Posted on 12/07/2015 7:25:49 PM PST by markomalley
Former Vice President Dick Cheney blasted Donald Trump's Monday call for a "total and complete shutdown" of all Muslims from entering the U.S., saying it goes against the foundation of religious freedom.
Appearing on "The Hugh Hewitt Show," Cheney argued that the proposal "goes against everything we stand for and believe in," adding that his comments follow a "mistaken notion."
"I think this whole notion that somehow we can just say no more Muslims, just ban a whole religion goes against everything we stand for and believe in," Cheney told Hewitt. "I mean, religious freedom's been a very important part of our history and where we came from."
"A lot people — my ancestors got here because they were Puritans. There wasn't anyone here when they came. But it's a mistaken notion," Cheney added.
Trump has called for a ban on all Muslims entering the U.S. "until our country's representatives can figure out what is going on."
"Without looking at the various polling data, it is obvious to anybody the hatred is beyond comprehension," Trump said in the statement. "Where this hatred comes from and why we will have to determine. Until we are able to determine and understand this problem and the dangerous threat it poses, our country cannot be the victims of horrendous attacks by people that believe only in Jihad, and have no sense of reason or respect for human life."
Including standing for not keeping America safe.
Dick. meet John...Adams
Sorry Dick.
Mostly, I admire you..just not this time
..said the gay marriage supporting Cheney.
Good point, Dick.
So for the time being, NOBODY immigrates here.
Nobody.
Bull
sh!t.
I’m sick of these apologists. And on the anni of Pearl Harbor.
Bush and Cheney should have shut down the border after the 9/11 attack and they didn’t do it.
Apparently Cruz agrees.
Fu dc
Fu DC
Since this bastard came out for faggot-marriage, I haven’t given a single solitary damn over anything he has to say.
Trump is 100% right on this. Allowing these death-cultists into our country is national suicide.
What is most interesting is Dick Cheney’s compulsion to speak out now. Years pass without a peep. Now, Dick feels compelled to go on public record against Trump.
Your bushsaudi is showing herr Cheney
The guy I want to and am willing to like just keeps spouting reason after reason not to respect him... This put him over the top. Goodbye, Cheney family.
The Nazis would have been welcomed because not all those who joined the party wanted what Hitler wanted, as anyone who knows history understands that for Germans to get a job and ahead they had to join the party.
Maybe we should have kept letting in the japs too after pearl Harbor.
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