Cheney Fires Back At Hagel Accusations

VP Says Nebraska Senator's War Critique Makes It Hard "Not To Speak Ill Of A Fellow Republican"

(AP)  Vice President Dick Cheney shot back at Republican Sen. Chuck Hagel, who has accused the Bush administration of playing "a ping-pong game with American lives" by sending more U.S. troops into Iraq.

"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."

[bluestardad]

Impeach him and put him in Jail!

[bluestardad]

What will happen if America pulls out of Iraq? The Iraqi people will have to work out their countries problems without outside interference of the Western Powers. For the past 50 years the west has been trying to impose its perception of democracy and government on the Middle East. This has cost a tremendous price in money, blood, and hardship on all sides. Diplomacy with honor is the only thing that will quell the fighting and bring all parties into agreement and peace. The American people have spoken on November 7, 2006 and demand that our elected officials pull our troops out of Iraq and start negotiations with all countries in the region on an equal basis. This Rovian Sound Bite that disagreement with the Presidents policies in the Middle East provides aid and comfort to the enemy is preposterous and rejected by the American people. First off the President and his Rovian Neocons Chicken Hawks who got us into this war don%u2019t know who the enemy is. Nor can they define the enemy we are fighting now! Is the enemy the Saudi back Sunnis or the Iranian backed Shiites that have been our friends for 20 years, could it possibly be the hold outs from the old Saddam regime or maybe just anyone who disagrees with President Bush?

[bm6005]

Cheney'a a ***!!! Hagel's a Vietnam Vet. Who you going to beleive? A draft dodger extraordinaire or a vet tested under fire. Man saved his own brothers life!!

[randalds]

Hagel's comment is far too mild. Cheney and Bush are warmongers of the lowest order. On Cheney's part it is a war of ideology and money and for Bush it's war to try to upstage Jeb in "daddy's" eyes. Pathetic on all counts. D*ick Cheney is one of the most absolutely evil persons to cross the political spectrum in more the 50 years. He has no soul. For the younger people he is the Darth Vader of our age and for us older ones he is the Herman Goering. In every B Western there was always a line that went like "Hangin's too good for him" and it applies to Cheney like no other. There are not enough adjectives to describe what an absolute as*shole he really is. There are not enough words in the English language to explain how evil and despicable he is. He is light years beneath the scum of the earth.

[randalds]

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."


He 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.

[drdilemma]

I love the 'Ronald Reagan's 11th commandment: Thou shalt not speak ill of a fellow Republican' reference. More Republican's might want to consider crossing party lines or their jobs will be in jeapordy soon. Cheney is a sick f?!k. Impeach Bush/ Cheney!

[migrainegram]

Hang in there Senator Hagel!
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.

[randalds]

Then again maybe he's not so much Darth Vader as he's Jabba the Hutt? Personally I'd like to see a survey on that. Yes he's as evil as Vader, but is slimy, fat and ugly like Jabba. Kinda like a slug.

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.

[migrainegram]

Title:
The Genius of Impeachment:
The Founder's Cure for Royalism and Why it Must be Applied to George W. Bush

Author:
John Nichols

ISBN: 1595581405
ISBN-13: 9781595581402

[kcstan11]

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.

[lieberman18]

Hagel's about as Republican as Jimmy Carter and just as clueless, if not gutless.

Time to trade him for Joe Lieberman.

[lieberman18]

Randalds, you BM, Exlax, Dallison, Hagel, Webb, Murtha, Kerry, Rand Beers should all re-enlist and win a war for America. You lost the last one, d*mmit.

[migrainegram]

lieberman18

Please crawl back under your rock, take a nap, and have a wonderful afternoon.

[migrainegram]

RDS

He's keeping a list and checking it twice. Go figure.

[huskerarmy]

"Time to trade him for Joe Lieberman."

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.

[bluestardad]

Baghdad Bob and Cheney are using the same script!

[randalds]

"Time to trade him for Joe Lieberman."

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.

[randalds]

Randalds, you BM, Exlax, Dallison, Hagel, Webb, Murtha, Kerry, Rand Beers should all re-enlist and win a war for America. You lost the last one, d*mmit.
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.

[randalds]

RandalDS: a very eloquent and 100% correct comment.
Posted by kcstan11 at 02:30 PM : Jan 29, 2007

ty

[huskerarmy]

Lieberman must have a chest full of medals to keep calling all the Dem war veterans "gutless." Tell us Liberman... What war did you serve in?

[huskerarmy]

"Think we could get them to throw in Senator Snow? Hope so as she's got her sh*it together."

I wouldn't want to blow the deal RandalDS. After all, we're already lowballing them with a Lieberman.

[randalds]

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.

[randalds]

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

lol!

[susanhelit]

"Thou shalt not speak ill of a fellow Republican"??? OK, so basically it's saying that party affiliation is more important than the truth? When we're talking about running the country, impacting the lives of billions, and all you care about is if there's a little (R) next to the person's name??!

Doesn't that just say it all!

[j-whitman]

This is what Cheney thinks, blimd allegience to this radical GOP

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

[huskerarmy]

Look at the picture above. Who would you take in a bar knuckles brawl? I'd take the Viet Nam vet hands down over the privileged moma's boy!

[j-whitman]

Huskerarmy,,, Me too

[dallison7]

Look at the picture above. Who would you take in a bar knuckles brawl? I'd take the Viet Nam vet hands down over the privileged moma's boy!
Posted by huskerarmy at 03:27 PM : Jan 29, 2007


I would pay to watch that!!!

[tejasdemo]

Cheney is a D ick

[getcentered]

"Let's say I believe firmly in Ronald Reagan's 11th commandment: Thou shalt not speak ill of a fellow Republican. But it's very hard sometimes to adhere to that where Chuck Hagel is involved."

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.

[randalds]

Look at the picture above. Who would you take in a bar knuckles brawl? I'd take the Viet Nam vet hands down over the privileged moma's boy!
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!

[skyk-2009]

Oh what I would give for just ONE attack... Wouldn't it be wonderful if Cheney's old ticker would finally give out? Then we could all feel some relief as yet another Nazi bites the dust!

[frankly6]

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.

[fascistusa]

I wonder where he gets the DARTH CHENEY image from.

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.

[skyk-2009]

Oh no fartknocker2 that does NOT make them as bad as Bush or anyone else. Would you NOT wish death to Hitler? Cheney is no better and maybe worse. I never hated until this slime dog Cheney came alone and I sincerely and deeply hate him.

[frankly6]

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.

[bm6005]

Liebermann18. OK you've now proven without a doubt your stupidity. You are comparing veterans with draft dodgers. Tell me, are you a college student or perhaps high school? I don't care if these vets speak out against war. In fact I'd listen to experience any day before theory. Hey all you vets, remember the "domino theory" about Vietnam. What happened with that? All the Neocons tell us bad things will happen if we let the Iraqi's pound each other into the ground, SFW. What is that definition 18 (bad things? Should we believe the undefined will happen. Seems like you'll be right no matter what. And rest assured if there were any terrorists here I'm armed and ready! Same as to protect myself from Neocons! I am American!!!

[skyk-2009]

Mr. Hagel should be aware that THIS Nazi does shoot people and in the face. God what a disgusting person to represent the American People.

[teeus]

"Who would you take in a bar knuckles brawl? I'd take the Viet Nam vet hands down over the privileged moma's boy!"

Well, okay. But "Shooter" better leave his shotgun at the door. Let's have a clean fight.

[skyk-2009]

I spent a year and 26 days in a wonderful place called Vietnam and It's embarrassing to see people like Cheney and some of these supposed NeoCon's telling me what that war was about or that we could have won it.... although it would have been fun having this scum sucker Cheney in Country. I'd give you odds that BOTH Cowards, Cheney and Lieberman18 would have been fragged before a month was gone. We always hated Fascist and fakes! These two would fit just fine! One thing is certain neither would have make it to the joy spot on the short timer calendar. Combat Vet, Chu Lai, RVN, 1968-69

[lieberman18]

go liberate saigon, not so distinguished war heroes dally and randy.

and take chuckie and webb with you. You lost the last one, so win this one, d&mmit.

Or just move to France.

[lieberman18]

skyk,

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.

[aesop2-2009]

Isn't it ironic that a proven coward has the audacity to be critical of someone who served honorably during combat. As a member of that generation who also served during Viet Nam I have no respect for Cheney or his fellow coward George W Bush.

[lieberman18]

bm,

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.

[huskerarmy]

Lieberman,

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.

[lieberman18]

aesop,

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.

[lieberman18]

skyk,

Cheney's a Nazi. Fine, so what does that make you?

Combat Vet, IslamicJihad, Lebanon 1983, perhaps?

[bm6005]

You know I've absolutely had it with the chicken hawk Neocons banging the war drums. As in Vietnam, these morons didn't have to go because they were rich! My neighborhood was working class and the draft cleared out every one of my friends the same age as I the same day (Nov 20th '65). Now in Iraq we have the same situation. How many congressional reps have kids in the service? How many reps are vets? Have you ever heard the comments of rich people whose kids suggest the service? Oh, our people don't do that!! The reason you find blacks, heartland folks, inner city kids and others like them is because they're poor and either believe the BS or need the job. So 18, why aren't you in the service? What's your frickin' excuse?

[frankly6]

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.

[bm6005]

Liebermann: Nederland, Colorado. Surely they taught you to read a map in Neocon service avoidance school!!