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On This Week with Jonathan Karl, Darth Cheney lays the groundwork for a full-bore Republican attack on the Obama administration in the event of another terrorist attack. (Are you terrorized yet?)

KARL: Another thing from the vice president, he also addressed the possibility of another 9/11-style attack.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

BIDEN: The idea of there being a massive attack in the United States like 9/11 is unlikely, in my view. But if you see what's happening, particularly with Al Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, they have decided to move in a direction of much more small-bore, but devastatingly frightening attacks.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

KARL: Is he right?

CHENEY: I don't think so. And I would point to a study that was released just within the last week or two up at the Kennedy School at Harvard by a gentleman -- Mowatt-Larssen's his name, I believe. He was CIA for 23 years, director of intelligence at the Energy Department for a long time, that looks at this whole question of weapons of mass destruction and Al Qaida and comes to the conclusion that there's a very high threat that Al Qaida is trying very hard to acquire a weapon of mass destruction and, if they're successful in acquiring it, that they will use it.

I think he's right. I think, in fact, the situation with respect to Al Qaida to say that, you know, that was a big attack we had on 9/11, but it's not likely again, I just think that's dead wrong. I think the biggest strategic threat the United States faces today is the possibility of another 9/11 with a nuclear weapon or a biological agent of some kind, and I think Al Qaida is out there even as we meet trying to figure out how to do that.

KARL: And do you think that the Obama administration is taking enough serious steps to prevent that?

CHENEY: I think they need to do everything they can to prevent it. And if the mindset is it's not likely, then it's difficult to mobilize the resources and get people to give it the kind of priority that it deserves.

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BigDaddyMalcontent's picture

Al-Qa'ida is little more than Osama's little black book.

Pete2069's picture

By the way a nurse stated about the great health care Cheney received. If Government health care ,, plug ,, have been pulled on Cheney , he just might have been a thing of the past..

If Obama , Pelosi , Reid and the democrats would have prosecuted the criminals of Bush and company , for their crimes of the past 8 years , we would not have to listen to their BS...

Why are the democrats SCARED of Bush , Cheney and the republicans and , when it comes to having a backbone or guts they come up failing the smell test..


None

Like the intel he got a couple of months before 9/11 and ignored. Why isn't this man in jail? The more I think about it, the more pissed I get at Obama for not holding these war criminals responsible. Obama do your damn job or find another one.

Pete2069's picture

There is no way in h.ll Obama is that dump , so he does not care or want to prosecute Bush and his mafia group...

H... the mafia is more patriotic than Bush and company...

We no longer have a democrat party ,, It has become the left wing of the right wing republican party.... And Emanuel even uses our political donations to recruit , support and elect these republicans by the means of the democratic ticket..

This is why Emanuel and Cheney ( I mean Emanuel had so many problems and than the kicked Dean out..

Shame we did not have enough sense to elect someone like Dean instead of the arrogant Obama with his corporate republican policies..

If Bush and the republicans were doing as the Obama/Emanuel are doing we would totally be yelling our heads off...

Obama is starting to look like a diversion from us paying attention to the BS which is going on..


None

CoIntelPro.PronktasticlyAgainst.SCLM.E-Voting.Incumbents's picture

some new replacement a$$klown?


Some stuff you can't make up!

Since George went to Good Morning America, I think they are trying out people to see who would be a good new host.


Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.

BigDaddyMalcontent's picture

to see who is most obedient.

ricky's picture

going to give Minnie Mouse a shot? She's been loyal all these years.


“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder

fastfeat's picture

My day's been all uphill since then...


"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."

---Southwest Airlines

. . . from Africa.


Corruption favors the wealthy.

ricky's picture
OMG

Is there a specific continent in Africa you can blame for this?


“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder

RabbitDad's picture

I think using the word "continent" in a thread about Dick Cheney is a party foul.

ricky's picture

Bring your own bag.


“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder

RabbitDad's picture

FACT!!!!!!!!!1!111one

(A maureen core soldier told me so)

but I wrote "continent" on the palm of my hand. Most people,
um, U.S.-Americans, don't have maps on the palms of their hand.


“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder

I had "mapos" on the palms of my hands once but medicine cured it.


Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.

ricky's picture

But it had side effects. Kept making me hungry for Maypo.


“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder

I got the impression that there is not good blood now between bush and cheney. I have to wonder if it's been that way for some time. Cheney said he had not seen bush since they left the white house and sort of hesitated when he said they had talked on the phone. I think, like several said today including Biden, Cheney's biggest gripe is with the bush administration because the Obama administration is doing so many things exactly like the bush administration did when it comes to trials of suspected terrorists.

Cheney is still pissed that no one will do everything the way he wants. I don't know if he's seriously paranoid or what. If he is so sure we are going to get another terrible attack, why doesn't he share his info with the white house instead of grabbing every microphone he can find and telling the world he doesn't think his country is safe from terrorist? Isn't that like standing outside a bank and announcing that the locks on the bank's doors are all broken.


Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.

bush and Libby; they served their purposes. Why acknowledge them any further?


"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."

---Southwest Airlines

savannah43's picture

President Palin, watch out those who bad mouthed Darth and his daughter.

what killed the moose without a tag and wronged the sister.


“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder

TeaEyeIs's picture

Bush had better watch his step.
Cheney will bite his head off. Literally.

ricky's picture

Bush is now the one in an undisclosed location?


“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder

CoIntelPro.PronktasticlyAgainst.SCLM.E-Voting.Incumbents's picture

?????????


Some stuff you can't make up!

DannyEastVillage's picture

...after he was (supposedly) told that the country was "under attack"? Remember how he didn't move but got all those goofy looks on his face and turned the book upside down and still didn't move--for how many minutes?

Michael Moore raises the question, 'what were you thinking as you sat there?'

I've long believed that Bush knew that "something was up" but that he had been left in the dark in order to preserve plausible denial. However, he knew something was going on and that Cheney was in on it. I believe--I still believe--that George had that look on his face because he knew that, if Cheney was in it and he wasn't--there was a good chance that, whatever the plan was, there was a good chance that he wouldn't live to have supper that day. I feel very sure that he knew that if the decision had been made that the president would be killed that day to add to the actions taking place there was nowhere for him to go--he was a sitting duck.

I'm sure he knows today that whoever pulled the strings on 911 that got NORAD out of the way and the rest of it LET him live. For whatever reason.

fastfeat's picture

certainly looks plausible to me.


"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."

---Southwest Airlines

Mr. Green Jeans's picture

MONEY. Darth is all about money. His spewing hole will say anything depending on how much he can make out of the deal.

Fear=blackwater=money for the big dick.


"Let's talk dirty to the animals"

tarnished angel's picture

Yada, yada yada, blah, blah blah. Go home old man

TeaEyeIs's picture

Biden said so.
He said it twice.

What slugs we have in the current administration.

Biden was being tactful. He can't go on tv and say the last veep was a lying stack of evil shit. Things just don't work that way.


Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.

It takes spine to run a PEAR Republic and jail your predecessor.


“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder

they work that way when it's a repuke veep going on the t.v.
remember?

DannyEastVillage's picture

"Cheney is a lying sack of this"was the unspoken precursor to the words, "let me choose my words carefully here."

but don't fool yourselves into believing that Cheney is Mister Popularity in the republican party. The Dick uses the same techniques in his own party that he uses elsewhere. Believe me--he's the most hated person in his own party too. And feared.

I believe that if you work in Washington, you know that if Cheney wants you dead tomorrow, you'll be dead tomorrow.

matter of national security? Like they would let this old paranoid liar in on their precautions. He's starting, more and more, to sound insane.

Jimmi the Grey's picture

"And if the mindset is it's not likely, then it's difficult to mobilize the resources and get people to give it the kind of priority that it deserves."

I guess he'd know considering how the Clinton administration warned him about Al Queada being so intent to hit in ConUS.

Maybe because the Obama administration is following the policies of the Bush administration Mr Cheney has a point...

Thank FSM this is text based so I could 'say' that with a 'strait face'.

"CHENEY: I think they need to do everything they can to prevent it. "

Again, why doesn't the talking head (or Biden for that matter ask, "Like you and your sockpuppet did." Pretty sure it would and that line of conversation.

YourMom's picture

Cheney just wants more money for his buddies in the war-for-profit industry. He's no more than a lobbyist.

ron's picture

I'm going to spend the rest of my life worrying about something that would be a worse threat to me. I will stay inside my home so I won't be struck by lightning. You have more of a chance of getting hit by lightning.

Do you have any idea how much my body cramps after laying in the fetal position under the bed for nine years? Of course there is a better chance a tornado will destroy my home and me before a terrorist does, but I'm that kind of patriot. I proudly wear my American fear for all to see.


Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.

Shoeless's picture

You didn't hear? Cheney's lastest claim is that Al-Qaida is trying to weaponize thunderstorms.

ricky's picture

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“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder

Shoeless's picture

I knew it! Roker's gotta be one of them thar secret mooslums.

ron's picture

now ya got me really sceered.

Woody McBreairty's picture

and he should be behind bars...he is a treasonous hypocrite. He lied & schemed our country into an unjust, needless, illegal war to benefit himself & his rich cronies. He will be shown by histroy as a traitor, a disparager of our constitution and a fraud. He is on TV constantly trying to cover his lying ass because he knows he should be in jail, and will be if the truth is ever uncovered. Cheney and his creepy, twisted witch of a daugher,Liz, both make my skin crawl. They are a disgrace to our country.


Woody McBreairty

savannah43's picture

Or satanist?

they have decided to move in a direction of much more small-bore, but devastatingly frightening attacks.

True, as every intelligent being can easily see how many cowards are easily scared to insanity by a ridiculously remote chance of becoming a terror victim.

ricky's picture

"that was released just within the last week or two up at the Kennedy School at Harvard by a gentleman -- ...I believe. He was CIA ...and comes to the conclusion that there's a very high threat that Al Qaida is trying very hard to acquire a weapon of mass destruction and, if they're successful in acquiring it, that they will use it."

Was the title of the study "Bin Laden Determined the Strike in US"?


“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder

Old shooter failed to note the date on that study, I'm guessing. Either that or at his age 2001 might look like 2010. Same numbers different arrangement.


Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.

bpaskin's picture

He has been claiming terrorist have been trying to get their hands on nukes since 2001. Why does he need a study? I am sure that there are nutters out there that would love to nuke the US, but what is his proposal, besides killing most humans on Earth?

Dick Cheney is a nuclear warhead.

ricky's picture

but never deployed in his adult lifetime.


“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder

Shoeless's picture

He had to have deployed at least once, that is unless Liz was adopted.

Your comment just caused a dreadful mental image. Send a box of Valentine candy and I'll forgive you.


Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.

One Box o' Chok-o-lats and I'll raise you some Roses too. Have a happy VD.

Ummm...Valentine's Day that is, not the other VD.

fastfeat's picture

"friend' in the face??


"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."

---Southwest Airlines

Shoeless's picture

I think your getting scatter gun mixxed up with splatter gun.

They may want nukes, but they're going to settle for chemical warfare.

WVMJ's picture

Shadow Chief Dick Cheney Shadow Chief Dick Cheney
Vice Chief Palin, Health and Welfare Secretary Limbaugh, and 100 year Planner and Right Now Commander, Beck, and their families and friends, have all gone to an undisclosed location. Keep in touch guys and gals. We'll try not to forget you.

Al-Quiada has always wanted a big nukie, boom, boom. How is that news?
Al-Qiada will not stop wanting to Kill Americans if the Republicans take charge.
President Obama is continuing the Bush "terrer" policies, mostly. Except for the stupid ones, like torture and the like.
This is their Miranda once they are arrested
(1) You have the right to make up facts to support you argument
(2) You have the right to lies and distortions
(3) You have the right to clam up if anyone asks you a tough question
(4) You have the right to your mouthpiece, as any gangster does
(5) If you squeal, we will make sausages out of you, and have you for lunch.

taller ghost walt's picture

but I'm going to: Can't this man have the "BIG" one. Please.

And take his daughter Lizzie Borden with him.

fastfeat's picture

considering the greater good being served.


"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."

---Southwest Airlines

Bluestocking's picture

...maybe part of the reason why he hasn't yet is because Heaven and Hell still haven't managed to agree on which one will have to take him. I don't think Heaven will take him...and Hell is probably afraid that he'll try to stage a coup and take over the joint!


Never trust anyone who insists that patriotism requires you to blindfold yourself with the flag.

John Hoffman's picture

Dick Cheney belongs on an international stage alright; in the dock, at The Hague, on trial as a war criminal!


Proud DFH, emeritus!

No, they want governments to think they have nuclear weapons only so those gov'ts will waste money trying to find them.

haven't sold any nukes yet.

It would be great for Cheney and his scumbag friend's bottom line.

The "Pearl Harbor" that the traitorous AIPAC crowd craves.

fastfeat's picture

After all, who would have easiest access to materials?

As Rummy said, "You've got you know knowns and your known unknows, etc..."


"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."

---Southwest Airlines

What do you think 9-11 was??

Do you think it's an accident that so many high-level officials in the Bush administration -- Cheney, Rumsfeld, Libby, and Wolfowitz just to name a few (not to mention George's own brother Jeb) -- were members or at least supporters of PNAC (the Project for a New American Century)??

Even the most skeptical person has to admit that 9-11 (to say the least) was unbelievably convenient as far as PNAC was concerned -- a little too convenient, perhaps, to be easily dismissed as nothing more than coincidence.


Never trust anyone who insists that patriotism requires you to blindfold yourself with the flag.

DannyEastVillage's picture

long on rhetorical attacks, short on specifics.

Hey DICK - you mean the kind of attention YOU and your dummy sidekick paid to the PDB of August 2001?!

F*ck you & your daughter, asshole.

Bluestocking's picture

While George W. Bush was in office, I don't remember officials from the Clinton administration being asked to appear on broadcast news programs even half as often as former Bush administration officials have been asked to appear since Obama took office -- am the only one who notices this??? Perhaps the fact that Gore was also the Democratic presidential nominee in 2000 (and all the furor over that) may have been one reason why he as the former Vice President was not asked to appear very often in the first year of Bush's presidency...but if it comes to that, why is New Gingrich being asked to appear so often, especially considering the fact that the man holds no political office and hasn't done so for some time?


Never trust anyone who insists that patriotism requires you to blindfold yourself with the flag.

ComradeAnon's picture
So?

I would point to a study that was released just within the last week or two up at Moe's Bar at Springfield by a gentleman -- Simpson, Homer Simpson's his name, I believe. He's been a Nuclear Safety Inspector at the Springfield Nuclear Power Plant for 20 years. He, Barney and the guys look at this whole question of weapons of mass destruction and Al Qaida and comes to the conclusion that leaving a brick on the lever will likely prevent any future attacks. Remember, he was voted Springfield Nuclear Power Plant Waste Handler of the Month in October 1990.

thewaronreason's picture

if obama wants the terrorists to win, what would that look like? if he just did what they specifically asked for, starting wars, alienating us from allies, changing our lives and living in fear it would look like the bush administration. I think republicans think obama actually wants stuff to blow up. what would anybody, even the most untrustworthy greedy politician, gain from that? especially one in office. cheney is the one that benefits from stuff exploding, not obama.

sassafra's picture

even more scary, al qaeda wanted whitney houston for bin laden who's had the hots for her ever since he saw her in "the bodyguard". one can only imagine the havok that would ensue if al qaeda were weaponized with whitney. we'd be faced with a cold war MAD situation wherein our only option would be to up the ante and put the dreaded celine dion doomsday warhead into play.

Kreskin's picture

This madman dreams of a successful attack on Obama's watch , nothing would please him more . Hang him high .


Insanity , it is what it is , there is no understanding it .

flav1's picture

If there is another attack we better make sure that the evidence isn't thrown down the memory hole (shipped off to China, whitewash commission, testifying behind closed doors) like the last one.

The trail should be triple checked to see if the Cheney's fingerprints are on it.

Cheney is well aware that Al Qaida wants nukes, who do you think is going to sell them?


"I could give a flying crap about the political process.... We're an entertainment company."
- Glenn Beck - Forbes interview; April 26, 2010

You are talking about a behind the scenes American TRAITOR, this racist is about his OWN personal interest. The proof is that everytime this Racist piece of White Trailer Trash talks with in 2-3 weeks there is a attack.

If the Government can NOT or WILL NOT investigate this Socialist Corportist the only thing left is to assume that this piece of human waste along with the Obstructionist in the reoubliCANT party are working behind the scenes to over throw the Government indirectly.

ZFollow the money and the old College and buiness acquaitances, any one remember Apthied, this piece of NAZI shit spoke to the president of South Africe to ask him to keep Mandela in Jail. Remembe rthe Yellow cake out of Nigeria it was this Lying piece of ANTI AMERICAN shit that kept the story going.

Check this guy out and you are going to find out he is real dirty, go after his associates. This piece of Anti American Clown and Buffon must be taken down.

His agenda and that of the air head daughter and the Buffoon and Clown Bloody Bill is ot get America into WAR and constant state of war.

Start with the Military Contracts start cutting them back and watch the republiCANT crowd roll over and step up the patriotic hype.

There is a old saying never trust a skinny Chef, paraphrasing it to never trust a member of Congress or the Senate that hasn't served ACTIVELY in the Military minimum of 3 years.

We are going to be attacked and the republiCANTs and this man are going to pave the way, this is about Control and Absolute Power of the Socialist Corporate Interests and who does this Nazi Racist Anti American and his republiCANT party represent and it is NOT America.

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