Posted on 02/27/2007 3:57:25 PM PST by kellynla
Some of Dick Cheney's many fierce enemies on the left were unable to withhold their glee today after the vice president escaped an apparent assassination attempt in Afghanistan.
Cheney was unharmed when a suicide bomber attacked the entrance to the main U.S. military base in Afghanistan where he spent the night, killing up to 23 people and wounding 20.
Readers of the Huffington Post, a popular blog run by pundit Arianna Huffington, responded to an Associated Press account of the attack with at least a dozen pages of vitriol before the thread of posts was shut down.
Comments posted to the site include:
Better luck next time! (TDB)
Dr Evil escapes again ... damn. (truthtopower01)
So Cheney is personally responsible for the deaths of 14 innocent people ... and then he waddles off to lunch!! What a piece of sh--! (fantanfanny)
Jesus Christ and General Jackson too, can't the Taliban do anything right? They must know we would be so gratefull (sic) to them for such a remarkable achievement. (hankster2)
Hey, Thalia, lighten up. I, for one, don't wish Cheny (sic) had been killed. I wish he had been horribly maimed and had to spend the rest of his life hooked to a respirator. Feel better now? (raisarooney)
Let's see ... they're killing him over there so we don't have to kill him over here? (ncjohn)
And they missed!? Oh, Hell. Like Mamma used to say, I guess it's the thought that counts ... (Anachro1)
You can never find a competent suicide bomber when you need one. (Mark701) One contributor to the string of comments, "MNCurler," echoed many others, writing: "The posts advocating for Cheney's demise really show the class of the people who post here. No wonder you can't get a civil debate on this site- we are dealing with lunatic idiots."
The Taliban took responsibility for the attack at Bagram Airbase, declaring Cheney was the target.
The vice president's spokeswoman said he was unharmed and later met with Afghan President Hamid Karzai in Kabul before leaving the country.
On the departing flight, Cheney told reporters the attack occurred while he was in his room at the base after bad weather forced postponement of his trip to Kabul, about 40 miles away.
"At 10 a.m. I heard a loud boom," Cheney said.
The vice president said Secret Service officials moved him briefly to a bomb shelter.
Cheney said changing plans and not going to Kabul was "never an option."
"They clearly try to find ways to question the authority of the central government," he said of the Taliban. "Striking at Bagram with a suicide bomber I suppose is one way to do that."
I once answered a political question in "Yahoo! Answers" about the mind set of Democrats. I easily found many hatefilled/profanity filled quotations from democraticunderground.com.
You would not believe the most common response I got. It was to the effect that real Democrats would never talk that way and this must be stuff from Republicans PRETENDING to be Democrats!
No surprise, here.
Don't these idiots realize that if any member of the Executive Branch is harmed, the offending country will immediately be surrounded and bombed into the stone age.
"Don't these idiots realize that if any member of the Executive Branch is harmed, the offending country will immediately be surrounded and bombed into the stone age."
uuhhhhhhh...ya have to remember that we're not exactly dealing with the sharpest knives in the drawer. LOL
Unbelievable... you would think that Americans should be on America's side, and not on the terrorists'.
I am very glad he is OK. I hope security arrangements are looked into to see where we can do better. The Dems are an awful hateful bunch. I knopw many personally, and many assume I am one of them. It is shocking to hear the stuff I do. I don't care who it is- I don't wish harm on any of our leaders. I can't understand the hatred toward the President and the Vice President.
"I can't understand the hatred toward the President and the Vice President."
check out my post #13
Plus the "Secular Progressives" HATE CHRISTIANS!
What despicable creatures.
I didn't like bill clintoon being President, I didn't like many/most of the things he did politically and in his personal life, but I never wished he had been killed by thugs. This is insanity.
"What despicable creatures."
Yep, and to think that we have been paying teachers for decades to indoctrinate our children in communism, anti-Christianity, to hate America and everything America stands for!
They scream and cry when we criticize their beliefs but they want conservatives to die.
I'm going to do some name calling here. They are reprehensible scum. Their hypocrisy knows no bounds.
We just have a couple of generations of people who were born in America and indoctrinated in our schools, colleges and universities in communism, anti-Christianity and anti-America propaganda at AMERICAN TAXPAYERS' EXPENSE.
These are the kinds of trash that are going to be at the March 17 protest in DC.
This is sickening. Still, let's not kid ourselves. Some of our ideological/political/religous opponents get the same sort of treatment from some of our FR posters. Unfortunately.
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