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Title: Audience members disrupt Dick Cheney's speech
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Dallas Morning News
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Published: Nov 2, 2007
Author: GROMER JEFFERS and JEFFREY WEISS
Post Date: 2007-11-02 23:09:07 by kiki
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Vice President Dick Cheney's remarks that the country should not abandon Iraq was met with protest both inside and outside the Hyatt Regency in Dallas on Friday. "We must maintain the will to see the mission through," he told the World Affairs Council during a luncheon at the downtown hotel. "We believe Iraq does matter. We believe the stakes are very high,” he said. Mr. Cheney warned that a premature withdrawal from Iraq would destabilize the Middle East. Mr. Cheney also said it was critical that Iran not be allowed to develop a nuclear weapons program. A woman sitting in the back of the luncheon stood and shouted, "Get out of Iraq," and "Don't attack Iran." She was escorted out of the room. JIM MAHONEY / DMN Mr. Cheney arrived in Dallas on Thursday and attended a fundraiser for Sen. John Cornyn and the National Republican Senatorial Committee. Another man in the front of the room stood and shouted at Mr. Cheney about Iraq. He was also removed as Mr. Cheney told the crowd that diplomatic strategies were being used to stop Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon, but that "all options were on the table." Outside the hotel, more than 75 protesters crowded onto a narrow strip of grass to protest Mr. Cheney's speech. Some were graying veterans of many anti-war rallies, old enough to retool the Vietnam era “Hey, hey, LBJ! How many kids did you kill today?” into a chant that started “Bush! Cheney! CIA!” Others were younger, relative newcomers to public protest. They held signs: “Tyranny is no protection against terror!” “No war in Iran!” “Healthcare not warfare.” They cheered as a bus emblazoned with “Iraq veterans against the war” circled the hotel. The protest was organized by the Dallas Peace Center and several local anti-war groups. Several of those in the crowd said they knew the vice president didn’t much care about the protest, but the action was still worth the effort. “I’ve been a peace activist all my life,” said Amelia Core Jenkins, 69. “Mostly it’s a gesture to show that some people care enough to give their morning to it.” JUAN GARCIA / DMN Sher Mecon of Dallas was among those who protested Mr. Cheney's speech. Rick Burnley, 68, carried a used-looking bullhorn. He’s a fulltime activist, he said, who came in on the Iraq veterans’ bus after visits to Philadelphia, New York City and Washington. “Democracy is not a spectator sport,” he said. “It’s not just the people who are here. We are like the spear tip.” Elvan Sarigollu, 32, and her husband Burak, 36, held signs. Originally from Turkey, they moved to Dallas about 10 years ago. “Americans need to make a much stronger statement” against a possible war with Iran, she said. The protesters said they hoped their efforts would produce a shift in American government policies. “‘Eventually’ might be the name of the game,” Mr. Burnley said. Mr. Cheney arrived in Dallas on Thursday and attended a fundraiser for Sen. John Cornyn and the National Republican Senatorial Committee at the home of Dan and Gail Cook. Beforehand, Mr. Cheney and his wife, Lynne Cheney, went shopping at Highland Park Village. Mr. Cheney said he was enjoying his stay in Dallas, where he lived for five years while serving as CEO of Halliburton. On Friday morning, he departed the brand new Ritz-Carlton shortly after 10 a.m. and was taken to a live radio interview. He then was driven to the Hyatt Regency for the luncheon.
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#1. To: kiki (#0)
Imagine if someone else in the audience had said, 'I've been a war activist all my life...'. What would be said?
The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe with blood for centuries. James Madison (1751-1836),Father of the Constitution for the USA, 4th US President
Hopefully Bush and Cheney will get resistance wherever they go.
What an evil mutt cheney is. And speaking of mutts, they are the only cute ones associated with the dickster. Judge for yourself - I'm too technoincompetent to know how to post photos, so here's the url - an aaahhh moment: www.telegraph.co.uk/news/...2007/11/01/wche ney101.xml "Dick Cheney and Darth Vader: Picture proof"
Someone called him a poisonous dwarf, but w/o any cute photos to go with it.
Ron Paul for President - Join a Ron Paul Meetup group today!
yeah, the dogs are cute............
They better like combatant status. Dickie-Bird no like anyone speaking his mind. Herr Himmler had nothing on Dickie-Bird. I would pay big bucks for pictures of him being disemboweled. Alive.
Honi soit qui mal y pense
I guess Cheney's failure to mention Iran in his speech to the American Legion in Indianapolis two days ago was just a one-day wonder.
To reason, indeed, he was not in the habit of attending. His mode of arguing, if it is to be so called, was one not uncommon among dull and stubborn persons, who are accustomed to be surrounded by their inferiors. He asserted a proposition; and, as often as wiser people ventured respectfully to show that it was erroneous, he asserted it again, in exactly the same words, and conceived that, by doing so, he at once disposed of all objections. - Macaulay, "History of England," Vol. 1, Chapter 6, on James II.
here's what I imagine. they polled the preapproved audience and found that iran was a sticky subject, mostly due to manpower concerns. so cheney was advised to skip over it, on the off-chance that someone might heckle. cheney reluctantly agreed, but afterwards regretted the decision. "I had them in the palm of my hand - no way anyone would have disrupted my speech" so iran went back into the speech, to prove his point. now they're working feverishly to assign tinfoil status to the two disruptors, and hoping their swift removal (where were they taken?) will serve as an example to future audiences. whoever preapproved those two will be fired or reprimanded, and the preapproval process will be revamped to include just a slight hint of menace, not an overt threat but a clear message that if you dare to disagree publicly, your life may never be the same.
Four days ago NYT reported that Iraq had asked Iran for its help to defuse the crisis that had arisen between the Iraqi Kurds and Turkey. So Rice probably told Cheney "to put a sock in it" re: Iran war mongering, temporarily, while she and Maliki were attempting to win over Iran's assurance that it would help getting DC's a** out of the cement mixer re: having to choose between Turkey, a NATO ally, and the Kurds. freedom4um.com/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=65277&Disp=0 "Iraq Asks for Iran’s Help in Calming Kurdish Crisis" 10/31/07
“I’ve been a peace activist all my life,”
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#3. To: kiki, All (#0)
#4. To: scrapper2 (#3)
What an evil mutt cheney is
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#7. To: kiki (#0)
Mr. Cheney also said it was critical that Iran not be allowed to develop a nuclear weapons program.
#8. To: aristeides (#7)
I guess Cheney's failure to mention Iran in his speech to the American Legion in Indianapolis two days ago was just a one-day wonder.
#9. To: aristeides, kiki (#7)
I guess Cheney's failure to mention Iran in his speech to the American Legion in Indianapolis two days ago was just a one-day wonder.
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