Cheney comes out swinging

And it’s about time. There is only so much that the alternative media can do to push back against liberal politicians and pundits who have dominated the news cycle for months. From global warming to retreat in the War against islamic terror, the lack of a strong voice from the Administration has led to a weakening of the National Security message, as well as a cause for celebration on the left, who have viewed the results of the last election as validation for every loony-toon idea ever hatched in the marxist playbook.

Cheney’s remarks during a Tokyo interview were aimed directly at the Democrat leadership, the non-binding resolution, and their stated intentions to defund and/or manipulate the military effort in Iraq:

“I think if we were to do what Speaker Pelosi and Congressman Murtha are suggesting, all we will do is validate the al-Qaida strategy,” the vice president told ABC News. “The al-Qaida strategy is to break the will of the American people … try to persuade us to throw in the towel and come home, and then they win because we quit.” source

I don’t think it is a coincidence that Cheney’s words come at the conclusion of the Libby trial, which, even though short on substantive importance and relevance, has served to muzzle not only Cheney, but Karl Rove as well. Now that this farce of a trial is in the final stages, perhaps the Administration will begin to get back on message.

h/t n2l

See also: velvet hammer–reconquista hate group joins lefties in DC march…

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31 Responses

  1. but where is the NEOCON god-king taking us next??? that is the real question on the worlds mind.

    http://afterechoes.wordpress.com/2007/02/22/russia-warns-us-dont-go-beyond-iraq/

  2. You seem convinced that it will be Iran. I’m not.

  3. I am not convinced either way yet.

    Just a word of caution for the man and his fans.

  4. The world is full of opportunities and threats, that’s why fighter pilots have historically worn a silk scarf, so they can scan their environment for both.
    The fact that we’ve been fortunate enough to have a President for the past six years that recognizes that fact, and instead of playing with his zipper and young interns, like his predecessor, he actually went after those that murdered our citizens, and those who wished too. As for the Russkies, they are even less of a threat, now, than they were twenty years ago, militarily. Their greatest threat to us is in enabling and empowering those who would do us harm, like the Mad Mullahs. We don’t need to attack or invade Iran. All we need do is provide support for those that want regime change, continue with the diplomatic and economic sanctions on Iran, isolate them further, and let them implode under the weight of their own delusions and immorality. Like the liberal Dhimmicrats in this country.

  5. Hmmm….nails it!

    Why did a majority of Democratic senators — such as Joe Biden, Hillary Clinton, Chris Dodd, John Edwards, Harry Reid, Jay Rockefeller, and Chuck Schumer — vote to authorize a war with Iraq on Oct. 11, 2002? And why is this war now supposedly George Bush’s misfortune and not theirs?

    But they should remember one final consideration. The next time a Democratic administration makes a case for using America’s overwhelming military force to preempt a Milosevic or a mass murderer in Darfur — and history suggests that one will — the Democrats’ own present disingenuous antiwar rhetoric may come back to haunt them, ensuring that such future humanitarian calls will probably fall on ears as deaf as they are partisan.

    Disingenuous Party-The Democratic antiwar problem.

  6. Hey nuke!
    Here’s Vice President Cheney’s comment on video.

  7. cool vid.
    I ran across a steyn column from a little over a year ago. Man, this guy can write!
    It’s demography, stupid

    Well, here’s my prediction for 2032: unless we change our ways the world faces a future . . . where the environment will look pretty darn good. If you’re a tree or a rock, you’ll be living in clover. It’s the Italians and the Swedes who’ll be facing extinction and the loss of their natural habitat.

    There will be no environmental doomsday. Oil, carbon dioxide emissions, deforestation: none of these things is worth worrying about. What’s worrying is that we spend so much time worrying about things that aren’t worth worrying about that we don’t worry about the things we should be worrying about. For 30 years, we’ve had endless wake-up calls for things that aren’t worth waking up for. But for the very real, remorseless shifts in our society–the ones truly jeopardizing our future–we’re sound asleep. The world is changing dramatically right now, and hysterical experts twitter about a hypothetical decrease in the Antarctic krill that might conceivably possibly happen so far down the road there are unlikely to be any Italian or Japanese enviro-worriers left alive to be devastated by it.

    In a globalized economy, the environmentalists want us to worry about First World capitalism imposing its ways on bucolic, pastoral, primitive Third World backwaters. Yet, insofar as “globalization” is a threat, the real danger is precisely the opposite–that the peculiarities of the backwaters can leap instantly to the First World. Pigs are valued assets and sleep in the living room in rural China–and next thing you know an unknown respiratory disease is killing people in Toronto, just because someone got on a plane. That’s the way to look at Islamism: We fret about McDonald’s and Disney, but the big globalization success story is the way the Saudis have taken what was 80 years ago a severe but obscure and unimportant strain of Islam practiced by Bedouins of no fixed abode and successfully exported it to the heart of Copenhagen, Rotterdam, Manchester, Buffalo . . .

    The refined antennae of Western liberals mean that whenever one raises the question of whether there will be any Italians living in the geographical zone marked as Italy a generation or three hence, they cry, “Racism!” To fret about what proportion of the population is “white” is grotesque and inappropriate. But it’s not about race, it’s about culture. If 100% of your population believes in liberal pluralist democracy, it doesn’t matter whether 70% of them are “white” or only 5% are. But if one part of your population believes in liberal pluralist democracy and the other doesn’t, then it becomes a matter of great importance whether the part that does is 90% of the population or only 60%, 50%, 45%.

    Since the president unveiled the so-called Bush Doctrine–the plan to promote liberty throughout the Arab world–innumerable “progressives” have routinely asserted that there’s no evidence Muslims want liberty and, indeed, that Islam is incompatible with democracy. If that’s true, it’s a problem not for the Middle East today but for Europe the day after tomorrow. According to a poll taken in 2004, over 60% of British Muslims want to live under Shariah–in the United Kingdom. If a population “at odds with the modern world” is the fastest-breeding group on the planet–if there are more Muslim nations, more fundamentalist Muslims within those nations, more and more Muslims within non-Muslim nations, and more and more Muslims represented in more and more transnational institutions–how safe a bet is the survival of the “modern world”?

  8. Good points, all.
    There’s a saying from the Talmud:”We do not see things as they are; we see things as we are.”
    It’s unfortunate, but true. The self-annointed reality based community that liberals profess to ascribe to, is in fact non-reality.
    Subsequently, there will always be the friction between those who do see things as they are, and those who don’t.

  9. What ABC and others have clipped is what Cheney said before the comments broadcast. He said that when he was Secy of Defense he worked closely with Jack Murtha on many issues. It’s a strategic disagreement and not the punching match the MSM is making it out to be.

  10. That makes sense, Bonz. The more sensationalism, the more viewers and/or readers, and it is definitely in the best interests of television and newspapers to encourage strife and controversy.

  11. Interesting!
    Thanks bonz. Creative editing, I should have expected as much.

  12. The Dhimmis never quit trying to undermine Bush. They just hate Bush more than they love America. (that really hurt to write the love part)

    Officials: Senate Democrats Seek to Limit Mission of U.S. Troops in Iraq to Training, Fighting Al Qaeda

  13. After I read the story about the Senate surrender effort, I was left with two thoughts:
    1) They have no idea what they want to do. And,
    2) The only ideas they can muster support for are simply rephrased policy statements which look and sound like exactly what Bush is already doing.

  14. They don’t have a clue as to how to run this country. They can’t stand success, it would ruin the “doom and gloom party.”

  15. Sigh. I’d like to have more CEOs taking a turn at public office and less professional pandering politicians.

    /Which would open up a whole ‘nother ball of wax.

  16. Hmmm. Looks like I’m the only one left awake. I can tap dance all over the place, and nothing can stop me! Bwahahahaha!

    Well, except for actually having to get back to work. Dang.

  17. Let’s just call the Dhimmis what they are…Al Qaida in D.C.

  18. Yes. Or how about Progressives (with a whistling s).

  19. Would that be a whistling s, or a hissing s.
    /inquiring minds and all

  20. Yes, No2Liberals, a hissing ‘S’ is more realistic.

  21. Henh.
    We’ve already determined that the evil snake in the Garden of Eden was a liberal, so that’s why I asked.

  22. I have no idea why y’all want to insult snakes, beautiful creatures, like that. I mean, they crawl around on the ground out of necessity. Dems do it out of choice.

    I’d like to dedicate this song to the Dems.

  23. I like a snake, as long as it’s a good’un.

  24. Snakes are our friends and fulfill an important environmental niche. So do Dems, if “village idiot” is an environmental niche.

  25. They might be a friend of nature, but it ain’t in my nature to be friends with them.

  26. Maybe bein’ friendly just ain’t in your nature.

    Do you think this is a double dog dare, or just an plain old dare?

  27. Don’t think it’s either. More of a reasoned guess, with a little hoping it’s true thrown in.
    We don’t need to attack them.
    Did you check my linkage dump in the top thread?

  28. I’m friendly enough, with warm blooded creatures.

  29. No, I hadn’t seen the link dump. Gotta read ‘em now. I saw that link on the helicopter earlier. Would be LMAO if Iran were being hoist by their own petard.

  30. A corrupt mullahocracy is very vulnerable.
    It wouldn’t take much to get the ball rolling, and the courage up on the dissidents.

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