Liz Cheney: Peace Prize should be dedicated to US military
By David Sunday Oct 11, 2009 8:00am
Liz Cheney told Fox News' Chris Wallace that President Barack Obama should not travel to Oslo in December to accept the Nobel Prize. Cheney called the prize a "farce" that could only be legitimized if family of U.S. military accepted it.
"I think the president himself understands he didn't earn this prize and therefore the notion that this white house has said he would go to Oslo to accept the prize would add to the farce," said Cheney.
She offered the following proposal: "I think what he ought to do, frankly, is send the mother of a fallen American soldier to accept the prize on behalf of the U.S. military. Frankly, to send the message to remind the Nobel committee that each one of them sleeps soundly at night because the U.S. armed forces, because the U.S. military is the greatest peacekeeping force in the world today."
It should come as no surprise that neoconservative columnist Bill Kristol disagrees with the Nobel committee. He responded to the award with sarcasm. "It's hard for me to be objective about this because I'm so disappointed personally. I was up early Friday morning. I thought the phone might ring, you know. Pundits for peace. I deserve it pretty much. President Obama and I have done about the same amount to bring about world peace, I think," said Kristol.
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Im sorry, but even after just getting back from church the only thing that comes to mind is "you stupid bitch".
Well, I didn't make it to church so I'll fix it for you: "You stupid FUCKING bitch please shut the hell up".
Obama Should Accept Nobel On Behalf Of US Military
What he thinks Obama should say when he accepts the Nobel Prize.
Tom has three Pulitzers, so any criticism of him means you are only siding with the Taliban and terrorists.
a really sick, twisted, delusional mind to equate organized killing with peace. Even moreso when it involves sending those soldiers to kill and be killed based on lies and fabrications.
It's simply a horrific sentiment from empty, soulless people
Well said. Judging from most of Dennis' post he is just what you described: soulless. And ignorant I might add.
how'd she react if casey sheehan or pat tillman's mom went ?? they've done as much as any to try to end the war and bring those accountable for it to justice
(sorry, gallery beat me to it, see below)
The military are owed something but not a peace medal.
I think they are owed an apology for being sent off to die for lies by your warmongering, Neo Con, POS, father and his pals Lizzie. Ever notice how close Cheney is to Bundy ? hmmmmmm Ted.. not Al...
It was/is criminal behavior according to many folks like D. Sunjata:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mB3gwgBVUyw
Saw Daniels interview. There is a smart, well spoken (sticks to the facts) kinda guy. What hes saying is pretty common knowledge to those interested in finding out. Kudos to him and folks like him with the brains and the convictions to seek justice. C and L policy dont allow for further discussion on the base matter though. Never buy the lie for a minute !!!
well stated.
Wslrus, pretty much what I logged on to say too. Equating violence, even necessary violence as tatamount to peace or a peace prize is something that only exists in another dimension which I do not inhabit. It is disgusting to even mention it.
This is not to dis the soliders, the vast number of whoms' hearts are in the right place but really now, what would Jesus say?
...
tens of thousands, possibly hundreds of thousands of dead civilian Iraqis be eligible to cast posthumous votes?
The last count based on door to door interviews has the dead at possibly over a million.
When EVERYONE is dead, there will be no more killing. Peace at last!
/snark
...valor to save the human race with the Bush/Cheney genocidal massacre based on lies and bullshit.
Wipe your ass Dennis...you've run out of shit.
LeftandLeft.
The Bard of C&L.
Rules don't apply to you because you're so eloquent no one can even tell if it's a personal attack or not.
For this gem:
"Tom has three Pulitzers, so any criticism of him means you are only siding with the Taliban and terrorists."
one might just pay your dial-up bill for the month...
This has got to be the stupidest thing I've ever seen here.
oh well.
"Tom has three Pulitzers, so any criticism of him means you are only siding with the Taliban and terrorists."
mudshark.
Certainly you wouldn't mock Friedman for his three Pulitzers. That'd be mocking America.
a couple of Friedman Units[tm] to think about that.
I think Friedman is an ass.
Friedman is an ass.
and I've listened to him pontificate many times - He's an ass.
whiny troll
who will say anything it takes to stay in the good graces of the Republican warmongers....and to make a buck. Even a broken clock is right twice a day.
I guess Tom forgets about the British and Canadian troops on DDay, or the Russian troops that kinda helped liberate Europe.
Tom believes in the old lie: "we're fighting a war for peace".
The US military is a deadly tool in the US toolbox; it has been and continue to be needed. They can be a daunting deterrent to some, but they are not seen around the globe as peacekeepers. And Tom needs to understand that armies cannot ever by peacemakers.
Is this a new code word for world domination and control? Sounds like something they tried out in a focus group.
"Tom has three Pulitzers, so any criticism of him means you are only siding with the Taliban and terrorists."
Man, that had better be sarcasm.
You SO read my mind!
Mine too!
There are plenty of good sound epithets that may be heaped on the sad excuse for a human that Liz Cheney is without resorting to sexist language. Let's be creative here. Suppurating hemorrhoid, certainly. Vacuous turd hurling proto simian also applies. Chiropteric fecal brained buffoon has a certain charm. But "bitch"? The feelings of our three female dogs are quite hurt by that sort of language.
like "a chip off the old block" should say enough.
Peter, I am in absolute awe of your imaginative and creative vocabulary! You deserve a Pulitzer of your own!!!
Im sure Korso didnt mean to insult your dogs who, I am sure, are ladies all the way down to their (painted?) toenails.
Dennis is definitely an @ss, with apologies to donkeys everywhere.
You stupid fucking bitch c**t. You couldnt be more idiotic with this warmongering kinda statement. Really, Liz, a Military being awarded a Peace prize? what, you foolish whore, sort of sense does that make?!?!? sheesh how completely tone deaf.
It's her way of saying, "fuck your peace".
Korso -nailed it..
Can you imagine the hate-speak that Cluster-Fox can generate from a "Cheney-Cheney-Cheney" consulting firm??? YEOWEE!!!
Hey Liz, Shut your pie-hole you irrelevant ass. Like father like daughter.
Apple certainly doesn't fall far from the tree in the Cheney family. One stupid asswhipe begets another stupid asswhipe.
she's shitty the way her mother is. There's a word for that. It starts with the letter "c."
How about we send Cindy Sheehan?
DING!
That was my first thought, too!! GMTA
In fact, I created an account JUST so I could post the same thought. I guess I should have checked the comments first....
You're spot on, gallery. Let's send Cindy Sheehan.
Dick Cheney being arrested for war crimes.
They can pull a Polanski and arrest him and put him on trial.
Oslo is about how many miles from the Hague, do you think??!!
She never was accepted by the Enterprise crew, was she?
Absofreakinlutely! His punishment is past due!
i am with you. how about this bitch
and her ligitimate? father, dick be
declared criminals and domestic terriorists?
they both are enemy combatants and need to be
renditioned away to abu gra----
There they like to play graib ass with the prisoners.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liz_Cheney
Elizabeth graduated from McLean High School in 1984. She received her bachelor's degree from Colorado College where she wrote her senior thesis, "The Evolution of Presidential War Powers," in 1988
http://www.slate.com/id/2210084/
By Zac Frank
Posted Thursday, Jan. 29, 2009, at 1:00 PM ET
In 1988, while Dick Cheney was Wyoming's sole representative in the House of Representatives, his daughter's senior thesis was quietly published in Colorado Springs. The 125-page treatise argued that, constitutionally and historically, presidents have virtually unchecked powers in war. Thirteen years before her father became vice president, she had symbolically authored the first legal memorandum of the Bush administration, laying out the same arguments that would eventually justify Guantanamo and extraordinary rendition, wiretapping of American citizens, and, broadly, the unitary theory of the executive that shaped the Bush presidency.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/5/12/73060...
The Cheney's don't fight the wars they start, they profit from them. It's not personal; it's business.
Having exited the end of Dick's dick makes her someone we should give a shit about what they say NOT
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Lard-Ass, Liz had an ass lift and they put it on her ugly face.
that's her father's lard in her face lift.
Ignorance is Strength
That Sums up the Whole Republican DOGMA.
Don't forget Freedom is Slavery.
... the most relevant to Liz(ard) Cheney's suggestion to dedicate the Peace Prize to our military:
"WAR IS PEACE"
You beat me to it Evet. How frightening.
That's rich. Surprised she didn't say Daddy Dick deserved it.
Given a few more minutes, I'm sure she would have. Daddy Dick would have bought her a pony...
You beat me to it. Surprised nobody has suggested this yet. If anybody deserved the Nobel Peace Prize EVEN MOAR than the US military, it has to be Dick Cheney. Next year maybe.
Then why is she always on my tee vee spewing lies at me?
It's funny how her Dad avoided speaking to America and hid in an "undisclosed location" unless he had a lie/war to sell, but now his unelected daughter can't get enough of speaking to the American public.
A family of professional grifters.
During the Civil War, they prosecuted war profiteers.
I think they might have even hung one or two.
Today we just pretend it never happened.
ffs! we realize the armed forces are keeping people safe but thats not "peace". the whole point is using armed forces as a last resort. so the purpose of the prize is to give tribute to efforts that don't include any force or people dying or getting maimed. that is what "peace" is.
Right wingers seem to think that the US military's skill at slaughtering Iraqi and Afgan civilians warrents a Nobel Prize- why not go all out and give it to Blackwater?
I guess kicking down doors and mowing down families with machine gun fire is 'peacekeeping'. They've been watching too many episodes of Farscape!
Someone needs to tell these Republican vampires to STFU...
establishing a lasting and Permanent Peace doesn't it?
America wants peace (piece)...a little piece of Iraq, a little piece of Afganistan
Sun, 10/11/2009 - 09:18 — Tom Servo
Someone needs to tell these Republican vampires to STFU...
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gB5S893zSE4&fe...
She meant to say the Nobel WARMONGER Prize. There, fixed it for ya.
I think the prize indicates how desperately europeans want Obama to succeed. It will be more difficult for Netanyahu to say no to a nobel prize winner.
Pretty sad that other countries are rooting for an American president and half of America is rooting against him.
of being dimwitted, war mongering oafs?
So it's no shock when Americans seem to favor GW Bush over Obama, despite the fact Bush destroyed America's standing in the world...
I live in London and I hate to see other Americans. No one knows I'm American until I speak. I almost want to wear a sign stating "I AM NOT A TOURIST!"
Liz Cheney is a cupid stunt.
but that's not an accurate statement.
End of Obamamania? Europe’s Tepid Reaction to Obama’s Nobel
Read the whole thing.
what Europe is this? I live here, and have done for the last 7 years and the press has not always worshipped Obama.
... that makes the "truth" go down easier. Skepticism on the part of the European press is only significant if it's indicative of changed circumstances.
the raw, I don't do pajamas, especially ones with print
I don't sleep in the raw
I at least keep my skin on.
BITE ME!!
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not half, gump! The Angry Group seems larger than it is because the Corporatists who distract us from the real issues with their bipartisan red herrings now own virtually all forms of media in the US.
Have you ever seen a snake caught in the claws of a hawk? The closer to death, the more Mr. Snake writhes and fights to survive. That is the image we should have of the Angry Group, and as more activists redirect our attention to what really matters, we should bear in mind two things:
"When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible but in the end, they always fall -- think of it, ALWAYS."
AND:
We must become the change we wish to see in the world
In the spirit of Gandhi, and Martin Luther King, satyagraha! Satyagraha now!
.... saying "no" to Arafat.
WAR IS PEACE
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY
IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH.
Yeah, Liz. We read that book too.
Nice call.
It's so horrifyingly close to that Freddy. Make's me scared just thinking about the propaganda I am seeing.
It is so pervasive most Americans seem to be from a completely different planet than everyone else.
No offence, but it's scarey.
Would that military be the same one that her father was too cowardly to join when our country was at war?
picturing himself as George Washington standing in front of the boat crossing the Potomac sword drawn with his bandaged crew barely able to row.
First Washington was crossing the Delaware in that painting, not the Potomac.
Second, and by far the more important, Cheney would never dream of actually getting in the boat. He'd hide at a secure undisclosed location and then take credit for the success of the operation.
Why is the U.S. military guarding Scandinavia?
And why is it apparently so difficult?
for a giant foot to descend from the top of my tv screen and squash these idiots accompanied by a loud blurrrrrrrrpd!
Or at least someone reach across the desk and just bitch slap that smary smugness off of Kristol's ugly puss!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tq37WSg9ESg
Terry Gilliam had the answer, even back then!
would be good television!
Sun, 10/11/2009 - 09:24 — paddyodeck
Or at least someone reach across the desk and just bitch slap that smary smugness off of Kristol's ugly puss!
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willy the blister?
I would pay good cash money to see someone bitch slap kristol into next week. I would pay even more if I could be the one to do it. My hands are just itching to connect with his ugly piehole! (I wouldnt be able to stop at just one slap. Somebody would have to be there to stop me.)
missing the point. She does know it's called the Nobel PEACE Prize, right?
Seriously, why is L Cheney even listened to? Other than Dick's daughter, who the hell is she, and what credentials does she have for spewing off her pie hole?
Liz(ard) Cheney is being "groomed for greatness" by the Neo-Cons. They'll get her out there to build name recognition, find a nice safe Congressional seat for her to take over and from there, the sky's the limit!
I suppose the military that she is referring to is the same military that the Cheney family has consistently avoided serving in for so many decades? Her father is the poster-boy for Vietnam-era draft dodging.
Okay...I get it. She thinks most Americans are as stupid as she is.
It's sad but true
But many of them lack the black heart that is a genetic defect in the cheney klan.
entitled upbringing.
It's just that they both recognize they can always count on the utter stupidity and cowardice of a significant number of us. It how demagogues and tyrants have always succeeded.
I lost my lunch
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyNON_-obM0
Nobel Peace Prizes are not like the cover of Time Magazine People of the Year Covers:
http://geographelandcarenursery.mysouthwest.c...
That this slimy chickenhawk warmonger can spit out the word "peace" amazes me. Lightning bolts should shower from the sky. The 7th circle of Hell awaits you and your ilk, Billy, and it can't be soon enough.
There are other levels of hell that would also suit. I believe there is a spot in one of the less horrific levels dedicated to lying pundits. Billy can vacation there on weekends.
Sorry, Billy. I looked into it. The 8th circle of hell is designed for the liars. Things seem to be going downhill for you.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfLtQLtF_3A
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGc5iWuUNDs
Bring to mind the old quote from the VietNam era: Fighting (and killing) for peace is like fucking for chastity. We can never achieve peace by carpet bombing innocent people who have no grudge against us, but who are the victims of former administration's solution to all the world's problems.
I'm sorry but the Western countries militaries should be punished for warcrimes for invading two countries and killing their civilians.
Sorry, that's what's happening.
Only in Israel they are apparently stealing organs from the dead to make money from the deaths too...
Obama (and most of the US government and the people who serve it) deserves nothing but condemnation for allowing these killings to continue.
You won't prosecute warcriminals you have no more legitimacy.. period.
should get an award for recyling? See, there's always a silver lining.
dead??????????
Sorry, but that statement has all the hallmarks of some wild eyed antisemitic urban legend. A step or ten up from "money-grubbing Jews" stealing the pennies from a dead man's eyes.
Got anything to back that up with? Do Amnesty International or Red Cross/Red Crescent or UNHRC have anything on this?
It sounds similar to the story I heard some years ago that the Chinese were harvesting the organs of those they executed.
Not sure what they did to the guitar players.
All of these biscuit-arsed CRACKERS can only try to put words in the president's mouth, run him down or belittle this award, and who among them would have trash-talked if he were not The First Black President? Really getting tiresome... as somebody who lives in the deep South, believe me it is obvious the way these blowhards think they are so much better than the elected president.
I hope President Obama uses this Peace Prize to advance the cause of peace by bringing out troops home to fix the problems in our own country caused by corruption, decay, GREED and ignorance.
A little jealous there, Lizzie? Your father is probably one of the most hated men in this country and you're all pissy because he never won shit in his life. Ask daddy why he never became one of those brave military fellers. He coulda, ya know.
Dizzy Lizard is the true spawn of the devil himself.
Peace has a liberal bias.
The prize committee was correct in chosing Pres.Obama. With the election of Obama over John "BOMB,BOMB,IRAN" Cain, a world war was stopped in it's tracks! Nothing would have changed if McCain would have been elected except he would have been a puppet just like Bush II and Reagan, when he was awake!
That's why he recieved the Noble Peace Prize,for stopping WWIII dead in it's tracks!
Liz Cheney must not have ever listened to her mother's warnings as a young girl about,"Elizabeth,how many times am I going to tell you that young girls don't stand with their legs spread apart,your brains will fall out if you do!"
.... and send Cindy Sheehan.
That Orwellian stuff about War is Peace---hate to break it to you---but it's not a legitimate philosophy.
It's satire.
Only ignorant Neocons don't know the difference.
of a totalitarian strategy that works. That was Orwell's message and that's what the Cheneys and Neo-Cons of the world capitalize on. It's the basis for most of the PNAC doctrine.
Not in real life.
all the whining in the world won't net anyone from the previous administration a NPP. i wouldn't hold my breath for any other republican's chances in the near future either.
your dad however, might want to check up on travel reservations in the hague rather than oslo. just saying.
Nobody knows better about farces than the Cheneys...
BTW: isn't she looking more like Dick in drag every day? It is uncanny.
Lizzie would give a fire safety award to an arsonist. She's inherited her family's stupid gene.
She's not stupid. She's not particularly smart either. Anyone with any intelligence can see right through her. What she is, like the Satanic bastard who spawned her, is pure evil. Unapologetic evil.
Disrespect the president of the United States by telling him what to do. STFU!
Poisonous toxic demon seed bitch from hell.
Her father his a combat dodging coward, a liar, a mass murderer, a war criminal and a war profiteer, and a killer of 4500 Americans, countless Iraqi civilian men, woman and children.
Yeah, she's going to respect a Nobel "Peace" Prize.
I have to wonder if Liz-ard read or heard why the committee gave the award to the president. I seriously doubt that she did. Like a snake, she saw something move and she struck it with her fangs. Also something she inherited.
Someone needs to explain to Liz that we reason in these wars has nothing to do with peace. We went into Iraq out of choice, well Bush went into Iraq out of choice. Afghanistan was to get even and destroy a terrorist.
Afghanistan was about a pipeline. Just ask Karzai. You know, the former Unocal executive.
Liz Cheney, Fox 'Always Lie and Blame the Liberals' News, Chris Wallace, Republicans/Conservatives, etc. are terrorists for trying to destroy Democracy by implementing a one party Republican rule through lies, violence, hate and fear. The wingnut Jihad is dangerous to see.
Obama deserves the Nobel peace Prize for many reasons but the main reason he deserves this prestigious award is for trying to reason and work with the treacherous Republican Party.
... they usually just give lithium.
Poor thing, so ignorant. Honey, it's called the "Peace" prize. It's about causing peace to break out in the world. I know, I know, you thought it was to cure acne.
Can you imagine a family so deranged? I think their dictionaries and encyclopedias should be examined. Maybe we will find out what happened to make these people so ignorant. That is probably what they shredded before the killer left town.
Where was this bitch's father when he took 5 deferments to avoid fighting for America's freedom as he turns around to send others to fight in die in a war he lied us into that he or his bitch demon seed daughter would never fight in themselves. Likewise for that combat dodging neocon rat William the Bloody.
Cowardly conservative killers. The lowest of the low.
Ya know, no many how many comments we post here cause it's fun, the response to Ms. Cheney is simple. The world has rejected 8 years of neocon nation invading, cowboy diplomacy bullshit. The rest of world has renounced it loud and clear. So again, Ms. Cheney, please shut up and crawl back under the rock from wence you came. Take your warmongering and war profittering father and porn writing mother with you. You have been dissed by the whole world. Get over it.
According to recent reports (rumors?), her gay sister, Mary, has established a "consulting" business (?) (apparently Cheney Cheney Cheney)which features father and two daughters..........talk about the corporation from Hell! This would be the true embodiment of evil.......supported by the blood money from Halliburtin and staffed with the biggest warmongers on the planet. Wonder what they're going to be consulting about?
Why is she even important? These people are the master of meaningless compound cliches. They combine fantasy ideals and images into sentences. There is not basis in reality and they know someone will have to respond to them. What a waste of time. The US military getting the Nobel Peace Prize? Maybe the bomber crew of the Enola Gay should have gotten it too! That is the rights point of view. Peace through superior firepower.
these are two people the world really doesnt need around anymore. they offer nothing of value yet take and take and give nothing back. shes not earned her spot and bill is a staggering warmonger and unapologetic.
with whipped cream on top and a cherry. what a contemptible loathsome sack of excrescence she is. egad.
How about creating a grand prize for accidental wrong country peacekeeping mission architect with a off the grid vacation to the exotic land for 20 years, no work, all the food you can eat, and all the TV you can watch,......well, maybe some place like Gitmo??? I hear they'll soon be a vacancy at that place.
Dedicate a peace prize to any military that preemptively attacks another Nation.
A hopelessly stupid and evil bitch.
I am confused and quite unclear about why I should care in the least what Liz Cheney thinks.
Perhaps her father could donate his pension, earnings and stock options to the troops, if Liz feels so strongly about this. She should get right on that and see that it happens immediately.
Why anyone gives this loon any attention has always been something that I could never understand. She is a shill who, if not for her father, would likely be lurking in a hospital waiting room somewhere looking for work.
... and then she just kind of, um, stayed there and decided to make a career out of it.
That's about the creepiest form of nepotism yet.
"...remind the Nobel committee that each one of them sleeps soundly at night because the U.S. armed forces, because the U.S. military is the greatest peacekeeping force in the world today."
If Liz Cheney were hooked up to a polygraph, the needles would have exploded.
The U.S. (through its Military, its covert branches of government and its Military-industrial complex) does not keep peace - it keeps wars alive. It fights, foments, promotes, funds, and cheer leads conflict all over the world. And it honors and celebrates all that it does with pride. With pride!
President Obama can do his part to dismantle (but most likely just temporarily neuter) the infrastructure of war in the government and the military, but he is powerless against the MIC until you, the people, cease your insipient celebration of war and worship of those who fight.
It may take many, many generations of a nation which celebrates peace and demonstrates intolerance towards conflict (and probably a constitutional amendment or two) before this will change.
But honestly? I fear it's so inherent in your nation's DNA, this world will never be safe from America.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-TZ8Z5S9rI&fe...
(Hulu)
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