Dick Cheney
Dick Cheney
Richard Bruce Cheney, generally known as Dick Cheneyis an American politician and businessman who was the 46th Vice President of the United States from 2001 to 2009, under President George W. Bush...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth30 January 1941
CityLincoln, NE
CountryUnited States of America
aggression brutal dictator dominate east middle permit reckless record states terrorists threaten ties united
We will not permit a brutal dictator with ties to terrorists and a record of reckless aggression to dominate the Middle East and to threaten the United States of America.
america believe came paying strike terrorists
The terrorists came to believe that they could strike America without paying any price,
against agents biggest biological chemical cities ending face lives middle nation nuclear terrorists thousands threat threaten weapons
The biggest threat we face now as a nation is the possibility of terrorists ending up in the middle of one of our cities with deadlier weapons than have ever before been used against us -- biological agents or a nuclear weapon or a chemical weapon of some kind to be able to threaten the lives of hundreds of thousands of Americans,
attacks far mass september terrorists weapons worse
The attacks of September 11 were devastating, but the destruction would have been far worse if the terrorists had used weapons of mass destruction,
appetite civilized dangerous illusion leave retreat satisfy suppose terrorists
It is a dangerous illusion to suppose that another retreat by the civilized world would satisfy the appetite of the terrorists and get them to leave us alone.
act attacks happened key scale terrorist war
I think the key that happened on 9/11 is we went from considering terrorist attacks as a law enforcement problem to considering terrorist attacks, especially on the scale we have on 9/11, as being an act of war.
beirut cia embassy hit including several spring station terrorists
Was it in 1983, when terrorists hit our embassy that spring in Beirut and killed several Americans, including the CIA station chief?
hit iraq overlook terrorists
They overlook a fundamental fact, ... We were not in Iraq on Sept. 11, 2001, and the terrorists hit us anyway.
boundaries global home marked national relevance strike terrorists
The relevance for 9/11 is that what 9/11 marked was the beginning of a struggle in which the terrorists come at us and strike us here on our home territory. And it's a global operation. It doesn't know national boundaries or national borders.
appetite civilized dangerous illusion leave retreat satisfy suppose terrorists
a dangerous illusion to suppose that another retreat by the civilized world would satisfy the appetite of the terrorists and get them to leave us alone.
change convey enemy face fact force given impression last nature objective policies retreat terrorists ultimate violence within
Given the nature of the enemy we face today, and the fact that their ultimate objective is to force us to change our policies and to retreat within our borders, the last thing we need is to convey the impression that terrorists can change our policies through violence and intimidation,
assault base geographic terrorists
the geographic base of the terrorists who have had us under assault now for many years, but most especially on 9/11.
burned businesses funds homes people talked whose
We talked about expediting the funds for ... the people whose homes burned and their businesses burned.
burdens continue impose
What the Clinton/Gore administration has done is to shortchange the military, continue to impose significant burdens on them and not made the kind of investments that need to be made,