So Dick Cheney is at it again. With zero, zip, nada in the way of accomplishments to use as show-and-tells in six years, it’s more of the same old-same old:
Chaney hurls ‘incompetent’ charge back at Democrats
Their protests on domestic wiretaps show they’re not capable of handling the war on terror, he says in Orlando.
By Associated Press
March 25, 2006
ORLANDO – Vice President Dick Cheney blasted Democrats for opposing provisions of the Patriot Act and criticizing President Bush’s approval of secret wiretaps for domestic surveillance at a fundraising lunch Friday.
Two days after Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid called Bush dangerously incompetent, Cheney said if Democrats were capable of handling the war on terror, “Then I ought to be singing on American Idol.”
“The president and I welcome the debate, because every voter in America needs to know how the leaders of the Democratic Party view the war on terror…”
Reid said the United States was failing militarily and economically in Iraq, and questioned why Bush was campaigning for Republicans instead of meeting with leaders in the Middle East.
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Bush, Cheney each take swipes at Democrats
By Deb Riechmann, Associated Press
03/25/2006
Cheney, speaking at a GOP fundraiser in Orlando, Fla., took on Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid and party chairman Howard Dean by name. He said leading Democrats have demanded a “sudden withdrawal from the battle against terrorists in Iraq – the very kind of retreat that Osama bin Laden has been predicting.”
“With that sorry record, the leaders of the Democratic Party have decided to run on the theme of competence. If they’re competent to fight this war, then I ought to be singing on ‘American Idol,”‘ Cheney said.
Poor Dick. He had the chance to go to Vietnam but “I had other priorities in the ’60s than military service” and what do you know, the war was over before he could take a whack at them Viet Cong. When student defements were no longer able to protect him, Lynne Cheney miraculously became zoom, zim, zam pregnant–the Selective Service okayed the drafting of married men with no children on October 6, 1965 and exactly nine months and two days later, Elizabeth Cheney arrived in this world.
Dick, being the most manly male, hunter and gatherer that he has always been, simply wouldn’t cut-n-run on his wife and child. His thinking surely was: let others abandon their families, I’ve always been a stand-by-my-family kind of guy.
Or maybe, just maybe, it was the environment that didn’t suit him. In Vietnam, he wouldn’t have enjoyed access to brewed decaffeinated coffee, thermostats set at 20°, televisions tuned only to FOX NEWS, 4-6 bottles of mineral water and four cans of Diet Sprite. And that’s not even mentioning the required defibrillator.
So, sadly, Chaney’s opportunities to engage in what he agreed was a “noble cause” was just not meant to be. Sometimes, no matter how you try, timing is everything.
And, again of course, Representative John Murtha (D-PA), who has called for a redeployment of troops from Iraq based upon multiple reasons, including Bush Administration incompetence, can only show that he dropped out of William & Mary College in 1952 to go fight in Korea. Yes, why should pay any attention to a dropout?
Murtha again showed his true colors by willingly abandoning his family and volunteering to fight in Vietnam in 1966 and 1967. For his actions there, he received the Bronze Star with Combat “V”, two Purple Hearts and the Vietnamese Cross of Gallantry.
So, my friends, choose one to believe in: Deferment Dick Cheney or Military John Murtha?
If my life depended on it, I know who I want next to me in a foxhole: the doer, not the talker. The realist not the fabulist.
