Reid: Cheney Is Bush's "Attack Dog"

Senate Democrat Reacts After VP Accuses Him Of Playing Politics With Iraq Funding

(CBS/AP)  Vice President Dick Cheney accused Democratic leader Harry Reid on Tuesday of personally pursuing a defeatist strategy in Iraq to win votes at home — a charge Reid dismissed as President Bush's "attack dog" lashing out.

The particularly harsh exchange came just hours after Mr. Bush said he would veto the latest war spending bill taking shape in Congress, which includes a timetable for withdrawing from Iraq.

The vice president was so angry at Reid that he did something he almost never does, reports CBS News correspondent Sharyl Attkisson. Cheney stopped to talk to reporters after his weekly meeting with Senate Republicans.

"Some Democratic leaders seem to believe that blind opposition to the new strategy in Iraq is good politics," Cheney said. "Sen. Reid himself has said that the war in Iraq will bring his party more seats in the next election."

"It is cynical to declare that the war is lost because you believe it gives you political advantage," Cheney said.

Cheney said he felt compelled to make a statement in front of cameras to express his personal frustration with Reid, D-Nev., after the Senate majority leader told reporters last week the war was lost. Cheney's remarks also showed the high stakes involved for the White House in trying to stave off Democratic efforts to end the war.

While Bush has enough Republican votes to sustain his veto, Democrats say they have public opinion on their side and that will eventually force Bush to change.

"This isn't a political issue," said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif. "I respect where the president is coming from on this. I wish he would respect where we are coming from, which is a reflection of where the American people are coming from."

Reid shrugged off Cheney's remarks — but with his own dig at the vice president.

"I'm not going to get into a name-calling match with the administration's chief attack dog," he said.

The $124.2 billion legislation would continue to fund the war in Iraq but also would require that troops begin pulling out by Oct. 1 or earlier if the Iraqi government does not make progress in tamping down sectarian violence and forging political agreements. The bill ultimately sets a nonbinding goal for combat operations to end by April 1, 2008.

"It's a good piece of legislation," Reid said. "I would hope the president would stop being so brusque and waving it off. This is a bill that is good for the troops. It's good for the country."

With Democrats expecting to send Mr. Bush the final bill as early as next week, the president stood firm Tuesday against any measure that would set a timetable for withdrawal.

"They chose to make a political statement," he said. "That's their right, but it is wrong for our troops and it's wrong for our country. To accept the bill proposed by the Democratic leadership would be to accept a policy that directly contradicts the judgment of our military commanders."

House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer said Democrats will ignore the veto threat and send the bill to Mr. Bush in the hope that he will have a change of heart. But, Hoyer added, they don't expect it.

"He will do with it what he will do," said Hoyer, D-Md. If Bush vetoes the measure, Democrats will consider their next step and try to bring Republicans on board.

"My intuition tells me there are an awful lot of members of the president's party who have great concerns about simply staying the course," Hoyer said.

Mr. Bush said U.S. troops should not be caught in the middle of a showdown between the White House and Congress.

"Yesterday, Democratic leaders announced that they planned to send me a bill that will fund our troops only if we agree to handcuff our generals, add billions of dollars of unrelated spending and begin to pull out of Iraq by an arbitrary date," Bush said on the South Lawn.

He said the bill would mandate the withdrawal of troops despite the fact that the top U.S. commander in Iraq, Gen. David Petraeus, has not yet received all the reinforcements he has said he needs to secure Baghdad and the troubled Anbar Province.

Democrats have argued that the election that left them in control of Congress was a referendum for a change of strategy in Iraq. Mr. Bush used the same election results to argue his point.

"The American people did not vote for failure," he said. "That is precisely what the Democratic leadership's bill would guarantee."

Petraeus and other top defense officials on Wednesday will try to persuade lawmakers in a private briefing not to set a timetable.

Under the bill, U.S. forces could remain in Iraq after the 2008 date, but would be restricted to three non-combat missions: protecting U.S. personnel and facilities, engaging in counterterrorism activities against al Qaeda and other similar organizations, and training and equipping Iraqi forces.

[randalds]

"Reid: Cheney Is Bush's "Attack Dog"


Truer words have never been spoken. Reid insults dogs by linking them to Cheney because Cheney is so much further down on the food chain. Cheney is maggot puke. He's the stuff the would make a Bill Goat sick. He is lower then the lowest filthiest piece of scum on the earth. He is what you scrape off from the soles of your shoes when you come in from walking in the fields. he is lower the the lowest piece of sh*it that has ever been sh*at. The only thing I wish about Cheney is that he would agree to go quail hunting with me, just once, all alone, with no SS guards with him.

[kansas1946]

Stick to your guns, Harry. This Bush gang has been attacking (like mad dogs) anyone that questions their failed policies for years. They have used American's patriotism as a weapon agains the very people that we should consider patriots. This is the most evil adminstration ever to grace Washington.

[Razzl]

Cheney is a man utterly without morals or honor. I completely support Kuciniches' attempt to introduce articles of impeachment; maybe the Vermont legislature can weigh in under Thomas Jefferson's obscure 1801 rule from the Congressional practice manual allowing state legislatures to submit articles of impeachment. This is a man practicing political criminality who needs the book thrown at him...

[impeachgwb]

yet another reason to IMPEACH BUSH NOW!!!!!

******** CHENEY IS JUST A SCAB ON GWB"S UNUSED BLUE SCROTUM.

[migrainegram]

Senator Reid Sir, I respectfully disagree -- the Vice President is a PuppetMaster...a wanna be president -- I suggest you (and all of the media) watch Scene #8 fron the movie version of Chicago -- "We both Reached for the Gun." Fits like a glove!

[bildooreilly]

CHENEY IS JUNIORS BOSS, CHENEY'S BOSS IS JUNIORS DADDY.

[perception5]

Harry Reid is dirty.......what a disgrace to his party and his country. He truely represents posion in the blood stream of this great nation...really sad

[bildooreilly]

Cheney is the highest level freemason holding public office, Reid is a freemason too, one of the main rules of the "brotherhood" is that you don't go up against a fellow mason.... It's all just another big dog and pony show... you fools on both sides suck their *** up like a freaking toilet in a public fast food joint.

[one_american]

Harry's catching a little heat, poor li'l boy...

Harry Reid is proving himself to be an abject failure as an American, a Senator, and as a human being.

Three strikes and your outta there, Harry!

[vastr-wcon]

Reid is wrong, Cheney is not Dubya's attach dog; Dubya is Cheney's puppet. Always has been, always will be.

The necons let Bush run because they wanted a simpleton as President who wouldn't interfere with their war, oil and power-grabbing plans. The simple-minded boob Dubya proved to be the perfect choice, though the incompetence, lies and deceitful actions of the necons is slowly becoming apparent to even the most feeble minded. Their reign will soon end in disgrace.

It still remains to be learned just how much of what has happened over the past 6 years The Cheerleader understands.

[roger_inkart]

To call Cheney an "attack dog" is a needless insult to canines everywhere.

Cheney is just a loathesome cockroach.

[one_american]

Harry can dish it out, but he's too soft to take it.

That's it Cheney, kick Harry in the @ss!

[rjstolba]

Lately, with Reid, Cheney, McCain, Rush, Wolfy, Bush, etc, I've been getting a lot of mileage out of the Gump saying, "Stupid is as stupid does." However, what else has Cheney and his crony neocons been doing for the last 5 years except playing politics with Iraq. If anyone thinks otherwise, I've got this bridge*****.

[fascistusa]

Cheney is a FASCIST ELITIST.

A very, very Evil Man who will do anything to further the ne-cons aganda.

Please grow a pair of Balls, Mr. Reid.

[roger_inkart]

Yeah, right. Reid's comments are "uniformed and misleading."

This, coming from "they'll greet us a liberators", the insurgents are in the "last throes" and "no doubt Iraq has WMDs."

To believe anything Cheney says is to be a total an utter fool.

[pakaal]

[Cheney said] "Sen. Reid himself has said that the war in Iraq will bring his party more seats in the next election."

Yeah, that MIGHT be because the VAST majority of Americans agree with HIS party's position on the issue, and as we see more and more failures in this lost war, more and more will agree with his party's position. If Cheney doesn't like what the American people think, he can always do what the rest of the administration is doing and keep sticking their heads in the sand.

Hey Rep. Kucinich, how are them articles of impeachment coming along?

[adian1-2009]

Stand your ground, Mr. Reid! You have our trust. Cheney does not have any. Bush has as much as Cheney. So? The attack, invasion and occupation of Iraq was a private agenda for the benefit of a few, Cheney and Bush included. Thirty-five hundred American lives already wasted. Hundreds of thousands of innocent and unarmed Iraqis killed. All because of Bush and Cheney. They must be stopped!!!

[one_american]

Harry has been called out by Cheney as a pandering fool, and the liberals heads EXPLODE!

I LOVE IT!

[boondoggler7]

Cheney is a snarling, mischievous little tasmanian devil. The joker's smile has lost its sinister charm. He may be a tenacious optimist about his jingoistic, necrophiliac, microphallic war mongering escapades, but allas, there is no glass for it to be full or empty. Before this pontificating, blubberous bulldog recklessly leaves are brave fighting men and women flailing in the wind, let's do what we need to do to offer him amnesty, build a little castle in the netherlands where he can shoot his chronies in the arse with rock salt and romp on galloping steads till his devilish hart is content. Just keep the beguilded *** away from me. His charms have faded away much like a *** in the wind! Argh!

[clestes-2009]

God, Cheney is on the loose again. Still talking like US troops are going to "win" in Iraq and the democrats are keeping that from happening. After 4 years and 3200 dead and death rates continuing to rise. Win what, one has to wonder.

It doesn't really matter, as long as Haliburton continues to make money.

Someone from the whitehouse needs to round him up and give him his pills.

[rochest]

SUPPORT OUR TROOPS BRING THEM HOME NOW!

clip the shrub impeach him and his attack dog now !


our brave soldiers on the third or fourth deployment to Iraq or their extended tours of duty with their extended absences from their families deserve to come home away from this civil war....

[strewthmate]

Mr. Cheney, Mr Vice President, with the greatest of respect I suggest it is in your best interest to resign before you are impeached. The American people are a wake up to your lies and deception.

[boondoggler7]

Cheney may be an effective and efficient facilitator of global fatalities and an tenacious animal that can chair a fortune 500 with the best of em. However, a chock chain with a little more slack may be necessary to keep this hound dog at bay. Grow up ***! You have more money than your grandchildren's children could ever spend. Sail off in the sunset already, much like that actor Lad in Shane. Unfortunately, your maniacle, out of control eagle leaves you sitting at the sunset strip to hell. Ride off, your high horse is constipated and must relieve himself of you you giant, stinking ***! Frolick away, you mangey little rascal before I have the pound come pick you up.

[roger_inkart]

Cheney, shut your fool mouth up. You have no credibility with anyone, save the morons that still support you and your disgusting vanity war.

How you can live with yourself is amazing. Your whole life is one, big, fat, greedy, blood-soaked lie.

[clestes-2009]

Harry Reid is trying to inject some realism into the Iraq fantasy and Bush and Cheney are scared to death. After 4 years of unlimited money and 4 years of constant defeat, Reid is saying "enough of the unlimited money."

And the whitehouse acts like it is Reid's fault Iraq is a disaster. When the history books are written, Reid will come out like the sensible man he is and Bush and Cheney will come out the cowardly liars they are.

[boondoggler7]

Mr. Reid. I am tired, older, and very cranky. Having my decision mocked in front of me is wearing me thin. Cast your spell and let us frolick younder, or may we forget that ye were a countryman.

[BlueInWI]

If Cheney criticized me I'd consider it a compliment. Cheney is a greedy old arrogant *** that has been right about absolutely NOTHING related to his folly in Iraq. I think we should send Darth over to Baghdad to do some shopping in the market and pic up all the roses thrown at his feet...

Hey, ***, to use your own words GFY!!!

[boondoggler7]

Cheney and his chickenhawk coup continue to flap their wings in utter contempt of global humanity. *** these bungling burglars of the national treasure. Take your lut and build a castle in rio or whereever, I care not. Just segregate your frat brat rapping chitter chatter to a confined location off yonder. Your depressing dialect has forced to say the hell with it, and maniacly laugh at the sick, jingoistically twisted world you have created. I shat upon your chickenhawk nest and scramble your rotten eggs. For the love of zod, do you want to make my head explode. Enough already, no more today. Mankind has always had to suffer with week and the ignorant. However, I know this storm will pass to fruition. Let's just ride it out into the sunset.

[superpatr898]

I'd rather have Cheney as an attack dog than two spineless rats - Prune Face Reid and Sl&t Pelosi, who have yet to share a foxhole with the troops they claim to support.

Oh yeah, Bozos - don't forget to scream Halliburton while you remain silent about a Republican much worse than Cheney could ever be -the one whom both the traitors admire - James Oil Can F The Jews Baker. Of course half of you who blast Cheney probably could have cared less about Tianamin Square or the green light given to the late Assad Sr. to crush the Lebanese Christians - courtesy of one Jim Oil Can Baker.

But if the guy betrays his country and baits the Jooz, it is ok with you, especially Exlax and Bluestarbigot.

It is time prune face and Botox Ho went over and served this country, instead of wasting tax dollars on their treason. Heck, they get enough from their Nazi friends in MoveOn.Org the way it is.

DEMOCRATS - ALL TRAITORS, ALL THE TIME.

[dallison7]

GIVE 'EM HELL HARRY!!!

There is obviously a real American patriot in that frail old body!!

You are proving yourself to be another American hero!!

[homespunlady]

PRETENDING we're "winning" DOESN'T MAKE IT SO any more than standing in front of a freight train bearing down on you and PRETENDING you can stop it like Superman somehow can make THAT a reality.

By the way, WHAT IS THIS WEEKS DEFINITION of "winning"???
George seems to change that definition as often as his underwear.

[long_rider]

"Some Democratic leaders seem to believe that blind opposition to the new strategy in Iraq is good politics,"

Will someone please tell us what the new strategy is?

[boondoggler7]

Some of you may be thinking it is time for revolutionary behaviour. Resist, for that is the courageous thing to do. Throughout history, even the most afluent and well meaning men have been bitten by the war bug. As a great general who has contributed to the war college said a long time ago, war has lost its usefulness. Jesus Christ himself was a pasifisct, as was Gandhi. These men were far from cowards. Resist all urges to fight, and pacify us to a better place. Death and misery exists in the world, but only in small parts. Don't buy into it and succumb. To honor those that are suffering, realize that we are not and appreciate and savor it. Let that be our lasting legacy.

[dallison7]

DEMOCRATS - ALL TRAITORS, ALL THE TIME.
Posted by Superpatr898



Go crawl back into your sewer, lieberman.

[pakaal]

DEMOCRATS - ALL TRAITORS, ALL THE TIME.
Posted by Superpatr898

Heh, look how the Republicans freak out when their precious "Attack Dog" is dismissed as the miserable cur he is! LOL!

[jpesot]

Cheney has become a huge embarrassment to his office and this country.

If you or I screwed up as bad a Cheney and this administartion, we'd be fired from any real job, and I suspect they wouldn't let us near the fry machine at McDonald's.

Cheney's real job is to talk to the GOP base. That's it. He throws them read meat like this. I guess they like red meat mainly because they haven't discovered fire yet.

[boondoggler7]

The truth hurts they say, but we have already been hurt and have survived. Don't be shocked when the butchers bill comes to toll. However, as the famous author and poet Edgar Poe once wrote, for whom that bell from hell tolls, time marches on, as it will now. How do I know this you say? Well, it's my ambition, combined with intuition, and overpriced to tuition. Off to work I go, and then to the Barbary coast for a toast along the coast! One last time. Shot in dark, and Bush is to blame, he gives anxiety and depression, a good name! Bahhhhhhhhhh!!!!

[taylpatr]

I thought you had to have a heart to have heart problems.......

[boondoggler7]

Attack darg my arse. My pug has more balls than this lying sack of wind. Let's sick this viscous, raveonous pit bull on himself. Let's relegate this slobbering bargast to the doghouse. Bargghhh!

[randalds]

I thought you had to have a heart to have heart problems.......
Posted by taylpatr at 06:27 PM : Apr 24, 2007

Let's hope this piece of garbage screams himself into a heart attack! It would serve the fat bas***** right.

[boondoggler7]

Cheney has a functional, beating hart. At one time, as he frolicked in his rockwelling hometown, dreaming of the American anthematic dream, after sleeping in box cars with his family, this man had a heart of gold. However, now, it is mearly mechanical, cybergenic, and has produced a terminating scoundrel. May he melt in his bile. This aristocratic master of disaster must be made to retire with his rusting chain belt.

[jpesot]

DEMOCRATS - ALL TRAITORS, ALL THE TIME.
Posted by Superpatr898

Superpatr898 ... are we at war?

NO.

If we were at war ...

We'd ALL be sacrificing.
We'd have a draft.
We'd increase taxes to pay for it.
We'd be increasing our production of equipment.
We'd have Allies lined up to join us, not leaving us.
With the greatest military in the world, we'd be able to define specific milestones to victory.

This administration is a sad joke that will be remembered throughout history as the worst in modern time, probably worst of all US history.

To continue to allow Bush and Cheney to screw-up, to support them, that's unpatriotic.

[kstrisha]

Congress is sending a bill to Bush that provides $124.2 billion dollars in funding for his personal OIL WAR in Iraq, and the ONLY way the troops won't get the money is if our president, and our president alone, VETOS the bill!!!

A VETO of this bill will make president Bush responsible; finally. If our troops don't get the money, IT IS BUSH'S FAULT AND HIS ALONE...

It is obvious that Bush isn't concerend about the troop's welfare, if in fact he does veto the bill, but with his personal agenda instead. Blaming others for his mess just isn't working anymore.

[perception5]

Harry Reid is dirty.......what a disgrace to his party and his country. He truely represents posion in the blood stream of this great nation...really sad

I grew up in Washington....watched MLK on the local evening news during the 1960's....watched the anti-war movement during Vietnam.... learn how to read by picking up the Washington Post..... watched Nixon fly over my house on the way to Andrews AFB.... but I have never seen Demorats in Congress as "classless" and corrupt as the bunch we have in there now. This mean-spirted bunch on done NOTHING since being elected........the minimum wage bill STILL not passed as the POOR PEOPLE wait for this dirty bunch of Dems along with our COURRUPT LIBERAL MSM WOLFPACK make a mockey out of our government and press.......... in 2008 Americans need to come together and make changes with these group of corrupt rich liberal snobs........for the good of the country

[roger_inkart]

I resent the idea that we should give this old fool even a moment of our consideration. He was critical in launching a war of vanity and having the US taxpayers finance it. The war in Iraq has done more to damage the US then a months of 9/11 could have done. He doesn't have a clue what he's talking about, he only knows that to disagree with him is treason.

Cheney is a hyper-partisan *** who sees his side of things and no other. If you believe anything the man says, you're an idiot.

[toldyouso21]

Isn't it time for Cheney to stroke out? Obviously he plans to do no good by living longer--Isn't it time for God to pull his number?
And all the money in the world won't be able to save him.....

[jpesot]

I resent the idea that we should give this old fool even a moment of our consideration.

Posted by roger_inkart

Dead on!

Perhaps one of the right-wingers posting here can defend Cheney ... come on, tell us how RIGHT he has been. Tell us how his predictions have turned out. Last throws anyone?

Come on, defend him. Why should the rest of us trust this man?

As importantly, why do any of you trust him? Did he do something great we don't know about? Or do you just hold oil stocks?

[ioweign]

Does anyone have some of that "dog food"????

[perception5]

During the last six years the dirty Dems and our corrupt liberal MSM wolfpack have been teaming up to smear, lie, distort, and censored news to the American people.
This liberal wolfpack as repeated lies made by high leverl Democrat politicans like Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi..... these classless dirts have said that our President lied and mislead the country concerning Iraq.......YET no PROVE anywhere.........what Americans have been seeing is "classic" propaganda where you repeat a LIE OVER and OVER again until people begin to "believe" it's real.........when it's not. Our corrupt wolpack coninues go to after its prey ...Bush, Cheney, Rove, and any friends of our President.
Our Founding Fathers wanted a robust and free press with NO POLITICAL influence .......that's not what we have today in America. Mr. Kaplan who told over CBS Evening news two months ago is a member of the Democrat party and close personal friends of the Clintons having slept at the White House twice the last time in April 2000........DOES ANYONE OUT THEER TONIGHT NOT THINK that CBS is corrupt???? at the very least CBS has a major "conflict of interest" and Mr. Kaplan should RESIGN ALONG WITH HARRY REID.

[roach9703]

If the wags of the democratic party are serious,impreach Bush and Chenney or else it is better to shut-up.