How blind you people are. Obviously you do not like the country you live in - as you keep trying to destroy it - obviously you are on the side of terror.

Just report, don't opine.

I went to this site from Google News thinking it was a news site. Wrong. It is just another left-wing anti-US opinion site. This makes no contribution of value.

Paul McLeary's ignorance, shameless ranting and lies would fall on deaf ears were he making his views known at that graduation. The cadets represent the exact opposite of this "know-nothing"

Hope you send your kids Mel. Cause ... you know ... the enemy is following us home here. You have obviously been listening to a tad too many of those talking points pushed at you from yer little Fox news. No...WAIT! Could it be ... "if you are not with us, you are against us." Repeat after me ... "talking points do not equal rational thought, talking points do not equal rational thought."

well, Mel, if you want to see a blind man, look in the mirror. Read the history lesson delivered by Jim McDermott last Wednesday May 23rd on the house floor.

My father served with honor in WWII, fighting a war to keep evil and dictators from enslaving an entire planet. I served in the Cold War era, helping win a war we never had to fight on TV. My son is now active duty, putting his life on the line, fighting for the same freedoms his grandfather and father were willing to lay down their lives to protect. On this Memorial Day weekend, we remember all those who have given the ultimate sacrifice for a country whose virtue, nobility and freedom are unique in the world. None of us should underestimate the horrors of war. Nor should we underestimate the horrors of a world where terror is allowed to run rampant.

Russell called this a "Left-wing, anti-US opinion site." Let us all ponder this a moment. If we have a brain and ask a few questions (has anyone seen those WMD's?), we are labelled anti-US. Anti-US is allowing our great country to further deteriorate under this 'Roveing' band of idiots, bandits and crooks at the helm now, and not asking questions and standing UP in support of TRUTH.

OK One more thing...We were told we went to Iraq because Saddam had WMDs, then they said he was trying to make them, then they said we have no evidence that Saddam was ever involved in 9/11. They made it up. Plain and simple. "Fight them over there instead of here, blah blah, blah". Our military has been exploited, lied to and sent to their deaths so a relatively small number of rich people can get richer. Why can't the nay sayers and radical right wing conservatives just take a look at whats been happening? Terrorism is exponentially worse since Bush tried to make Iraq the 51st state. A true Republican knows just by observing that the Party has completely strayed from their platform. Remember fiscal responsibility and personal responsibility? It's non-existent now.

As a great granddaughter of a veteran and widow of a veteran I want my grandsons to avoid serving in a killing machine.Lets save the planet and human beings instead.

Mr Cheney, who obtained 5 deferments from service in the military, has no business being in the same room as any soldier. The arrogance & self-deception of Cheney is of historical proportion.

Smart? Fearless? Journalism? Don't make me laugh.

Just Truth's comments comparing Bush's black lies to Clinton's white lie are right on the money and a sad commentary on how easily manipulated the masses are.

Iraq and Al Qaeda are mutually exclusive. I guess Chaney has been in an undisclosed location, so he probably didn't get the news yet. Couldn't West Point find someone better than a loose canon like Chaney? I guess not. By the way, congratulations grads. Bummer about the timing though.

I would just like to thank "we serve with pride" writer. We have men defending our freedom and that is reality and i think our President and Vice President our very in tune to that. I am proud to be an American. As americans we have a right to be proud, if not, then seach your heart and actions, and then make a change.

War Freed The Slave - War Saved The Jews - Antiwar Racists Go Home

Just one question. If our country was invaded and occupied by another world power, how would we behave?

To Raoul: War saved the Jews? Freed the slaves? Somebody must have forgotten to tell them.

From the pothead, crackheaded hollywood elite to the stupid in America the left never stops their slander. Anyone with a brain the size of a pinhead knows what's in store for America. It is a never ending conflict with a "species" that hates us and our way of life. We are evil. Therefore we must die. In many ways I do hope we come home and run. It won't be long before 9-11 looks like a walk in the park. They are here and they are waiting for the liberals to get solidly in office where they don't have to worry about getting hit if they hit us.

Wake me up when this nightmare of an administration is over. Repeat the same lies over and over and over again does not make them true. I just hope these future leaders of our military & our country see through his bullsh*t.

Himmler addressing the troops. The poor bastards who honor their country and do their duty even when their country is in the hands of evil lunatics.

Bush and Cheney sold the Iraq invasion based on weapons of mass destruction, principally and foremost, not al-quada; of course, there were none, so the honorable thing for them to do is resign instead of more lies.

as vet240 said ----it is a gross insult to the military that this creature should even be ALLOWED (much less requested) to speak to WP graduates/first insult was when he was made Secty. of Defense under previous bush------WHY do not MORE vet groups EVER comment on this ironci insult to those who risk their lives------

Gotta love a man who never lets reality interfere with a good delusion

The real issue at hand is not that the terrorists have gathered in Iraq, which can be argued. But that Iraq, before the invasion was not a safe haven for Al Qaeda. The only reason they have gathered there is because the toppling of Hussein has created a safe haven. Al Qaeda is tolerated in Iraq. They want the US to stay. In fact, the US presence in Iraq is only prolonging these daily bombings. Yet the security forces that have been trained and established by the Coalition and Iraqi government have been infiltrated by fanatical Shiites. If there is a pullout of US forces, the country will very well go into civil war, if not already. The Democrats realize this. That is why they sent a bill to the president without timetables. The American public needs to be clamping down on politicians that use language which is fundamentally incorrect. Lets get to the issue at hand, properly informing the American public.

You use the word journalism rather loosely, if I wanted an opinion I'd ask my wife. Report the news and keep your left-wing opinions to yourself.

Cheney is special, both the poster child of war profiteering and a draft dodging coward. I suspect most who have lodged supportive comments below share one or both traits, so for the true Americans reading, don't get too excited about their bluster.

whatever dud

I just read some of the other comments, and want to say that I, along with my two sons in the military, proudly support President Bush and the USA.

Did any of you out there also hear cheney's comment to the West Point grads that they are now fighting for gdubyah. When did the Army of the USA become the private army of the president. The last time this happened on the soil of this land, the Hessians arrived at the behest of the last King George.

Dick Cheney is a pathelogical liar. I hope the young West Point cadets can see them. But some will follow him like mice following the Pied Piper.

I am an Army officer who has served twice in Iraq. I will not pass comment on the Vice President's remarks. However, I do wish to address the comment posted by Scott, to wit: "Report the news and keep your left wing opinions to yourself." When I enlisted eleven years ago, I swore to uphold and defend the Constitution. That oath was renewed when I was commissioned as an officer three years ago. Among other things, the Constitution ensures the right of all citizens to express their opinions even--perhaps especially--opinions that dissent from the views of political leadership. To hear Scott say "Keep your opinions to yourself" makes me wonder if he really understands the tremendous importance of dissent and debate. If he does not, perhaps he is not a true American. Scott, I hope you are ashamed of yourself. Anyone who would seek to stifle the opinion of a fellow citizen cuts himself off from debate. This is not the action of a free and informed citizen. In fact, it is more like cowardice. So much for the land of the free and the home of the brave. It is incumbent upon the free and the brave to look into their hearts, question the words of their leaders, and act as their heart judges. If they judge that their leaders are right, than they must follow. But if they judge that their leaders are wrong, then they must speak up. That is the heart and soul of democracy.

To those pro-Bush zealots who demand that there be no criticism of the government: one of the few Presidents who actually DESERVED the office, Theodore Roosevelt, defined refusal to question the government as treasonous. Think about that for a moment.

everyone is against terror, so stop the limbaugh crap. the disagreement is on HOW to fight the battle. and i'm sure the cadets are NOT zombies, the clap politly and say what an idiot in private

Support our troops who mutiny!

As a member of a very large family of those who have been "proud to serve"...in WWII, in Korea, in Vietnam, in the first "Gulf War", AND has recently buried a graduate of West point, (top in her class, beautiful girl, wonderful heart and spirit, and loyalty abounding, and now in a freshly dug grave, at age 25)I think some of you folks should go back to the comic books. You're not ready to receive or comprehend information. You are unable to comprehend that this destruction of Iraq has nothing to do with the terrorists attacks of 9-11, and that while terrorism has in fact increased SEVENFOLD since the invasion and occupation of Iraq, our leaders obviously like all of this terrorist stuff, as long as there remain multiple bunkers for Cheney to hide in, whenever he thinks an attack is "imminent". (Remember how Saddam was planning the mushroom cloud, but he somehow missed the report....bin Laden determined to strike the U.S.?) No weapons for Saddam, (which pretty much any moron could have figured out, if they did a quick GOOGLE search on Iraq's history of prior wars, (with the US and Iran) and the history of sanctions. They could have figured out, (without much real intelligence) that Saddam didn't HAVE any weapons, and that by 2003, his army was totally broken, and he was as good as bankrupt. NO WEAPONS. NO ARMY. That's why when we arrived back then, there were NO ENEMIES to greet us. They threw up the white flag, ran off, and Saddam went into hiding. We didn't even have anybody to FIGHT when we got there. NO TERRORISTS. (feel free to view major media from back in that time.) When these graduates (from ANY military institution)take their oath, it is to the CONSTITUTION of America, including all the laws, treaties, and conventions that are represented therein. That oath is NOT to Dick Cheney, or to Halliburton, or to any of the Mob. It is an oath to the Constitution. And, there is nothing in the Constitution that requires them to violate these laws, or break their oath, just because a criminal element has highjacked our government. (of the country we love). Russell, stay off of the internet. If you get no value from knowledge, then you shouldn't be allowed to read. You can go plant a flag or something at one of the fresh West Point graves. Several have been added since we buried our own lovely girl 6 months ago. Mel, you're a moron, and you don't "sound like you're from around here". Are you an immigrant? We do very much love our country, and we are a nation of laws. The occupation of Iraq is illegal. So, when the terrorists attacked us on 9-11, we should have tried to figure out WHY they attacked us, instead of attacking another nation that had nothing to do with it. And, if Cheney really wanted to "deny terrorists a safe haven", maybe he should have gone after them where they actually were, instead of sending them an invitation to "meet us in Iraq", and giving them 5 plus years to actually form a terrorist organization. Or, why didn't he go to Indonesia, where terrorists have been going at it for years? Why not North Africa? They have Islamist extremists as well. Ah....I think I know. NO OIL. What about Saudi Arabia, where most of those 9-11 hijackers hailed from? (not to mention bin Laden himself). Why did Cheney prevent the Saudi government from reimbursing the victims of 9-11? They offered to, because they knew they were complicit...they had nurtured bin Laden, and knew perfectly well that he was a loose cannon....a psychopath bent on revenging the arrogance of the West? I have the answer for that as well. Cheney and the Bush family are intimately connected to the Saudis, and have been for decades, in the form of The Carlyle Group, and the Arabian Oil Company, which was built by Cheney and company. I think THAT might have something to do with it. So, for anyone genuinely concerned about this "terrorist" problem, maybe we should start looking for them, instead of using our own people to kill innocents in the process of stealing Iraq's oil.

Christian's facts (27th May) are correct. To them we should add the following: 1. Declassified minutes of a Kissinger world review of April 1975 reveal that for the US, Saddam was an OK guy, just so long as he was playing America's game with Syria and Iran. 2. Almost all the neocons in the present administration cut their teeth with Iran-Contra and in Central America covert operations of the mid 80s. (Tower Commission). They supplied arms to Iran, and chemical precursors and NASA target coordinates to Saddam Hussein in the Iran-Iraq war. ("White House Email" - National Security Archive of USA, published 1995). Nations and peoples suffering from such Machiavellian evils do not forget. Americans should ask themselves why, with hundreds of military bases around the world, it just isn't working any more. How much is it costing in dead human beings (mostly brown skinned foreigners), your reputation and your money? And what are you getting in return?

Just wondering in what branch of the service Raoul served? Sounds like he like Cheney didn't serve at all. My name was my call sign in Southeast Asia. What was yours Raoul? Oh yeah. You probably wouldn't know about anything about that, would you? People like you make me sick.

What a disgrace! To have that anti-American, draft dodging, chickenhawk fascist at West Point. Benedict Arnold was more of a loyal American.

"No War is good, even if unavoidable, no peace is bad even when fragile or tenuous. War is nothing more than the garden patch where we collectively grow brutality and crimes against humanity. ANYONE , yes ANYONE including the President of the United States who initiates a premediated and pre-emptive war should be tried for crimes against humanity.

"who oppose and despise everything you know to be right, every notion of upright conduct and character" That could apply to the Bush Administration as well as Al Qaeda.

Cheney is a true believer in the great war against civilization he sees being waged by evildoers that hate us and all that we cherish - - there is no arguing with him, compromising with him, persuading him - our foreign policy is under his and Bush's control until they are impeached or end their terms.

cheney broken record comments,will keep coming as our co-president is talking for the white house saving g.w. from telling more lies than he is already telling. the shame is thier are many thousands of our fellow citizens who still belive these lies. we are damded with a C - president when we need an A+ one.

What a sad state of affairs. Why do we allow a draft-dodger and a war criminal to address our nation's elite? I would love nothing more than to see Cheney face an international tribunal for his crimes.

Mr. Cheney may love his children, but he doesn't love yours or anyone else's. It is sad that he cannot view world through clearer lenses.

Impeachment...impeachment...impeachment... The remedy contemplated by the founders and enshrined in the Constitution. We MUST use it! Ms Pelosi couldn't be bad as an alternative to this sad excuse for a human being.

what do you expect from an American regime that has violated the Nuremberg laws that were broken by Germany and Japan

Whats new about this? Cheney is just being the imperialist he is. The Reagan administration secretly sold arms to Iran, which was at war with Iraq, hoping to gain Iran's cooperation in freeing American hostages. The first of several mines in Nicaraguan harbors, planted by U.S. agents, was detonated. The Persian Gulf War was led by the United States. A civilian video of the arrest and beating led to criminal charges against the A U.S. Department of Defense report revealed that at least 117 naval officers could face disciplinary action growing out of sexual assaults on some 90 people at a 1991 Las Vegas convention of the Tailhook aviators group.More than 300 A huge car bomb exploded in Oklahoma City killing more than two hundred people, including approximately 24 children. The government began to disclose information about radiation experiments it conducted from the 1940s through the 70s on people who has no knowledge of them. The U.S. launched missile attacks on Iraqi military sites. The invasion of Iraq by Bush the father cost that country more than 120 billion in oil revenues, left a million Iraqi children malnourished and 700,000 dead. The objective was to force privatization of Iraq's oil reserves to benefit American oil giants. The U.S. destroyed a pharmaceutical manufacturing facility in Khartoum falsely accused of making chemical weapons. A retaliatory strike for U.S. embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania, the United States forces played a key role in NATO bombing missions against the Serb government in The U.S. Senate rejected ratification of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, which would bar nuclear weapons testing in any form. US.-bombed other countries like Iraq and Yugoslavia; tried to starve countries as in sanctioning Cuba and Iraq; aiding and abetting massacres in Timor and Turkey, and with increasing danger, Colombia; propelled IMF and World Bank income inequality and ecological devastation; advanced domestic police and prison violence that turned communities into occupied battle zones; Bush held 660 prisoners in Guantanamo, Cuba for over two years without trial or formal charge. His prisoners, several of whom were between the ages of 13 and 16, were never formally charged. They were kept in steel cages, subjected to ongoing torture, and denied access to legal counsel in opposition to Supreme Court rulings (Rasul v. Bush). His Secretary of Defense was the first in US history to have acknowledged ordering an intentional violation of the Geneva Conventions, in which Abu Ghraib prisoners are held "off the books" and hidden from the Red Cross. The United States unilaterally delivered an ultimatum demanding that Saddam Hussein leave Iraq within 48 hours. Hans Blix compared the selling of the Iraq war to the selling of a refrigerator. The Bush administration falsely claimed that Iraq had ties to al Qaida, that it was building nuclear weapons. The invasion of Iraq was a violation of international law because it was not passed by the UN, giving rein to massive protests worldwide. US forces illegally used white phosphorous in Fallujah, burning women and children to death. Iraq rapidly hurtled to disintegration under the weight of Abu Ghraib torture and abuse, the Haditha muder of 24 women and children, the Ishaqi muder of civilians, the Hamadiyah incident, the kidnaping and murder of a civilian, the Malmudihay incident, the gang rape and murder of a 14 year old girl and her parents and sister, and Mukaradeeb, the bombing and killing of 42 civilians. This is the military honor Cheney was talking about

we must be charitable and forgiving to Vice President Cheney; the US's failure in iraq has sent him into deep depression and mental incapacity; that's why he repeats the same trash over and over again, as if it is true.

"The foundation of the ethical code at West Point is found in the Academy's motto, "Duty, Honor, Country." Cadets also develop ethically by adhering to the Cadet Honor Code, which states "A cadet will not lie, cheat, steal, or tolerate those who do."" http://www.usma.edu/about.asp There is one exception to this - BushCo. You have to tolerate them no matter what.

This for Raul. Raul, if you are below the age of 40 you should been in Iraq fighting in the war you believe is neccessary for our survival. If you are above the age of 40 and have children or grandchildren approaching their teen years, then you need to talk with them daily and impress on them the absolute neccessity of them joining the military as soon as they are old enough to serve.

In regard to the many comments below rightfully hostile to Vice-President Cheney: "If you tell the truth, you have infinite power supporting you; but if not, you have infinite power against you." --Charles Gordon

nothing but liars and criminals in this white house. anyone who truly care about our troups and has half a brain will do all they can to get our troups home and to send this administration to jail.. this group is pure EVIL. they could give a sh_t about our country or our young kids dying in a cival war started by the greed and stupidity of the bush administration. now george has the means to declair himself dictator and we the people have no recourse. the republican party as a whole must pay for they or the ones that gave bush his power.

Based on the headline alone, MJ is "Stupid Fear-Mongering Journalism" Cheney is one of our great VPs...Thank you Dick!

They have been trained to not question authority, and if they did think independently they would not be graduation from a military school, but a liberal arts institution.

"We believe [Saddam Hussein] has, in fact, reconstituted nuclear weapons." Vice President Dick Cheney March 16, 2003 "I don't believe anyone that I know in the administration ever said that Iraq had nuclear weapons." Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld May 14, 2003

...What a tangled web one weaves! Perhaps it would be too much like right for our Vice President to say "we've got to make a bundle off ever American via no bid contracts,contrived...ect"

I've known only one West Point grad in my life, he was not a zombie. These graduates will quietly follow their orders because they are good solders, not because they believe cheney. Don't underestimate them. What they think and do remains to be seen. I trust them far more than I trust a draft dodger and an AWOL tennis hack. It will be a wonderful day when we can voice opposition to the disastrous antics of little bush/big cheney without some nut calling us a traitor. Impeach cheney first, then little bush.

I served for 11 years in the Marines. But now that I've been against this war from the beginning and started speaking out even before Bush was even elected, the right wing says that I'm a traitor. Iraq wasn't a threat to our freedom. The real threat is in Washington and in the people who would stifle the voice of opposition. Perhaps after impeachment they'll begin to see the light...

Impeachment would be more ironic but a military coup would be a better suited end to an executive branch that doesn't practice the democrazy they export. I went to highschool with some kids going to west point after a PG yaer and they said Sr officers aren't following stupid orders from exec dept. because they don't want to loose soldiers to a lost cause. This is how we lost Veitnam. Just wanted to point out though that Cheney is not making a connection between Hussain's Iraq and Al Q or 911. He is using the "take the fight to the enemy" rhetoric instead so "we don't have to fight them here." this too is specious reasoning but a different argument. Another counterpoint would be that there wasn't an Al Q presence in Iraq before we invaded but there is now. Occupation of Iraq is a recruitment tool for jihadists.

Please be civil to our military. We know that the current regime in the White House is corrupt, but the soldiers have to do what's right by them. Eventually we'll have a better set of leaders, and the soldiers will go back to doing the good that they set out to do.

I realy have a hard time understanding comments like Mel's. I am an american but I do not like where we are going under this missguided leadership. I can't believe the lies aur nation's leaders are telling and I don't hardly believe the number of gullible people that are still going allong with this, our nations worst president.

Simply Cheney is an idiot

Wow! You cannot understand Dick Cheney's comments and ideas until.. YES!! He's Darth Vader without his costume! "Come to the dark side America" (or else).

is the reason given for the war a lie? yes. was there a real reason to go? yes. sadam practiced genocide. He had attempted to exterminate the kurds and the marsh arabs. he was a tyrant. were we and are we lied to? yes. why wasnt liberation of the iraqi people enough? i am guessing that it is hard to justifiy a permanent occupation dead center in the mideast without a serious amount of bs.

It's obvious that Dick Cheney, the ultimate chickenhawk, is the one opposes and despises everything that is right, and every notion of upright conduct and character.

They lie, cheat, and steal... If you want to go in the Military then you got serious problems.

It is truly a shame that these fine, young, new officers in the Army are sent off into their new careers by a relic of another era, and a somewhat crazy one, at that.

Why would West Point invite a liar and traitor to the United State of America to speak at ANYTHING! How could they stand the stench of lies this traitor continues to espouse. He "outed" a covert CIA agent and the military brass just "keep on going"! Why! Doesn't anyone in Senior grade at West Point have any guts?! Do forty-nine tombstones show anything about the "man" that is Vice President! They do for me! NO RESPECT FOR THE "MAN"!!

I shouldn't be shocked that military-minded True Believers continue to swallow the insanity peddled by Cheney, that quintessential draft-dodger-cum Mafia boss. Some so blind, they will not see. We are in the midst of a Constitutional crisis unparalleled in our short history as a nation. The puppet-master of our "president" has arrogated to himself powers never enumerated, or even adumbrated, in the Constitution to which he SWORE allegiance. Where is the pussy opposition that should be voting articles of impeachment? They merely wag their fingers. Why can't our elected representatives deal with this Mafia boss -- no, WORSE than the Mafia -- THEY were actual criminals. Cheney is committing crimes under color of law. We seem to be helpless against this tidal wave of lies, lies, and more lies. Despair...

I don't know how two men such as Bush and Cheney who had not the guts to fight in a war can gather up the gall to give a rousing, "give 'em hell" speech to true, young patriots who are being sent off to fight an unnecessary war that these two cowards started.

Great reporting; idiotic body politic. At West Point, no matter the guest speaker or other propaganda--at least they teach mainline Western values and history: subjects some of these commentators ought to revisit, especially regarding why the Nazis indisputably were evil, why the Pilgrims fled to America, why a Constitution and Bill of Rights must be defended to the letter against criminals who would defile everything America stands for and put us on the level of the European Middle Ages.

Did not we learn our lesson from Iran? We propped up the Shah as a puppet leader then paraded American oil companies into Iran. They kicked the Shah out and our love for each other has blossomed into nothing short of a mushroom cloud. Of course GW wouldn't understand this. Unfortunately he doesn't listen to anyone that uses more than one syllable or sentence to explain anything.