II three months to send troops to Iraq for the so-called surge, because the military had bungled the war so badly, they didn't want to admit it. By the way...they is no such military strategy called a "surge." They actually call it "piss poor prior planning." Do you know how many tons of supplies it takes to support 40,000 soldiers? Did you know that Afghanistan is a landlocked country, with NO appreciable infrastructure, meaning that all of these supplies would have to be flown in or trucked in from where? PAKISTAN, you idiot. Over dirt roads, and through mountain passes and over bridges, wher they would be subject to ambush, every foot of the way, just like the Russians. Then, where do you house 40,000 soldiers idiot? In pup tents? Which Afghan government do you negotiate with...the one coming in, or the one going out? What about our allies? Do you consult them, or do you just tear off on your own, and prove to them, that you don't need them, and their opinion means nothing? What about the UN and NATO? Do you consult with them for the same reasons?

People like you are too stupid to breathe. You know nothing about economics, public policy, or strategic studies, but you have a GED level of understanding and opinions about everything. It was stupidity that got us into these messes. Only a clearly thought out process, that taps into the intellectual capital of subject matter experts, will get us out of it, and that will take time. General McCrystal can order low-risk operations tomorrow, and cut down or eliminate our casualties. You have to ask yourself, why are our soldiers continually put in harms way, sending them into areas filled with IED's and mines? President Obama isn't making these decisions, the generals are.

what can i say?

I PICTURE DICK standing at a podium, at the HAGUE with head down being SCREAMED at by the GERMAN Judge.....

UN..WAR CRIMES..UN TORTURE..UN LYING...UN TREASON...UN,.UN,UN,,
UN CORRUPTION, UN..UN DEPLETED URANIUM....UN........WAR CRIMES AGAISNT HUMANITY.

and now DICK has the balls to be praying for an attack.

There are still people who listen to what Dick Halliburton Cheney thinks? Cheneys operating model is American soldiers and American resources are merely expendable collateral to make a buck for his pet war supplier. He's right about one thing - the CIA shouldn't be on trial, HE should be, along with his enabler, Dubya the Dimwit.

AND how many troops died while waiting on Cheney and Bush who had the request for more troops from their commanders on the ground in Afghanistan for over EIGHT MONTHS and IGNORED THEM and THEIR REQUEST FOR MORE TROOPS. Afghanistan commanders DID NOT get those troops until March of this year when President Obama sent them. Yep, that's right - BUSH and CHENEY IGNORED the request for more troops for EIGHT MONTHS - President Obama was in office less than TWO MONTHS when HE sent the troops that had been requested EIGHT MONTHS PRIOR and IGNORED by BUSH AND CHENEY.

repukeslie7,

Though not a priority to send troops to Afghanistan, We have been training the Afghan National Security forces for years now! Please get your facts straight before you try to BASH and Blame someone for not doing what we actually are!

Plus it is not all doom and gloom, with the very limited military service members, we have really accomplished a lot and have made great strides despite playing second best to IRAQ for so many years and forgotten.

This is my second time here and I am finishing up another year long tour. I have been quite pleased being shifted from IRAQ to come here again. Progress is being made everyday! You should be very proud of the Afghans and the Coalition (including the US) Service Men and Woman who are making a difference, despite not getting credit for it!

The latest assessment see pages 12-16:

http://www.nato.int/nato_static/assets/pdf/pdf_2009_03/20090331_090331_afghanistan_report_2009.pdf

Latest troop strength see CSTC-A ANA fact sheet:

http://www.cstc-a.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=200&Itemid=147

However, CSTC-A is now part of ISAF NATO Training Mission Afghanistan (NTM-A) and CSTC-A has a somewhat different role:

http://www.nato.int/isaf/docu/pressreleases/2009/10-october/pr091020-752.html

Obama adopted the Bush/Cheney policy in Afghanistan when he took office. He was continuing to follow it until the Afghan election threw him a curve and now he doesn't know what to do. The Taliban have been training and building strength in the tribal areas where the Pakistan army nor the Afghan forces could go. Repukeslie7 you don't have any facts. Check out Jefleshman's links. Maybe you won't look like a lying lib if you educate your self.

Carolyn

Thanks, I am never sure anyone uses the sources I provide.

I try putting the REAL information out there because I happen to work for ISAF as a US Soldier. I do not believe people really know what is going on and I wouldn't really if I wasn't over here.

The reconstruction and development efforts are going well (slow but well). Nothing goes fast here.

You would never know about the provincial reconstruction teams that have been in place since 2002 unless a soldier told you. There are currently 26 PRTs in Afghanistan, 12 of which are under US command. I do not know why the good doesn't make the news.

Mr. David Wood from politics daily posted a great article on Sept 16th 2009:
http://www.politicsdaily.com/2009/09/16/a-plea-from-afghanistan-my-friend-do-not-go/

Bush had control of Congress for 6 years, not eight. The Democrats have been playing around with this issue for almost three years now. They have done everything they could to keep this issue a Political Issue, with no concern for our troops, funding our military, or stopping rogue nations from persuing nuclear weapons. The Democrats tied the hands of Government from 2006 to 2008. Now they are doing NOTHING to support the General they appointed in Afghanistan. Not everyone is stupid. Quit point to Bush, your Party was responsible for the Housing collapse that led to where we are at now. Chris Dodd, Barney Frank, Chuck Schumer, Acorn Organization, Pelosi, and Reid. Those of us who know could care less about the way you continually twist and ignore the facts.

Actually libslie - GW Bush was responsible

Bush Blocked Attempts to Prevent Mortgage Crisis
10/07/2009 02:17:00 PM Posted by Metavirus



Gherald and I had an interesting conversation a while back about whether Bush and his Republican cronies deserve the blame for causing our current recession and financial crisis (I know, apparently it's still a debateable point).

Check out the results of this new study and see if you don't find it to be intensely damning of Bush's role in driving our country off the cliff:

Federal regulators in the Bush administration blocked attempts by state governments to prevent predatory lending practices that resulted in the financial crisis now stalking the American economy, a new study from the University of North Carolina says.

In 2004, the Office of the Currency Comptroller, an obscure regulatory agency tasked with ensuring the fiscal soundness of America's banks, invoked an 1863 law to give itself the power to override state laws against predatory lending. The OCC told states they could not enforce predatory-lending laws, and all banks would be subject only to less-strict federal laws.

Now, a research paper (PDF) from UNC-Chapel Hill's Center for Community Capital shows that those anti-predatory lending laws had actually worked. States that had stricter regulations on issuing mortgages were found to have fewer foreclosures.

"We believe that these findings are remarkable, since they suggest an important and yet unexplored link between [anti-predatory lending laws] and foreclosures," the study's authors state.

The study may be the first scientific evidence to back up claims made by many critics that the Bush administration and earlier administrations allowed last year's financial crisis to happen by not enforcing common-sense regulations on lenders.

Last year, seven months before the collapse of Lehman Brothers and the ensuing government banking bailout, then-New York Governor Eliot Spitzer wrote a Washington Post column in which he described how the Bush administration blocked states' efforts to prevent a crisis in the mortgage industry.

Spitzer wrote:
Predatory lending was widely understood to present a looming national crisis. This threat was so clear that as New York attorney general, I joined with colleagues in the other 49 states in attempting to fill the void left by the federal government. Individually, and together, state attorneys general of both parties brought litigation or entered into settlements with many subprime lenders that were engaged in predatory lending practices. Several state legislatures, including New York's, enacted laws aimed at curbing such practices.

What did the Bush administration do in response? Did it reverse course and decide to take action to halt this burgeoning scourge? As Americans are now painfully aware, with hundreds of thousands of homeowners facing foreclosure and our markets reeling, the answer is a resounding no.

Not only did the Bush administration do nothing to protect consumers, it embarked on an aggressive and unprecedented campaign to prevent states from protecting their residents from the very problems to which the federal government was turning a blind eye.

Yes, sand wants us to go broke for illogical partisan and machismo reasons.

Paul,

I hate to do this but I have to being a Soldier and knowing and understanding military history… ever read the book "the Bear went over the mountain"?

I always like when people compare the US plus 41 other Troop Contributing Nations (NATO/ISAF) mission of reconstruction and development to the USSR invasion to pilfer, rape and destroy! Please tell me how a under equipped, not to mention 1950’s technology and very uneducated Soviet force that reached about 118,000 per year compares to the 42 nation coalition in Afghanistan? Not to mention the 80 plus donor nations. Please tell me how estimated the USSR during its reign of terror who lost over 13 thousand KIA compares to the current efforts?

Please come up with something other than they are wars fought in the same place.