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What? You have spent so many years in office, more
than slightly undermining the constitution? And shall we, the common
citizens,
tolerate Cheney, openly desirous to destroy the whole
world with fire and
slaughter?. There was--there was once such virtue in this republic that brave
men would repress mischievous citizens with severer chastisement than the
most bitter enemy.
For we have need of a resolution of the senate, a
formidable and authoritative decree against you, O Cheney; the wisdom of
the republic is not at fault, nor the dignity of this senatorial body.
We, we
alone--I say it openly,--we, the citizens, are wanting in
our duty.
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But we, for these one hundred twenty days, have been
allowing
the edge of the senate's authority to grow blunt, as it were. For
we
are in possession of evidence of your wrong doing, wrong
doing already
admitted by you and our New Administration
has the power to issue decrees
against you and issue an
indictment, but that indictment is
kept locked up in
its parchment--buried, I may say, in the sheath; and following indictment and
ultimate conviction you
ought, O Cheney, to be put to death this instant. You
live, --and you live, not to lay aside, but to persist in your audacity.
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I wish, O conscript fathers, to be merciful;
we wish not to
appear overly eager in our search for justice amid such danger
to the state; but we should now accuse ourselves of remissness and culpable
inactivity.
We see you now in the media, planning every day some
internal injury to the republic. If, O Cheney, the powers that be should now
order you to be arrested, to be tried before a jury of your
peers, I should,
I suppose, have to fear lest all good men should say that the government had
acted tardily, rather than that any one
should affirm that it acted cruelly.
But yet this, which ought to
have been done long since, As long as one person
exists who
can dare to defend you, you shall live; but you shall live as you
do now, surrounded by my many and trusty guards, so that you shall not be
able to stir one finger against the republic; many
eyes and ears shall still
observe and watch you, as they have hitherto done, tho you shall not perceive
them.
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For what is there, O Cheney, that you can
still expect, if night
is not able to veil your past nefarious meetings in
darkness, and
if private houses can not conceal the voice of your conspiracy
within their walls--if everything is seen and displayed? Change your mind:
trust me: forget the lies and defenses you are
meditating. You are hemmed in
on all sides; all your past sins
are clearer than the day to us; let me
remind you of them.
Your lies over eight long years, and before that even have
been
monumental:
You got to have people at the top who respond to and are
selected
by presidents.
Dick
Cheney
If we have reason to believe someone is preparing an attack
against the U.S., has developed that capability, harbours those
aspirations,
then I think the U.S. is justified in dealing with that,
if necessary, by military force.
Dick
Cheney
There comes a time when deceit and defiance must be seen for
what they are. At that point, a gathering danger must be
directly confronted.
At that point, we must show that beyond our resolutions is actual resolve.
Dick
Cheney
Direct threats require decisive action.
Dick
Cheney
Except for the occasional heart attack, I never felt better.
Dick
Cheney Had the decision belonged to Senator Kerry, Saddam hussein
would still be in power today in Iraq.
In fact, Saddam Hussein would almost certainly still be in control of Kuwait.
Dick
Cheney
I can think of a lot of words to describe Senator Kerry's
position
on Iraq; "consistent" is not one of them.
Dick
Cheney
I think the record speaks for itself. These are two
individuals
who have been for the war when the headlines were good and
against it when their poll ratings were bad.
Dick
Cheney
I'm absolutely convinced that the threat we face now, the
idea
of a terrorist in the middle of one of our cities with a nuclear weapon,
is very real and that we have to use extraordinary
measures to deal with it.
Dick
Cheney If we have reason to believe someone is preparing an attack
against the U.S., has developed that capability, harbours those
aspirations,
then I think the U.S. is justified in dealing with that, if necessary, by
military force.
Dick
Cheney
In his years in Washington,
Senator Kerry has been one vote
of a hundred in the United States Senate -
and fortunately on
matters of national security he was very often in the
minority.
Dick
Cheney
Senator Kerry says he sees two Americas. It makes the whole thing mutual - America
sees two John Kerrys.
Dick
Cheney
The Iraqi forces are conducting the Mother of all Retreats.
Dick
Cheney
The plan was criticized by some retired military officers
embedded in TV studios. But with every advance by our
coalition forces, the
wisdom of that plan becomes more apparent.
Dick
Cheney
The Senator from Massachusetts
has given us ample grounds to doubt the judgment and the attitude he brings
to bear on vital issues of national security.
Dick
Cheney
There comes a time when deceit and defiance must be seen for
what they are. At that point, a gathering danger must be directly confronted.
At that point, we must show that beyond our
resolutions is actual resolve.
Dick
Cheney
We have to make America
the best place in the world to do
business. Dick
Cheney
We must be prepared to face our
responsibilities and be willing
to use force if necessary.
Dick
Cheney
We urge all democratic nations and the United Nations to
answer the Iraqi Governing Council's call for support for the
people of Iraq in
making the transition to democracy.
Dick
Cheney
We will, in fact, be greeted as liberators.
Dick
Cheney
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/d/dick_cheney_2.html
These are just a score of the hundreds of lies told by you
during
your term.
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O ye immortal gods, where on earth are we? In
what country are we living? What constitution is ours?
As, then, this is the case, O Cheney, do not continue
as you have
begun. Leave the country at least; the gates are open; depart. And
lead forth with you all your friends, or at least as many as you
can; purge the
country of your presence; you will deliver us
from a great fear, when there is
a wall between you and us. Among us you can dwell no longer--I will not bear it,
I will
not permit it, I will not tolerate it. Great thanks are due to the
immortal gods, and to this very Jupiter Stator, in whose temple
we are, the
most ancient protector of this country, that we have already so often escaped
so foul, so horrible, and so deadly an
enemy to the republic. But the safety of
the commonwealth must
not be too often allowed to be risked on one man. As long
as you, O Cheney, plotted against our Republic, and continue doing so,
you are
a threat to our Republic and our Democracy. But now
you are openly attacking
the entire republic.
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You are summoning to destruction and
devastation the temples
of the immortal gods, the houses of this country, the
lives of all
the citizens. Do you ask me, Are you to go into banishment? I do
not order it; but, if you consult me, I advise it.
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For what is there, O Cheney, that can now
afford you any
pleasure in this country? For there is no one in it, except that
band of profligate conspirators of yours, who does not fear you,--no one who
does not hate you. What brand of domestic baseness is not stamped upon your
life? What disgraceful
circumstance is wanting to your infamy in your private
affairs? From what licentiousness have your eyes, from what atrocity have your
hands, from what iniquity has your whole body ever abstained? Is there one
youth, when you have once entangled him in the temptations of your
corruption, to whom you have
not held out a sword for audacious crime, or a
torch for licentious wickedness?
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With these omens, O Cheney, be gone to your
impious and nefarious war, to the great safety of the republic, to your own
misfortune and injury, and to the destruction of those who have joined
themselves to you in every wickedness and atrocity. Then do you, O Jupiter,
who were consecrated by Lincoln
with the same auspices as this country, whom we
rightly call the stay of this country, repel this man and his
companions from your altars and from the other temples,--from the houses and
walls of the country,--from the lives and fortunes of all the
citizens; and
overwhelm all the enemies of good men, the foes of the republic, the robbers
of America, men bound together by a
treaty and infamous alliance of crimes,
dead and alive, with
eternal punishments.
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(Note 1. Delivered in the Roman
senate in 63 B.C. Translated by Charles
Duke Yonge. [back] With poetic changes)
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