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MindMover

(5,016 posts)
Mon Jul 16, 2012, 07:42 PM Jul 2012

Maybe they should greet him with arrest warrants ....

Washington (CNN) - Former Vice President Dick Cheney is coming back to his old stomping grounds in the House of Representatives on Tuesday to highlight the impact that the automatic spending cuts to defense programs will have next year, according to two senior GOP leadership aides.

Cheney is scheduled to attend the weekly leadership meeting with House Speaker John Boehner, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor and other top elected leaders and then will meet with the full House GOP whip team led by Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-California, to discuss strategy for how to deal with the automatic cuts to defense programs that were included as part of the debt deal last summer.

Cheney served in the House and was elected the House Republican Whip in 1989 briefly, before he was tapped to serve as Secretary of Defense under President George H.W. Bush.

"The former Vice President and Secretary of Defense obviously has valuable perspective on the devastating impact of President Obama's defense sequester," one senior GOP leadership aide told CNN.

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2012/07/16/cheney-to-visit-capitol-hill-to-discuss-defense-cuts/

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Maybe they should greet him with arrest warrants .... (Original Post) MindMover Jul 2012 OP
I'm with you. annabanana Jul 2012 #1
We the People would really know we have our country back MindMover Jul 2012 #2
He's real big on defense don't you know 2on2u Jul 2012 #3
There are many books written about just what this criminal politician MindMover Jul 2012 #5
Cheney who couldn't even defend America on 9/11 Rosa Luxemburg Jul 2012 #4
Waterboard him!! MiniMe Jul 2012 #6
 

2on2u

(1,843 posts)
3. He's real big on defense don't you know
Mon Jul 16, 2012, 07:50 PM
Jul 2012
http://www.factcheck.org/print_anti-kerry_ad_misses_context_distorts_facts.html

Furthermore, Bush's own father, who was then President, and Richard Cheney, who was then Secretary of Defense, proposed to cut or eliminate several of the very same weapons that Republicans now fault Kerry for opposing. In his first appearance before Congress as Defense Secretary in April 1989, for example,

Cheney outlined $10 billion in defense cuts including proposed cancellation of the AH-64 Apache helicopter, and elimination of the F-15E ground-attack jet. Two years later Cheney's Pentagon budget also proposed elimination of further production of the Bradley Fighting Vehicle and targeted a total of 81 Pentagon programs for termination, including the F-14 and F-16 aircraft.

And the elder President Bush said in his 1992 State of the Union address: "After completing 20 planes for which we have begun procurement, we will shut down further production of the B - 2 bombers. . . . And we will not purchase any more advanced cruise missiles." So if Kerry opposed weapons "our troops depend on," so did Cheney and the elder President Bush.

MindMover

(5,016 posts)
5. There are many books written about just what this criminal politician
Mon Jul 16, 2012, 07:56 PM
Jul 2012

has done and will continue to cover up as long as he is alive .....

Rosa Luxemburg

(28,627 posts)
4. Cheney who couldn't even defend America on 9/11
Mon Jul 16, 2012, 07:53 PM
Jul 2012

under his watch. He has no business in congress and should get the hell back to the Chesapeake Bay or wherever he lives now. Villain.

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