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Title: Cheney calls for air strike on Iran over captured drone
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Published: Dec 13, 2011
Author: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/12/13/ch
Post Date: 2011-12-13 18:18:16 by tom007
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Cheney calls for air strike on Iran over captured drone By David Edwards Tuesday, December 13, 2011 Print 162 Dick Cheney speaks to CNN about captured drone Topics: Erin Burnett ♦ President Barack Obama ♦ vice president dick cheney Former Vice President Dick Cheney said on Monday that President Barack Obama should have ordered an “air strike” on Iran after they recently captured a U.S. drone. Earlier on Monday, President Barack Obama had explained that U.S. officials asked Iran to return the RQ-170 Sentinel surveillance drone. “The right response to that would have been to go in immediately after it had gone down and destroy it,” Cheney told CNN’s Erin Burnett. “You can do that from the air. You can do that with a quick air strike, and in effect make it impossible for them to benefit from having captured that drone.” “I was told that the president had three options on his desk. He rejected all of them,” the former vice president added. “They all involved sending somebody in to try to recover it, or if you can’t do that, admittedly that would be a difficult operation, you certainly could have gone in and destroyed it on the ground with an air strike.” For their part, Iran has called on the U.S. to apologize, saying the U.S. broke international laws by violating their airspace. Watch this video from CNN’s Erin Burnett OutFront, broadcast Dec. 12, 2011.
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#1. To: tom007 (#0)
Imagine if McNuts were president....
Gee, DICK, why didn't George Bush do that very thing when the ChiComs forced one of our Navy EP-3 Aries surveillance planes to land on Hainan Island back on April 1, 2001??? Yes, pick on a supposedly inferior Iran, but you cower at the thought of tangling with the nasty ChiComs....
"The real deal is this: the ‘royalty’ controlling the court, the ones with the power, the ones with the ability to make a difference, with the ability to change our course, the ones who will live in infamy if we pass the tipping points, are the captains of industry, CEOs in fossil fuel companies such as EXXON/Mobil, automobile manufacturers, utilities, all of the leaders who have placed short-term profit above the fate of the planet and the well-being of our children." - James Hansen
#2. To: tom007, All (#0)
Former Vice President Dick Cheney said on Monday that President Barack Obama should have ordered an “air strike” on Iran after they recently captured a U.S. drone.
-Alex Kurtagic
#3. To: FormerLurker, tom007, 4 (#1)
Clearly big dick resides mostly in lala land. Shake yourself, big dick.
Break the Conventions - Keep the Commandments - G.K.Chesterson
#4. To: FormerLurker (#1)
Then you would likely be posting by "Smoke Signal" from the post WWIII nuclear ruins. Cheney is a nutcase as well. Imagine if McNuts were president....
#5. To: tom007 (#0)
Cheny has an anger management problem as well as an overinflated ego.
..................... If a man has nothing that he is willing to die for, then he has nothing worth living for.
#6. To: tom007 (#0)
Die Cheney, die !
"Anyone intent upon achieving "smaller government" should consider quitting the current fraud."
#7. To: tom007 (#0)
He thinks nothing of starting WW3. The right response is to not fly spy aircraft over Iran to start with! They can get good spy pictures from satellites, they don't need a plane. What the USA did here is an act of war against Iran. Iran asks for an apology while they should be preparing for war.
God is always good!
#8. To: tom007 (#0)
Cut the big Dick some slack. After all, he is the world's longest surviving heart DONOR.
It is vital to understand that there is no truth without discernment and no wisdom without the truth. What then is “faith” but an effort to confound truth and wisdom?
#9. To: tom007 (#0)
I doubt Cheney is nuts but he's playing up to what he thinks is a bloodthirsty audience - and I don't think that audience is out there. Bombing a country because WE effed up a spy operation against it? That makes about as much sense as invading Iraq looking for a nuclear weapon that never existed.
#10. To: X-15 (#2)
Good memory, Thanks. e of our Navy EP-3 Aries surveillance planes to land on Hainan Island back on April 1, 2001??
"Satan / Cheney in "08" 
#11. To: RickyJ (#7)
Would seem to be. Seems the US media is not giving any numbers as to how far the drone was in Iran, using adjectives like "slightly" etc. From what I can tell it was 180 miles/kilos inside the border. Even at kilos, that's not slightly. What the USA did here is an act of war against Iran. Iran asks for an
"Satan / Cheney in "08"
#12. To: tom007 (#0) (Edited)
Doesn't he have any lawyers to accidentally shoot while hunting tame birds while drunk he needs to get down to business and get out of the way and do to keep him quiet andout of trouble? I have a better Idea, Dick; let's trade you for the drone. We can throw in Smirk for good measure.
#13. To: Ferret (#12)
Fact. After some blowup Regan sent Kohemini (sp) a gold and silver set of westeran pistols, a matched set, as some kind of friendship deal, The Iranians sent it back. Much to their credit. I have a better Idea, Dick; let's trade you for the drone.
"Satan / Cheney in "08"
#14. To: tom007 (#0)
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The relationship between morality and liberty is a directly proportional one.
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”
—Samuel Adams
#15. To: Original_Intent (#4)
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The relationship between morality and liberty is a directly proportional one.
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”
—Samuel Adams
#16. To: noone222 (#6)
Don't you think he looks like he's closer to the grave than the last time he had a photo op? I did. Die Cheney, die !
" If you cannot govern yourself, you will be governed by assholes. " Randge, Poet de Forum, 1/11/11
"Life's tough, and even tougher if you're stupid." --John Wayne
#17. To: Eric Stratton (#14)
Please don't insult the ASSHOLES by calling them a Cheney. lol What an ASSHOLE Cheney is!
" If you cannot govern yourself, you will be governed by assholes. " Randge, Poet de Forum, 1/11/11
"Life's tough, and even tougher if you're stupid." --John Wayne
#18. To: tom007, ALL (#0)
if i could call in a drone airstrike on Darth Cheney by now i would have. J
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams 
#19. To: abraxas (#17)
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The relationship between morality and liberty is a directly proportional one.
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”
—Samuel Adams
#20. To: Ferret (#12)
What did Iran ever do to you? I think dropping those two on them might constitute a Crime against Humanity. I have a better Idea, Dick; let's trade you for the drone. We can throw in Smirk for good measure.
#21. To: Eric Stratton (#19)
Was it Vacation for $500 Alex? : ) Name the movie from which this quote comes;
" If you cannot govern yourself, you will be governed by assholes. " Randge, Poet de Forum, 1/11/11
"Life's tough, and even tougher if you're stupid." --John Wayne
#22. To: abraxas (#21)
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The relationship between morality and liberty is a directly proportional one.
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”
—Samuel Adams
#23. To: Eric Stratton (#22)
Down right amazing considering how few movies I watch....but I could hear Chevy saying the line as I read it. : ) Very good!
" If you cannot govern yourself, you will be governed by assholes. " Randge, Poet de Forum, 1/11/11
"Life's tough, and even tougher if you're stupid." --John Wayne
#24. To: abraxas (#23)
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The relationship between morality and liberty is a directly proportional one.
"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”
—Samuel Adams
#25. To: Original_Intent (#20)
ROTFLOL! Hey, no argument there. ;-D "What did Iran ever do to you? I think dropping those two on them might constitute a Crime against Humanity."
#26. To: abraxas (#16)
Yeah, but not near enough. Don't you think he looks like he's closer to the grave
"Anyone intent upon achieving "smaller government" should consider quitting the current fraud."
#27. To: abraxas (#16)
The sob won't be close enough to the grave until they're shoveling dirt over his sorry carcass. Don't you think he looks like he's closer to the grave than the last time he had a photo op? I did.
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. Lord Acton
The human herd stampedes on the fields of facts and the valleys of truth to get to the desert of ignorance. Saman Mohammadi
The only difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits. Albert Einstein
"...if the military is going to defend our freedoms, then we need freedoms to defend. Our freedoms must be restored before the military can defend them..." Lawrence M. Vance
Você me trata desse jeito só porque eu sou preto. Junior (my youngest son)
#28. To: James Deffenbach, noone222 (#27)
We must be patient about the death notice.....it will come with days of MSM coverage and lame stories about him that will necessitate a barf bag for the lot of us.
" If you cannot govern yourself, you will be governed by assholes. " Randge, Poet de Forum, 1/11/11
"Life's tough, and even tougher if you're stupid." --John Wayne
#29. To: abraxas (#28)
LOL! I suspect you're right about that. All kinds of bs stories about what a great humanitarian he was and all. But to me just winging one lawyer a little will not get him any awards, not when he had a chance to finish the job and not while there are hundreds of thousands of them left roaming around destroying the country. Pitiful, just pitiful.
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end. Lord Acton
The human herd stampedes on the fields of facts and the valleys of truth to get to the desert of ignorance. Saman Mohammadi
The only difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits. Albert Einstein
"...if the military is going to defend our freedoms, then we need freedoms to defend. Our freedoms must be restored before the military can defend them..." Lawrence M. Vance
Você me trata desse jeito só porque eu sou preto. Junior (my youngest son)
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