Cheney Blasts Obama for Failure to Act on Downed U.S. Drone

Is this Neocon getting blood to his brain? In light of the last decade of HIS plans in Iraq and Afghanistan, we should listen to HIS advice about attacking or sending troops into Iran? Go away.

Cheney’s so dumb it’s a miracle he walks upright. First off, we didn’t know for sure where the thing went down. We lost track of it. Second, we don’t know for sure if the Iranians caused us to loose track of it. Which means, we didn’t know for sure if they were able to landed the thing in the middle of a well protected area. To immediately send in a recovery force means illegally sending in special forces into sovereign territory. They could be captured, or killed off entirely. Plus, look at the time they’d have to spend on the ground trying to either recover it, recover parts from it, or blow it up. They’d be there for hours. Doesn’t this idiot think it’s a big enough incident as it is getting caught flying a stealth spy plane over sovereign territory. What a freaking war-mongering neo-con. It’s no wonder why the U.S. is so unpopular these days with jerks like this getting into positions of power.

To the comments stating that we can’t go get it/destroy it since it would be a violation of international law as Iran is a sovereign country…Obama did the same thing when he authorized the Navy Seals to capture/kill Osama…does that make Obama a “neocon” also?

Just a thought (and this is not giving excuses for this President to use) but is it possible that this is technology that we “want” Iran to have? Maybe I have watched too many “Mission Impossible’s” but I thought there was a self-destruct (or button to destruct) mechanism on all this stuff? I would think it terribly naive for the President to believe that Iran would return such technology and that such an overture is more “window-dressing” if anything else to convey “whatever” to the international community. Who knows what is in all of this stuff that could possibly wreck Iran’s technology. Or, the technology could be outdated and poses no national threat. Or, it could be what it is… a big oops!

SEAN: “To the comments stating that we can’t go get it/destroy it since it would be a violation of international law as Iran is a sovereign country…Obama did the same thing when he authorized the Navy Seals to capture/kill Osama…does that make Obama a “neocon” also?” – - – Good grief. NO, the two situations ARE NOT THE SAME! Is it really that difficult to understand that when we got Bin Laden we were NOT attacking Pakistan? Is SEAN really so clueless to not know that we were ALREADY operating in Pakistan when we got Bin Laden? Is SEAN really so clueless to not know the Bin Laden mission was done in part from a base WE were using IN Pakistan? Is it really that difficult to understand the difference between these two situations – attacking a country (Iran), and attacking a PERSON (Osama) who was inside of a country (Pakistan) from inside of the same country (Pakistan again) from which we were already engaging in military operations (Pakistan again)? Destroying the drone would necessarily by definition require an attack on Iran. Attacking Bin Laden was NOT an attack on Pakistan. Plus, how is this lost drone situation any different from the P3 that we lost in China? We asked the Chinese to return our plane and people. IF international law/treaties and/or standard protocols require countries to ask for the return of military equipment and personnel that is accidentally lost (i.e. the P3 and this drone) as I believe is the case then asking for the drone’s return is the legally correct thing to do. And if we never knew where it was and still don’t know where it is with sufficient precision to destroy it then we really don’t have any other alternative. Besides, how do you or Cheney KNOW for a fact that we are not doing anything about trying to recover it or destroy it? How many Repubs/conservatives were saying the President was not doing anything or enough to get Bin Laden before we got him? It is pathetically stunning how often people whine and complain and criticize about things for which they have ZERO knowledge about what is really happening.

Satan speaks

Yes I agree with Chaney! Obama has been playing paddy cake with the Iranians for the last 3 years!
We should bomb all the Iranian nuclear sites until they are just a rubble pile!

@B-K KnightRider

Show us the definition of assassination that does not include al-Awlaki?

Way to go, Obama…. nice job….
This is exactly what the world needs… a potentially nuclear armed Iran with this type of delivery technology. great.
(But I get it… you asked for it back, nicely. So you did everything you could be expected to do. Blame it on Bush and move on…)
come on 2012!

Yes I agree with Chaney! Obama has been playing paddy cake with the Iranians for the last 3
years! We should bomb all the Iranian nuclear sites until they are just a rubble pile! POSTED BY:
BIG JIMMY
*****Good Job “BIG JIMMY”. Known for the big muscles and very little brain. What would have
happened if Iran had a drone flying in our country. All hell would have broken loose, with nuts like
“Chaney”…I mean, Cheney, stirring this country into WWIII.

Dummmycrat Debbie Wasserman:::: Unemployment has not gone up under president Obama.. LMAO
How ignorant is she, and how did ABCDNC not report on this LMAO …oh Yeah we know, they are too busy covering up Obama growing scandals, Solyndra, lightsquared, Fast&furious, MF-Global

OBAMA____________VS___________AMERICA

POSTED BY: B-K KNIGHTRIDER | DECEMBER 13, 2011, 11:47 AM===It was reported that they knew where the drone landed and even had satellite imagery showing where it landed. They even estimated the amount of damage to the drone from the marks it made in the surface. Where have you been?

So says the man who should be on trial for treason for outing a federal intelligence agent for political payback. As if we could just hop on our brooms, have a magic destruction spell of the drone. Real military operations are not so simple, Darth Cheney.

… we didn’t know for sure where the thing went down. We lost track of it. Second, we don’t know for sure if the Iranians caused us to loose track of it.

Posted by: Fred | December 13, 2011, 11:34 am 11:34 am
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Given that Cheney has all blood in his hand for his actions causing 4500 american soldier lives, 100000s iraqis, and $1T for the war in Iraq, he is actually correct on this one.

You think that $600+B were all wasted by Penatta (well, lots of it)???? If Apple could track you down to the centimeter accuracy with merely a small device call i-something, you think that drone had not even a homing beacon?? B0 should’ve sent in a guided bomb and had it evaporized – you’ve already invaded their airspace once. On a separate thought, why the hell these morons running the drones don’t have a secondary system to get this thing destroyed on the way down – again a simple Apple device would be sufficient.

Our Greatest Smartest Clueless Leader was so fortunate to have you clueless supporters to get him elected.

Posted by: Noz | December 13, 2011, 1:22 pm 1:22 pm

Wow, that took me 3 times to get the above posted.
I didn’t realize the “A” word was blocked by the ABC filter.

Last week a conservative “think tank” mapped out a Right Wing notion of how Iran should be contained beyond President Obama’s diplomatic efforts and economic sanctions:

“The keystone of any containment policy is a military strategy of deterrence.”

Such as growing the US nuclear arsenal and “a large and persistent conventional covering force” in the region, “capable of assured regime change.”

Oh, and the report also mentioned this containment policy would “hardly be a cost-free policy.”


Good luck saber rattling to a “clueless” nation plagued with long term unemployment, weary of war, and deeply in debt after a decade of GW Bush neocon borrowing.

Maybe if Obama bows before the Iranian leadership and says pretty please, they will give it back!
Obama’s foreign policy has been based on sheer luck not skill and now his luck has run out!
2012 can’t come soon enough!

We need our drone back. It is our American Property and this freaking iranians have no authority or right over it.

@Noz and Foggy – The word you find blocked has been used as a synonym for cowardice since WWII. Surely you can use something less provocative.

I’ve actually heard the word repeatedly used on neocon vox TV to encourage armed or military action in international relations. Just what we need, more war. One more reason to vote Republicans in Congress gone.

Mr. Intelligence Failure Cheney speaks his mind. Sure we’ll listen to you Cheney, after your major intelligence failures on 9/11 and weapons of mass destruction.

The key to President Obama’s so called “successes” have largely been the result of drone attacks! (You could argue is these Presidential assignations were legal) The President has error in judgement to share the key to his “success” to people who want to destroy American society will more than offsets the Presidents “successes”!

whining liberal | December 13, 2011, 1:55 pm posted: “We all know how well Obama’s diplomatic efforts and sanctions are working out…….What a joke.”

Who are “we”? The latest IAEA dust up uses data before 2004. It vaguely goes on to say progress in Iran MAY HAVE GONE ON. No evidence whatsoever.

Ongoing Right Wing neocon pressure promoting a military response in Iran is the “joke”.

And, Senator Ron Paul, hardly a “whining liberal”, dismisses this fearmongering about Iran having nuclear weapons – He clearly states it is the United States aggressive policies that are the cause of all the hatred that we face around the world.

I would love to see Senator Paul is the Republican candidate – the nation deserves a refreshingly educational debate about international policy and the underpinnings of a global financial disaster.

Is Obama a lunatic. By asking Iran to return the drone. US just delivered the drone to Iran as a gift. how remarkable it is. Iran being a 3000 year old civilization did not even had the decency to say “Thank You”. Bloody Barbarians…

“Obama’s policy of granting concessions to potential enemies to maintain peace is what I mean.” – Foggy

Wasn’t that Neville Chamberlain’s foreign Policy?

Cheney is correct.The drone is a goldmine and a key to our current stealth technology.Yes,we do have the assets to destroy it ,but not the will to protect information that has taken years,dollars and yes lives to obtain.It was the same thing with the stealth helicopter lost in the bin Laden raid. For crass political purposes the chickenhawks in the White House put men in danger and compromised security procedures for a totally unnecessary operation when 2 JDAAMs could have accomplished the same thing-without publically humiliating Pakistan and leading to the current mess that will only make the war against terrorism even more difficult.Was a corpse worth sending our most sensitive stealth technology to Beijing? Because the loss of this drone is a direct result of the bin Laden raid.How else could the Iranians have tracked it?

Funny, I thought Darth Cheney descended into the pits of hell long ago. It’s amazing that he can survive on a Grinch-sized heart. (The ‘before’ Grinch, not the ‘after’). Two sizes too small……………….

Why does anyone think that Cheney’s opinion of what Obama should do is relevant, meaningful, or noteworthy? It’s a given that no matter what Obama does, Cheney will be against it. Cheney is out. He’s gone. He’s a private citizen living out his life on the countries dime. His opinion is as meaningful as that of Kim Kardashian………..

“His opinion is as meaningful as that of Kim Kardashian………..” – RambleOn

and yet more pertinent than Barry Obama’s

“You think Newt sees Churchill when he looks in the mirror?” – Foggy

Huummmmm . . . . does Newtie smoke Cigars?

“@Noz and Foggy – The word you find blocked has been used as a synonym for cowardice since WWII. Surely you can use something less provocative.” – GreenieGlob

I avoid hypersensitivity like the disease it is.

There is only one candidate offering peace and an end to wars. His name is Ron Paul. You know what to do.

Dick Cheney go back in your hole where you belong.

WHAT?!?!!??!??!!? That would have broken international laws!!! It went down in IRAN!! I AM surprised that there is no remote controlled “destruct” button or something like that in case of something like this.

@ Dave, I agree with you wholeheartedly, it was indeed deliberately guided and landed on Iranian soil by someone in immediate control of the drone. My guess is, that since the control codes are encrypted with nearly unbreakable code, it was deliberately guided to where it was landed on authority of those answerable to the president. It was not an accdient or malfunction as we will discover. And, as I said, this is an act for which individuals have and should have been executed. Even the president is not immune to compromises to our national security as this incident surely has been. He needs to be held accountable, and like the other Hussein, suffer the consequences of his traitorous actions.

Didn’t Cheney and Bush apologize to China? So Cheney’s comments are irelevant and all these news agencies should be ashamed of themselves to even bother publish them.