U.S. Military Academy Endures Dick Cheney Commencement Address

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   Vice President Dick Cheney gave the commencement address today at the U.S. Military Academy, which had to have sucked having to listen to this little wart.

 

Dick's Commencement Address

by BarbinMD Sat May 26, 2007   DKos

Today, after four grueling years of academic study and military training, the graduating class of the U.S. Military Academy were forced to endure one more moment of hell...a commencement address by Dick Cheney.  

After a few minutes of acting like he remembers what it was like to be in the military, September 11th, September 11th, and September 11th, Cheney explained exactly how we're winning the war on terror:

Our government has used every legitimate tool to counter the activities of an enemy that likely has cells inside our own country. We've improved our security arrangements [dug a deeper bunker for me], reorganized intelligence capabilities [repeatedly broke the law], surveilled and interrogated the enemy [tortured], and worked closely with friends [Great Britain] and allies [Great Britain] to track terrorist movements.

Cheney then spent a few moments waxing poetic about the Republican party, saying that they:

...know what they want and they will stop at nothing to get it. By force and intimidation, they seek to impose a dictatorship of fear, under which every man, woman, and child lives in total obedience to their ideology.

Oops, check that.  He was talking about terrorists, but hey, it's an easy mistake to make.  Anyway, back to the speech.  He reminded the graduates that a month ago:

General Pace, spoke to this class about each officer's duty to follow a moral compass in all of his or her actions.

...but in case anyone misunderstood where Cheney thinks their moral compass should be pointing, he followed up by saying:

Capture one of these killers, and he'll be quick to demand the protections of the Geneva Convention and the Constitution of the United States.

How quaint.  

Cheney finished with:

And you will swear again today to defend the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic.

Can we put the emphasis on domestic?

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