Biden: Cheney is ‘dead wrong’

[kpete]

Source: CNN

April 7, 2009
Biden: Cheney is ‘dead wrong’
Posted: 01:01 PM ET

WASHINGTON (CNN) – Vice President Joe Biden brushed aside recent criticism by his predecessor Dick Cheney that moves by the Obama administration had put the United States at risk, telling CNN Tuesday that the former vice president was "dead wrong" and that the Bush White House had left the country in its weakest condition since the Second World War.

"I don't think (Cheney) is out of line, but he is dead wrong," he told CNN's Wolf Blitzer. "This administration — the last administration left us in a weaker posture than we've been any time since World War II: less regarded in the world, stretched more thinly than we ever have been in the past, two wars under way, virtually no respect in entire parts of the world.

"…I guarantee you we are safer today, our interests are more secure today than they were any time during the eight years" of the Bush administration.







Read more: http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2009/04/07/biden-c... /

[Hawkeye-X]

1. So order the U.S. Marshals arrest Voldemort for sedition, treason, theft, and murder

and sent off to Gitmo for Club Gitmo activities.

Hawkeye-X

P.S., re-reading Book 6, hence the reference.

[northofdenali]

2. Go Joe!

I've liked Joe Biden for years - and he'll prove himself right; even the RW neocons will have to back off.

[treestar]

3. Yay Joe!

Tell 'em!

[Demeter]

4. He's Not Dead Yet!

(Monty Python's Search for the Holy Grail)

So why not throw his ass, wheelchair and all, into prison for war crimes?

[Sparky 1]

6. Hear, hear!!

[Rosa Luxemburg]

5. Cheney is dead meat

and wrong

[RamboLiberal]

7. Love what he told Bush - From OP article - K&R

The always-loquacious Biden told a story of being in the Oval Office with then-President Bush who told him, "Joe, I'm a leader."

"And I said, Mr. President, turn around and look behind you. No one's following. People are beginning to follow the United States again as a consequence of our administration," the vice president said.

[jillan]

14. That was a great story. I'll take the unscripted Biden over the scripted one anyday -

even if that means a gaffe or two.

[Muttocracy]

15. me too. :-)

[Jefferson23]

8. I love the way Biden uses the words 'dead wrong' in response to

Cheney, he used those same words condemning Cheney about executive privilege during the campaign, lol.

It is the forcefulness in his tone, and the repetition of it, if you know what I mean, that always cracked me up.

[Blandocyte]

9. Imagine

how cool it would be to see Cheney on trial for war crimes. An old, paranoid delusional man finally facing justice.

[FiveGoodMen]

10. Imagine if we'd had the choice to elect someone who would do that

[Demeter]

12. Tribute to John Lennon there

Cheney will get his in this life. I believe and work for it.

[Jefferson23]

11. I haven't given up hope on that happening, and welcome to DU.

[iandhr]

21. not going to happen

no administration of either party will do it. It sets a bad precedent. Under that doctrine Truman, LBJ, and Clinton could have been tried for war crimes. This would open to door for prosecution of all future US Presidents.

[Amonester]

23. chainy's lawyers would plead "mental insanity"

d-dick is such a coward

[unkachuck]

13. give 'em hell, Joe!....n/t

[PatSeg]

16. I love the way he said it,

not "I respectfully disagree with Vice President Cheney", but he was "dead wrong"!

[and-justice-for-all]

17. Has Dick ever been right about anything???

fuckin' lying bastard he is.

[RedCloud]

18. He was right to call himself Dick!

After that I can't find much else correct.

[goforit]

19. HElllooooo!!!! BIDEN!!!..... THEN STOP SALUTING HIS ASSSSSSSSSS!!!

[LynnTheDem]

20. "My belief is we will, in fact, be greeted as liberators."

"We believe he has, in fact, reconstituted nuclear weapons."

"He gave support to terrorists, had an established relationship with al Qaeda..."

"I think they're in the last throes, if you will, of the insurgency."



Dunno why Biden would say cheney the dick is "dead wrong", what with cheney the dick's track record...

[iandhr]

22. WMDS

This is from a piece in the Onion just before we invaded Iraq

"Bush says his number one priority is eliminating weapons of mass destruction, but he sure doesn't act that way," Kim said. "Iraq may have weapons of mass destruction and may be developing more. The DPRK, on the other hand, does have weapons of mass destruction and isn't about to stop making them any time soon."

[Kalyan]

24. sorry ... Biden is Dead Wrong ...

Not only is Cheney dead wrong but is ALSO DEF. OUT OF LINE. I don't recall seeing Al Gore out on news channels in the early days of the Bush admin making derogatory statements against the govt.

hence, respected VP - Cheney is out of line & dead wrong. Gottcha?

[guitar man]

25. How 'bout

We throw Cheney's ass in the slammer for treason and war crimes, then see what he has to say?