Reid: Cheney Is Bush's "Attack Dog"
Senate Democrat Reacts After VP Accuses Him Of Playing Politics With Iraq Funding
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Following his weekly meeting with Senate Republicans, Vice President Cheney stopped to talk to reporters about Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid's comment about the Iraq war. Sharyl Attkisson reports.
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CBS News RAW: Vice President Dick Cheney issued a stinging rebuke of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, calling the Nevada Democrat's comments on the Iraq war "uniformed and misleading."
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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., right, talks to the media about the war in Iraq with Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., on Capitol Hill on April 24, 2007. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
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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.
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See all 459 CommentsTruer 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.
******** CHENEY IS JUST A SCAB ON GWB"S UNUSED BLUE SCROTUM.
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!
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.
Cheney is just a loathesome cockroach.
That's it Cheney, kick Harry in the @ss!
A very, very Evil Man who will do anything to further the ne-cons aganda.
Please grow a pair of Balls, Mr. Reid.
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.
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?
I LOVE IT!
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.
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....
How you can live with yourself is amazing. Your whole life is one, big, fat, greedy, blood-soaked lie.
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.
Hey, ***, to use your own words GFY!!!
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.
There is obviously a real American patriot in that frail old body!!
You are proving yourself to be another American hero!!
By the way, WHAT IS THIS WEEKS DEFINITION of "winning"???
George seems to change that definition as often as his underwear.
Will someone please tell us what the new strategy is?
Posted by Superpatr898
Go crawl back into your sewer, lieberman.
Posted by Superpatr898
Heh, look how the Republicans freak out when their precious "Attack Dog" is dismissed as the miserable cur he is! LOL!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
And all the money in the world won't be able to save him.....
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?
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.
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