Breaking News: Cheney prefers strategy of 'hemorrhage chaos' in Iraq.

Until VP Dick has something constructive to add to the debate he should sit down and shut-up, and in the future refrain from mis-attributed quips from the Politico.

Come on Cheney, we are smarter than that. The dems DO support our troops we care about them so much to bring them home, we are not trying to warmonger the way you gop's are. Since you have experance in shooting people maybe YOU DICK cheney should go fight in the war.

In Cheney's mind, "support" is the same thing as blind obedience. Since the administration has failed in the Middle East, I don't believe they have the credibility to define anything. Such statements by discredited administration figures have reached the point of diminishing returns where the more they say, the more impotent they seem. The battle for public opinion has been lost and there so no way they can put that genie back in the bottle.

Good lord, I can't believe this guy can sit down with a straight face and say things like that. If congress reduces funding and Cheney/Bush continue to push them in harms way even without appropriate funding, who's not supporting the troops? The guys who refuse to fund them being put in harms way, or the people who put them in harms way anyway?

I believe that the United States has a vital role to play in world leadership. I simply worry that too much emphasis on military intervention rather than more peaceful means of establishing democratic republics can be counterproductive.

Oh Dick,

I guess the VP has a already forgotten that his administration had a responsibility to plan and provide for the injured vets coming home who have been all but forgotten by those who started this war. Now, who again is it that supports the troops?

I'd say Dick doesn't have much of a track record to stand on.

Spoke with a guy that just got back Iraq, he said the waste over there was an outrage. Does anyone take Cheney seriously?

Your absolutely correct Mr. Cheney! The Dems have NEVER really supported the troops. We have to give this one last good go. Ask the troops...They want to finish the job. So people should get behind the President and his Generals. He is the Commander and chief. United, we can defeat anyone(See WWII)....Divided we fall(See Vietnam).

Here you will find a Democrat that is totally against pulling out of Iraq without winning the conflict 100%. I do not like or support President Bush, lets get serious about this war. Its better to fight over there than to pull out and let the conflict come over here.

Amazing--all the Bush apologists are totally silent on this board.

How dare this Vice President accuse anyone--anyone--else of failing to suppor tthe troops. The administration has gotten every penny it asked for for this war. And what have they done?

1) Put our troops into a war that we did not need to fight.

2) Lied to the troops and everyone else about the reasons for the war.

3) Sent too few of our troops to do the job properly, leading to a prolonged, more costly war in terms of lives and treasure.

4) Sent the troops with inadequate body armour, inadequate armoured vehicles, again leading to countless unnecessary deaths and injuries. And then lied about the situation, falsely stating that the armour could not be produced any faster.

5) And then when our brave troops are wounded doing the administration's bidding, they are stuffed into shamelessly inadequate medical facilities to rot away and be forgotten.

And THIS man is going to lecture ME about supporting the troops? Get real Dick--you never supported the troops in anywhere near the way they deserved.

The Dems stragedy to put a time line on withdrawal is a BAD idea. It gives the enemy a goal to sustain itsself to. This is not about Democrat or Republican to the enemy.
You can bet if Bush and company wanted to put a time line on withdrawal, the Dems would do be pushing for the opposite agenda.
They act like little kids in a sandbox, fighting over who gets the bucket.
The Islamic extremists are a patient and cunning enemy.
Part of their strategy is to let us fight among ourselves while they muster up strength and support elsewhere.
The irony here is those that are the most liberal ( ie :those that don't have the stomach to fight the good fight ) will be the first slaughtered by these islamic extremists if they take over.
They are not a tolerent group.
They have a stated goal, read up on it.
I hope we stay in the fight for the long haul.
That's one reason Bush is not too popular, he doesn't cater to the whiny extreme left and they can't handle it.
I'm betting "Jim" never had to fight for anything in his life, that's why we have real warriors over there so he doesnt have to here.