Dick Cheney: Unhinged
How old is Dick Cheney? Is it too early to begin wondering if his mind's been overtaken by senile dementia? Does he ever make a factually correct statement?
Here are a few quotes he's made:
ON THE GUANTANAMO DETAINEES:
Love the Veep's "they're living in the tropics," throwaway line. Tee hee hee. Who writes his stuff? A career in comedy for them!
Pssst . . . let'cha in on a little secret: these detainee characters--- uncharged for any crime, mind you, just imprisoned---- yes, they're living in the tropics . . . but in cages for crying out loud. Not exactly the stuff of a Club Med vacay, tropics, sub-tropics or your aunt Mabel's summer cabin in Minnetonka. And as far as having "everything they could possibly want", betcha they want their freedom.
"Room Service? Yeah, this is cage 322. Listen, can you send me up one of those cotton robes and some champagne? Yeah, the Dom. Oh, and throw in my freedom, too, wouldja? You can charge it to my AMEX."
ON THE STATUS OF THE IRAQI INSURGENCY:
Wait, maybe we can chalk this up to the glass half-full, half-empty paradox, right? Dick's not a liar, he's an eternal optimist.
ON WHAT IRAQ WOULD BE LIKE:
Some darn greeting.
Is anyone else worried that this guy's a heartbeat from the presidency?
Here are a few quotes he's made:
ON THE GUANTANAMO DETAINEES:
"They're very well treated down there. They're living in the tropics. They're well fed. They've got everything they could possibly want." Vice-President Dick Cheney, June 23, 2005 in a CNN interview.
"Guantanamo Bay has become the gulag of our times." Amnesty International, May 2005.
Love the Veep's "they're living in the tropics," throwaway line. Tee hee hee. Who writes his stuff? A career in comedy for them!
Pssst . . . let'cha in on a little secret: these detainee characters--- uncharged for any crime, mind you, just imprisoned---- yes, they're living in the tropics . . . but in cages for crying out loud. Not exactly the stuff of a Club Med vacay, tropics, sub-tropics or your aunt Mabel's summer cabin in Minnetonka. And as far as having "everything they could possibly want", betcha they want their freedom.
"Room Service? Yeah, this is cage 322. Listen, can you send me up one of those cotton robes and some champagne? Yeah, the Dom. Oh, and throw in my freedom, too, wouldja? You can charge it to my AMEX."
ON THE STATUS OF THE IRAQI INSURGENCY:
"I think they're in the last throes, if you will, of the insurgency." To Larry King, June 20, 2005
"In terms of the overall strength of the insurgency, I'd say it's about the same as it was. . . . . . there are more foreign fighters entering Iraq today than there were six months ago." General John Abizaid, Commander, US Forces Persian Gulf, June 24, 2005.
Wait, maybe we can chalk this up to the glass half-full, half-empty paradox, right? Dick's not a liar, he's an eternal optimist.
ON WHAT IRAQ WOULD BE LIKE:
"My belief is we will, in fact, be greeted as liberators." Dick Cheney to Tim Russert, March 16, 2003.Latest casualty update: 1730 US troops dead, 6442 maimed for life.
Some darn greeting.
Is anyone else worried that this guy's a heartbeat from the presidency?
posted by C. William Boyer at 11:46 AM
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