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Cheney on North Korea
Tuesday, April 9, 2013 5:27 PM
NEWOLDBROWNCOAT
Quote: 3 hours ago Cheney to GOP leaders: ‘We’re in deep doo doo’ on North Korea Deirdre Walsh Posted by CNN Senior Congressional Producer Deirdre Walsh (CNN) – Republican leaders in Congress received a dire warning on Tuesday from former Vice President Dick Cheney on the ongoing crisis in North Korea. “We’re in deep doo doo,” Cheney told lawmakers, according to a GOP leadership aide. Cheney added the current North Korean leader, Kim Jong Un, is unpredictable and doesn't share the United States worldview. One lawmaker present at the session, Rep. Steve Southerland of Florida, said Cheney wore a cowboy hat and "looked really good, spoke really clearly, lucidly.” “It was nice to see him doing well,” Southerland said, noting the last time Cheney was on Capitol Hill he "didn’t look good – very frail, but in this meeting he looked great." Cheney, 72, underwent a successful heart transplant in 2012 after a series of heart attacks over many years. Southerland said Cheney spent about 10 minutes in the GOP leadership meeting Tuesday, and didn't give any specific policy recommendations or critiques of how the Obama administration is handling the situation in North Korea. Cheney talked about the North Korean leader, Southerland said, and shared some of his history dealing with Saddam Hussein, noting "you never know what they're thinking." Southerland, summarizing the former vice president’s remarks, said Cheney advised not to “eliminate any possibility.” “Here's a young guy we don't know very much about – have very little intel on him, so we just need to make sure that we don't assume why he's doing what he's doing because he could be doing what he's doing for any number of reasons,” Southerland recalled Cheney saying. Cheney also dropped by the weekly House GOP whip meeting at the invitation of Rep. Kevin McCarthy. Cheney himself is a former House Republican whip. "Whip McCarthy invited Vice President Cheney to discuss the ongoing situation on the Korean Peninsula with members of our whip team. We appreciate the vice president for sharing his insight and experience on the matter," a McCarthy aide told CNN. The aide declined to say whether Cheney suggested any specific course of action on the situation in North Korea during this meeting.
Quote: “Here's a young guy we don't know very much about – have very little intel on him, so we just need to make sure that we don't assume why he's doing what he's doing because he could be doing what he's doing for any number of reasons,”
Tuesday, April 9, 2013 6:26 PM
KWICKO
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." -- William Casey, Reagan's presidential campaign manager & CIA Director (from first staff meeting in 1981)
Wednesday, April 10, 2013 11:44 AM
AURAPTOR
America loves a winner!
Wednesday, April 10, 2013 11:49 AM
STORYMARK
Wednesday, April 10, 2013 11:55 AM
Quote:Originally posted by Storymark: Cheney has a solid track record for being wrong about EVERY godamned thing, so.... Who gives a fuck what he has to say?
Wednesday, April 10, 2013 11:59 AM
Wednesday, April 10, 2013 12:00 PM
Quote:Originally posted by AURaptor: Quote:Originally posted by Storymark: Cheney has a solid track record for being wrong about EVERY godamned thing, so.... Who gives a fuck what he has to say? Still had a far better record in serving his country, and is a far better American than either Barry OR Bite-me Biden.
Wednesday, April 10, 2013 12:07 PM
Quote:Originally posted by AURaptor: Obama is doing daddy Il's bidding anyways.
Wednesday, April 10, 2013 12:27 PM
Wednesday, April 10, 2013 12:32 PM
JONGSSTRAW
Wednesday, April 10, 2013 12:58 PM
Quote:Originally posted by Kwicko: Yeah, I mean, it's not like 9/11 happened on his watch or anything!
Wednesday, April 10, 2013 1:04 PM
Quote:Originally posted by AURaptor: Quote:Originally posted by Kwicko: Yeah, I mean, it's not like 9/11 happened on his watch or anything!
Quote: I bet you blame women who get raped, huh? They shouldn't have dressed like that, or some such, right ?
Quote:You're beyond pathetic.
Wednesday, April 10, 2013 1:22 PM
Wednesday, April 10, 2013 1:23 PM
MAL4PREZ
Wednesday, April 10, 2013 1:30 PM
Quote:Originally posted by MAL4PREZ: Rappy is just so very supportive of those who serve.
Quote: I bet he stepped right up to defend a decorated veteran of the Vietnam War, a man who was injured in service of his country, when a yellow-bellied has-been who got a convenient transfer out of the service and never stepped foot on hostile territory started ripping on that honored vet...
Wednesday, April 10, 2013 1:31 PM
Quote:Originally posted by MAL4PREZ: Rappy is just so very supportive of those who serve. I bet he stepped right up to defend a decorated veteran of the Vietnam War, a man who was injured in service of his country, when a yellow-bellied has-been who got a convenient transfer out of the service and never stepped foot on hostile territory started ripping on that honored vet...
Wednesday, April 10, 2013 3:24 PM
Quote:Originally posted by NewOldBrownCoat: Quote:Originally posted by MAL4PREZ: Rappy is just so very supportive of those who serve. I bet he stepped right up to defend a decorated veteran of the Vietnam War, a man who was injured in service of his country, when a yellow-bellied has-been who got a convenient transfer out of the service and never stepped foot on hostile territory started ripping on that honored vet... Is that the same yellow-bellied has-been who had more important things to do while the Vietnam war was going on? Or one of the other chicken-hawks?
Wednesday, April 10, 2013 3:26 PM
Quote:Originally posted by AURaptor: Quote:Originally posted by MAL4PREZ: Rappy is just so very supportive of those who serve. I am exactly that. Quote: I bet he stepped right up to defend a decorated veteran of the Vietnam War, a man who was injured in service of his country, when a yellow-bellied has-been who got a convenient transfer out of the service and never stepped foot on hostile territory started ripping on that honored vet...
Wednesday, April 10, 2013 3:43 PM
Quote:Originally posted by Auraptor: Are you referring to the band aid Purple Heart Kerry, who had imaginary events 'seared ' into his memory ? That guy? Too gorram funny.
Thursday, April 11, 2013 3:51 PM
Thursday, April 11, 2013 4:47 PM
Quote:Originally posted by Kwicko: The way you quoted that, it makes it look like I said it. That was Rappy, not I.
Friday, April 12, 2013 1:40 AM
Quote:Originally posted by Kwicko: Yeah, the guy who actually WENT to Vietnam, unlike your imaginary heroes Bush, Cheney, and Rummy, cowards and pussies all. Of course, that's what you love about them - like you, they cheerlead for more war, but are far too chickenshit to actually serve or put themselves in harm's way.
Friday, April 12, 2013 5:34 AM
Friday, April 12, 2013 5:45 AM
NIKI2
Gettin' old, but still a hippie at heart...
Quote: What a stupid thing for Cheney to say. He ought to let military genius Donald Rumsfeld do the commenting for that gang.
Quote: At least W wore the uniform
Quote: Funny indeed, how those who never walked the walk are so insistent that others go do it for them, to make their old white man corporations money. And I'm just laughing over how these "deferred" old white men are so very willing to criticize those who put their asses on the line. Oh, wait. No. I'm not laughing. I never served. I will NEVER put down anyone who did, red or blue. Unlike some around here.
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