Cheney Fires Back At Hagel Accusations
VP Says Nebraska Senator's War Critique Makes It Hard "Not To Speak Ill Of A Fellow Republican"
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Vice President Dick Cheney criticized those who oppose the proposed troop increase in Iraq and said the president does not need Congress's approval to carry out his plan. Bob Orr reports.
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"Let's say I believe firmly in Ronald Reagan's 11th commandment: Thou shalt not speak ill of a fellow Republican," Cheney said. "But it's very hard sometimes to adhere to that where Chuck Hagel is involved."
Cheney's comments came in a Newsweek interview released Sunday.
Hagel, a potential presidential candidate, has been outspoken in his criticism that the Republican White House lacks a coherent strategy in Iraq.
His "ping-pong" remark came Wednesday as the Senate Foreign Relations Committee debated a nonbinding resolution that condemned President George W. Bush's troop buildup in Iraq. Hagel co-sponsored the measure, which the committee approved in a 12-9 vote. He was the only Republican to vote for it.
In the interview, Cheney also said he doesn't spend any time worrying about how the public or the media view him. When pressed to react to personal criticism from people with whom he has worked before, Cheney said: "Well, I'm vice president and they're not."
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See all 80 CommentsHe might as well have said well I'm Reichmarshall and they're not. The utter arrogance of this as*shole knows no bounds. To him the executive branch of the government is no different then a dictatorship and he See's himself in Goering's place. Ironic really considering they're both fat, arrogant, addicted to drugs (booze in Cheney's case) and blowhard as*sholes. I wonder if Cheney will have Goering's balls and take a cyanide pill before he's hung? I doubt it. This tub of lard is a coward and even Goering wasn't that bad.
There are so many who really don't give a rat's a$$ what King George and Prince Richard have to say about ANYTHING anymore.
And...for either of them to blatently state in an interview no less that: "...he doesn't spend any time worrying about how the public or the media view him. When pressed to react to personal criticism from people with whom he has worked before, Cheney said: '"Well, I'm vice president and they're not."'
Translation: "You not the boss of me!" What a ridiculous, self-serving statement for a grown man to make.
My 4 year old granddaughter is more mature and has better social skills than either of them.
At first, I thought it was only King George, but after looking at the pictures included with this story, I've come to the following conclusion --
they both speak with a smirk and lie with their eyes. They are both arrogant, condescending, and patriarchal.
It all boils down to POWER, MONEY, and EGO.
I know! He's a MUTANT! A combination of the two! Jabba the Hutt, but instead of a hot looking Leia in a tiny outfit he has a freshly tortured naked sweaty young Arab man! Yeah! That's more this sick fu*cks speed.
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I heard that the great DR. Kevorkian is getting out of jail.
I have his next 2 patients ... he can do a tandem job on Cheney and Bush ... who cares how he does it ... I would prefer something very slow and very painfull.
RandalDS: a very eloquent and 100% correct comment.
Time to trade him for Joe Lieberman.
Please crawl back under your rock, take a nap, and have a wonderful afternoon.
He's keeping a list and checking it twice. Go figure.
I'd even sweeten the deal for ya Lieberman. I'll trade you one Joe Lieberman with his 5 defense PACs and 3 Oil and Gas PACs for one Chuck Hagel.
I'd even sweeten the deal for ya Lieberman. I'll trade you one Joe Lieberman with his 5 defense PACs and 3 Oil and Gas PACs for one Chuck Hagel.
Posted by huskerarmy at 03:02 PM : Jan 29, 2007
Think we could get them to throw in Senator Snow? Hope so as she's got her sh*it together.
Posted by lieberman18 at 02:39 PM : Jan 29, 2007
Where we you child? Head under the covers like now. You're a born coward.
Posted by kcstan11 at 02:30 PM : Jan 29, 2007
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I wouldn't want to blow the deal RandalDS. After all, we're already lowballing them with a Lieberman.
Posted by huskerarmy at 03:11 PM : Jan 29, 2007
Naw, he/she/it is one of those armchair heroes, like Cheney and Bush. A chicken hawk.
Posted by huskerarmy at 03:11 PM : Jan 29, 2007
lol!
Doesn't that just say it all!
Communism and fascism or nazism, although poles apart in their intellectual content, are similar in this, that both have emotional appeal to the type of personality that takes pleasure in being submerged in a mass movement and submitting to superior authority.
James A.C. Brown
Posted by huskerarmy at 03:27 PM : Jan 29, 2007
I would pay to watch that!!!
THAT'S RIGHT CHENNY!!
.....because Hagel finally came to terms with reality and spoke from his heart, he has lost the willfully blind allegiances necessary for Republicans of today to have any power in Washington.
Thanks Hagel! Maybe you can bring tangible meaning back into what it is to be a Republican.
I say "Maybe" because, for the life of me, I can't figure out what Republican ideals are. The only things I come with are proliferated and repeated talking point subjects, but no substantial ideas to make our country a better place, a place for the world to look up to again.
Posted by huskerarmy at 03:27 PM : Jan 29, 2007
I would pay to watch that!!!
Posted by dallison7 at 03:47 PM : Jan 29, 2007
I'd pay more to join in!
The GOP will eat it's own if they stray from the party line. That's why they all just rubber-stamp whatever comes down the line from the white house.
Maybe it's his allegiance to FASCISM. Neo-Con.
Darth Vader's helmet was based on the old German WW2 Helmet. George Lucas knew America was Facist under Johnson and Nixon.
Hagel will may pay dearly for speaking the truth about the war. But the rest of the GOP will pay even more for helping Bush lie.
Well, okay. But "Shooter" better leave his shotgun at the door. Let's have a clean fight.
and take chuckie and webb with you. You lost the last one, so win this one, d&mmit.
Or just move to France.
hue's awaiting. but don't forget to wipe that dem spittle off that uniform before you go in.
pathetic. and not so friendly fascism with you "war heroes" - NOT.
you're hilarious, just like the rest of the drunken, disillusioned, so-called EX Vietnam vets who spew here and want us to lose in Iraq just because you didn't win in 'Nam.
Where were you when Cliton was elected? If you're so angry about Neo-Cons and terrorists and this and that why didn't you and the pukes like Skyk, Randy, Ex and Dally get in his face.
He ran - I never did. There's a difference. And you had better figure that out. Not only that he ran, but he NEVER protected our country after he was elected - he was too busy looking for snatch.
When you and the hate-filled FondofFonda vets (certainly no Ollie Norths or Al Haigs here)here figure that one out, you call on me.
Until then, go back to the toilet - or liberate Nam. Do something besides cursing Bush, Cheney and the Neo-Cons for what Liberals did and are doing to this country.
Stop trying to shame Viet Nam vets. They didn't "loose" anything. And stop asking vets to fight your war for your little candy behind and get on over to Iraq like the brave, tough hawk you claim to be.
go and confront sharia. until then, hang out in Berkeley with the sons and daughters of those who spit on you while I was too busy trying to organize "support the troops" rallies.
if anyone's a coward, it is you and those so-called vets who having lost Vietnam thanks to Liberal Democrats, want us now to lose this war - especially in a country that does not want Osama or Ahmedinejedad, and who wish to goosestep right alongside the draft dodgers.
Cheney's a Nazi. Fine, so what does that make you?
Combat Vet, IslamicJihad, Lebanon 1983, perhaps?
Guess Liebershitzel is just another chicken hawk. He's all for the war as long as someone else has to fight it.
Anyway he's not worth engaging. Don't waste your time and energy.
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