Generals Say That Dick and Liz Cheney are Fearmongering

[Facial_King]

Gee, you think so???!!!??



http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0909/27705.html

Excerpt:

About a dozen retired generals and admirals, trying to add momentum to President Barack Obama’s effort to close the Guantanamo Bay military prison, are accusing former Vice President Dick Cheney and his daughter Liz of scaremongering about the dangers of closing it.

“It’s up to all of us to say these arguments advanced by Cheney and his acolytes are nonsense and that really what they’re doing is undermining our national security by delaying the date at which Guantanamo is closed,” retired Brig. Gen. James Cullen, a former chief judge of the Army’s Court of Criminal Appeals, told POLITICO Tuesday.

“Some of the fear issues that are being raised in this are really unfortunate. It gets people excited about things they shouldn’t be excited about and impedes doing what is critical to this country. Get that damn symbol off the table,” said retired Gen. David Maddox, a former Army commander-in-chief for Europe. “We take a setback every time somebody, whether it’s the vice president or his daughter comes out and says the things that they say….We have to get out there again and just keep pounding.”

The former vice president and his daughter declined comment on the criticism.

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Your thoughts?

 

[GiannaIsMyGod]

How dare they bash the All-knowing Dick and Liz? Don't they know Dick and Liz are never wrong.

 

[bodie54]

"It gets people excited about things they shouldn’t be excited about and impedes doing what is critical to this country."

There in a nutshell you have the basic script for right wing radio and the RNC.

They don't do much of anything else well, but they're masterful at fear mongering.

 

[HELLRAISER]

NeoCons have taken over the GOP and made it the political party of cowards, fear, greed, and ignorance

 

[D-rock]

How dare he speak out against Cheney. It isn't like he was the worst Vice President ever or he's a complete idiot, and acts like a scumbag or anything like that.

 

[rad2927]

I can't believe that ANYONE takes Cheney or his daughter seriously. I will always listen to the Generals over some chicken hawk who had better things to do than serve in the military and his daughter who simply refuses to admit daddy could ever be wrong. Family loyalty is fine but you should have a thought of your own once in a while.

 

[Hot Mega]

Why is Liz Cheney an authority on anything but partisan rancor? She's practically little more than the daughter of political figure who's been bestowed crony jobs because of it.

re: Dick Cheney...the next time he's tangibly good for anything will be the first. I guess old Sidious is not ready to hang up the black hooded cape and red light saber just yet though....

 

[Rey C.]

Under the New World Order neocons and the fanatical religious right, the GOP is a sad shadow of what it once was, or could be again.

Now its motto is: "When in danger, when in doubt... run in circles, scream and shout!"

Pitiful.