WHY lS 5 DEFERMENT ELMER FUDD CHENEY BASHING RUSSIA?
603612
Cheney is typical Republican from the cold-war era.  They all think their patriotic but they are all yellowed bellied coward chicken sh*ts.  Now he talks tough just like old George Bush who kept the skys of Texas safe from the Viet Cong.  He's bashing Russia because Republican always have to have a bogeyman to scare the American people. They have to divide us and scare us to win elections.  What's so sad is that such a large number of Americans vote for them.  Oh well, it God, guns and gays that bring out the Republicans.
1077516
Good point.  If I were a liberal, I would have just told the U.S. to "MIND THEIR BUSINESS!", Like they are doing now.\n\n\n-------\n\ndon't you people understand?  the question is a parallel to what Saddam has done.  The liberals are saying things, like, "we should mind our business", and "quit sticking our nose in other countries affairs"
865655
Rumsfeld, along with Ashcroft and Cheney, were among the architects of the cold war scares decades ago. They use the same rhetoric, just changing the "enemies." I, for one, will be glad to see him go. During the cold war we talked about a thing called the military industrial complex. It has resurrected at the hands of these men and others of their ilk. Try to go to a screening of the movie Iraq for Sale.
831339
It's called hyperbole.\n\nClinton is stating how closely he feels Israel is a friend and ally who must be supported, and he's colorfully illustrating how strongly he feels about it.\n\nHe wouldn't really pick up a rifle and go to a trench.  Just like people don't literally mean they will plant a foot in your buttocks when they say things like "kick your @ss"\n\nEdit:  Apparently one of the posters above thinks taking a deferrment is the same as leaving the country.  That puts almost the entire Bush administration in the same boat as Clinton, along with most of the right-wing talking heads.\n\nThat person also believes that Oxford is in Canada.  Maybe he/she should post a question in the geography section, since Clinton didn't actually spend time in Canada during the Viet Nam conflict.
843040
I can't speak with 100% certainty on Perle's opinions of Cheney because he is known for not telling the truth on occassion.\n\nHe recently came out in a Vanity Fair interview basically thrashing the administration's mishandling of the Iraqi War and the administration's reasons for invading Iraq. I, knowing his history, think he is doing this in an attempt to rewrite history hoping to erase his part in the failed pre-emptive Iraqi War.\n\nHis statements printed by Vanity Fair may sound like a legit opinion coming from the ex-chairman of the Defense Policy Board, a Pentagon advisory group, and a former assistant secretary of defense under President Ronald Reagan; but, it's not. \n\nThe reason it's not a viable opinion is due to Perle's statements out of his own mouth before the Iraqi War. You would have thought he was a Cheney clone. \n\nHere is an example. This comes from an interview with him by PBS's Wideangle in July of 2002.\n\nNotice how he is majorly promoting the idea that Al Qaeda and Iraq are tied together... just as Cheney was doing at this time.\n\n"James P. Rubin: Well, you've just seen Gwynne Roberts' film. And it raises some very explosive charges. I wonder if you could help us connect the dots. Why should the American people be concerned and what should they think having seen this film?\n\nRichard Perle: Well, the thing that is brought home so clearly in this film is the connection among terrorist organizations now implicating Saddam Hussein directly with Al Qaeda, with a global terrorist movement that ultimately wishes to destroy the United States. What I think we're discovering is that terrorists, like criminals, are in touch with one another around the globe. I think if a safe cracker in Phoenix needs a safe cracker in Manchester, England, somehow they connect (Laughs). And the terrorists are connecting. They're working together, they're reinforcing one another, and they're sharing their tradecraft. And the result is that if we are going to prevail over the terrorists, we have to take them seriously wherever they are and we have to take this war to them in their countries, on their territory. Because if we have to stand and fight on our own territory, many Americans will die in the process.\n\nJames P. Rubin: You've been an advocate of intervention in Iraq. And one of the arguments you've used is that if we wait, that someday Saddam Hussein will transfer weapons like biological weapons to terrorist organizations. Having seen the film, do you think there is now a new rationale for early military action against Saddam Hussein?\n\nRichard Perle: Well, the film of course confirms one's worst fears and apprehensions. Because the thing that many of us have speculated about is happening. There is that interchange. It is likely that chemical weapons, biological weapons in the possession of the Iraqis derived during the cold war from the Soviet Union are now being disseminated to terrorists. I don't see how we can ignore those connections that are made so clear in this film. So every day we wait is a day during which a plan may well be forming that could result in the deaths of a great many Americans. Time is not on our side."
572543
Clearly the answer to this question is YOU. Where do you get off insulting the President and Vice-President of this country when you can't spell "idiot", "who is", "Cheney", or "spelling"? That is four mistakes out of thirteen words. If I include the fact that you left out the apostrophe in "don't" you're at five out of thirteen, which is pretty pathetic.
750702
As a young man he dragged out his Master's studies, which he never finished, to avoid the draft. As a Congressman he opposed banning cop-killer bullets and plastic guns which can evade airport security. As Defense Secretary he complained that the Democratic Congress prevented him from making greater cuts to the defense budget, then in 2000 and 2004 turned around and tried to scaremonger that the Democrats would oppose defense spending! As VP he has attacked the constitution by seeking to claim unprecedented and unlimited new powers for the president, and ceded America's moral high ground by defending torture.\n\nNot an admirable record.
153895
They probably were hunting at a game ranch which doesn't allow dogs.  Cheney has a history of going to these ranches and so he can elsely shoot birds.  Other than that, the dogs were a casualty of previous hunts.
821138
Find something or somebody in Washington DC that is/was non-political, if he was given a directive and did what he was told then that is all that matters. People in the intelligence agencies or security committees leaking information to the press is for political gain is not  "conscientous", it's treason.  The Contras were percieved as a greater threat than the Iranians, and the Soviet influence in the Middle East a greater threat than militant Islam. Now Ortega has come back into power, the Russians and China aiding, arming and encouraging Iran, Syria and North Korea. The situation has decayed into further chaos, but he's familiar with all the players.
844166
Charles Range is a puppet for the Liberal agenda. If people see that a draft is being discussed in congress then they will automatically start blaming Bush for being in the war, regardless of who proposed a draft. These libs are sneaky.
396583
what Cheney has been doing, first as Secretary of Defense, then since 2001, and still today, has been to work to take the power of government away from the nation-state, and transfer that power to shoot to financier interests owned and used by the imperialist financier class. What Cheney has done to that effect, is therefore far worse than treason.\n\nRid ourselves of his position in government, urgently, now, while you still may, and restore the military, intelligence, and police functions of the nation back into the hands of constitutional government. Reverse immediately all legislation and other actions which perpetuate what is the intrinsic corruption associated with the legacy of the functional relations among Cheney, Rumsfeld, George Pratt Shultz, Halliburton, and Bechtel.
976611
gotta good story about ol' cheney. \n\nin the 1990s Iran was sponsoring anti-american terrorism. Khobar towers bombing etc.  \nWith the suppor of america and the international community, President Clinton wisely stopped trading with Iran for good reasons.  Conoco had a billion dollar oil deal with Iran.  This would have stopped the deal.  Cheney, working for Halliburton, criticized Clinton for his wise decision because he wanted halliburton to continue making billions.  Bottom line, Cheney would rather have a relationship with terrorists and have money.  Does that sicken you?  It does for me.  He's evil and greedy.
680058
I think he's trying to create confusion in the UN to buy time to get weapons ready.  His behavior is remarkably like the behavior Saddam Hussein displayed in the late 90's that ultimately led to his removal.
898483
That is the NEOCON agenda.  With the collapse of the Soviet Union, some bright men with nothing to do got tired of playing Risk, and graduated to Global Politics.  They concluded that in this power vacuum, it would be a really good idea for the US to assert itself while it had the chance, aiming at a kind of PAX or Power Americana, another name for world domination.  This all happened while we were all asleep, without our being consulted, and we now find ourselves trying to figure out how we got into this mess, the latest being Afghanistan and Iraq.  These guys are for real, and they are plundering along the way.  No one has ever succeeded at this throughout history, but they are giving it another shot,  as they figure by the time anyone catches on, they will be set and on their private island some where.  It is always the general population that has to suffer these guys, paying in blood, destruction, and chaos.  No one ever believes this can be until it is way too late.  The "big lie" has been used over and over for a very long time to cover this behavior up, and no matter how many times it is used, they always seem to initially get away with it.  They say if you don't know history you are doomed to repeat it, and here we are again.  That must be why we don't teach real history in our schools, so this kind of thing can happen.
611330
I don't despise him - that's a little harsh.\n\nI do hate his guts and wish that he would go hunting with Dick Cheney sometime just to blow off a little steam.
89356
It is, in actuality, not a big deal at all. Being "peppered" happens all the time in bird hunting. It was just an accident.\n\nIt is funny though, listening to some of the questions that the reporters put forward. Things like "What is the reason he has not submitted his resignation?" "Is an accidental shooting like this going to result in criminal charges?" etc.... It is totally laughable. The liberal media is insistent on making any little thing into some reason to bash the administration. What next, some conspiracy theory that Bush ordered Cheney to assasinate the guy?
421579
Ask yourself a question if you were in a climate that allowed other countries rights to be violated at will by any neighboring country with impunity,a country that more resources than your country,would you not look for a way to level the playing field? When Russia was an empire, the U.S. did not dare pull these kinds of ploys because there was a balance. the balance is now gone. Noone holds the administration in check. Do your research!!!  Yes!!Peace.