Cheney daughter - human shield in Baghdad???

Al Bawaba.com ^ | 3-25-03

[Oldeconomybuyer]

The London based Arabic daily Al Quds Al Arabi reported on Tuesday, March 25 that the American vice president, Dick Cheney, would soon head to the Jordanian capital, Amman.

The newspaper claimed that the visit would be an attempt by Cheney to convince his daughter, who was in the Jordanian capital, to back down her decision to go to Baghdad within a group of volunteers who want to form human shields against the US led attacks on Iraq.

Al Quds Al Arabi cited news reports it claimed circulating in Amman as saying that Cheney would arrive in the Jordanian capital soon on a special visit it described as having a "social mission." “News agencies cited sources as saying that Cheney will arrive in Amman next Friday. He will try to convince his daughter who is currently staying at a hotel in Amman not to go to Baghdad along with a group of volunteers who want to go to Iraq and form human shields against the Anglo American attacks,” said the report.

Some sons of western officials have already volunteered as human shields in Iraq against the American invasion, including the son of the Canadian Foreign Minister, Bill Graham

Although not mentioned in the the Arabic newspaper, it is likely refers to Mary Cheney, the lesbian daughter of Vice President Dick Cheney. Mary, 34, is a lesbian, and she has not kept her homosexuality a secret -- either to her friends or to her employer, Coors Brewing Co., where she was the gay and lesbian corporate relations manager.

Mary Cheney

The controversy around Mary has emerged in the US media during her father's vice presidential campaign during 2000. During that time, Mary told Time magazine in some of her few public words to date, "I love my father. I don't want to be a distraction."

However, when Lynne Cheney was asked about her daughter being openly gay, Mrs. Cheney said her daughter is "bright" and "hard-working" and "decent," and yes, she loves her.

Now, after the war started, it seems there are not just political but also financial reasons for Mr. Cheney's strong support for the raids on Iraq. When it comes to making money from a war in Iraq, few can match the firepower of the company once headed by Dick Cheney, Reuters reported.

Houston-based Halliburton Co. can build roads and bridges and camps for US forces. It can transport personnel and provide other logistics. And after the war, assuming a U.S. victory, it can help restore Iraq's infrastructure and oil production.

At the same time, the company's oilfield services business, which is second only to Schlumberger Ltd., is likely to supply most of the heavy equipment to fight fires in oil wells and oil fields.

And should the U.S. emerge victorious, Halliburton -- which develops oil fields and drills for oil all over the world -- has the connections and businesses to play a major role in "rebuilding" Iraq.

"They have the businesses. They have the government relationship already well-established, and, as we all know, Cheney was the CEO, so it makes logical sense," said Denis Walsh, an equity analyst who covers the energy sector for State Street Research and Management.

For all these reasons, one should not be surprised that the American VP will hurry to Amman and try to bring his "rebellious" daughter back home....(Albawaba.com)

[dennisw]

They're always nutty over there, as in "crazy from the sun". There are so many irrational people in the MidEast it's amazing.

[cicero's_son]

Hitchens is no doubt a decent and honorable specimen of the Left, but make no mistake: he is a committed man of the Left.

The fact that so many "conservatives" now find him appealing says more about our movement's ideological drift than it does about him.

He's fighting what he considers to be the last skirmishes in the Left's grand war against "theocracy." Having essentially extinguished Christian civilization here in the West, is it any surprise that the old Left would turn its attention to the Islamic world?

[sandlady]

Somewhat related: Somewhere in an Iraqi cave is a 12 year old (approx) named Dick Cheney because his Kurdish father believed DC to be "a brave man." I saw this man interviewed last night on CNN. The extended family has decided to hide out in a huge cave instead of fleeing because during the last PG war, a grandmother and infant child froze to death while seeking refuge. They have plastic to cover the cave opening in case of chemical/biological warfare...

[cicero's_son]

Oops. Wrong thread. Don't know how that happened!

[alwaysconservative]

A lesbian and a traitor, while Dick makes a great VP, he sure messed up as a dad.

Wow, that's tolerant. (Sarcasm)

And we don't even know yet if this highly suspicious story is true. What happened to "Judge not lest ye be judged"?

[altura]

Hitchens?

[TADSLOS]

Great propoganda piece. I'll print it and save it for cleaning up after my next bowel movement.

[surelyclintonsbaddream]

IF this is true, then she is an idiot. Being the dau of the 2nd most hated man (by them not us)in the USA, what do you think they would do to her. Also, IF true and Cheney is going over there, he will be in danger. They would hatch a plan, you can be sure, to kidnap the vice president of the USA. So, either way the dau is an idiot and if something were to happen to her father, she would be half responsible.

[cardinal4]

If you need some reading material, you will find this Barbara Streisand story along with....

Bat Boy of Weekly World Fame....

[GraniteStateConservative]

My thoughts, too. She has a much broader forehead than most women. I think there is a genetic component to homosexuality. Many lesbians aren't beautiful lipstick lesbians.

[cicero's_son]

Wrong thread...my mistake.

[freekitty]

I don't believe this.

[mountainfolk]

Cheney did not mess up as a dad. Mary Cheney chose her way of life and is responsible for what she does. Let the chips fall where they may. Reagan's two children with Nancy also did/do not always reflect his values or opinions regarding what is the best thing to do for America. Parents do the best they can when raising their children but they cannot live their lives for them. Today's culture is working against parents at every turn. They are damned if they do and damned if they don't on about every choice they make. Thank God the Cheneys have been able to get on with their lives in spite of this daughter who has chosen an opposite path.

[af_vet_rr]

You can't blame the VP for what his daughter does.

[Rightly Biased]

Hello?.... post and run huh?

[section9]

Don't you realize that this story is an Urban Legend?

Mary Cheney is back in Colorado, iirc.

Be Seeing You,

Chris

[The Old Hoosier]

Well isn't that special?

[Jay D. Dyson]

A lesbian and a traitor, while Dick makes a great VP, he sure messed up as a dad.

If such scorn is to be heaped on Dick Cheney, then it must also be placed on one of our Founding Fathers, Benjamin Franklin. His son, William Franklin, sided with the British Crown during our war for Independence.

-Jay

[Fury]

A lesbian and a traitor, while Dick makes a great VP, he sure messed up as a dad.

Knock it off.

[FrankR]

Well, one minute the liberal media is extolling the virtues of homosexuality and climbing on anyone's head who disapproves of it, the next minute they try to use it to shame some conservative.

Dick Cheney can do nothing about a 34-year-old child...in this country, eighteen is the age of "adulthood" in this country, whether we like it or not. I really can't see Cheney showing up in the middle east during these times, either. Besides, every homosexual I ever met had the opinion that they were smarter and brighter than anyone else...(except when it comes to the proper use of certain parts of the anatomy) so if s/he wants to go to Baghdad.............bye!