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Former vice president Cheney challenges Pence on Trump's foreign policy
Wash Post via lot online ^ | March 11 2019 | Robert Costa and Ashley Parker

Posted on 03/12/2019 10:45:50 AM PDT by rintintin

A chummy discussion between Vice President Mike Pence and former vice president Dick Cheney quickly turned into a vigorous back-and-forth over President Donald Trump's foreign policy at a private gathering on Saturday, with Cheney comparing the president's instincts to those of his Democratic predecessor Barack Obama, according to a transcript obtained by The Washington Post. At the closed-door retreat hosted by the American Enterprise Institute on March 9 in Sea Island, Georgia, Cheney respectfully but repeatedly and firmly pressed Pence on a number of the president's foreign policy moves - over which Cheney expressed concerns - from taking a harder line toward U.S. allies in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization to deciding to withdraw troops from Syria during what Cheney fretted was "the middle of a phone call."

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To: rintintin

Cheney is just pissed his billionaire friends aren’t cashing in on another War.


21 posted on 03/12/2019 11:45:39 AM PDT by heights
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To: heights

Cheney accuses Trump of being like Obama. But it was Obama who started our war against Syria. Trump is ending it, and that angers Cheney. Cheney supported Obama’s wars in Lybia and Syria


22 posted on 03/12/2019 11:53:15 AM PDT by rintintin (q)
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To: rintintin

Why. Bolton & Pompeo have convinced Trump to permanently occupy northern, eastern & southern Syria with US troops, we are staying in Afghanistan (don’t believe stories of withdrawal unless is actually happens), we are fully supporting the Saudi Barbarians’ genocidal war against Yemenis, we are knocking out or supporting those who knocked out power in Venezuela causing massive suffering (that’s the goal, as it was with Iraq), and we are threatening Iran. What is it that the Vampire Cheney is unhappy with?


23 posted on 03/12/2019 11:54:45 AM PDT by Trumpisourlastchance
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To: dragnet2

Bush also declared after 911 that the Muslim religion was the ‘religion of peace’.


24 posted on 03/12/2019 12:23:46 PM PDT by dirtymac (Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country! Now)
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To: rintintin

I don’t believe WAPO is reliable about reporting what someone said in private.


25 posted on 03/12/2019 12:37:07 PM PDT by scottinoc
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To: dp0622

Obama got a lot more killed than Bush/Cheney.


26 posted on 03/12/2019 12:46:43 PM PDT by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: mylife

What does that justify what Cheney did?

Some will never be able to admit what cheney and bush were.


27 posted on 03/12/2019 12:48:28 PM PDT by dp0622 (The Left should know if.. Trump is kicked out of office, it is WAR!)
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To: mylife

The weakest argument ever is that somebody else was worse.

It’s beneath FR.


28 posted on 03/12/2019 12:49:01 PM PDT by dp0622 (The Left should know if.. Trump is kicked out of office, it is WAR!)
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29 posted on 03/12/2019 12:49:27 PM PDT by musicman (The future is just a collection of successive nows.)
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To: Cen-Tejas

Who all made a bundle expanding their inside the DC beltway operations on the back of the WOT. Cheney’s foreign policy - DHS and the Iraq war have probably destroyed Decmocracy in America and started us down the path of disaster our budget deficits.


30 posted on 03/12/2019 1:04:13 PM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: dp0622

The only worse Administration than Bush/Cheney was Woodrow Wilson and time might reverse that judgment.


31 posted on 03/12/2019 1:05:24 PM PDT by AndyJackson
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To: rintintin

Yeah, Dick, you’re not helping.


32 posted on 03/12/2019 1:06:45 PM PDT by Albion Wilde ("Our rights are not given to us by man. Our rights come from our Creator." --Donald J. Trump)
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To: WKUHilltopper

Cheney couldn’t even manage Halliburton.


33 posted on 03/12/2019 1:07:32 PM PDT by 353FMG
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To: AndyJackson

Wow.

Takes guts to say that here.

And I’m SO GLAD you did.


34 posted on 03/12/2019 1:14:00 PM PDT by dp0622 (The Left should know if.. Trump is kicked out of office, it is WAR!)
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To: mylife

Obama got a lot more killed than Bush/Cheney.

Cheney supported all of Obama’s wars


35 posted on 03/12/2019 1:16:17 PM PDT by rintintin (q)
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To: rintintin

Actually no, he was constantly saying Obama’s lead from behind strategy would not work anywhere.


36 posted on 03/12/2019 1:26:05 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge.)
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To: rintintin

With Obama all foreign policy moves were anti US.

With Trump all foreign policy moves are geared to be pro US.

Isn’t that identical? Seriously, Cheney, buy a fricken clue.

Why is it so many folks who should know better, display complete blindness to who Obama was?


37 posted on 03/12/2019 1:57:29 PM PDT by DoughtyOne
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To: piasa

You’re wrong. Cheney supported Obama’s war on Lybia and Obama/Hillary’s war on Syria


38 posted on 03/12/2019 2:01:29 PM PDT by rintintin (q)
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To: AndyJackson

Well, Andy, I agree with you that selective folks like the Cheney’s and the Bush’s and countless others probably got rich off the Trillions we wasted fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan.

But, that pales into irrelevance against the legless and armless and mentally broken Vets we see at the nearest Veterans Hospital.


39 posted on 03/13/2019 8:52:42 AM PDT by Cen-Tejas
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To: Openurmind

LOL, “Halliburton” was the ONE I was trying to think of when I wrote that post. Thanks.


40 posted on 03/13/2019 8:54:00 AM PDT by Cen-Tejas
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