Comments on: Cheney Won't Budge On Pelosi Criticism

VP Refuses To Take Back Charge That Speaker's Anti-War Stance Emboldens Al Qaeda

[thgdriver]

Did she ever get the giant economy size plane she said she needed to fly non-stop across our great land? The previous speakers plane was not good enough for her as@ because it might have to land once for fuel.

Typical Tax and spend Demoncrats, Just charge it to John Q Taxpayer and me.

[homespunlady]

The British, the closest to an ally in this fiasco are pulling out. Recently I heard one of the royals were slated to go to Iraq. Sounds like an excellent idea. We need to see the children of our top leaders show their patriotism and volunteer to go. Then I'll believe this is a just war. My guess though is that like Britain the day the twins get drafted is the day we pull out. There's too many hypocritic double standards for the top and the rest of us. What's good for the sweet kid down the street should be good for the spoiled elite. The ONLY one that I respect along that line is Webb and he's a Democrat!

[scott4261]

Well, the Democrats will win the White House by a landslide in 2008. Only then will you realize that your heros, Bush & Cheney, have destroyed the GOP from the inside. The Republicans are toast in 2008! Bank on it!

[perception5]

"VP Refuses To Take Back Charge That Speaker's Anti-War Stance Emboldens Al Qaeda"

..nor should he........ Nancy along with her other corrupt pal Harry, million$ land scandal, Reid have for the past six years blocked legislation in Congress, called our President a liar, and lied "repeatly" about our our President misled our country........
.....the fact is we in America today have an extremely corrupt liberal MSM wolfpack....... that has had it out for this conservative religious President and his administration....

The apology should come from the Dems and their corrupt liberal pals in our "free left-wing press"

[the74blaster]

Energyecon has posted something we should all look at.

Mr. Cheney made the following statement regarding operation Desert Storm in 1991.

"I think for us to get American military personnel involved in a civil war inside Iraq would literally be a quagmire," Cheney replied. "Once we got to Baghdad, what would we do? Who would we put in power? What kind of government? Would it be a Sunni government, a Shia government, a Kurdish government? Would it be secular, along the lines of the Baath party, would it be fundamentalist Islamic? I do not think the United States wants to have U.S. military forces accept casualties and accept responsibility of trying to govern Iraq. I think it makes no sense at all."

So why is it Cheney's flip-flop on Iraq is totally acceptable while Kerry's flip-flop on supporting funding the Iraq war is not?

I suppose that could be one reason why the Bush administration's approval rating is about the same as the termperature outside....Opps..
Gotta go start the snowblower!

There's a blizzard going on up here! Sounds like a snow job to me.

[selenite1]

One of the grossest defects of Bush and Cheney is this attitude of, "I'm not backing down." even when they are wrong.

They are "Dead Men Walking." Let's bury them and move forward.

[macusweil]

"Truck bomb kills dozens of worshipers-- Attackers targeted Sunni worshipers leaving a mosque in Iraq Saturday, setting off a truck bomb that killed 39 and wounded more than 60 others. Elsewhere, protests continued about the treatment of a senior Shiite politician's son who said U.S. troops abused him when they detained him at the Iranian border."

Yes sir, Mr Bush you're plan's looking pretty smart now-- you just surge right ahead and git'er done, don't listen to them yella bellied Dems none. Guessing only maybe you should try and figure out who's who first if ya can. Why not sit down with Mr. Cheney over a nice hot plate of FREEDOM FRIES and figure on a way to tweak the plan a little more.

[mcmath61]

Lieberman181: At least now you are trying to argue for particular positions instead of just expressing general anger.

1. If you are upset about illegal aliens in your schools, I'm sure you'll have noticed that the Bush administration is as pro-immigrant as Pelosi is. It even reintroduced its earlier immigration reform legislation because Bush's advisers thought it had a better chance of approval in a Democrat Congress. So how is it that you hate Nancy Pelosi but don't hate Bush?

2. You don't know what Victory would consist of, or just won't say. If what we had been hoping for was an Iraq that was a firm and permanent ally of the USA, with a democratic government and lots of oil money, where we could keep our troops permanently to make it easier to intervene elsewhere in the region, we can't have that in Iraq as a whole. We might be able to have it in a partitioned Kurdistan, but people like you don't even discuss that option or any other option but "staying the course" (or, worse, sending more troops to do the wrong things). When the Victory you imagine comes, will we know it when we see it, or will it still look like Civil War?

[gkc99]

I guess Musty2U can foretell the future now! What, does God personally inform you how it will be? I'd say the best that will be said about them is that they were incompetent bunglers who sucked the US into a useless, expensive war while enriching their pals. Stragne how all that money has gone missing in Iraq that Bushit sent, isn't it? Where do you think it went? HOwever, I'd say the evidence is piling up is a nastier story than just a spoiled little rich guy, not too bright. It's more like Curious Jeorge as a willing puppet for American fascists. He is like American's Mussolini--he's not smart enough to be a HItler or a Stalin--more like Il Duce, Texass style. Cheney is the evil Martin Borman or Heinrich Himmler behind the throne. History may well judge them as worse than incompetent--as disastrous traitors who brought fascism and ruin to the USA.

[homespunlady]

I saw an interesting editorial cartoon a while back where 2 scoutmasters were behind some scouts on the shore of shark infested waters. One scoutmaster encouragingly said that since they'd traveled so far the scouts may as well get in the water and the other cautiously stated it might be time to go home. The question the cartoonist posed is which scoutmaster was the most responsible and supported his troops. Does anyone remember who drew that?

[homespunlady]

Remember Katrina? Having our National Guard more available might have helped avoid some of those deaths. It's not unlikely that another natural disaster might strike like a massive earthquake. Depleting our reserves is extremely shortsighted. It's not just Iraq it's false pride, greed, power lust, insensitivity, and on and on. I suspect even the least religious among us are beginning to wonder how much more of this foolishness good Americans can take.

[clemenhagen1]

TCOLEMAN 12 posts: "the so called "Slow-Bleed" strategy the Pelosi and Murtha have put forth will be nothing more than quick-kill of our soldiers in the field...This really shows what the Democrats think of our troops"

Once again we hear a sound-byte (slow bleed has now replaced cut-n-run) with the typical drivel about who supports the troops. Murtha goes on record as saying troops should have more time between tours and that "stop-loss" policies should be abolished but he's against the troops? Murtha insists some of the countless billions being wasted on this war (stolen by war profiteers if you want to be candid) should instead be spent on equipment. But HE'S against the troops? Murtha says they should also have the finest in helmet liners, top-of-the-line body armor, and up-to-date Humvee armor, but they question his loyalty and patriotism? How could you send a soldier into battle in good conscience without the very best equipment? How can you have them come home injured after serving their country and not make sure they have the finest care (see Walter Reed stories). People, wake up and pay attention. Who is really advocating for the safety, security, and care of the troops? If you say the Bush administration and in the same breath castigate Murtha, you ain't been paying attention.

[energyecon]

Cheney knew in 1991 it would be a quagmire...

Appearing on ABC's This Week, Cheney was asked why Operation Desert Storm had not gone "all the way" to remove Saddam Hussein from power. "I think for us to get American military personnel involved in a civil war inside Iraq would literally be a quagmire," Cheney replied. "Once we got to Baghdad, what would we do? Who would we put in power? What kind of government? Would it be a Sunni government, a Shia government, a Kurdish government? Would it be secular, along the lines of the Baath party, would it be fundamentalist Islamic? I do not think the United States wants to have U.S. military forces accept casualties and accept responsibility of trying to govern Iraq. I think it makes no sense at all."

AND for the uninformed sheep who think this has made us safer, there was NO connection between Saddam and the Al Qaeda directed attacks on 9/11 AND Saddam had no weapons of mass destruction, particularly no nuclear weapons nor a reconstituted program!

The sheer incompetence, corruption and arrogance of this ill conceived misadventure in Iraq has created the #1 recruiting tool in the world for Islamic extremists - while violating many of the bedrock principles that our republic was founded on - alienating many of the peoples around the world we will need as allies to prevail in this struggle.

Heckuva job, ***!

[scott4261]

This sickens me. Money and power are the only things these D i c k Cheney cares about. I cannot wait 'til he and George W. Bush are out office - either by impeachment or by election, whichever comes first.

I WANT MY COUNTRY BACK!

[lieberman181]

I guess that hiring ILLEGAL aliens and demanding that our schools be opened to those who break the laws and come across the border is what most Americans want Pelosi to do, MacMath. Right?

Or to demand surrender and appeasement in Iraq rather than Victory is also what most of us want too, right? Americans voted in the Dems, misguidedly because they wanted a change - but a change DOES NOT mean surrender.

By the way, McMath, Barry Goldwater was wrong on oh-so-many things. He knew discrimination because of his name, but instead of fighting it he chose to side with the Saudis and play the blame Israel game. Never liked nor supported the guy - I was a naive Liberal back then myself.

But guess what, while he and Botox Girl are wrong, Ann Coulter, despite her occasional rants, and Toby Keith, a Democrat by the way, though that escapes me - are right.

And I supported the war from the beginning and still do. The strategy we choose is victory - not defeat.

Add the numbers.

[randalds]

Buzz Buzz Buzz.

[rbfain]

He should tell her where to go, and it is not her office. She is a big A*S and needs to go home and stay home.

[mcmath61]

Lieberman181: It's people like you that frightened me away from the Republican Party, even though I would once have proudly called myself a Goldwater Conservative. Can ad hominem attacks, name-calling, and high emotion really completely substitute for reasoned political debate these days? Do you really think that hating or sexually reviling Nancy Pelosi, who is just doing what most Democrats and most Americans want her to do, brings people to your side? Is Nancy Coulter to the Nth power the best the New American Know-Nothings can do?

And what is your side, anyway? Are you one of those Toby Keith clones who will tell your children in 20 years that you were against the War from the beginning, even though you still hate all those people who told you that you were wrong when it mattered? Since you're down to the sort of inflammatory rhetoric you employ in your comments, my guess is that even you know in your heart that the Iraq War is a lost cause, maybe even that it was a mistake from the beginning. Can't we all agree to come up with a strategy to stop terrorism that actually works instead of having to defend mistakes we've already made, or score points against an enemy that is, after all, a fellow America?

[homespunlady]

Please, if there are any additional troops forget the Iraq diversion and go after the REAL cause and put an end to it. Bin Laden is still out there probably laughing at our misguided leaders in some posh protected location FAR from Iraq. Don't tell me our technology can't locate him. He's the ball in an international shell game and we are the rubes buying into it. The sad part is the people I've seen lost. The firefighter I knew at 9/11, The 15 year old girl Iraqi penpal of a friend that died horribly hiding in a bathroom, The lovesick young Air force kid that stood ouside our house hoping for a date he never had a chance for with my daughter, and on and on. I'm saddened by the insensitivity of our leadership. They've indulged in every one of the 7 deadly sins and still can't face the truth.

[lieberman181]

RandyBS,

Only your own BO backfiring at a little Nazi pissant and liar like yourself.

Have you hugged your friendly Ayatollah today? Or how's Osama - care to join him, traitor boy?

The circus awaits, RandyBS, go and join the rest of your fellow clueless clowns.

Tee hee hee.