Cheney goes for US president's jugular

[Ardent15]

Like a horror movie monster, the former vice-president keeps coming back to sink his teeth into Obama's foreign policy.

In response to Dick Cheney's idiotic attack on Barack Obama's Afghanistan policy, newly minted progressive hero Alan Grayson said what many of us have often thought: "When he was done speaking, did he just then turn into a bat and fly away?"

If only it were so easy to get rid of the former vice president. While Cheney may disappear into an undisclosed location for a period of time, before you know it he slinks on back, more excruciating than ever.

Look, there's Dick the guy who had absolutely no clue or care about Afghanistan for eight years attacking Obama for supposedly employing the Bush administration's strategy there, or at least one "bearing a striking resemblance to the strategy we passed to them".

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[LakeSamish706]

1. President Obama should be taking these guys down for their crimes, instead of...

letting them roam free out there. There are so many crimes that they could get them for, yet they choose to look forward and not deal with it. These guys have been daring the current Admin. to prosecute them, to no avail.

[Ardent15]

2. Cheney has a huge blackmail file on pretty much everyone who has served in Washington...

...from 1970 to 2009.

I'm sure Obama and Biden are in that file.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

4. How to deal with vampires

A stake through the heart before midnight usually does the trick but I think prison would be a better alternative.

[gateley]

6. I'm sure there's plenty of stuff that they have on Cheney, too. Compared to him,

I bet Obama and Biden are choirboys.

[grasswire]

3. I agree -- Cheney is baiting Obama

And apparently with impunity.

[ThomCat]

8. It would be Wonderful if Obama administration would prosecute

Bush and Cheney for war crimes. But to do that, wouldn't Obama have to:

Actually stop torturing people so they can prosecute bush and cheney for torturing?
Stop spying on citizens so they prosecute bush and cheney for spying on citizens?
Start adhering to the Geneva Conventions so they can prosecute bush and cheney for violating them?

The only thing I think the Obama administration could prosecute the Bush administration for is lying to congress, and starting a war through fraud and deception. But even there, they would have more moral authority to prosecute if the Obama administration wasn't still continuing that war and planning for a permanent occupation of the country.

The Obama administration just doesn't have clean enough hands to prosecute, even if they had any will, concern or intention to seek justice of any kind.

[tabasco]

5. So what?

Who the fuck listens to Cheney?

[TicketyBoo]

13. Right attitude.

And the one the President employs.

I think it's kinda neat that Obama treats Cheney like the flyspeck he is.

[Deja Q]

7. Dick needs to grow a pair.

[Oregone]

9. Robots are not anatomically correct

[Patchuli]

12. I think he's got quite the pair

to come off with the shit he does. He NEEDS to go to jail is what he needs.

[earcandle]

10. One sad obsolescent clod.

can he still do damage?

[jmondine]

11. ... and ends up shooting George Bush in the face

[hoya86]

14. ....