Vice President Cheney made an unannounced visit to Baghdad this morning, just two days before the five-year anniversary of the start of the war, to push Iraqi leaders to do more to resolve the political disputes still driving the conflict.Naturally, news of this visit has the maniacs at the Huffington Post wishing him ill.
In his first trip to Iraq since the deployment of additional U.S. forces last summer began to turn the security situation around, Cheney arrived aboard a C-17 military transport about 12:45 a.m. Monday Washington time and headed immediately to a series of meetings with U.S. commanders and Iraqi leaders.
A senior official traveling with Cheney told reporters aboard his plane that the vice president was going to meet with Iraqi leaders to "thank them for the hard work they've done" and urge them to move ahead with "the rest of the hard work necessary to consolidate Iraq's democracy," according to a pool report filed once they arrived in Baghdad. Cheney also will discuss a long-term security agreement intended to outlive the Bush presidency, the official said.
The previously undisclosed stop in Baghdad opened what will be a week-long trip to the Middle East. The vice president will visit Israel and the West Bank to try to get a fractured peace process back on track, and travel to Saudi Arabia, where he likely will urge the kingdom's leaders to increase oil production now that crude is selling for as much as $110 a barrel. He also has stops scheduled in Oman and Turkey.
Such lovely people. I guess all those comment moderators have no problem at all with stuff like this:
STORMATSEAHere's a nice moderate comment:
I hope all three Cheney's will have the good taste to leave the green zone in the same unarmored vehicles that the troops use. Then they can stick their heads up. Way up.
But, they wouldn't think of it would they?
Posted 08:53 AM on 03/17/2008
dnweindebIf they let comments like this stand, one can only imagine what they're deleting.
Isn"t it said that a criminal returns to the scene of his crime? Now this particular criminal, our snarling civilian warrior Cheney, will have to do a lot of traveling to take in all the scenes of his crimes in Iraq. I wonder if he"ll be visiting any of the graves of the thousands of dead children he insisted on killing, or is that being needlessly unfair of me, because they were, after all, merely unintended collateral damage? I"ve heard that this snarling civilian warrior of ours loves hunting ducks and such beasts - for some people, dead things are quite pleasurable - and so he must be overflowing with orgasmic pleasure at the thought of all the dead he, yes, he, insisted on making that way - that is, dead - tens of thousands of them. And just think, these dead aren"t ducks, they"re people, so how much keener his pleasure must be. The only sad thing for him - and of course I"m only speculating - is that he"ll have to share his necrophilia with people like Rumsfeld and his putative boss Bush and all those neocons and such. Well, perhaps that isn"t so bad since there are so many dead to go around, and this above all must be remembered - the one thing thicker than blood is oil, and in Iraq there"s lots of it, believe me!
Posted 08:53 AM on 03/17/2008
Here's one short and to the point:
WorkingClassAt least this one would allow Bush and Cheney to live. Sort of.
Why doesn't that ass hole die already?
Posted 09:42 AM on 03/17/2008
gorgolAnother one hoping for death:
Lets see..Cheney says its good to be back in Iraq and Bush says if he wasn't President..he'd love to be on the front lines in Afghanistan...fighting the Taliban because its, well, it seems almost romantic. I wonder how romantic it would seem to Bush without his legs, without his arms..condemned to a wheel chair for life... .....My dream for Bush and Cheney is to see them both in FEDERAL PRISON...rotting away in obscurity. Gruel to eat.
Posted 09:40 AM on 03/17/2008
GordonSlinnUpdate: Again, a reminder. These comments are moderated.
Quick lay wall to wall IEDs
Posted 09:15 AM on 03/17/2008
IREALLYHATEBUSHUpdate: Remarkably, they've got another post related to Cheney and John McCain's visit to Iraq.
Do the Iraqis have any good snipers?
Posted 11:04 AM on 03/17/2008
We've got some seriously paranoid people over there.
SEQUOIABISON
I am not sure exactly what happened to McCain during his 5 years as a prisoner at the Hanoi Hilton but he definitely seems psychologically unbalanced.
I realize he was pretty much a mindless advocate for war before he got shot down over Vietnam but his singing of the Beach Boys song Bomb, Bomb, Bomb, Bomb, Bomb Iran is very, very telling.
He appears to be a dangerous warmonger who has no interest in diplomacy except maybe bully diplomacy where countries do exactly what America demands or face the wrath of our Shock and Awe.
Either McCain is a senile old man who does not know right from wrong or he is the most vicious, conniving, ruthless barbarian America has ever produced, since G. W. Bush.
This is just what America needs, another 8 years of going backwards into the Stone Age, a treacherous bigoted advocate of war occupying the white house, a foreign policy that terrorizes the world and domestic policies that favor a small portion of our population.
Obama please help return America to a voice of reason and Hope, and take this country back from the maniacal war faction advocates that have dominated our foreign policy and are helping to destroy our great country.
Posted 10:26 AM on 03/17/2008
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