Dick Cheney Is America's #1 Terrorist

During the eight miserable years of the Bush administration, then-vice president Dick Cheney lied, deceived and stretched the truth as he and the president sought to ram their extreme right-wing war-mongering agenda down our collective throats. And heaven help anyone who got in their way:

"If you're against the president and his policies, you're unpatriotic and rooting against America."

"If you're against the Iraq War, you're against the troops."

And now in the face of President Obama's plan to shut down the controversial prison at Cuba's Guantanamo Bay, Cheney's classic irresponsible and reprehensible partisan rhetoric is running on overdrive. He's an un-lean, mean 24/7 Obama-bashing machine who's giving us "If you're against the Bush/Cheney torture and Gitmo policies you're rooting for the terrorists." This posturing is beyond despicable. And if it's at all possible, he's an even bigger dick than ever.

What Cheney's trying to do, and perhaps successfully, is set the stage so that in the event a terrorist attack does occur again on U.S. soil, he and the other shameless partisan hacks can place the entire blame on Obama's reversal of several Bush/Cheney "enhanced interrogation techniques" such as waterboarding. As a precursor to that, Cheney's ratcheting up the rhetoric that Obama is a weak commander-in-chief, incapable of keeping America safe. Forget the fact that the worst terror attack occurred on Bush/Cheney's watch. Forget the fact that it was eight years between the first and second World Trade Center attacks, yet the Busheviks boasted of anti-terror success after just 6 or 7 years as if passing that mark somehow meant the threat was beyond us. Forget the fact that just three months into his presidency Obama deftly ordered Navy snipers to kill Somali pirates who had held an American cargo ship captain hostage. But as in the past, the truth doesn't matter to Cheney, as he marches on to redeem himself from his perch as the most unpopular vice president in history.

Now let's consider the concerns about closing Gitmo. LA mass murderer Charles Manson has been locked away for almost 40 years in a California maximum security prison. Other serial killers like John Wayne Gacy, Jeffrey Dahlmer and Ted Bundy, or the Oklahoma terrorist Timothy McVeigh, also rotted in the United States prison system before they were either executed or killed by fellow inmates. The deranged "Son of Sam" killer David Berkowitz is serving a life sentence without parole. And locked away in a high-tech prison in Florence, Colorado, known as the toughest slammer on Earth, is Unibomber Ted Kaczynski and radical Islamic terrorists Ramzi Yousef, Zacarias Moussaoui and shoe-bomber Richard Reid. Guess what? Not one of these butchers have busted loose.

But according to Cheney's convoluted, disingenuous logic and rationale, no matter how many innocent people these evil monsters have killed, maimed and tortured -- and there are thousands -- they must be a bunch of pussies to be incarcerated for so long without successfully escaping in the grand Houdini-like fashion that Cheney would like us to believe will occur if we close the controversial jail and import the suspected terrorists into America's prisons. C'mon people, nothing could be more idiotic.

It's ludicrous to think the United States government lacks the overall resources to securely imprison Gitmo's detainees. Are we really supposed to believe that somehow these prisoners will ultimately end up walking the streets of small-town America? Are we really supposed to believe that while Manson, Kacynski, Yousef and countless other murderous beasts rot like caged animals in U.S prisons, this new breed of Gitmo uber-terrorist is too strong, too wily, too dangerous to be incarcerated on American soil? The suggestion that we can't transfer and successfully imprison Gitmo's detainees is not only preposterous, it's offensive to any American with even half a brain. This is simply another shameful Republican politicization of one of America's darkest days. It's a desperate attempt by a near-dead, fear-mongering party to once again lie to the American people about a threat that doesn't exist. Fear, fear and more fear. Where have we seen this routine before?

And if Dick Cheney truly wants to keep the country safe from terrorists, he should stop trying to scare the crap out of everyone. He's the worst terrorist of all.

Comments

[jimbeaux1961]

Actually Andy, your last paragraph is spot-on. The AIM of terrorism is to create terror. Dick is out there every day doing everything he can to frighten the populace. It's bad leadership, and it has been all along.

[tompoe]

Cheney is a war criminal. He lost the right to be called, "former vice president" years ago.

[falconuwm]

....but Dept of Homeland Security said anyone who owns a gun, is against abortion and is a returning militarty vet is a terrorist. I meet 2 of the 3 criteria, so doesn't that make me the number 1 terrorist?

[pittfan]

bush/cheney sold us a bill of goods that lead us to an unjustifiable war.. the quote of goering will never be better applied to a situation as the iraq war and terrorism he said Naturally the common people don't want war; neither in Russia, nor in England, nor in America, nor in Germany. That is understood. But after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country

[buqissa]

Cheny wants to talk more about his torture adventures. Please bring him to court so that he can talk as much as he wants infront of a jury. By the days end he will find his justice.

[Freesia2]

Amen to that Andy.

I'm up early. Made coffee and gave the puppy a snack and went looking for distraction so I came on Huffington Post to read posts. I immediately discovered that I have offended somebody in Canada. I went to war with Canada it seems, (long story), but it happened because I was so rattled over yet another right wing verbal assault (they have right wingers up there too) on my President and things got twisted. I've offended the neighbors.

My point is that Cheney is taking a toll. He and his have contorted and muddied and sullied and poured his particular brand of bilge on everything decent and he doesn't seem to letting up. This truly is terrorism. It's going beyond freedom of expression and has become an interference with our process and a threat. And each day, the same media that made him possible give him new soap boxes to stand on and attack anew - and it's taking a toll. But that's what terrorists do, isn't it? They terrorize.

Meanwhile I'm going to go see if my apology to Canada went through and get some more coffee and take a beat to be grateful that people like yourself peg the man for what he is and correctly label what he's done. There lies sanity.

[DocinPA]

God help any politician that votes to bring them here. There's also the slight problem of virtually no Dems voting to close Gitmo, either.

[PoliticalRockChick]

He's terrorizing me as he speaks every time.

[TRYKER]

Dick Cheney tries to terrorize President Obama every time he speaks. This seems to energize Obama and make him all the more forceful, that's a good thing.
Until he came out of his hidden lair, we weren't sure that Cheney authorized torture, then he said he did right on National TV. So much for all that planning and covering up.

[MyNameIsJames]

Cheney knows that Obama is scared of him - so he taunts him and dares Obama to come after him. Obama is afraid.

[dragonlady620]

I see nothing in Obama's demeanor that suggests he is "afraid"
But I think he's frightening-and so should the rest of the American people. Cheney and the rest of his gang proved themselves to be amoral, unscupulous and ambitious. They had no respect for the rule of law and no concern for the welfare of the country or its people-for them it was about greed and power, period. They brought this country to the sorry state that it is in now and will continue to keep running it further into the ground if it suits their own selfish ends.

[slg]

you wish

[peterg76]

Cheney doesn't care about making sense. He thinks he just has to shout loud enough. Sadly, he might be right.

[blaqntelligence]

"He's the worst terrorist of all."/
Mr. Ostroy,/
Happy Memorial Day and Thank you.
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