Dick Cheney Tells CBS: Obama Wants To Do Serious Damage To Military

[Purveyor]

Source: CBS NEWS

In an interview Tuesday on “CBS This Morning,” former Vice President Dick Cheney derides the nomination of former Sen. Chuck Hagel to be secretary of defense.

“With respect to Chuck Hagel and – and [John] Brennan, at Defense and CIA – just in the last week, their performance in front of the committees that have to confirm them has been pretty poor,” Cheney tells Charlie Rose. “And that’s, you know, not my judgment. That’s the judgment, as well, of senators on both sides of the aisle. My guess is, if you look at what the president’s motives are for picking Chuck Hagel, I think he wants a Republican to go be the foil, if you will, for what he wants to do to the Defense Department, which is I think to do serious, serious damage to our military capabilities.”

Link to CBS NEWS video clip...

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-505263_162-57568787/cheney-hagel-brennan-gave-poor-performances-in-confirmation-hearings/

Read more: http://blogs.orlandosentinel.com/entertainment_tv_tvblog/2013/02/dick-cheney-tells-cbs-obama-wants-to-do-serious-damage-to-military.html

---

Fuck CBS NEWS for giving the 'war criminal' a forum...

[MotherPetrie]

1. That's gratitude for you

[Turbineguy]

50. This man is a walking advertisement

for not being an organ donor.

[Coyotl]

65. This would-be man is projecting himself.

The damage the Bush/Cheney military expenditures on illegal wars is one of the ongoing problems Obama has to contend with every time their is a need for a government expenditure, including the current military budget. Cheney IS the problem.

[mucifer]

2. The thing is cheney isn't very popular . I don't think this interview will help him.

[xtraxritical]

35. Charlie Rose is a right wing 1% nut job too.

[karynnj]

60. I don't think so - I've watched many excellent interviews with Democrats

I did not see the Cheney interview, but with Democrats, what I like is that he gives them the latitude to speak - making the interview about them and their opinions - not his. To me, this is far better than the talking heads that control the microphone and make their show about themselves no matter who is there.

I prefer NOT knowing where the interviewer stands.

[Sunlei]

61. Cheney is a Dubai citizen w/ his military contract business. War is good for business.

[Purveyor]

3. Link to video clip of Cheney and Rose...

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-505263_162-57568787/cheney-hagel-brennan-gave-poor-performances-in-confirmation-hearings/

[TwilightGardener]

4. Nobody damaged our military more than Cheney and his Boy Blunder.

BTW, did not watch much of Brennan's, but Hagel's hearing wasn't anything close to a normal confirmation hearing--Carl Levin generously gave the Repubs 8 hours to take quotes out of context and scream "Do you still believe this YES OR NO!" and try to trip him up--and they did not succeed.

[truthisfreedom]

5. Cheney, you got 5 military deferments and the closest you ever came to military action was shooting

your friend in the face while drunk hunting caged animals.

Your opinion is so completely irrelevant that I'm going to stop typing before I even get to the end of this

[MrMickeysMom]

6. That's about it, isn't it?

Sure is...

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

30. When given the chance to comemorate the dead at Auschwitz during World War II

and the invited dignitaries were in black formal attire, he was wearing ski boots and looked like he was attending a football tailgate party in a parking lot. The man has no respect.

[MBS]

42. I'd forgotten that one. Unbelievable lack of respect (not to mention etiquette)

Even the way he's sitting is inappropriate for the occasion. You'd think that someone in the White House or the State Dept. would have prevented him from making such a grotesque faux-pas. (Oh, wait: it was THAT White House.. )

[MBS]

43. yup, that's it in a nutshell.

Listening to an account of this on the news last night (which included a reminder about the "hunting" accident), I came back to my old thoughts about the Iraq war-- thoughts that apply to the entire 8 sorry years: that W and Cheney were not only completely wrong, and their wrong-headed policies so damaging: they were completely, astonishingly incompetent as well.

[NYtoBush-Drop Dead]

7. He's still the limpest Dick of all.

[cstanleytech]

8. If anyone wants to do harm to the military its Cheney and those like him who

believe spending money like its water on defense is sustainable in the long term.

[dotymed]

69. War profiteering is cheney's life eom

[jaysunb]

9. My feelings as well....

Fuck CBS NEWS for giving the 'war criminal' a forum...

[kelliekat44]

10. Does anyone realize how stupid this man sounds? Is it dementia? nt

[Purveyor]

11. Or how pathetic CBS News is for giving him a forum? eom

[Adsos Letter]

17. Not dementia.

Bitterness. Resentment. More interested in hindering President Obama than in helping the nation.

OK...I guess it does take a demented soul to do that.

[ReRe]

12. "Obama wants to do serious damage to military"

Oh, if it were so... Cheney knows there's nothing PO can do to damage the military. The military gives the President his marching orders, not the other way around. So why does Cheney come out and say something like that? Is it because he looks at Hagel and Brennan as turn coats? Is it because he is a legend in his own mind? And who gives a doo-doo what he says? The last popularity poll I remember on Cheney put him at something like 19%, wasn't it? I think CBS should reveal why they give him an audience. It's like giving an audience to the devil.

[octoberlib]

13. Too bad Dick Cheney's completely irrelevant nt

[Purveyor]

14. Yeah...that is why they hauled him out to attempt to defeat Hagel and appear on the CBS Morning

Show...

[BlueStater]

15. Every time Dick Cheney opens his fat fucking mouth, he mocks the fact that he's not in prison.

Thanks a hell of A LOT, Nancy Pelosi and Congressional Dems. And, yes, Obama deserves some blame for this, as well.

[Amonester]

16. Hey dick, dontcha know criticizing the President in a time of war is

unpatriotic?

What a traitor to the United States u r.

[They_Live]

59. Correct answer!

Vampires despise mirrors.

[BootinUp]

63. + alot

[Spitfire of ATJ]

18. Why should anyone take advice from this guy?

[Third Doctor]

19. So fighting two wars for a decade or more and repeated rotations

did not damage the military DICK. Sending them into harm's way over a lie and on top of that failed in supplying suffient troop levels isn't damaging the military right? I am right about this DICK? GAWWD I can't stand this man.

[obama2terms]

20. The thing is

People will take what Cheney says with a grain of salt. I can't even find a republican these days that will defend this guy, his 15 minutes of fame have LONG been over.

[lexw]

21. Much like Dick did serious damage to the U.S.

Go to hell you bastard! Who even listens to you anymore?! Die, and let that heart go to someone who will do the living some good.

[Jack Sprat]

22. If you will, Cheney, just STFU!

Why is Cheney not in prison serving a life sentence for violation of international law?

Why has Cheney not been formally charged for murder of Iraqi civilians?

[emulatorloo]

23. Accuse others of what you did.

Projection is taught in Republican 101. And Cheney does it all the fucking time.

[pscot]

24. Who cares?

[Hekate]

25. Why is this evil corpse still walking around?

And why on Earth is anyone giving him a platform?

[freshwest]

32. Dead presidents on green paper. And the only damage he's worried about is his pals losing some.

And the media are part of the MIC cabal.

[snot]

37. Yeah, who left the casket open again?

[King_Klonopin]

40. Exactly ! When will Mr Potter tip over for good ?

He also called John Kerry and Chuck Hagel "second-rate"
appointments. Dick Cheeney: asshole di tutti.

The DOD budget needs to be sliced by 25%.

[olddad56]

26. maybe he Obama will try to destroy this nation, oh that was Cheney, nevermind

[freshwest]

34. 'We want our country back!!!' Sorry, no, you guys can't have it anymore, Darth...

[triplepoint]

27. This ISN'T Your Parents' CBS

CBS just hired kinda sleezy lice. That speaks volumes as to how much BS CBS ("Complete BS&quot truly spews during its infotainment programs, and will continue to spew for some time to come.
.
.
.


Andy Roony and Walter Cronkite-Your Parents' CBS
.
.
.

kinda sleezy lice joins CBS to continue telling her infamous whoppers
.
.
.
Oh and dick "shooter" cheney is just angry because that's his raison d'etre...and because he's irrelevant and is no longer our country's puppet master.

[AngryOldDem]

45. No, sadly, it's not.

Cronkite must be up to about 10,000 RPM by now.

[KeepItReal]

28. The Dick Cheney-led US Military: 4,409 Killed in Action 31,928 Wounded

in Iraq alone.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualties_of_the_Iraq_War#U.S._armed_forces

That's whole Divisions worth of troops taken out of service.

Who really broke our military?

[Glamrock]

29. Dick Cheney can blow me

That is all. Back to my scheduled lurking.

[otohara]

31. Condolezza Works For CBS

I quit watching when they announced her hire.
No doubt she is responsible for this interview.

[6000eliot]

33. Says the guy who gave us Rumsfeld?

Is he fucking joking?

[DallasNE]

36. Cheney Makes Joseph McCarthy Look Like A Moderate

So this makes one wonder what CBS is up to with even inviting Cheney to speak. Cheney wore out the military in Iraq and Afghanistan and now he is suddenly an authority on military capability? Give me a break. Lock that war criminal up.

[MBS]

46. " " " " n/t

[SoapBox]

38. "Fuck CBS NEWS for giving the 'war criminal' a forum..."

DITTO!

I hate this asshole!

[SamKnause]

39. Cheney

This man should be wearing a lovely orange prison jump suit, hand cuffs, shackles and placed in solitary confinement for life.

The think that the rare gift of a heart was wasted on this undeserving human being sickens me.

[Botany]

41. Damage to the military, Dick?

Last edited Tue Feb 12, 2013, 08:21 AM - Edit history (1)

Please come visit my friend's son who will not live out the year because of
brain cancer ...... he served in Iraq and was around KBR "burn pits." He
is not the only one.

http://www.oxfordamerican.org/articles/2011/aug/24/smoke-signals/

Why isn't this man in jail?

[AngryOldDem]

44. As opposed to him and Bush...

...fucking up countless kids in two pointless and needless wars.

Reprehensible piece of humanity. Why anybody gives this piece of shit airtime is beyond me.

[Kolesar]

47. This isn't breaking news...eom

[EastKYLiberal]

48. "From both sides of the aisle." When Dems attack their own...

It gives people like Cheney talking points.

Go with the fucking flow.

[SemperEadem]

49. and two unpaid wars for oil

and basically dumping those vets who now need help on the street to shift for themselves doesn't damage the military?

What about the thugs reducing funding for psychological help, since the suicide rate for returning vets is staggering? How about the thugs not making one mention of the military ONCE during their convention? The military is a prop to them and and afterthought.

Yeah, join the military, be used like a $5 whore, come home to a bunch of yellow ribbon stickers on cars driven by people who don't want their taxes raised to pay for government employees, which a soldier in our military is and if you can't make a smooth transition back into a society that is pithily blind to what you've endured and seen, the only alternative those same sticker driving boobs have for you is that they're ok if you kill yourself, as long as their taxes aren't being raised.

That is far, far more destructive to the military than what Obama is doing.

[adieu]

51. As much "damage" that Obama and Hagel

could do to the military, I don't think it's enough.

What's needed is for the military to run on a budget of $220 billion/year. In order for that to happen, it has to shed 66% of its current expenditures, more or less. Kill all future military appropriations, close all foreign bases, close many bases in the country. Force more flag officers to retire, with a special clause that they cannot serve or work with any entity associated with the MIC (or threaten a loss of pension or something like that).

Trim, trim, trim. If there is ever a place for austerity, it would be in the military.

The cost of maintaining a military has brought down all great nations at one point or another. The nations of today realize that a bare-bones military will make the country far more stable.

[Rain Mcloud]

52. Opinions are like Dogs and

@ssholes,everybody has one.
This includes me and The Dick.
Dick wants his friends to be rich.
I want my friends to be safe.
If The Dick has his way,my friends will be neither rich nor safe and his friends will have more of both.
It is a tale of two America's,each occupying the same physical space and the same time coordinates.
It is a fundamental law of physics,no two bodies of matter can occupy the same area of space at the same time.
The larger displaces the smaller.
Or to put it bluntly:Go Fuck Yourself,Mr.Cheney!

[Lasher]

53. When he was Defense Secretary he called military spending cuts a peace dividend.

Now it's serious damage to the military.

[cbrer]

54. RECORD SUICIDE ASSHOLE

From the actions that you and your buddy Bush started.

Mother Fucking motherfucker.

[Historic NY]

55. Chicken Hawk Cheney...at Defense made deep cuts...

and later claimed it was the Democrats fault...

Over Cheney's four years as secretary of defense, encompassing budgets for fiscal years 1990-93, DoD's total obligational authority in current dollars declined from $291.3 billion to $269.9 billion. Except for FY 1991, when the TOA budget increased by 1.7 percent, the Cheney budgets showed negative real growth: -2.9 percent in 1990, -9.8 percent in 1992, and -8.1 percent in 1993. During this same period total military personnel declined by 19.4 percent, from 2.202 million in FY 1989 to 1.776 million in FY 1993. The Army took the largest cut, from 770,000 to 572,000-25.8 percent of its strength. The Air Force declined by 22.3 percent, the Navy by 14 percent, and the Marines by 9.7 percent.

http://www.defense.gov/specials/secdef_histories/bios/cheney.htm



http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2009/04/as-pentagon-chi/

[Gman]

56. A war criminal gives his opinion on what is wrong with Obama's national security

how fucked up is that?

[blueknight]

57. how

is this old fucker still alive? DIE ALREADY!

[Ezlivin]

58. "Do the orders still stand?"

"During the time that the airplane was coming in to the Pentagon, there was a young man who would come in and say to the Vice President, "The plane is 50 miles out." "The plane is 30 miles out." And when it got down to "the plane is 10 miles out," the young man also said to the Vice President, "Do the orders still stand?" [b style="color:red;"]And the Vice President turned and whipped his neck around and said, "Of course the orders still stand. Have you heard anything to the contrary?"

Testimony on May 23, 2003, 9/11 Commission, Secretary Mineta.

[AAO]

62. Eat dick cheese, Dick! You fascist murdering devil worshiper!

[Coyotl]

64. "...which is I think to do serious, serious damage to our military capabilities.” Dick

Not just serious damage, serious, serious damage

Rhetorical overthrust there Dick!

[gademocrat7]

66. Why give Cheney any attention?

This chicken hawk is past his sell date.

[Kingofalldems]

67. That filthy draft dodger has no shame

[judesedit]

68. That's funny... a draft dodger criticizing a decorated war hero. Cheney = LOSER!

[City Lights]

70. Go fuck yourself, Dick! nt

[joanbarnes]

71. What about damage Cheney/Bush did to CIA, FBI, etc., etc.

[rocktivity]

72. TRANSLATION: Obama Wants To Do Serious Damage

To The Profit Margins Of Our Military Industrial Complex


rocktivity

[Bohemianwriter]

73. TOO LATE!

You "sir", have done enough damage singlehandedly in a generation!

How goes the shooting for you lately by the way??

Shot any good friends in the face lately?