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Despised warmonger Dick Cheney continues to be an evil sack of shit who can’t even pretend to like war veterans. The hate-filled colostomy bag was scheduled to lecture a group of injured war veterans about how he evaded the draft through five deferments, but the veterans group finally told him to get fucked after he demanded the maimed heroes be sequestered for hours before he delivered his bitter propaganda.
Cheney was supposed to speak at the Disabled Veterans of America convention in Las Vegas next month, but the evil scumsack demanded the old, crippled soldiers go through a humiliating security process and then be locked in the auditorium for two hours before Cheney would deliver his canned bullshit — and nobody would be allowed to leave until the asshole finished!
Many of the vets are elderly and left pieces of themselves on foreign battlefields since World War II, and others were crippled by recent service in Iraq and Afghanistan. For health reasons, many can’t be stuck in a room for hours.
“It was a huge imposition on our delegates,” added David Autry, another Disabled American Veterans official.
Autry said vets would’ve had to get up “at Oh-dark-30 and try to get breakfast and showered and get their prosthetics on.” Once inside, they “could not leave the meeting room, and the bathrooms are outside,” he said.
So the war heroes told the evil creep to eat shit and die, the end.
Injured vets tell pull Dick Cheney invitation over security demands [New York Daily News]
And we’re surprised by this how?
They’re just a bunch of winners suffering from mental maiming.
They should invite Rummy instead. He understands that you don’t go to a convention with the disabled vets that you want. You go to a convention with the disabled vets that you have.
Who the fuck does he think he is? The preznit? Oh right, he does.
No problem, if the veterans are refusing to be used as photo props there is always the serving military who can be ordered into place. Failing that - convicts in uniform or PhotoShop. Really, this is no problem at all.
I clicked through on this story and at first all I got was a 404 message. Like I wasn’t already paranoid!
I’m surprised Darth Cheney didn’t threaten to shoot them in the face.
To make matter worse, Cheney also demanded that the holding room be stocked with massive amounts of coffee and bran muffins.
WIDTAP: Good one.
Well, at least he offered to speak. Barack was probably at the gym since he hates America so much.
Q: “But, Mr. Vice President, many of these veterans were horribly wounded and cannot endure having to go hours without medical attention and bathroom breaks.”
A: “So? They should have thought of that before they failed to get five deferments.”
SO?
Ok, so Cheney’s paranoia is not what bothers me, it’s that the people running this organization are still under the delusion that anyone in the military wants to hear from these creeps. Bush and Cheney speak at military posts because the soldiers are basically ordered to attend and clap.
NoWireHangers:
Barack offered to speak, but only if the Vets could beat him in a game of basketball first. He was like “Come on, five against one. What have you got to be worried about? Pull up those wheelchairs and lets have at it!”
So, in a sense, they told him to go fuck himself. Ahhh, Payback, thy name is Bitch.
I thought this was cute:
Cheney has visited hospitalized wounded warriors and invited Walter Reed Army Medical Center patients for fly-fishing lessons around his swimming pool.
“And that’s how you fly-fish. Now get the fuck outta here, losers.”
…just like Dick Cheney to crawl out of his undisclosed shit hole to insult Vets.
This does not bode well to discourage the fact that America is indeed a nation of whiners.
@Canuckledragger,
A: Or blown up
“Cheney has visited hospitalized wounded warriors and invited Walter Reed Army Medical Center patients for fly-fishing lessons around his swimming pool.” Assuming they have hands.
To be fair, the odds that a senior member of this administration will get beaten to death with a dozen or so vets weilding prosthetic limbs increases every day.
Cheney wanted them kept in that locked room because it’s easier to suck their blood if they can’t escape.
Keep old guys from the bathroom? Geeze, the only worse Cheney could have done was try to raise the price of beer at the VFW or the Legion.
Why is Cheney even bothering with giving lectures? With 6 months to go he should be spending time planning retirement, figuring out the COBRA thing, and getting even with everyone that did him wrong the last 8 years.
Do you ever wonder if Cheney’s Secret Service detail might, perhaps, be a little less highly motivated than agents assigned to others?
SayItWithWookies: I would pay to see that. I would pay a lot.
Why does Dick Cheney hate America? I mean really, why?
All kidding aside…my hat’s off to the vets who told Cheney to go to hell. Thank you for your service to your country, gentlemen–then and now.
In a truly just world, Cheney should have been locked in the room with you guys, while you whalloped his draft-dodging, chicken-hawk ass for two hours.
Actually, what finally broke the deal was Cheney’s rider that demanded his green room be stocked with only red M&Ms and the blood of the innocent.
Cape Clod: They can afford to be lax, only a stake through the heart can kill him. And his is so small it’s be almost impossible to find.
Hart88: That’s really funny. He also probably demanded a fountain that prominently featured the sound of trickling water.
You sneer at him now, but as soon as he leaves office, Dick Cheney will be tying balloon dogs for children’s birthday parties while wearing a rubber nose and whiteface. He’ll release his inner clown.
SayItWithWookies: Hopefully those that do will be awarded (additional?) Bronze Stars, or some similar sort of recognition. It would really be a public service. Oh, and HILARIOUS.
slithytoves: He hates us for our Freedoms…
Delicious: Around his swimming pool? How…quaint. If they got thirsty, he probably just pushed their heads under.
SayItWithWookies: Sounds like something that should be televised. Kind of like George Carlin’s “suicide channel.” Would it be pay-per-view or free?
This is because he’s used to meeting new people through the extraordinary rendition program. The fact that he was going to let them wait unshackled with the lights on was his way of showing trust and respect.
they’re easier to shoot when they can’t get out…
I have seen the future - Cheney will die by spontaneous combustion. There is a lot of heat and pressure building up inside his black, shriveled, angry heart.
TGY: http://www.omghorror.com/global/radar/blog_images/64553-16.jpg ?
“fly-fishing lessons around his swimming pool.”
And water-boarding polo after lunch!
DAV has a convention? Who knew! I thought it was just the cheap bar with no windows where the wheelchair bitters get drunk! Cheney should be ashame killing their Natty Boh buzz.
TGY: Argh. No. No. No. Now all I can think of is the creepy Poltergeist clown.
These guys are obviously phony soldiers. Country Above Self was right!
My dad, a proud WWII Canadian war vet (’39-’45) is 88 years old, and owes his extended life-span to Michael Moore’s interplay with the Bush regime. Great for clearing glogged arteries and keeping the blood pumping.
It’s always nice to go over for a visit and see his renewed committment to outlive this administration. Mom says heartwarming and hopeful things like, “Your dad swore at CNN today!”.
God bless, Mr. Vice President…your good work around the globe gives my Dad the will to carry on, at least until the Novemeber ‘08 election. He didn’t take shrapnel in his ass so that people like the ‘Wizard of Dick’ could lie THEIRS off.
4everjung: Cheney has no backlog of people to get even with. In fact he’s always all caught up on his list of people deserving of pre-emptive strikes. Takes care of both lists first thing every morning, even before his medications.
slithytoves: It’s not America he hates. Oh no, he loves America, for her mineral wealth, her taxpayer wealth to be transferred to himself. It’s Americans he hates. (Also, Canadians, Mexicans, South Americans, Europeans, Africans, Asians, Australians, Polynesians, etc., etc., etc. Did I miss anybody?)
Solution: vodka. Not shots, IV.
good news! the Iraq Veterans of Local Invasions has stepped up to the plate and is prepared to offer him an opportunity to visit with their group.
takes your breath away, doesn’t it? imagine mr. “I had better things to do” speaking to a room of wounded veterans.
did their rejection make it on the TV news anywhere? you know, just as an antidote to the fake hysteria of Obama not visiting the troops in Germany? just curious.
Funny thing is, most of those vets probably voted for Cheney in 2000 *and* ‘04….and will give it to McSame this time as well.
But good for them to say no to Darth’s daddy:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darth_Vader#Darth_Vader_as_a_cultural_metaphor
Cape Clod: snig: Nope, the only way to kill this kind of vampire is to first immobilize it with a stake through the cash-grabbing hand. Then you bury it in a suit with the Union Label. Since those are as scarce as hen’s teeth these days, the horror shall never truly end.
Those ingrates just didn’t have the stamina to hear about the sweet new line of JDAM-Equipped prosthethics he plans to equip them all with. Their loss.
Of course the vets told Cheney to eat shit and die. That’s why we call them heroes.