CPAC 2011: Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld booed at GOP convention in D.C. Read more

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CPAC 2011: Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld booed at GOP convention in D.C.

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Ouch.

Donald Rumsfeld and Dick Cheney were booed on Thursday at the Conservative Political Action Conference, the annual conservative Mecca where high-profile right-wingers are typically adored rather than abhorred.

A number of young people, reportedly Texas Rep. Ron Paul supporters, walked out in protest when the former defense secretary took the stage in D.C. to receive the conference's "Defenders of the Constitution" award. .

When former Vice President Cheney made a surprise appearance to honor Rumsfeld, he too was booed with audience members yelling "Where's Bin Laden," "murdering scum," and "draft dodger."

But there was some love for the Bush administration officials. Supporters of the duo were heard screaming "Cheney for President!" and chanting "USA! USA!"

And Cheney drew a few laughs when he wondered aloud if Rumsfeld may have more influence on President Obama's national security policies than his current aides.

Rumsfeld and Cheney weren't the only ones taking hits. A number of potential 2012 GOP presidential candidates blasted Obama during the first day of the conference, which drew more than 10,000 attendees.

Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich declared that "Barack Obama is no Ronald Reagan," in reference to a recent Time magazine image of the former president with his arm around Obama with the headline "Why Obama loves Reagan."

Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum railed against Obama's foreign policy declaring the President is scared to "identify the enemy."

"President Obama has refused to look at the situation in Iran and Egypt and around that world and to call evil, evil," Santorum said. "This is someone who doesn't believe in truth and evil and America."

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[J Storm]

Re: CPAC 2011: Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld booed at GOP convention in D.C. Read

i guess those were the LIBERTARIANS.

 

[thoughtone]

Re: CPAC 2011: Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld booed at GOP convention in D.C. Read

i guess those were the LIBERTARIANS.

What are libertarians doing at CPAC?

 

[Lamarr]

Re: CPAC 2011: Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld booed at GOP convention in D.C. Read

they got booed cause they not real conservatives!

Dick Cheney

"Deficits don't matter"

 

[nittie]

Re: CPAC 2011: Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld booed at GOP convention in D.C. Read

they got booed cause they not real conservatives!

Dick Cheney

They got booed because they didn't make conservatives feel safe, superior. They didn't re-assert white supremacy. They didn't stop change from occurring.

 

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Re: CPAC 2011: Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld booed at GOP convention in D.C. Read

Cheney & Rumsfeld have been at the center of tilting America perhaps irrevocably toward what Cheney in his own words calls “The Dark Side”. Anyone who is literate, and wants to know the truth can easily read the blood soaked 35 year history of these two psychopaths. In the 1970’s they advised President Nixon & then President Ford to use nuclear weapons to “win”?? – the Vietnam war. Both presidents had enough of a moral compass intact to reject the barbaric advice.

But these two psychopaths would return to high US government posts.

Their joint opportunity came with The bloodless coup d’état of 2000 where 5 members of the Supreme Court outlawed one-man one-vote, stopping the vote counting in Florida because in Justice Scalia words ” the purpose of the court's action was to prevent Bush from falling behind (Gore) in the vote tally”

With Bush the declared victor by ONE Supreme Court vote , completely nullifying the millions of voters who voted for Gore, and in particular not allowing the recounting of the State of Florida’s votes because {SCALIA again} it would be injurious to Mr. Bush ; Cheney & Rumsfeld were now jointly back in the game with an ignorant President that they could easily puppeteer.

MAY 2009
The Daily Beast has confirmed that the photographs of abuses at Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison, which President Obama, in a reversal, decided not to release, depict sexually explicit acts, including a uniformed soldier receiving oral sex from a female prisoner, a government contractor engaged in an act of sodomy with a male prisoner and scenes of forced masturbation, forced exhibition, and penetration involving phosphorous sticks and brooms.


Naomi Wolf, in her “Sex Crimes in the White House” article last year, documents the Bush White House’s involvement in committing sex crimes against detainees.

We now know that the torture of prisoners was the result of a policy set in the White House by former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, Vice President Dick Cheney, and Rice — who actually chaired the torture meetings.

The Pentagon has also acknowledged that it had authorized sexualized abuse of detainees as part of interrogation practices to be performed by female operatives. And documents obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union have Rumsfeld, in his own words, checking in on the sexualized humiliation of prisoners.

The sexualization of torture from the top basically turned Abu Ghraib and Guantánamo Bay into an organized sex-crime ring in which the trafficked sex slaves were US-held prisoners. Looking at the classic S and M nature of some of this torture, it is hard not to speculate that someone setting policy was aroused by all of this.

And Phillipe Sands’ impeccably documented http://www.amazon.com/dp/0230603904/?tag=vp314-20http://www.amazon.com/dp/0230603904/?tag=vp314-20 now proves that sex crime was authorized and, at least one source reports, eroticized: Diane Beaver, the Staff Judge Advocate at Guantanamo who signed off on many torture techniques, told Sands about brainstorming sessions that included the use of “sexual tension,” which was “culturally taboo, disrespectful, humiliating and potentially unexpected.”

It’s no wonder our government doesn’t want certain photos released. It’s not because doing so would be “too dangerous”; it’s because, as Naomi Wolf notes, the bodies depicted are crime scenes.

But what is far scarier about these images Obama refuses to release and that the Pentagon is likely to be lying about now is that it is not the evidence of lower-level soldiers being corrupted by power –

it is proof of the fact that the most senior leadership – Bush, Rumsfeld and Cheney, with Rice’s collusion – were running a global sex crime trafficking ring with Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib and Baghram as the holding sites.

The sexual nature of the torture also gives the lie to Cheney’s and others’ defense of torture as somehow functional: the sexual perversity mandated from the top reveals that it was just plain old sick sadism gratified by a very sick form of pleasure. I also pointed out in `Sex Crimes in the White House’ that the escalation of the sexual abuse showed the same classic pattern shown by sex criminals everywhere – you start with stripping the victim, keeping him or her completely in your power, and then you engage in greater and more violent excesses with more and more self-justification.

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Obama and GOPers Worked Together to Kill Bush Torture Probe

http://motherjones.com/politics/2010/12/wikileaks-cable-obama-quashed-torture-investigation