Cheney slams Obama over Benghazi: ‘We were always ready on 9/11′

[Ichingcarpenter]

Former Vice President Dick Cheney on Tuesday lashed out at President Barack Obama’s administration for a “failure of leadership” over an attack in Benghazi that killed four Americans on Sept. 11 of last year, saying that the Bush administration was “always ready on 9/11? — at least, the anniversaries.

At an event to celebrate the launch of former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld’s new book about leadership, Cheney told the Daily Mail‘s David Martosko that the Obama administration “should have been ready before anything ever happened.”

“I mean, it’s North Africa – Libya, where they’ve already had major problems,” he observed. “You know that Al-Qaeda is operating there, and you have some of the other Al-Qaeda-affiliated groups there like Ansar al-Sharia and others.”


http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/05/08/cheney-slams-obama-over-benghazi-we-were-always-ready-on-911/


puke, vomit

[sinkingfeeling]

1. Really? I didn't notice anybody stopping 9/11 while it was happening.

[zerosumgame0005]

7. what he meant was

he was ready with his sell orders to his brokers so he could make a few million off it...

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. Oh, now they claim they were ready on 9/11?

Sure they were!

indeed.

[Liberal Veteran]

14. They were....do you think that "undisclosed location" he hid in materialized out of nowhere?

[Lasher]

15. The full quote is almost as bad.

Dick Cheney: Benghazi Attack Revealed 'Failure Of Leadership'

"When we were there, on our watch, we were always ready on 9/11, on the anniversary," Cheney said. "We always anticipated they were coming for us, especially in that part of the world ... I cannot understand why they weren't ready to go."

http://labs.huffingtonpost.com/highlights/quote/8828406/

I wish they would have asked him how he feels about having intentionally lied us into the invasion of Iraq. I'm certain that he feels no remorse whatever.

[haele]

80. Weasel words - "on 9/11, on the anniversary" -

Okay, they were ready whenever the anniversary came around. So by their logic, since the counselate attack happened on a 9/11 anniversary, the current administration must not have been, like them "always ready on 9/11" and it was a failure of leadership that an attack happened on the anniversary.

Quite convoluted. But it does "technically" relieve Darth Cheney from admitting the Shrub administration totally ignored the situational awareness and warnings that preceeded the 9/11/2001 attacks.

Haele

[Lasher]

85. No, it does not exonerate him.

Quite contrarily, it reaffirms his status as the most despicable hypocrite who has ever lived.

[ProSense]

33. Not only were they not ready,

but they also failed to capture the responsible person: bin Laden.

[RC]

81. Maybe it was because the were ready.

They knew and did nothing? Where did the stand down order really come from in Tora Bora?

General Tommy Franks, then in charge of Central Command (CentCom), made the decision not to send in reinforcements. He declined to comment. Other colleagues reject the idea it was a mistake.

"You could have waited longer and put troops in. In that same amount of time, Bin Laden could have left," argues General Richard Myers, then the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-14190032

[DesertFlower]

56. i agree.

the emoticon says it all.

[aggiesal]

84. There is an un-written rule that . . .

previous administrations don't complement or criticize the current administration.

Basically, don't throw rocks in glass houses.

But these a$$wads (McIdiot/McEvil) could care less. They'll criticize the
Obama Administration if it scores political points for anyone with an (R)
next to their name.

When will this guy shut his pie-hole?

[AndyA]

3. Bush/Cheney were in office when the worst terrorist attack on American soil ever happened.

They weren't ready for it...or were they?

What about all those embassy attacks during the time Bush/Cheney were in the White House? Did they know about them, and just let them happen, even though they were "always ready" to deal with them?

Put the crack pipe down, Dick.

[Victor_c3]

8. FYI: another slang term for a crack pipe is a "glass dick"

I dunno. That comment somehow seemed applicable to this conversation :leaving:

[Berlum]

31. "Chickenhawk Cheney and I were, like, AWOL and shit on 9/11, so don't blame us." - George AWOL Bush

"We were totally ready to go AWOL. As usual. We are republicans, and so have multiple deferments from responsibility."

- George AWOL Bush (R)

[geek tragedy]

4. We were ready on 911, except for the time 3000 people died.

What a despicable turd.

[librechik]

5. they were ready because they had fighter jets responding to reports of hijackings

within 45 -to 90 minutes. What?

[IggleDoer]

34. There were two closer fighter jet squadrons.

However they were both given the day off (standown), and were unable to respond.

Why was that???

[librechik]

53. yeah. Nothing suspicious there.

[Cali_Democrat]

6. When will this fool just kick the bucket already?

I'm going to be celebrating when that day comes.

[randome]

9. _

[FSogol]

10. LOL: Cheney and Bushie were hiding on 9/11. Only Gulliani was on tv because

Al Qaeda destroyed his playpen and he had no where to meet his mistress.

[Liberal Veteran]

11. "We were always ready on 9/11 to attack Iraq for any reason we could pull out our asses".

More like it.

[Incitatus]

12. They were ready before 9/11

To go to war.

PNAC?

[winterpark]

13. Must be why 3 American planes got hijacked, 3000+ dead, many more injured and

a national landmark got obliterated. Way to be ready assjack

[jmowreader]

35. Four American planes

The biggest atrocity no one discusses: the command post exercise in the Pentagon that morning. There is a very strict Department of Defense regulation that says you will not under any circumstance use the name of any real-world entity in an exercise scenario. At the National Training Center the bad guys were Krasnovians, in the Army Intelligence School the enemy country was Romanoff, placenames were fictional, and so on and so forth. The reason should be obvious to all: if the notional event in the exercise happened in real life, you didn't want people to think the real event was exercise traffic. The 9/11 CPX involved a terrorist attack in New York and the bad guys were named Al Qaeda. So...when the real-world bad shit started happening, the players thought they were hearing exercise traffic.

[MFM008]

16. sure DICK

all except for the BIG one you ignored.

[TrogL]

17. If they were "ready on 9/11" that confirms LIHOP and/or MIHOP

[MagickMuffin]

23. Bush = LIHOP + Cheney = MIHOP = WAR PROFITEERS = DEAD PEOPLE and A Reason To Go To IRAQ

I think this about sums it up!

[Junkdrawer]

55. Stop pointing out the obvious....

Thems are fighting words around these parts.

[MagickMuffin]

73. I realize that and I stand by my statement };¬)

I calls them like I sees them. Whether anyone wants to fight me is not something I will indulge in.

If there would have been an honest investigation instead of how evidence was literally bulldozed over (ahem covered up) there will never be proof positive what really happened.

And on another note we as Americans will never ever see the light of day what Bush and Cheney testimonies, that I might add they both testified together. Bush had to have his handler there.

So, if Dick wants to claim they were "ready for 9-11, let him also address that Bush stayed in a classroom while being read to by school children while terrorist were attacking this country. And the lame-ass excuse that he "didn't want to frighten the children" while his handlers were preparing a make shift room for him to address the country and allowing children as his backdrop really shows that they were being disingenuous at the most about scaring the children!

[leveymg]

18. They were ready . . . to exploit the hell out of it. The moment it happened. Sooner.

Do the orders still stand, Mr. Cheney?

Mineta's testimony to the 9/11 Commission about his experience in the Presidential Emergency Operating Center with Vice President Cheney as American Airlines flight 77 approached the Pentagon was not included in the 9/11 Commission Report.[4] In one colloquy testified by Mineta, the vice president refers to orders concerning the plane approaching the Pentagon:

There was a young man who had come in and said to the vice president, 'The plane is 50 miles out. The plane is 30 miles out.' And when it got down to, 'The plane is 10 miles out,' the young man also said to the vice president, 'Do the orders still stand?' And the vice president turned and whipped his neck around and said, 'Of course the orders still stand. Have you heard anything to the contrary?' Well, at the time I didn't know what all that meant.

— Norman Mineta, [5]

Commissioner Lee Hamilton queried if the order was to shoot down the plane, to which Mineta replied that he did not know that specifically.[5] Source: Norman Mineta Wiki

[whatchamacallit]

30. Someday the popular "lucky trifecta exploiters" will

fall away to the truth: 9/11 was an enterprise.

[leveymg]

65. Do you mean this Enterprise? Which quadrant or node?

[Aristus]

19. But they were never ready for embassy attacks any of the other 364 days of the year.

Which might account for all of the deadly embassy attacks B*sh & Dickhead are responsible for.



Oh hey! And look: One of them happened on September 12th. So what was it, Dick? At midnight on September 11th, 2006, you said: "Okay, they didn't hit us! Everybody stand down!"?

[AtheistCrusader]

75. Doesn't count.

Most of those dead were brown furriners', not blessed US Citizens.

(Technically true that most of them aren't Americans, but goddamn, I can't believe the justifications I get out of these motherfuckers when they get caught in hypocrisy)

[ismnotwasm]

20. Ready?

He was READY for thousands of deaths from airplanes flying into buildings?

What the fuck?

[CBHagman]

21. Yeah, and that's why they handled things so smoothly in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Yeah, the Bush administration's preparedness explains why both Afghanistan and Iraq remained unresolved wars with mounting casualties, the first for more or less the entire Bush presidency, the second for all of the second term and part of the first.

[warrior1]

22. they've been

trying to rewrite history every since they stole the WH. Fuckers

[Old and In the Way]

24. Cheney on the Iraqis reaction to our invasion.

"Now, I think things have gotten so bad inside Iraq, from the standpoint of the Iraqi people, my belief is we will, in fact, be greeted as liberators."

https://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/bush/cheneymeetthepress.htm MTP 3/16/2003

No, I don't think I'll take any Cheney pronouncements on anything as fact.

[Arkana]

25. Cheney's not dead yet?

Huh.

[deutsey]

48. I usually refrain from grave dancing

but in this asshole's case, I will probably make an exception.

[Rex]

26. Fuck off failure man!

We are DONE WITH YOU! Fail off to a cave somewhere and don't ever let us hear from you again! Thanks asshole!

[Cracklin Charlie]

37. I hope that when I come back later

This thread will be filled to the brim with delicious comments just like yours.

[Rex]

38. Thanks! Me too!

The tame replies have me kinda bummed out...I mean we are talking about THE man that made, 'go fuck yourself' a household term! The guy that shot his lawyer in the face and the lawyer apologized for being in the way of Cheney's bullets! Cannot be tame about someone like that!

That is like calling the Wicked Witch from the West, a misunderstood trickster.

[Cracklin Charlie]

42. Does Alcatraz Prison have a cellar that he could be thrown into?

No, wait...that would be too sumptuous.

[Rex]

46. How about Abu Ghraib?

I was going to say Guantanamo...but that was too easy. Let him get the same treatment he approved of at Abu Ghraib, I say.

[Berlum]

27. Exceedingly foul RepubliCrappage. As usual.

[ladjf]

28. What a cruel and bad joke! nt

[Lint Head]

29. 3,000 incinerated human beings shows you weren't ready you torturing murdering

asshole!

[Floyd_Gondolli]

32. Oh that's rich

What part of "I believe the memo was titled Bin Laden determined to strike inside the United States" does this cumstain not understand?

[October]

36. Fuck Cheney and his revisionist history

Sick to DEATH of right-wing lies and propaganda.

[jessie04]

39. What a sleazy slimey pos.

Fuck you cheney.

[Cha]

40. Oh yeah those m*****F*****s were READY alright..

To Attack Iraq.

[jmowreader]

41. There is no statute of limitations on mass murder

Would it be a violation of the Fourth Amendment to sentence Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Ashcroft and Rice to the form of seppuku that doesn't end in beheading?

[Blue Owl]

43. Leaving the nation's most protected airspace unguarded all morning?

Is that what Dick calls "being ready"?

[magellan]

44. Oh, I see

This is all about diverting attention from the 9/11 disaster he and Bush** allowed to happen after not heeding multiple advance warnings about an imminent domestic attack using planes. If they can successfully pin Benghazi on Obama for similar reasons in the public's mind, then they can move away from denying they were incompetent to pointing the finger back at the Dem President.

Not that I'm surprised, but how obvious and petty. Too bad for them the only public that's buying this witch hunt is the usual 28-30% deadenders who support the cons no matter what.

[Mnemosyne]

45. A war criminal says what? Asshole. nt

[spanone]

47. fuck the lying criminal bastard

[rhett o rick]

49. I think he is trying to tell us something. Everything was ready on 9/11 for him.

The highjackers were trained, DimSon was in Texas, Air Force was away on training, the anthrax was ready. Cheney is dying (pun intended) to tell us that he should get the credit for 9/11 and not some (fill in your own racist expletive).

But he must be careful. If he talks too much, he might get a special brain operation next time he goes to the hospital.

[Rex]

52. Or a sudden brain tumor.

Funny how people suddenly die at the most convent time!

[City Lights]

50. Good grief, did The Dick of Death really just say that?!

[Arugula Latte]

51. Can't post what I'm thinking

'cuz the Secret Service would probably come knocking.

ASSHOLE.

[truebluegreen]

54. Gotta say, that was "unfortunate" wording

if you are a Bushie apologist that is.

Way to highlight the truth, Dickie!

[kysrsoze]

57. Who cares what that old dildo thinks (no offense to actual dildos)

[Junkdrawer]

58. "Sir, do those orders still stand?"

"Of course the orders still stand. Have you heard anything to the contrary?"

http://www.journalof911studies.com/letters/OrderRegardingAA77HittingPentagonOn911.pdf

[TroglodyteScholar]

59. So 9/11/01 doesn't count?

How is this gaping a-hole still roaming free, and why is anyone still listening to a thing he says?

He should be grateful that he wasnt tarred and feathered.

[WinkyDink]

60. Oh, BushCo was READY, all right. Ready to tell NORAD to stand down. Ready with "My Pet Goat." Ready

with the implosion of WTC-7.

Don't get me started.

[Junkdrawer]

63. People think that folks that come to the MIHOP conclusion come to it lightly....

I wrestled for 4 - 5 years with a "The Players Got Played" scenario. Check the archives. It was only with OVERWHELMING evidence to the contrary that I reluctantly had to admit it was a MIHOP thing.

Most of the reluctance was that I didn't want to live in a world where such evil was in control. But it is what it is.

[WinkyDink]

70. Thank you. As you say, nobody wants to think of being ruled by such evil. But the cover-ups,

even if we pretend they just began with LHOswald, are and have been scary.

Funny; most of us Democrats are quite willing to acknowledge our govt's murderous depradations IN OTHER COUNTRIES.

But evil-doers are without boundaries.

[Junkdrawer]

72. I've had EXACTLY those thoughts.

Turn a blind eye to evil at your own peril.

[AgingAmerican]

61. There were 11 embassy attacks during the Bush administration

52 dead.

Not a peep from the GOP.

[Mr. David]

62. Ahem. August 9th PDB.

Bin Laden determined to attack America.

The state of US was certainly not in a ready state.

[MoreGOPoop]

64. Darth-

You know the drill: GFY Evil Asshole

[Politicub]

66. Burn in hell, Cheney

I don't believe in the place, but I had to say it.

When I don't think it's possible to loathe someone more, Cheney opens his ugly mug again and proves me wrong.

[BlueDemKev]

67. Isn't that ass dead yet?

[blkmusclmachine]

68. What information did Bush/Cheney have about 9/11, and when did they have it?

[Festivito]

69. Oh, that's funny! Only 10 attacks and 60 dead!

But they didn't happen on 911 so it's ok.

[Zoeisright]

74. Fuck off, Cheney.

Then you can burn in hell, you fucking piece of lying shit.

[Dawson Leery]

76. The neo-cons were ready to exploit 9/11 as they knew something was going to happen.

Ashcroft stopped flying commercial airlines in July 2001.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=125x97179

Dozens of warnings were given that a large attack was imminent and commercial aircraft were going to be involved.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

77. Uh........what.did.he.say?

[rso]

78. Cheney

I thought Cheney was supposed to be smart. Can't believe he would say that, leaving himself completely open to retorts such as: " we were always ready, except on 9/11/01, despite the existence of many warning signs".

[no_hypocrisy]

79. HA!!!!!

[Initech]

82. If they actually had been ready for 9/11...

They wouldn't have ignored the CIA's clear and concise warning that a terror threat on US soil was imminent and Bush wouldn't have spent that morning reading "My Pet Goat" to elementary school children. They'd have had the FAA alerted and had F14s patrolling all corners of New York and DC. Get real, Cheney.

[mulsh]

83. Obviously, Dick, that's all those people died and buildings got destroyed that day.

Why on earth does any one pay any attention to what this sick piece of shit has to say?