Posted on 02/23/2007 6:05:17 AM PST by TigerLikesRooster
Cheney won't take back Pelosi comment
24 minutes ago
Vice President Dick Cheney refused Friday to take back his charge that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (news, bio, voting record)'s opposition to President Bush's Iraq war buildup is playing into the hands of the al-Qaida terrorist network.
"If you're going to advocate a course of action that basically is withdrawal of our forces from Iraq, then you don't get to just do the fun part of that, that says, 'We'll, we're going to get out,' and appeal to your constituents on that basis," Cheney said.
The vice president had voiced the same criticism of Pelosi earlier this week during a visit to Japan, and the California Democrat accused the vice president of questioning her patriotism, saying she was going to call President Bush directly with her complaint.
"I hope the president will repudiate and distance himself from the vice president's remarks," Pelosi said. She ended up talking with White House chief of staff Josh Bolten instead of Bush.
The long-distance quarrel began in Tokyo, where Cheney earlier this week used an interview to criticize Pelosi and Rep. John Murtha (news, bio, voting record), D-Pa., over their plan to place restrictions on Bush's request for an additional $93 billion for the Iraq war to make it difficult or impossible to send 21,500 extra troops to Iraq.
During Friday's interview in Sydney, Cheney said, "I'm not sure what part of it is that Nancy disagreed with. She accused me of questioning her patriotism. I didn't question her patriotism. I questioned her judgment."
"You also have to be accountable for the results. What are the consequences of that? What happens if we withdraw from Iraq?," he said. "And the point I made and I'll make it again is that al-Qaida functions on the basis that they think they can break our will. That's their fundamental underlying strategy, that if they can kill enough Americans or cause enough havoc, create enough chaos in Iraq, then we'll quit and go home. And my statement was that if we adopt the Pelosi policy, that then we will validate the strategy of al-Qaida. I said it and I meant it."
Asked if he was willing to take back his criticism of Pelosi, Cheney replied, "I'm not backing down."
I like this straight-talking man... we need to hear more of him.
That is GREAT!! LOL.
"Pelosi will always lose when she tries to battle Cheney, she just isn't that bright"
So true!
I love Dick Cheney!! (Lynne, too)
LOL! I speak Italian, but never gave it a thought -- "pelosi" is the plural of "hairy" or "furry." As a family name, it must have originated with a medieval family who became known as the Furries or the Hairies. This is roughly equivalent to English medieval names such as Farmer, Miller, Barber, Cooper (barrelmaker), Chandler (candlemaker), etc., that were about a person's livelihood -- "go see Gareth the Farmer" soon became "Gareth Farmer."
In the case of Pelosi, it could have been about someone's physical appearance, but more likely it was an identifier of a medieval family guild of fur trappers, fur traders or tanners of fur leather.
PS:
If the name means "fur trapper", etc., where is PETA on this?
***********
LOL! Confession is good for the soul. :)
Bless me father for I have sinned. It has been 6 weeks since my last confession. I accuse myself of the following sins . . . < g >
:)
Cheney, former head of the National Endowment for the Humanities, summarizes complaints about the cultural malady best thought of as relativism the belief that, in any situation, truthfulness derives from the political relationships perceived by specific ideologies.
In each of six chapters, Cheney considers a particular aspect of relativism and the damage it has done: so-called multiculturalism in primary and secondary education; political correctness in the universities; deconstructionism in the scholarship of the humanities; radical feminist legal theory in legal education and jurisprudence; politicized exaggeration and falsification in art, popular culture, and psychotherapy; and so-called new (i.e., politically slanted) news in the mainstream press.
Although herself a Republican conservative, Cheney avoids partisanship in her presentation, and while her subject matter sometimes gets quite heady, her exposition remains accessible--so much so that Reader's Digest will be serializing the book. That and Cheney's increasing visibility on political TV talk shows should boost interest in Telling the Truth an interest that it greatly deserves. - Ray Olson
I greatly admire Lynne Cheney, and would almost want to support her for president, but for the inevitable problem involving her lesbian daughter and the political conflict of interest it would cause. Neither Cheney would be able to support the conservative position, as their adroit sidestepping to date has shown.
VP Cheyneny is so laid back, with that dry wit and smile, he conveys more substance in a few chosen words. Then we have Nancy and Murtha in all their hysteria--she must be Chicken Little reincarnated-and hasn't a clue what she is talking about. Except she wants lots of illegals to work in her vineyard, her hotel and her restaurant--she is more concerned about them than all our troops.
She doesn't know what patriotism is!
Don't forget--she's a mother and a grandmother--she has had lots of experience dealing with children and that's what the Dems are--tempermental little brats! Didn't you love the way she put John Kerry in his place after his attack on her daughter?
By the way, did you know that he served in Vietnam? That's been classified information up til now--probably leaked by some unpatriotic soul.
Oops, I forgot, these people have no soul.
Or furrier as in the the seller of fur products.
Limbaugh calls himself something like a 'cuddly little fur ball' so someone should tell him he's a pelosi.
Thanks for the reference. I've already checked and our local library has it. I'll reserve it as soon as I finish The Crusader-Ronald Reagan and the Fall of Communism. I get to keep this one--a Christmas gift.
I agree with you about their daughter.
Wolf Blitzer found that out the hard way.
Cheney replied, "I'm not backing down."
No, my hero Mr. VP, that's what we have Democrats for, isn't it?
Love the VP.
One only needs to listen to the tapes released by OBL and his henchmen to see that Cheney is absolutely, positively correct. In fact in his follow up tapes to 9/11 he said that America's rapid "redeployment" (Murtha's word not OBL's) from Somailia after the blackhawk incident was his tipping point-he knew at that point America is gutless.
Yes, what happens? Iran is backing a Shiite takeover of Iraq. Saudi Arabia has already made it clear they won't stand for that. If Iran and SA go to war for control of Iraq that will involve virtually the entire oil producing region of the ME. Does anyone think the oil fields themselves won't become targets on both sides? The U.S. could quickly find itself with no gasoline at any price.
What is the Pelosi/Murtha/Democratick plan for that?
No, when he tried to embarass him about his daughter
Thank you, Mr. Vice-President for being a MAN. I've been wondering where they all went...
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.