Vice President Cheney on FISA at The Heritage Foundation

Vice President Cheney makes the case for Congress to act quickly to update the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. He delivered his remarks on Jan. 23, 2008, at The Heritage Foundation.

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[bsmechanic]

"The threat to our country" is YOU, Dick. Now go put some clothes on, mister emperor.

[choke1122]

I would write that the last 6 posters are all fucking retards but I don't want to demean retards. You all are the stupidist dumbest window lickers and I have drop IQ points reading your moronic points of view. You are whats wrong with this nation. Your pathetic bunch of shitheads. You probably jack off watching Keith Oberfuck every night. You all would do the country good if you just jumped in front of a train.

[HopeForPeaceNow]

"Smedly Butler said "war was a racket" " deskducker

Well said.

But it was dick that invented LOGCAP in 1992... the replacement of what was normally considered military duty - from peeling potatoes to building barracks - with paid contractors.

Smedly and EIsenhower would have hated him

[deskducker]

@HopeForPeaceNow Sorry, Dick is not the inventor. General Smedly Butler said "war was a racket" 50 years before old Dick.

[ColCrackABitch]

@caltrop69 Amen!

[ColCrackABitch]

Cheney/Romney 2012!

[caltrop69]

That's OK.

I consider myself a Libertarian. The mainstream Conservatives, I think, would do well to join forces with Libertarians. At least temporarily, to fight the Fiscal nightmare coming from the left.

The current split between Neocons and Libertarians is only giving the socialist minority more power.

After we get rid of the Statists, we can go back to debating relatively minor issues, like legalizing drugs.

[HopeForPeaceNow]

"haven't been attacked since 9/11"

We could have stopped 9/11 if we had heeded warnings. As head of worst case scenerios - this was dick's job. He ignored consistant warnngs in favor of invading a country unrelated to al Quada and UBL.

Curious - do any of you know what war for profit is? How dick invented it and how much it cost the Amercan taxpayer?

Anybody? Anybody?

[HopeForPeaceNow]

dick Cheney was warned in 1/01 that al Quada was coming. He said UBL was powerless and the true threat was SH.Read Richard Clark. PW told CLark in 1/01 that UBL was no issue. Warned, dick ignored facts in favor of invading the wrong country. We should have never been hit to begin with. Ignorant neo-cons seem to fall for this: We are safer because we ignored warnings, allowed our country to be attacked, let UBL go in Tora Bora and occupied the wrong country.

Amazes me anyone falls for that lie.

[3684541]

The government is only growing under Obama, and it might be hard to recover from, with his environmental policies and this health care plan. The effects of these two things alone could totally undermine the policies of a truly conservative president. The country needs smaller government, in a bad way. According to a recent poll conservatives outnumber liberals in this country 2:1. The GOP needs to get it's shit together and take control of congress. I apologize for being rude and offensive.

[caltrop69]

I'm not anti-war actually...I'm completely behind defending U.S. interests, AND for defending the human rights of those who live in oppressive countries...If we can afford it.

I think it's important that we prioritize where we apply our limited resources. The money we spent freeing Iraq from an admittedly, horrible dictator, might have been the money that would have paid for a means of protecting us from North Korea, for example.

A smaller government IS coming. The only question is how.

[3684541]

Look, you're not making any sense. You are anti-war, which is a position I can respect, but you are also claiming we're broke. Freeing 52 million people in Iraq is good. We "dug a debt" but we were safer under Bush's foreign policy. You want a president that will legalize drugs, stay out of the international picture. Bottom line, we are not broke, but congress is spending trillions like it's lunch money, so libertarian is great in theory, but cannot win a general election.