Filed under: Freedom, Intelligence, Iran, Islam, Israel, Law, Middle East, National Security, Terrorism, The United States | Tags: Great Americans, The Iran Deal, Vice President Cheney
Former Vice President Dick Cheney spoke at an event at AEI on September 8, a passionate speech about the nuclear deal with Iran and why it is a complete catastrophe. It’s a long speech, but worth every minute. Mr. Cheney explains clearly why it is such a very, very bad deal.
As for me, I was convinced that we were doomed when I learned that President Obama believes that Iran would never actually use a nuclear weapon. If he actually believes that, no wonder he has been such a complete doormat.
He believes that he can turn the problems of the Middle East over to Iran to solve, and get America out of the region entirely. Iran’s quest for intercontinental ballistic missiles does not concern Mr. Obama who envisions himself making a triumphant trip to Tehran to shake the Supreme Leader’s hand.
The Supreme Leader may not be able to bring himself to sign the deal at all, since he hates Americans so much. Shake hands? Not a chance.
The speech is about 35 minute long, followed by a question and answer period.
Vice President Cheney was admitted to George Washington University Hospital after complaining of “discomfort” yesterday. He is expected to stay in hospital through the weekend for observation and tests, but that’s about all that is known at this point.
We hope all is well and pray for his full and speedy recovery! And send our love to him and his family.
Update: Good news: tests show it wasn’t a heart attack. Godspeed Mr. Cheney! And take care of that ticker! We want you around for a very long time!
(h/t Michelle Malkin)
Filed under: Liberalism, Media Bias, News the Media Doesn't Want You to Hear, Politics | Tags: Democrat lies, Scooter Libby, Valerie Plame, Vice President Cheney
A three-judge panel upheld the ruling of a lower court dismissing Valerie Plame’s civil suit against Dick Cheney and others … mainstream media could not be reached for comment.
Filed under: Election 2008, Liberalism, News, Politics | Tags: Daily Kos, Democrat Corruption, Elizabeth Edwards, John Edwards, Liberal lies, Lynn Cheney, Mary Cheney, Vice President Cheney
…just because Edwards has been caught cheating on his dying wife while running for president? Doubtful. This actually bodes well for his status within the Democrat party. So, I guess Edwards isn’t gay after all.
Apparently, in liberal land, lying about an affair is actually being honest:
“But being 99% honest is no longer enough.”
Oh, man, he’s actually playing the victim:
If you want to beat me up – feel free. You cannot beat me up more than I have already beaten up myself. I have been stripped bare and will now work with everything I have to help my family and others who need my help.
and he is apparently still hoping to speak at the convention.
Elizabeth Edwards, meanwhile, has released a statement to, of all places, the loathsome Daily Kos. Where most of the commenters are very supportive of her and her husband. Some even calling for him to run in 2012! A few are angry that both she and John lied to them and risked their political chances. Bothered about his deplorable lack of character? Cheating on his wife? Not so much.
Just when I should be feeling sorry for her, Elizabeth Edwards reminds me, by turning to the most hateful site on the internet, of all the truly hateful vile things she has said and done regarding Republicans. Remember when she suggested the Cheney’s were ashamed of their daughter Mary because she is gay after her husband and John Kerry tried to make a political issue out of Mary? The same daughter they campaign with, and appear proudly on stage with?
Ugh. What a mess those people are. God help them.
(By the way, I searched the Obama site, and it appears the above graphic and all official references to Edwards endorsement have disappeared down the “O” hole. Another one under the bus. Imagine that!)
Filed under: Foreign Policy, Iraq, Media Bias, Military, News, Politics | Tags: Debunking Liberal Lies, Democrats, Katie Couric, Liberal lies, President Bush, Republicans, Support the Troops!, Vice President Cheney, Winning In Iraq
From the “Are you freaking kidding me?” department:
“However you feel about her politics, I feel that Sen. Clinton received some of the most unfair, hostile coverage I’ve ever seen.”
Hmm, let’s see if I can think of anyone who has gotten more unfair…or… hostile… coverage.
Have you got any nominations? (h/t Instapundit)
Filed under: Foreign Policy, News, Politics | Tags: Democrat Lies/Dirty Tricks, Iran, Iraq, Military, Political Correctness/Multiculturalism, President Bush, Support the Troops!, Vice President Cheney
Iraq’s leading Shi’a cleric, the Grand Ayatolla Ali Sistani, on Tuesday issued a call to his followers. He banned the spilling of Iraqi blood — especially of the Sunnis, and called on the Shiites to protect their brother Sunnis. “I am a servant of all Iraqis, there is no difference between a Sunni, a Shiite or a Kurd or a Christian,” the Ayatolla Sistani was quoted as saying during a meeting with a delegation of Sunni clerics from southern and northern Iraq.
Among the Islamic world’s Shi’a the Grand Ayatollah Sistani is seen as a direct competitor to Iran’s revolutionary and radical Ayatollah Khomeni. In contrast to Khomeni, Sistani sees possibility for a separation between mosque and government and room for democratic governance without theological conflict. Sistani’s support spreads beyond the borders of Iraq into Iran.
These are very promising developments. Did you hear about them?
Michael Yon reported earlier this month (reprinted at Belmont Club) on Christians and Muslims of Iraq placing a cross atop the newly re-opened St. John’s Church in Baghdad. They had retrieved the cross from storage and washed it carefully before carrying it up to the dome. Michael Yon wrote:
The Iraqis asked me to convey a message of thanks to the American people, “Thank you, thank you,” the people were saying. One man said, “Thank you for peace.” Another man, a Muslim, said, “All the people, all the people in Iraq, Muslim and Christian is brother.” The men and the women were holding bells, and for the first time in memory , freedom rang over the land between two rivers.
A lovely little story. Did you read about it?
On October 29, Michael Totten posted a story about Iraqi Army officers in Besmaya who raised a thousand dollars in donations for victims of the devastating fires in San Diego. A thousand dollars is a lot of money in Iraq. The average salary is only a few hundred dollars a month. This is a moment when the old saying “it’s the thought that counts” is really applicable. (More..) A moving account. Did you hear about it?
These are small stories, underreported, or not reported because they don’t show the war in the necessary bad light, nor do they reflect badly on the administration–a necessary direction, it seems, for reporters who prefer spinning to reporting. It makes you want to weep, but there really are good stories out there…
Filed under: Foreign Policy, Politics | Tags: Democrat Lies/Dirty Tricks, Iraq, Military, President Bush, Support the Troops!, Terrorism, Vice President Cheney
In a stunning rebuke of Democrat’s only stated Iraq policy preferences, the Iraqi government is expected to ask the United States to stay in Iraq, and ask the United Nations to leave.
Basically the only two suggestions Democrats have ever made: that we surrender and let the UN handle things from here, the Iraqi government says, “um, ARE YOU CRAZY???”
No, not crazy, just stunningly corrupt and monumentally wrongheaded.
According to the Associated Press, Iraq’s government will soon ask the U.S. to keep troops in that country long-term to guarantee its security against terrorists and predatory neighboring states such as Iran, Syria and Saudi Arabia.
It’s all part of a new “strategic partnership” between the U.S. and Iraq, according to what the AP described as two “senior Iraq officials” from different political parties.
The Iraqis also will ask that the United Nations end its involvement inside the country, go home and wrap up its role in deciding Iraq’s fate — a job it has had since the first Gulf War in 1991. The U.N.’s official mandate expires next year.
All this is good news, both for Iraq and the U.S.
For Iraq, it means long-term stability for its democratically elected government and its successors; for the U.S., we gain a permanent presence in the Middle East from which to defend our interests. Both are vital for our security.
Iraq has even hinted, without saying so explicitly, that it will give the U.S. a piece of its oil pie — its reserves of 115 billion barrels are the world’s fourth-largest — in exchange for helping to protect it.
As the AP noted, the deal would “include preferential treatment for American investments” — code for putting the U.S. at the head of the line when it comes to helping Iraq’s oil industry to grow. [read more]
Democrats: wrong on every major foreign policy/national security issue since Vietnam.
Filed under: Foreign Policy, Politics | Tags: 2006 Election, Democrat Lies/Dirty Tricks, Hillary Clinton, Homeland Security, Iraq, John Edwards, Military, Obama, President Bush, Support the Troops!, Terrorism, Vice President Cheney
Democrats oppose the war in Iraq. We all know that…now.
They were for it — when it was going well — when it was popular. But when the going got tough, as it always does in war, Democrats saw an opportunity — Democrats got going.
They campaigned in ’06 promising to change direction in Iraq. They refused to say what that new direction would be, but when they won, they nevertheless claimed a mandate to pull out of Iraq.
The problem that has arisen for Democrats since then is that America has changed course in Iraq — things have gotten dramatically better on the ground, Iraqis are joining with America to fight terrorists and insurgents alike, Iraqis who had fled are returning in droves, and violence of all kinds has dropped exponentially.
In other words, thanks to President Bush and General Petraeus, the man Democrats smeared as a liar and betrayer of the nation, we are winning! And Democrats have fought that victory kicking and screaming every step of the way.
Now the Democrats are pinning all their hopes on the heretofore “lack of political reconciliation” in Iraq. (This from the party that has blocked desperately needed energy policy, social security, healthcare and other reforms for seven years.) But the idea that America should leave an increasingly peaceful Iraq to descend into chaos, dragging the greater middle east with it because Iraqi politicians are guilty of being not even as viciously partisan as Democrats, will never fly with the American people. Nor should it.
I have little doubt now that Iraqi leaders will work out their differences. Not simply because reports suggest that that is precisely what is going on behind the scenes, but because they must. The Iraqi people have shown by joining the fight, that they will not accept anything less.
The fact is that Democrats have completely boxed themselves in.
They have proven with their opportunistic vacillating that they are unfit to command the nation’s defenses. National security requires strength and resolve. Democrats have exposed themselves as weak and untrustworthy.
They long ago declared the increasingly successful war, “lost”. They have since done nearly everything in their power to bring about that result. They branded the highly successful surge a “failure”.
President Bush and Republicans are on the way to turning an avowed enemy of the United States with the capability to produce and disperse WMD into a moderate democracy and ally to America.
Democrats will never be able to claim any responsibility for success in Iraq — they are long past the point of no return on that flip-flop. And most importantly, the American people will hold them responsible for trying their best to scuttle it.
“Kharma” is coming for the Democrats, and it’s not happy.
Vice President Cheney was taken to the hospital today for evaluation of his heart, after doctors performing an exam detected an irregular heart beat.
May God keep him healthy and well, and may he continue to drive liberals nuts for decades to come!
Filed under: Conservatism, Foreign Policy, History, Military | Tags: 9/11, Homeland Security, Iraq, Military, Rudy Giuliani, Support the Troops!, Terrorism, Vice President Cheney
Remember the right things
Remember those who lost family, friends and loved ones. Remember them. They still grieve.
Be there for them, but let them do the grieving. It’s time for the rest of us to stop focusing on grief and remember.
Remember those who looked up at towering infernos, smelled the burning fuel, felt the heat, heard the girders buckle and groan — then gathered their courage and charged inside. Remember, especially, those who never made it back out.
But most importantly, remember what those bastards did to us:
Remember airliners full of terrified men, women and children. Remember flight attendants with knives pressed to their throats.
Remember those trapped above the flames with no way out. Remember their calls to 911 operators. “Oh my God, I’m going to die!”
Remember the unfathomable choice forced on them, do they wait and burn alive, or do they jump 110 stories to their deaths?
Remember the bastards who did this to us.
Remember the passengers who knew. Remember telephone calls and last goodbyes. “I love you! …I’ve got to go now.” Remember how they fought back and sacrificed themselves — most likely saving the United States Congress in the process.
Remember the sound of the second plane full of people roaring in — so very low — and the explosive smack as it hit. Remember that split-second when you and I, and everyone across the country realized as one — this was no accident.
Remember everything those God-damned bastards did to us.
Remember 2,873 savage murders.
Remember, but for the grace of God, there could have been 50,000 souls in the Trade Center had it been just a little later in the morning. Remember there were to have been more hijacked flights aimed at Chicago and Los Angeles and other cities across the country. Remember the anthrax.
Remember how close they came.
They chose their targets ruthlessly. They weren’t aiming only to kill Americans — to them it was a fortunate consequence of their plan — they were aiming to destroy America.
They struck at heart of American commerce in order to destroy the economy:
They struck at the heart of American defense in order to destroy the military infrastructure:
And they tried to strike the capitol, hoping to kill as much of Congress as possible, to destroy our government’s ability to recover. Thank God they were thwarted:
What would have happened to the economy with Wall Street and the financial district destroyed and congress dead? What would have happened to the military with its leadership dead? What would have happened throughout the country with Wall Street destroyed, the military command obliterated and no federal government to put things back together?
And what would have happened when additional attacks followed — as they were meant to?
Too many people think September 11th was only about killing. It was about killing — but it was about much more than that. It was about utterly destroying the entire nation. It was about bringing down America.
Remember it all. Remember everything they did. Remember how close those evil sons of bitches came.
[Originally published 9/11/2007]
Filed under: Domestic Policy, Economy, Education, Environment, Foreign Policy, History, Iraq, Politics | Tags: 9/11, Afghanistan, Democrat Lies/Dirty Tricks, Homeland Security, Iran, Iraq, President Bush, Terrorism, Vice President Cheney
Yes, you heard me right. Such an unpopular sentiment these days, but it’s exactly the right one. Fortunately, our founding fathers—in their great wisdom—knew with such certainty that the majority is not always right that they made it a cornerstone of our republic. Now—just as with President Truman, and his even lower approval ratings—is precisely such a time.
And we are also very fortunate they knew with equal certainty that opportunistic politicians in Congress should have absolutely no powers to command war. Today is a perfect example. While Democrats are doing everything in their power, stooping to all manners of reprehensible new lows to get back in power, including undermining their country in war time for political gain, lying, leaking, and intentionally misrepresenting policy to the American people, (not to mention stealing top-secret documents, stuffing them in their pants and destroying them) —Vice President Cheney and President Bush are very busy doing everything in their Constitutional powers to protect the country and make sure another 9/11 never happens.
Thank God the adults are in charge!
The following is a portion of a must-read article by Stephen Hayes that gives a glimpse into the real Cheney, his essential work, and that lays bare the distortions and bald faced opportunistic lies of the reprehensible Democrats. Read the whole thing here.
Dick Cheney sat transfixed by the images on the small television screen in the corner of his West Wing office. Smoke poured out of a gaping hole in the World Trade Center’s North Tower. John McConnell, the vice president’s chief speechwriter, sat next to him and said nothing.Then, a second plane appeared on the right-hand side of the screen, banked slightly to the left, and plunged into the South Tower. “Did you see that?” Mr. Cheney asked his aide.
A little more than an hour later, Mr. Cheney was seated below the presidential seal at a long conference table in the Presidential Emergency Operations Center, better known as the bunker. When an aide told Mr. Cheney that another passenger airplane was rapidly approaching the White House, the vice president gave the order to shoot it down. The young man was so surprised at Mr. Cheney’s immediate response that he asked again. Mr. Cheney reiterated the order. Thinking that Mr. Cheney must have misunderstood the question, the military aide asked him a third time.
The vice president responded evenly. “I said yes.”
These early moments and all that followed from them will define Mr. Cheney’s vice presidency. He was aggressive in those first moments of the war on terror and has been ever since.
Mr. Cheney flew from the White House that night to Camp David, where he stayed in the Aspen Lodge, usually reserved for the president. It was his first night in the “secure, undisclosed location” that would eventually provide fodder for late night comedians. When he woke the next morning, Mr. Cheney asked himself two questions: When is the next attack? And what can I do to prevent it?
They were the questions on the minds of many politicians immediately following 9/11. “When, not if” quickly became one of many clichés to emerge from the national trauma of that day. Democrats and Republicans alike spoke of further terrorist acts on U.S. soil with certainty.
Sen. Bob Graham, a Democrat from Florida who has since retired but at the time was chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, described the intelligence after a CIA briefing days after 9/11. “There is evidence that Tuesday’s attack was the first phase of a multi-phase series of terrorist assaults against the United States, all under one umbrella plan,” he said. “It’s critical that we move with what capabilities we have today and strengthen those capabilities so that the next acts of this horrendous scheme against the people of the United States can be interdicted before it is executed.”
No wonder, then, that a Time/CNN poll, taken in September 2001, found that four out of five Americans believed another attack within a year was either “somewhat likely” or “very likely.”
That was nearly six years ago. To many, the threats no longer seem urgent. Critics speak of “the so-called war on terror,” and accuse the administration of exaggerating the threats. Zbigniew Brzezinski, a leading indicator of Democratic conventional wisdom, recently argued that the “culture of fear” created in response to the 9/11 attacks has done more damage than the attacks themselves.
But Mr. Cheney has not moved on. He still awakens each day asking the same questions he asked on Sept. 12, 2001. [read the rest]
American Elephants 