Comments on: The Cheney Exit Interview

On "Face The Nation," Vice President Talks About Iraq, Executive Powers, And Why Obama Needs To Keep Gitmo

[lucy20081]

Mr. Chaney is just spinning and why should we think differently. By his own personal behavior he broke the rule of law, abused constitutional law, and the Geneva Conventions. He has turned the Vice Presidency and Executive branch into an Imperial form of government. He personally has caused vast numbers of people killed and tortured by his actions. This man does not believe in our democratic republic, separation of powers, and our inaliable rights. Such people who believe in any means to an end are dangerous. These are the same types of people our country fought against and designed a form of government to try to prevent. Our Founding Fathers distrusted government and created separation of powers and checks and balances so that ambitious men who gain power are less capable of abuse. Chaney is not a patriot. He is an arrogant and corrupt man who gained power and just used it and abused it and covers it with his convenient fanatacism. Just because he has a face like an old granny don''t think that he isn''t a corrupt war criminal.

[neoconrcrazy]

Thank you Cheney/Bush the greatest terrorists hunter In US history. Theres never been so many terrorists imprisoned.

Posted by BagdadsHere9


excuse us while America vomits....

[sly_64]

How did we ever get "The Penquin" as a VP ?

[goosfraba2]

That Cheney and Bush are walking around free is beyond comprehension. Both belong behind bars awaiting their executions. NEVER has America been so WRONG as it has under the spell cast by these two evil men.

[solarrays247-2009]

AMERICA MAY never have another VP like Dick_Cheney. His courage and audacity made America safer and gave us the best 7 years of our lives.

Thank you Cheney/Bush the greatest terrorists hunter In US history. Theres never been so many terrorists imprisoned.

Posted by BagdadsHere9 at 09:54 AM : Jan 05, 2009

You must be related to one of these guys, or your job depends on defending them...that is the only feasible excuse for your lame comments.

Give it up....the rest of America is not swallowing your vomit any longer!

Afghanistan...AlQueada....Taliban....Osama bin Laden....do any of these words ring a bell? Or do you squirm with sweat when you realize the rest of America DOES remember....we remember all too well! We remember over 4000 US military DEAD...hundreds of thousands of INNOCENT Iraqi''s...DEAD!!

But, Osama, the son and relative of Bush''s daddy''s friends in Saudia Arabia, has never been captured!! We will never forget!! And neither will the history books!

Your cheap shots are...just that...cheap...shots.

[betterusa]

Strange that there was no reference in this interview to the search and siezure of Osama Bin Laden. Wasn''t he the main focal point with promise of capture after 9/11. Bush and Cheney had to divert our focus to Saddam and WMD and commit the US to an invasion of a country that did not attack us first - read "Tyranny of Oil" by Antonia Juhasz for some insight.

[briannorwood]

So Cheney is on a rehab mission for the failed Bush administration.

Let''s only hope that the Obama administration will bring to light the real abuses of power that these enemies of the state have been practicing over the last eight years!

We have a right to know.

[sockpuppet4]

Cheney is a Nazi Pig.

[biomegaly]

One voice is never enough to stand up against any policy or procedure in our Congress. Rockefeller did not endorse Cheney''s program. Then Cheney calls it a CYA letter. Excuse me? So Cheney is saying now that, in order for Rockefellar to save his own political a$$, he is bringing forth this letter.

This statement and thought process alone, offered by our pathetic self-serving vice-president is proof of his arrogance and sinister attributes.

This administration did what ever it chose to do. And he dare mention the fact he got everyones'' blessing in doing so. When you are lied to by people you trust, it is easy to give them your blessing.

Thank God it is almost January 20, 2009. God Bless America.

[biblethumpar]

This man, is the epitomy of a Failed Corrupt and Evil Administration..

[excoachken]

Cheyney''s real "Exit Interview" will be at his War Crimes Trial in den Hague.

[used2bfedup1]

Hmmmm Rowdy must not be up yet to tell us what a great VP cheney was.

I wonder if Obama doesnt keep GITMO if Cheney will shoot him in the face with a shotgun.

[michael1_4]

I think its funny that Cheney and Bush are now trying to spin their 8 years in the white house by saying history will view them more favorably than those of us on the planet right now do. I guess they''re grasping at straws hoping someday somebody somewhere won''t remember what a terrible adminstration this was. Hey maybe when humans are flying in spaceships to work they will have forgotten about these two, but I doubt in my lifetime people will.

[jsl45]

Darth Cheney, you needed to be impeached but what you really need is to be tried for war crimes...History will probably treat you like your old friend *** Nixon.....you both are peas from the same pod.

[pizzanick]

Cheney is a disgusting person. I cannot wait for the day he meets his maker and has to face up for all the evil he has done in this world.

[likeitis5050]

I remember Nixon leaving in shame and how reviled he was by EVERYONE. You couldn''t find one person with a kind word outside his immediate family. If you had told me then or even 5 years later that this man would one day be regarded kindly, considering his ''crime'', I would have bet everything I owned you would be wrong. Not only did he die ''a misunderstood man'' but now they claim ''his crime'' was ''over rated''. It''s amazing the power of the public to embrace the downcast in society....even when they don''t deserve it.

Bill Clinton might have been regarded for all eternity as the ''good time prez'' if he had kept his mouth shut for most of the 2008 campaign. But he will NEVER be burdened with all the ''facts'' about his administration that beseiged the following administration for years. Obama will NEVER have to worry about the word ''fail'' being attached to his administration as the press and nation, as a whole, has already ''decided'' any flaws he encounters will not be his...they were inherited. A+ grade regardless.

Bush and Cheney both will one day be credited for something...don''t know what...but they will. Bank on it. Obama will never have to explain himself or justify any mistakes he makes...bank on it.

You''re fired.

[hatesthecolt]

Interesting that the crazy neocons are avoiding this site. Even they can''t defend Cheney. What a complete loser to blame it on the intel community when he browbeat out of them the report he wanted.

[newsreader9]

I was disappointed that Bob Shiffer gave *** Cheney the opportunity to repeat the same old excuses/justification for the crimes committed by the Bush administration and to warmly invited him back in the future. Why waste our time? Why not interview someone who has some new ideas about how to clean up the mess made by Cheney and Company?

[mavnomore]

The Truth about the Surge from the guy who has spent the most time actually in Iraq reporting on the war:

MICHAEL WARE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: What''s changed is the nature of the battle. Essentially, America has put on the government payroll the bulk of the Sunni insurgency and some of the elements of Al Qaeda.

Meanwhile, it''s put the bulk of the pro-Iranian militias and their political wings into government.

So what we''re seeing is that, yes, a phenomenal downturn in violence by any of the metrics used by the military -- between 40 and 80 percent -- violence has plummeted.

BLITZER: Well, Michael, let me ask you...

WARE: Deaths are down.

Who doesn''t welcome that, Wolf?

BLITZER: Let me interrupt you. It''s one thing to say that former Sunni insurgents in the Al-Anbar Province, for example, maybe 100,000 or so, are on the U.S. government payroll -- about $300 per man right now. But when you say that former Al Qaeda terrorists are on the U.S. government payroll right now, is there hard evidence that we -- American taxpayers -- are paying Al Qaeda terrorists to be quiet and stay on the sidelines?

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