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- reeder, on 11/27/2007, -10/+56The only thing good about Prick Cheney is his heart. It keeps trying to give out on him. One day buddy, just keep trying.
- Waiting2awake, on 11/27/2007, -4/+49Iran is no threat to the US, please stop being so scared. All you have to fear, is fear itself. Not some ideologically different people half way across the world from you. They have their own problems - Americans buying into the fear mongering for the second time in a decade being high on that list.
- notque, on 11/27/2007, -3/+33War Criminals should not remain in power.
- justice7, on 11/27/2007, -5/+31The americans always have something snide to say about France... but if a politician did this in France, there would be riots in the streets and protests everywhere. They make sure their government behaves. This is not so in the USA, it is "unamerican"
- Ziggygallaway, on 11/27/2007, -4/+28Dugg Down as inacurate, Cheney has no heart.
- justice7, on 11/27/2007, -5/+24You seriously think the small nation of Iran can destroy the United States? Be realistic. They are little to no threat to the United States at all. The biggest threat to the United States is the United States.
- NVMojo, on 11/27/2007, -6/+24These people will lie their way out of a chair with ease. Disgusting.
- Arcesius, on 11/27/2007, -2/+20just because their whackadoodle doesn't get along with our whackadoodle doesn't mean I'm going to start fearing Iranians in general...
- theNazz, on 11/27/2007, -3/+20Now that KBR was removed from Haliburton and Haliburton moved their corporate HQ to the UAE the US taxpayer will NEVER get accounting for all of the fraud committed by Dick Cheney's former company...
- inactive, on 11/27/2007, -4/+19If President Cheney's heart doesnt kill him, at least the Hague will one day soon
- positron, on 11/27/2007, -2/+16Americans only riot over sporting events.
- inactive, on 11/27/2007, -2/+14Once a crook always a crook
- plizard, on 11/27/2007, -7/+17go go gadget heart failure!
- way2muchsense, on 11/27/2007, -1/+10"...the good Lord didn't see fit to always put oil and gas resources where there are democratic governments."
As if any democratic nation who happened to be sitting on an ocean of oil would stay that way for long. The oil industry prefers sympathetic and corruptible dictators. - jmpeagle, on 11/27/2007, -4/+11only second?
remember Iraq, Bird Flu, water bottles on air planes, North Korea, duct taping your house, etc... - hydrodev, on 11/27/2007, -1/+8WE WERE DOING DIRTY DEALS WITH SADDAM. Where do you think the chemical and bio weapons he *had* came from? Willy Wonka?
- Acewrap, on 11/27/2007, -1/+7"evade" is a nice way to say broke. He hasn't been arrested, charged and tried because he is rich, powerful and amoral.
Hope that helps. - jackspade, on 11/27/2007, -1/+6Don't know why you're getting dugg down. I'm getting that same symbol in the description. I guess I'm missing a font or something.
- CedEx, on 11/27/2007, -0/+5Do you remember what the First Gulf War was even about? The UN authorized a military force lead by the US to liberate Kuwait, which happened to be invaded by Iraq. The only reason why he opposed any action back then was probably to protect his profits. Now he's doing the same thing, only having a war protects his profits this time around.
- Beatmiser, on 11/27/2007, -2/+7I know right? Caring about right and wrong is such the province of bed wetters!
Idiot. - Waiting2awake, on 11/27/2007, -1/+6You really have absolutely no clue on what is happening do you?
- tekano, on 11/27/2007, -0/+5wouldn't that be an (oil pipe) line
- squeezer, on 11/27/2007, -2/+7Americans tease the French about their cheese, wine, and lack of work ethic (never mind that the French are healthier and dramatically more productive than Americans despite only working 35 hours a week), but you will never hear an American say that the French government is corrupt/inefficient/whatever, or that French citizens don't have a voice.
Whether that's because the average American doesn't know anything about France besides "Oui oui oui give me some brie" and the Eiffel Tower (which is apparently visible from any point in or around Paris), or because we actually don't think there is a problem with the French government, I can't really say. :) - objectcode, on 11/27/2007, -0/+5draw a line from Iraq to Afghanistan and I'm sure you will see who is a threat to who
- inactive, on 11/27/2007, -1/+6Cheney should be impeached and hung like Saddam for terrorism.
- x083, on 11/27/2007, -0/+5I mean seriously, when is Dick going to get impeached already, and arrested and charged with the capital offense of Treason? how much longer do we have to wait, because i want to make some popcorn, kick up my feet and watch the freak show.
- Waiting2awake, on 11/27/2007, -3/+7Only if the American people allow it. Sadly, they seem not to have much will power left for their country after they have worried about all the other things....
- inactive, on 11/27/2007, -1/+5I agree with you W2a. The "threat" part of my post was simply to illustrate how the Conservatives' own hero, Reagan, contributed to their current straw-man boogeyman.
- Waiting2awake, on 11/27/2007, -2/+6and if by luck you don't have one of them - the US will come and bring democracy to you so you too can have a dictator...America ***** Yeah!
- spyd3rweb, on 11/27/2007, -2/+5Thats what sports were created for.
- bjornski, on 11/27/2007, -0/+3If you look a little closer at those "oil for food" deals going on, you'll also see that Halliburton played a large part also.
- geomon, on 11/27/2007, -1/+4The US law cited in the article said nothing about doing business with Iran though a subsidiary. That much wasn't illegal. So everything he was doing was legal, but was not necessarily in the interests of the US.
As for the danger posed by Iran, they are two-fold. Iran has declared war on the US in terms more than just metaphorical. The citizenry may parade around the streets in mock anger at the behest of the regime, but the ruling elite truly wants to destroy the US. The conservative wing of the ruling clerics have spoken in glowing terms of the love they have for the martyrs who have spilled their blood killing Americans abroad. Watch Cult of the Suicide Bomber where Robert Baer interviews Iranian mullahs. Iran has been engaged in a low-level warfare with the US for nearly 30 years, from suicide bombings at the US embassy in Lebanon to an assassination of an American citizen in the US. This is the first level of danger that Iran poses: asymmetric warfare (terrorism).
The second level of danger that Iran poses only fully expresses itself when the state is capable of mass producing nuclear weapons. No one doubts that this will happen within the next decade. How the Iranians choose to use or deploy their nuclear power is what makes them dangerous. Their leadership has shown little restraint in exercising a reaction to what they perceive to be aggression against their interests. I have no doubt that Iran would be capable of using nuclear force thorough an intermediary (not through al-Qaeda) in a spectacular display of retaliation against US forces.
I am not a paranoid nor am I anti-Iranian. I spent several years living with Iranians studying here in the US in the mid to late 1970's. They are a proud and principled people, everything Americans would like to believe about themselves. But their country is surrounded by what they view as hostile forces who seek to do them harm. And while only a small segment of the population would consider themselves to be fully aligned with everything that the regime says and does, any external threat will certainly bring out full support of the government. They are just as patriotic as they are proud.
But make no mistake. The current leadership of the Iranian Republic has never given up its desire to destroy the US and its interests. I believe that these leaders will use nuclear capabilities, especially if it means mass casualties, to defend their interests. Those interests do not have be exclusively Iranian territory. When the US embassy in Lebanon went up in 1983, Iran had no territorial interest in that failed state, but they had a stake in making the US pull back. Using a nuclear weapon against a large US military installation in the Persian Gulf region would be done for the same reason. - BrokenVisage, on 11/27/2007, -4/+7I don't understand Iranian, please translate: ’œ
- tmessing, on 11/27/2007, -2/+5 If the French were forced to work a 40 hour work week, they'd riot in France. You could pretty much replace "were forced to work a 40 hour work week" with anything in this statement and the French would riot. It's a national past time there.
- Theisos, on 11/27/2007, -0/+3Emphasis on "is"
- inactive, on 11/27/2007, -0/+3impeaching doesn't necessarily mean removal from office
- henro112358, on 11/27/2007, -0/+3Is anyone seriously surprised at news of an ethical or moral lapse by this guy anymore? Like Bush's idiocy it stopped being funny when the whole world noticed, then noticed that the millions of other Americans were doing nothing about it...
- mountaincable, on 11/27/2007, -0/+2Haha as if americans invented soccer riots.
- inactive, on 11/27/2007, -0/+2Seriously. IMPEACH
- badqat, on 11/27/2007, -0/+2Eeesh...someone needs a basic civics class...
- Waiting2awake, on 11/27/2007, -0/+2Well, I guess it goes something like this. America is going ***** up. You economy, your military, your reputation and your ability to finance your life style by floating debt - are all collapsing all around you. Your nation, as all nations, survive because of trade - yet you have nothing to trade - except a few very nice valuables that I think many would like to see held accountable. Of course America could refuse to do so, ignoring and flouting international law - but that would leave the international community no choice but not to trade. I know, I know, I know - you guys are the biggest economy - but it is on debt, debt that you can never hope to pay back now, nor in your children's future, nor in their children's..If your economy is in the *****, no one will buy your bonds, if no one will buy your bonds can not finance your lifestyle.
Of course maybe that doesn't happen and the world, en mass, just forgives and forgets. I'm sure that is quite likely. - bjornski, on 11/27/2007, -0/+2No, he just supports the fascists.
- gak001, on 11/27/2007, -0/+2He didn't violate the law, per se. But he took action that went against the spirit of the law.
- objectcode, on 11/27/2007, -1/+3"How does one "evade" laws?"
he is Cheney, VP of the US. im above the law, you are not. go fetch me that oil - Delphium226, on 11/27/2007, -0/+2a neocon with a morality deficit and an astounding talent for hypocrisy. so it ain't so.
- Waiting2awake, on 11/27/2007, -1/+3Ain't no Viet cong ever called me *****. - Ali
- xxiao, on 11/27/2007, -0/+2a bad heart not only affects his physical health, it affects the psycho part as well. i always think that's the root cause of his weird evilness.
- Cayfox, on 11/27/2007, -0/+2tmessing:
It's starting to look like the French will be forced into working a 40 hour week after all: http://www.humaniteinenglish.com/article752.html?v ...
And actually, Parisians are rioting as we speak, albeit for different reasons:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4413964.st ... - scorchedearth, on 11/27/2007, -0/+2I'd say the government is more of a threat rather than the country itself.
- Delphium226, on 11/27/2007, -0/+2@badgat
like you, your comment is weak -
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