Dick Cheney Heckled, Called 'War Criminal' At CPAC

Former Vice President Dick Cheney didn't get the warmest welcome at this year's CPAC conference, as at least one rambunctious member of the audience greeted him with heckles of "war criminal" and "murdering scum."

Making a surprise appearance at the conference to introduce former defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld for a CPAC "Defender of the Constitution Award", Cheney told the audience to "sit down and shut up" after a crescendo of "USA, USA" chants, which were reportedly triggered by a "where's Bin Laden?" exclamation.

In the following moments of silence, screams of "war criminal," "murdering scum," and "draft dodger," were reportedly hurled at Cheney.

According to a tweet from Slate's Dave Weigel, another malcontent later yelled "show us the shekels, Dick!" before being promptly removed by security.

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Comments

[RussT]

05:26 PM on 02/14/2011

There seems to be a lot of vitriolic language being used in this thread.

[kizzie]

12:41 AM on 02/13/2011

Cheney only has a heart becaue our tax $$$ paid for the pump to keep him going. Hopefully long enough for Spain ot Germany to charge with with war crimes.

[Stefan Bast]

01:22 AM on 02/13/2011

If you have a good idea for an invitation, that could make him set his foot on either nation's territory, please tell me, what I can do to help. I am just a punk from Hamburg, but I might know some people, who might know some people,...

Until then, someone might stress to him, that his legal immunity inside the US is only due to Obamas grace of withholding prosecution. And repeat it to him, until even he gets it.

[kizzie]

12:12 AM on 02/14/2011

I know the Obamacy has put pressure on both Spain and Germany to stop any charges or a trial against the Bush/Cheney regime. It outrages me and many of my fellow citizens---it makes us cringe to think these war criminals are getting away with it. And we wonder why we (USA)are viewed with such disgust.

[Boheme Buddha]

07:54 PM on 02/12/2011

Finally, a voice of reason and truth was heard among republicans.

[Joel Mendez]

11:50 AM on 02/13/2011

yeah, then they threw 'em out.

[MzWinona]

07:26 PM on 02/12/2011

Now to get Haliburton out of fracking for gas, setting people's taps on fire and poisoning our water, then we can really say good bye to Cheney!

[freethinkergirl]

07:48 PM on 02/12/2011

F&F
 
Cheney sold war to our country.
 
Cheney: a war profiteer sliding through the revolving door connecting the public and private sectors of the defense establishment.
 
As Defense Secretary,he became CEO of Halliburton, the principal beneficiary of privatization for military logistical support.
 
Cheney was paid $44 million over five years, then became VP.
 
He dished out lucrative reconstruction contracts in Iraq to favoring Haliburton.
 
Halliburton outdid Enron with 58 offshore subsidiaries tax shelters to hide profits and bilk U.S. taxpayers.
 
Halliburton used off-shore subsidiaries to sell banned equipment to rogue states like Iran, Iraq and Libya. Illegal if done directly by Halliburton.
 
Tax payments went from $302 million in 1998 to zero in 1999, Yet receiving an IRS refund of $85 million.
 
$40 million a year for oil field service work in IRAN. Halliburton subsidiaries allowed itself to do illegal business with a rogue state, skippng out on its tax obligation to the US.
 
Halliburton is closely associated with the invasion of Iraq, it went from 19th on the U.S. Army's list of contractors to #1 in 2003, making $4.2 BILLION from the U.S.
 
Cheney's stock options went form $241,498 to $8 million in one year, an increase of 3,281%
Halliburton raked in more than $10 billion for no-bid contract work in Iraq, and handed the first Katrina contracts. Also building the American prison at Guantanamo Bay
 
As VP, Cheney/Bush  Administration funneled billions of dollars to Haliburton.

[concerned joe]

01:52 AM on 02/13/2011

Are you saying Cheney is a corrupt criminal? If you are then I want to shake your hand, It's the best I can do since I am already a fan!

[Joel Mendez]

11:53 AM on 02/13/2011

are you trying to say that cheney profited from war? nah. couldn't be. cheney? a war profiteer? nah. he's amerrikun!

[blytzd]

03:25 PM on 02/12/2011

I guess at least a few people a CPAC were telling the truth.

[jusathot]

03:06 PM on 02/12/2011

I wish someone could tell me the real reason why Sarah Palin would refrain from rubbing shoulders (or any other part) with these big wigs. I am truly stumped.

[suzeejc]

04:34 PM on 02/12/2011

They don't pay enough. She needs 100K minimum to run her mouth.

[jusathot]

05:19 PM on 02/12/2011

But wouldn't it be worth more than that to be rubbing shoulders with Cheny and others?

[Joel Mendez]

11:54 AM on 02/13/2011

actually, i think she just wants 100k to run her mouth-i'm sure she'd do it for free if she had to. symptom of low self esteem.

[concerned joe]

01:54 AM on 02/13/2011

Because they don't like Sarah Palin. She is not welcome to join their good ol boys club. They just want Sarah to go away.

[jusathot]

02:23 AM on 02/13/2011

But they keep inviting her, and seem confused by her rebuff.

[jusathot]

02:58 PM on 02/12/2011

He could not care less what a lone wolf calls out to him. He is showered with affection here from what I can see and hear.

[wooglin62]

01:44 PM on 02/12/2011

It seems strange to see the Lords name invoked here, among some of the most un Christian hateful comments I've ever read. Some of the posters here need to come up for air.

[Boheme Buddha]

07:56 PM on 02/12/2011

... meanwhile, you could learn English.

[Joel Mendez]

11:56 AM on 02/13/2011

um...hateful comments are quite in keeping with xtianity. You seem to be taking umbrage at the target of the hateful comments.

[Lenny Seidel]

01:16 PM on 02/12/2011

Having served during Viet Nam and seen the devastation caused by the lies perpetrated by our country I share the opinion that Dick Cheney is a war criminal. There isa saying that goes "old men make wars and young men die in them". He made a fortune from his "blind trust" during his tenure as vice president. He's a seriously bad person and I worship the ground he'll be under.

[freethinkergirl]

01:49 PM on 02/12/2011

Point on, I'm from that generation and the Viet Nam war still haunts some of my friends who survived.....I still place flowers on the graves of those who didn't.
 
When it was over, we had the false believe that it would never happen again.......:-((

[blytzd]

03:26 PM on 02/12/2011

You probably expected the heroes welcome home that your father recd in WWII also.

[MzWinona]

07:25 PM on 02/12/2011

Well said, Lenny.

[fastronaut]

12:07 PM on 02/12/2011

That was like looking into a kennel of barking dogs.

[Bill Vaughn]

12:02 PM on 02/12/2011

If there ever was a shining example of what a human being is NOT supposed to be, this man is it. He represents the most vile, evil, selfish, heartless, souless example of evil since Hitler, Mussolinni, Chairman Mao, and of course his former finger puppet, old Dubya. This man represents the satanic symbolism of that which we feared most during his reign of fear. If you believe in the greatness of God, then you have to believe in the darkness of Mr. Cheney and righteously pray that the good Lord is on guard against this person.

[Jackie Jones]

01:15 PM on 02/12/2011

thats why he has a broken heart this man has a pump that squeezes the chambers of his heart he does not have a pulse.he has a machine called an LVAD on tax payers insurance plan ironic !

[freethinkergirl]

01:32 PM on 02/12/2011

TY....F&F....I have posted things about this ev!l man for years....here's a short history...
 
Cheney was dividing up and soliciting buyers for the Iraqi oil reserves a full 7 months before we were attacked in 2001.
 
The start of it all:

1992

Halliburton's Brown & Root is paid $9 million by the Pentagon (under Cheney's direction as Secretary of Defense) to produce a classified report detailing how private companies could provide logistical support for American troops in potential war zones around the world. 

1995

Cheney leaves the DD, becomes CEO of Halliburton.  Halliburton goes from 73rd to 18th on the Pentagon's list of top contractors. 
 
The company garners $2.3 billion in U.S. government contracts, which almost doubles the $1.2 billion it earned from the government previously.  
 
1997

Cheney contributes to the creation of the rightwing policy group Project for the New American Century. The group advocates for the removal of Saddam Hussein's Iraqi regime as early as January 1998, and is later revealed to be the intellectual center of the drive to war in Iraq.  
 
1998

Cheney oversees Halliburton's merger with Dresser, a company that helped Saddam Hussein rebuild Iraq's oil infrastructure after the First Gulf War, despite economic sanctions against Iraq.  Halliburton uses two foreign subsidiaries to do $23 million worth of business with Iraq. 
 
2002 
 
Cheney warns the Veterans of Foreign Wars in Nashville, that "seated atop of ten percent of the world's oil reserves, Saddam Hussein could then be expected to seek domination of the entire Middle East, take control of a great portion of the world's energy supplies, and subject the United States to nuclear blackmail." 
 
The WaPo describes Cheney as the "fulcrum of foreign policy", and that his influence for a pro-war policy comes to the fore on the eve of a possible conflict with Iraq. Cheney's wife Lynne is a senior fellow at the AEI, is one of the leading architects of the Bush administration's foreign policy and one of the leading voices pushing the Bush administration's plan for "regime change" through war in Iraq". 
 
2003 
 
The DCAA confirmed that Halliburton and  Kuwaiti Altamnia, had overcharged the U.S. $61 million 2003 for the cost of gasoline imported into Iraq.
 
 

[Scott Stevenson]

11:38 AM on 02/12/2011

I wonder if Tina Turner gave them permission to use her music...doubtful.

[jusathot]

03:03 PM on 02/12/2011

Well they can play it--just like we can play "Signed, Sealed, Delivered" the thing is TT is a Democrat.

[Scott Stevenson]

11:34 AM on 02/12/2011

Cheney reminds me of The Penguin from Batman. "Waugh waugh waugh waugh!"

[Jackie Jones]

01:17 PM on 02/12/2011

lovely the pulseless man he looks so ill he needs a heart transplant funny if he gets one from a black liberal

[freethinkergirl]

01:45 PM on 02/12/2011

Hopefully someone far more deserving will get one......

[Scott Stevenson]

01:56 PM on 02/12/2011

how about a black liberal transgendered lesbian?

[canpete]

10:43 AM on 02/12/2011

i sincerely doubt that cheney has a soul...........

[Jackie Jones]

01:19 PM on 02/12/2011

he has no heart hahaha i dont hate anyone but if i did it would be him and the puppet idjit

[LazloTu]

10:27 AM on 02/12/2011

We need to take some lessons from the Egyptians; THEY know how to throw a demonstration / revolt....