Challenging Cheney

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  • Posted By: medicis @ 12/26/2007 9:32:19 AM

    What amazes me is that many posters mistakenly believe that a new administration will make any difference. The politicians you get to vote for are chosen and fully vetted by the military-industrial, media and financial rulers (oligarchy) of this country. Presidents and vice presidents are simply 'middle management'. The parties are simply Tweedledee and Tweedledum.... and the country... well, it is well along the road to fascism. The laws are now in place. The Presidential Directives have been pronounced. The Signing Statements... written. The American public, well propagandized, lethargically sunk into their couches sucked into the Bernays-ian propaganda flooding their telly tubes. Newsweek is one of the propagandists' tools. "The Central Intelligence Agency owns everyone of any significance in the major media." ~ William Colby, Former Director, CIA

  • Posted By: tulcak @ 12/26/2007 9:22:35 AM

    mbdougan, there are those (republicans) who don't want to wake up because, when it comes to their guy, they will rationalize ANYTHING. NOTHING is more important to them than defending their party and their ideology AT ANY COST. these past 7 years, we have ceased to be America because we allowed two men who were not elected to take office. and while in office, they have pulled all the power to themselves. this country is run by bush and cheney, not by the people's will any longer. and they simply do what they want - including hiding the truth about their corruption. this is what happens when business is unregulated because all bush and cheney are are corrupt businessmen.

  • Posted By: mbdougan@hotmail.com @ 12/26/2007 8:28:20 AM

    I wish America could wake up! I'm concerned that it may be too late already. We have become complacent and it shows in the current administration. They know, (the Bush-Cheney Regime) that our Country has become like lambs to slaughter, and they are holding the knives......

  • Posted By: mbdougan@hotmail.com @ 12/26/2007 8:27:22 AM

    I wish America could wake up! I'm concerned that it may be too late already. We have become complacent and it shows in the current administration. They know, (the Bush-Cheney Regime) that our Country has become like lambs to slaughter, and they are holding the knives......

  • Posted By: busibe @ 12/24/2007 2:03:36 PM

    Cheney and Bush actions throughout the whole tenure will turn around and bite them you know where. The next administration will spend the majority of their time recinding and changing the policies that the current administration has put in place. What goes up must come down, and people who think they are above the law, always lose.
    Dona Clark

    • Posted By: Braes @ 12/26/2007 2:08:30 AM

      Amen and good on you.

      • Posted By: Junfloyd @ 12/26/2007 7:57:55 AM

        Good post, although don't you wonder if they will ever will be held accountable for their actions? It seems like they will not. They should be put in jail, but what are the odds of that?

      • Posted By: Junfloyd @ 12/26/2007 7:55:32 AM

        Good post, but don't you wonder if the administration is above the law? They get away with every rotten thing they do and no one calls them on it. Disgraceful.

  • Posted By: lollymom1 @ 12/26/2007 7:23:40 AM

    Well, Well, Well! Another example of the this Administration subverting the process and playing by their own rules. It's too late to impeach them-that is if you could get the GOP votes. Hopefully we will survive long enough until another President and Vice-President is elected. Can you imagine what Cheney's actionwould have been after 9/11? I shudder just thinking about it.

  • Posted By: rod123 @ 12/26/2007 5:09:52 AM

    Obviously there is only one explanation for Mr. Cheney's position. That is that he doesn't exist and therefore any kind of rule does not apply. It is no wonder that the rest of the enlightened world does not take us serious. This is not the peoples country anymore. There are too many secrets, too many lies. How can anyone trust our leaders. How can you tell the President and Vice President are not telling the truth .... their lips are moving!!!!!!!

  • Posted By: Gillis @ 12/25/2007 12:54:29 PM

    Bush the father has given to his son the cancer of his administration. He has ruined his son reputation all over the world. He knew that W did not have what it takes to run the country by himself, so he insisted that he takes Cheney on board, so President Cheney screw it all up to our XXXXX. We know that in a year he will be gone, but the damage he has done to this country is irreversible. Not even Hillary could fix it. May the next time he could shoot himself the bald eagle.

    • Posted By: Braes @ 12/26/2007 2:46:13 AM

      And that Bushes father, Prescott traded with the Nazis and was implicated in a plot to overthrow FDR. None of the fruit has fallen far from the tree. (See Business Plot, Smedley Butler...) They tried to install Fascism before and it seems to run in the blood.

  • Posted By: nawawimohamad @ 12/25/2007 12:01:19 AM

    The Bush administration is stretching the law to its limits If this persist it will eventually break. The current administration with all its coniving is rather resourceful but the resources are limited and they cannot fool everyone all the time. They are lunatics. Although their days are numbered, history shows that all these will continue no matter who is in power. It is therefore up to the American people and especially those who are influential to stand up to these lunatics.

    • Posted By: Braes @ 12/26/2007 2:36:28 AM

      They made themselves the law with 1100+ signing statements saying they would do as they pleased. They have not governed lawfully. They have been a horror. I apologize where their actions have hurt innocents, even though I did not vote for them. I believe they stole the 2000 election, and used fear and terror to keep power. I believe they are bigots and hateful. I believe God will be a just judge. Peace to you.

  • Posted By: comosun @ 12/26/2007 2:20:57 AM

    Hey, if American voters like the idea of a closed society, as was the Soviet Union, that's their problem. Not mine. I'm a Canadian.

  • Posted By: joeblue111 @ 12/25/2007 2:25:31 AM

    Its is difficult to understand that till now the Congress is not up in gear investigating the actvities of Cheney. He has not only brought this country and the dollar to its knee's, he has also been responsible for many driving the country into war with lies. They have plundered the finances they took over with surplus, filled the koffers of Haliburton and Co. and are responsible for thousands of dead soldiers and Iraqis. Does this not amount to "High Crimes and Misdemeanors"?
    It is time for change and return to accountability and responsibility. Bush and Cheney should face the nation and stand trial for the crimes they have committed.

    • Posted By: Braes @ 12/26/2007 2:07:47 AM

      Or let them leave office, and get invited overseas to accept an award in any country which will extradite them to the court in the Hague. I'd be able to see Cheney withering out in the same cell Milosevic died in.

  • Posted By: knowledge @ 12/25/2007 4:37:20 PM

    Though there are things that should be held as TOP SECRET, most of what the government does is sensitive only in that it will embarrass some government official, either elected or appointed, for the unlawful and/or unethical things that they do. We should know of these faux pas so the law can apply equally to all of us. What a group of unethical and immoral people have populated the White House for the past 7 years under the guise of evangelical Christians. I am a believer in the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost. Nowhere in scripture do I find justification for the continual lying that this administration perpetrates on the citizens of this country in a daily fashion. Will we ever know the extent of lying done by this group of selfish dogooders. I see them as close to the anti-christ.

    • Posted By: Braes @ 12/26/2007 2:06:01 AM

      Dead right on classifications. Good call.

  • Posted By: Mogollon Rim @ 12/25/2007 10:02:08 PM

    Here is what we've come to: A President and Vice President blinded by power and privilege, oblivious to the devastation toward which they are pushing America and the world. An International corporate culture run amok, freed from restraints in every area from pollution control to health and safety standards to merciless price-gouging, even as the abuses slip quietly from the attention of corporate owned media. An economy trumpeted as "blooming" even while hundreds of thousands lose their jobs, slip into poverty, are left without homes or health care or enough to eat. A "Patriot Act" that makes all of us traitors if we speak out in any way the Washington thought militia deems threatening. Warrantless Wiretapping, Systemic Torture. Abuse of Detainees, Cherry-Picking Intelligence, Muzzling Truth tellers, Shredding our Constitution.

    • Posted By: Braes @ 12/26/2007 2:04:43 AM

      Yeah, sick isn't it? Please vote, and keep talking to others too. Thank you.

  • Posted By: jblades @ 12/25/2007 10:27:57 PM

    It baffles me that a person as uneducated to the basic laws of the land, as well as being morally bankrupt can latch on to and hold positions in the highest offices of this country....Amazing. Cheney is, was and will go down in history as incompetent, dishonest and one of the worst pawns in history.

    • Posted By: Braes @ 12/26/2007 2:03:24 AM

      They knew better, they just didn't care.

  • Posted By: reasonedmind @ 12/26/2007 1:26:09 AM

    Too bad CIA analysts and generals did not stand up to the Vice President. Fututre presidents will be tempted to follow the precendents established by Bush-Cheney. Any bets on how many future presidents will be elected?

    • Posted By: Braes @ 12/26/2007 1:57:06 AM

      Hopefully, all will be elected. I hope all of the electronic vote stealers are gone before vote 2008. Request a paper ballot. Vote absentee. I agree with almost everything on here from everyone so far. These people give diabolical a harmless image. I believe the rest of the world knows we are totally sick of it too. America since 9/11 has been like a blind giant flailing away at friend and foe alike.

  • Posted By: reasonedmind @ 12/26/2007 1:21:51 AM

    If only CIA analysts and generals had stood up to the Vice President. The next presidents will be tempted to follow the precendents set by Bush-Cheney. Any bets on how many more presidents wil be elected?

  • Posted By: kenneth@world-international-corp.com @ 12/26/2007 1:14:06 AM

    My mother taught me, at a young age, never to wish bad for anyone because punishment from GOD is more awesome than I could ever imagine. Constant pain, agony, worry, distress, hunger and every kind of illness, simutanously, without death for eternally may very well be all our lot. This is what Cheney and the entire administration deserve even if I don't wish it upon them!

  • Posted By: R49Thomas @ 12/26/2007 12:27:10 AM

    Oops!!

    I see my comments were misdirected. MSNBC (from whence I linked) is the source of the activist appellation..

    Apologies to Newsweek, aspersions to MSNBC.

  • Posted By: xmissile @ 12/26/2007 12:25:21 AM

    ...and we elected them to a second term. What does that say about us?

  • Posted By: R49Thomas @ 12/26/2007 12:23:40 AM

    I wasn't surprised by the position of this Administration.

    What is telling is Newsweek's characterization of a public servant doing his job as an "activist".
    Sounds like a guy with some sort of a political agenda itching for a fight.

    On this definitional basis, if a policeman arrests a criminal, does that make him an "activist"?
    Is Newsweek's employee who conducted this interview an "activist"?

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