CIA chief believes Cheney almost wants US attacked

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

I am not worried. China will save us.

[~PalmTreeGurl~ 154]

Obama has ordered that captured combatants in Afghanistan be Merandized and supplied with attorneys for their defense. He's treating Taliban like they robbed a 7-11!

He's being fair to Muslims. That should make you happy.

no, its not about them being muslim... its about him treating extremists/terrorists with only a slap on the hand.

[spookyturtle 9,466]

Obama has ordered that captured combatants in Afghanistan be Merandized and supplied with attorneys for their defense. He's treating Taliban like they robbed a 7-11!

He's being fair to Muslims. That should make you happy.

no, its not about them being muslim... its about him treating extremists/terrorists with only a slap on the hand.

I was being sarcastic.

[~PalmTreeGurl~ 154]

Obama has ordered that captured combatants in Afghanistan be Merandized and supplied with attorneys for their defense. He's treating Taliban like they robbed a 7-11!

He's being fair to Muslims. That should make you happy.

no, its not about them being muslim... its about him treating extremists/terrorists with only a slap on the hand.

I was being sarcastic.

and Im being serious

[I AM NOT THAT GUY 5,715]

Obama has ordered that captured combatants in Afghanistan be Merandized and supplied with attorneys for their defense. He's treating Taliban like they robbed a 7-11!

He's being fair to Muslims. That should make you happy.

no, its not about them being muslim... its about him treating extremists/terrorists with only a slap on the hand.

I was being sarcastic.

and Im being serious

It's too late to be serious.

[Sofiyya 1,687]

Obama has ordered that captured combatants in Afghanistan be Merandized and supplied with attorneys for their defense. He's treating Taliban like they robbed a 7-11!

He's being fair to Muslims. That should make you happy.

It Should? Why?

Obama has ordered that captured combatants in Afghanistan be Merandized and supplied with attorneys for their defense. He's treating Taliban like they robbed a 7-11!

He's being fair to Muslims. That should make you happy.

no, its not about them being muslim... its about him treating extremists/terrorists with only a slap on the hand.

I was being sarcastic.

and Im being serious

It's too late to be serious.

Spooky wouldn't know serious even if it hopped into his lap and called him Papa.

[~PalmTreeGurl~ 154]

Obama has ordered that captured combatants in Afghanistan be Merandized and supplied with attorneys for their defense. He's treating Taliban like they robbed a 7-11!

He's being fair to Muslims. That should make you happy.

no, its not about them being muslim... its about him treating extremists/terrorists with only a slap on the hand.

I was being sarcastic.

and Im being serious

It's too late to be serious.

I know right, its 10 past midnight... too late to be serious!

[nowhereman 1]

I thought this thread was about Cheney... the Right Wing gets their collective panties in a bunch when a thread veers off course & talks about Bush, but apparently Obama bashing in a Cheney thread is acceptable. Here's a pic to get you back on target:

http://politicalhumor.about.com/library/im...erunmasked2.htm

[~PalmTreeGurl~ 154]

Spooky wouldn't know serious even if it hopped into his lap and called him Papa.

I thought this thread was about Cheney... the Right Wing gets their collective panties in a bunch when a thread veers off course & talks about Bush, but apparently Obama bashing in a Cheney thread is acceptable. Here's a pic to get you back on target:

http://politicalhumor.about.com/library/im...erunmasked2.htm

no other right wingers sharin panties with me Sir...

[Hilarious Clinton 452]

WASHINGTON, June 14 (Reuters) - CIA director Leon Panetta says it's almost as if former vice president ####### Cheney would like to see another attack on the United States to prove he is right in criticizing President Barack Obama for abandoning the "harsh interrogation" of terrorism suspects.

"I think he smells some blood in the water on the national security issue," Panetta said in an interview published in The New Yorker magazine's June 22 issue.

"It's almost, a little bit, gallows politics. When you read behind it, it's almost as if he's wishing that this country would be attacked again, in order to make his point."

Cheney, who was a key advocate in the Bush administration of controversial interrogation methods such as waterboarding, has become as a leading Republican critic of Obama's ban on harsh interrogations and his plan to shut the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

In a blistering May 21 speech, Cheney said Obama's reversal of Bush-era policies were "unwise in the extreme" that would make the American people less safe.

Panetta called Cheney's actions "dangerous politics."

He told The New Yorker he had favored the creation of an independent truth commission to look into the detainee polices of former President George W. Bush. But the idea died in April when Obama decided such a panel could be seen as politically vindictive. (Reporting by David Morgan; Editing by Alan Elsner)

http://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSN14131333

For all the debate over waterboarding, it has been used on only three al Qaeda figures, according to current and former U.S. intelligence officials.

As ABC News first reported in September, waterboarding has not been used since 2003 and has been specifically prohibited since Gen. Michael Hayden took over as CIA director. (2006)

THREE PEOPLE!! AND NOT SINCE 2003!!!

http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2007/1...sive-only-.html

[Sofiyya 1,687]

I thought this thread was about Cheney... the Right Wing gets their collective panties in a bunch when a thread veers off course & talks about Bush, but apparently Obama bashing in a Cheney thread is acceptable. Here's a pic to get you back on target:

http://politicalhumor.about.com/library/im...erunmasked2.htm

You complain alot about conservatives negatively labeling liberals, but you negatively label conservatives freely. This hurts your credibility, ya know.

[Immigrant2009 0]

Well the fact of the matter is ####### Cheney can say whatever he wants. Let's not forget US was attacked on his and Bush's watch so they were careless and didn't pay attention to the security reports and briefings about a possible attack. Now he doesn't have an responsibility, so he thinks why say what I think is right. I think as an ex-VP one should be more careful and should advice the current administration rather than going out in public and saying whatever comes in your mind.

[nowhereman 1]

WASHINGTON, June 14 (Reuters) - CIA director Leon Panetta says it's almost as if former vice president ####### Cheney would like to see another attack on the United States to prove he is right in criticizing President Barack Obama for abandoning the "harsh interrogation" of terrorism suspects.

"I think he smells some blood in the water on the national security issue," Panetta said in an interview published in The New Yorker magazine's June 22 issue.

"It's almost, a little bit, gallows politics. When you read behind it, it's almost as if he's wishing that this country would be attacked again, in order to make his point."

Cheney, who was a key advocate in the Bush administration of controversial interrogation methods such as waterboarding, has become as a leading Republican critic of Obama's ban on harsh interrogations and his plan to shut the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

In a blistering May 21 speech, Cheney said Obama's reversal of Bush-era policies were "unwise in the extreme" that would make the American people less safe.

Panetta called Cheney's actions "dangerous politics."

He told The New Yorker he had favored the creation of an independent truth commission to look into the detainee polices of former President George W. Bush. But the idea died in April when Obama decided such a panel could be seen as politically vindictive. (Reporting by David Morgan; Editing by Alan Elsner)

http://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSN14131333

For all the debate over waterboarding, it has been used on only three al Qaeda figures, according to current and former U.S. intelligence officials.

As ABC News first reported in September, waterboarding has not been used since 2003 and has been specifically prohibited since Gen. Michael Hayden took over as CIA director. (2006)

THREE PEOPLE!! AND NOT SINCE 2003!!!

http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2007/1...sive-only-.html

I would have guessed the number of individuals waterboarded was much higher, but it seems Luckystrike's numbers are valid. A footnote however is that each of these men was waterboarded many times (around 200 times each). Do I think waterboarding is torture? Yes I do. Has it led to actionable intelligence? Perhaps. Should it be allowed? Not IMO. Does that fact that bonafied terrorists were waterboarded bother me? Not really.

[Trumplestiltskin 5,791]

Cheney is a poison dwarf.

[nowhereman 1]

I thought this thread was about Cheney... the Right Wing gets their collective panties in a bunch when a thread veers off course & talks about Bush, but apparently Obama bashing in a Cheney thread is acceptable. Here's a pic to get you back on target:

http://politicalhumor.about.com/library/im...erunmasked2.htm

You complain alot about conservatives negatively labeling liberals, but you negatively label conservatives freely. This hurts your credibility, ya know.

I criticize the right wing on VJ for their double standards, constant rhetoric & stereotyping of "liberals" (a term so widely used & abused it has lost all meaning). My contempt for the right is based on what I see as a general degradation of the Republican party... great Republicans like Reagan have been replaced by vile, bitter politicians like Cheney & cartoonish talking heads like Limbaugh & Coulter. I was a Republican back in the late 80's/ early 90's but I can no longer relate to or even respect a party that seems so quick to blame everyone else & doesn't seem to take responsibility for its failed policies. You see these same characteristics from the right on VJ.... constant Obama & "liberal" bashing, but mention Bush, Cheney, or even someone like Palin & it's "stop living in the past" or "you hate Palin because she is a woman".