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Liz Cheney on What's in the Former Vice President's Book

June 27, 2009 12:39 PM ET | Paul Bedard | Permanent Link | Print

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Ver good post

Is there any way to remove myself as a top commentator? That would be the icing on the cake.

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Dick Cheney.

An appropriate tittle for Dicks book would be The Evil real president(Cheney) and his little dummy.

Sick Ceney

Whoops. A typographical error that seems to have a certain

sense of reality. Thus, I'll leave it as the fingers 'fell'.

I have never considered Cheney to be a well balanced person.

Instead he appears to lean hard in one direction or another,

avoiding the usually dominate middle ground.

The rare strength of his Vice Presidency is not based on his

skills, but on the weaknesses of his Preaident.

Der Folter Meister

This is a great opportunity to test Cheney's claim that torture works and ought to be included as standard American interrogation policy. After the book comes out, he should be subjected to numerous sessions of waterboarding. Then his claims in the book can be revealed first to be lies and later - just for fun - to be the truth. Surely a good torture master can elicit both responses. We also might find out where the great warrior (who was too busy to bother with military service in Vietnam)ran and hid in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks

Dark Lord

Cheney is not quite gone from power. As appropriate for a sufficiently evil dark lord, it is certain that he still pulls the strings of his minions.

His next ambition is surely to install the Great Beast of Revelation (in a patently self-fulfilling prophecy). The beast is none other than his former "boss," GWBush.

Once Bush is knighted duly as his father and Reagan were by the Queen, he supposes that he is unstoppable. We're about to see another dark side of fundamentalist Christianity.

Put him in prison where he belongs...

Cheney belongs in prison! He is a war criminal!

He also shredded the constitution and the bill of rights...

Cheney--A Patriot

Never see much written in support of this great American, but I'd like to counter the negative views I've read here. There are plenty of us who are thankful for his guidance and leadership during times of unprecedented uncertainty about the security of our country. His choices and decisions were never made on the basis of popularity or political expediency, but rather on principles and actions that would maintain the safety and security of our children and his grandchildren.

Cheneys/Dopey Duo...

Paul, why are you even writing about this? A lot of us, including Republicans as well, have had enough of both Cheney and his daughter. Those two live in a parallel universe. Please quit stirring the pot. Write about people whose ideas have some merit and are hopeful/helpful, please!

Cheney defacto president

People give george too much credit; he clearly licensed dickie boy to generate policy (else why would he hide for years to secretly make up administration justifications for war and torture?) Cheney thought he was president and had to protect himself while George bumbled through scripted justifications.

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