Protests brew over Cheney International Center

[IDemo]

Source: Associated Press

updated 2 hours, 25 minutes ago

CHEYENNE, Wyo. - A decision by the University of Wyoming to name a new center for international students for former Vice President Dick Cheney is drawing criticism from people who say Cheney's support for the Iraq war and harsh interrogation techniques should disqualify him from the distinction.

The former vice president and wife Lynne are expected to attend Thursday's dedication of the new Cheney International Center on the Laramie campus.

Protesters plan to be there, too.

The center is funded in part with $3.2 million the Cheneys donated to the university in several installments while he was vice president.

Read more: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32743808/ns/us_news-education/

[Parche]

1. mostly halliburton money

:grr: :grr: :hi:

[Cronus Protagonist]

2. The Cheneys can go fuck theirselves

I believe that's a Cheney maxim.

[jimshoes]

3. It's OK, I hear they're dedicating a special wing in Hell

just for the dickster. Have fun down there Darth!

[Xipe Totec]

4. Speaking of Darth, here he is, playing his own theme...

Imperial March or Darth Vader's Theme

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tn_95hdy6Nw

I think the guy playing the Cello could be Darth Cheney himself...

[Canuckistanian]

5. The Dick Cheney Center for International Students?

Will they have a flight school?

[Wilms]

28. !

:applause::applause::applause:

[midnight]

41. Exactly!

[liberal N proud]

6. At least someone in Wyoming is paying attention

[yellowcanine]

7. Normally it takes much more than 3.2 million to get a building named after you.

But maybe it is not much of a building and that covers most of the cost?

[704wipes]

31. probably a sweat box with a waterboard in it

nt

[UpInArms]

8. is is allowed to hate the crash-cart Cheneys on DU anymore?

or will some ickly demon from the trolling netherworld come and tell me how uncharitable I am?

I hope these pieces of shit die a miserable and painful death with visions of the malfeasance dancing in their heads.

[struggle4progress]

9. It will be popularly known as the Cheney Interrogation Center

[Lydia Leftcoast]

10. Naming a foreign students' center for Cheney is like naming a

science center after Pat Robinson.

[harmonicon]

18. +1

I was going to go for something similar, but yours is better.

[IndianaGreen]

11. This is like Austria opening a museum on Hitler's childhood home

The center is funded in part with $3.2 million the Cheneys donated to the university in several installments while he was vice president.

The university did not see anything wrong in taking the money from this war criminal. What whores!

[marmar]

12. Cheney International Center?

Next up, the John Bolton Center for Multilateralism.

[Lost-in-FL]

13. Good motivating factor...

for those at that University to AVOID doing what he did to our country and our reputation around the world.

[fascisthunter]

14. it would be justice to see him in jail

I'll take a heart attack due to being upset at the crowds of protesters

[maheanuu]

15. Wyo, where Cheneys are Cheneys and sheep are scaired!

"The center is funded in part with $3.2 million the Cheneys donated to the university in several installments while he was vice president."

Did that money come from the teeth of those killed in the Katrina NOLA Fiasco? Lil Dick, It's a miracle that your right arm still works after having it so far up the ass of your sock puppet Lonesome George the moron of Crawford... Show me a republican and you can bet that it consists of 100% Sooper Rich Dog Shit.....

Just this old chief's 2 cents

[sledgehammer]

16. Seriously, if the University is dumb enough to consider a school named after Cheney

...then let it have his name. Watch the number of potential students to those majors drop like crazy. Who would ever want to say "I'm a graduate of the Cheney school."

I'm assuming that "Torture Techniques" and "False Propaganda" are required classes.

[HotRocks]

17. meh

Not at all that surprising when you look back at things.

[proud2BlibKansan]

19. It would be so much more appropriate to name a building at The Hague after him

[Mendocino]

20. Maybe it will have a bar and shooting gallery

in the basement called "The Undisclosed Location" where you can get drunk and blast your friends faces with a shotgun.

[IDemo]

21. And tell the cops to get lost if they show up,

then listen to your friend apologize for getting in the way of your shot.

[Mendocino]

23. How much do you suppose Cheney forked over to this guy?

Maybe $100 grand for taking the fall and $400 grand for pain and suffering, all from the petty cash drawer of Haliburton.

[IDemo]

26. At least, probably much more.

[Mendocino]

29. I wonder if the Secret Service

got hush money too, or do they have to cover him regardless of what he does?

[newfie11]

22. Go Cheyenne!!!!

:fistbump:

[Solly Mack]

24. Nothing like honoring a war criminal.

Damn

(and in Laramie, at that)

[Vidar]

25. I imagine that Wyoming is a real mecca for international students.

[Quasimodem]

27. The Cheyne-Stokes Respiration Center

for foreign students with breathing impediments.

[Stephanie]

30. The CIC, pronounced: SICK

[tanyev]

32. Are they greeted with hoods and plastic handcuffs when they arrive?

[wordpix]

33. English students, here's a perfect example of an oxyMORON

[Lasher]

34. The problem is, he's not officially a war criminal yet.

And this is the kind of endless shit we'll continue to get for not prosecuting him.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

35. The Dick Cheney Center For International Students where a guy can

shoot another guy...... in the face.

[hunter]

36. If you ever need to hire someone to shoot you in the face or rape the children of your enemies...

:hide:

[sofa king]

37. Wyoming has higher education?

Heh, heh.

[damntexdem]

38. They should rename it the Cheney War Crimes Center.

Come on, U of WY, tell it like it is.

[New Dawn]

40. Bingo.

[Hansel]

39. Harsh interrogation techniques?

I love how the media buckles to right wing deceitful efforts to gloss over their criminal activity. Political correctness completely run amok.

It's TORTURE dumb asses!

[marshall]

42. Maybe those people can raise 3.2 million dollars to offset Cheney's contribution

At my university if you pay that much money, you'll get something named after you, regardless of who you are.