Vice President Dick Cheney shot back at Republican Sen. Chuck Hagel of Nebraska, who has accused the Bush administration of playing "a pingpong game with American lives" by sending more U.S. troops into Iraq.
"Let's say I believe firmly in Ronald Reagan's 11th commandment: Thou shalt not speak ill of a fellow Republican," Cheney said. "But it's very hard sometimes to adhere to that where Chuck Hagel is involved."http://apnews.excite.com/article/20070128/D8MUC4IG0.htmlWell don't stop with Hagel, dick!
Senator Arlen Specter, Republican of Pennsylvania, said, “I cannot support sending additional troops to Iraq.”http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/29/washington/29repubs.html?_r=1&oref=sloginMajority of troops dissatisfied with handling of war; believe war was wronghttp://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003526245How about THESE republics, dick?President GHW Bush, 1998;"Going in and occupying Iraq, thus unilaterally exceeding the United Nations' mandate, would have destroyed the precedent of international response to aggression that we hoped to establish. Had we gone the invasion route, the United States could conceivably still be an occupying power in a bitterly hostile land."
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2004/04/14/EDG8D643TD1.DTLBrent Scowcroft, one of the Republican Party’s most respected foreign policy advisors, and national security adviser under President Gerald Ford and George H.W. Bush: Don't Attack Saddam It would undermine our antiterror efforts. "Our pre-eminent security priority--underscored repeatedly by the president--is the war on terrorism. An attack on Iraq at this time would seriously jeopardize, if not destroy, the global counterterrorist campaign we have undertaken."
http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110002133Norman Schwarzkopf - Four Star General:"The general who commanded U.S. forces in the 1991 Gulf War says he hasn't seen enough evidence to convince him that his old comrades Dick Cheney, Colin Powell and Paul Wolfowitz are correct in moving toward a new war now. He thinks U.N. inspections are still the proper course to follow. He's worried about the cockiness of the U.S. war plan, and even more by the potential human and financial costs of occupying Iraq….
http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A52450-2003Jan27?language=printerJames Webb, former Sec. of Navy under Ronald Reagan, Decorated Marine Veteran:"Do we really want to occupy Iraq for the next 30 years? …In Japan, American occupation forces quickly became 50,000 friends. In Iraq, they would quickly become 50,000 terrorist targets…. Nations such as China can only view the prospect of an American military consumed for the next generation by the turmoil of the Middle East as a glorious windfall."
http://www.sftt.org/article09302002a.html Republican Dissent on Iraq
Full page ad in Wall Street Journal by major GOP contributors:"Mr. President, …The candidate we supported in 2000 promised a more humble nation in our dealings with the world. We gave him our votes and our campaign contributions. That candidate was you. We feel betrayed. We want our money back. We want our country back…. A Billion Bitter enemies will rise out of this war."
- Wall Street Journal, January 13, 2003
http://talkleft.com/new_archives/001444.html TOP REPUBLICANS BREAK WITH BUSH ON IRAQ STRATEGYLeading Republicans from Congress, the State Department and past administrations have begun to break ranks with President Bush over his administration's high-profile planning for war with Iraq, saying the administration has neither adequately prepared for military action nor made the case that it is needed.
http://www.globalpolicy.org/security/issues/iraq/attack/2002/0816rep.htmRetired Envoys, Commanders Assail Bush Team
Administration Unable to Handle 'Global Leadership,'http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A46538-2004Jun16.htmlGrowing GOP Dissent On IraqRepublican Party ranks are beginning to break and the White House is worried. Longtime GOP critics on Iraq are growing progressively more vocal in their condemnation.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/04/07/politics/main610787.shtmlRepublican Rep. Bereuter: War in Iraq not justified"I've reached the conclusion, retrospectively, now that the inadequate intelligence and faulty conclusions are being revealed, that all things being considered, it was a mistake to launch that military action. That's especially true in view of the fact that the attack was initiated "without a broad and engaged international coalition," the 1st District congressman said.
"Knowing now what I know about the reliance on the tenuous or insufficiently corroborated intelligence used to conclude that Saddam maintained a substantial WMD (weapons of mass destruction) arsenal, I believe that launching the pre-emptive military action was not justified."
As a result of the war, he said, "our country's reputation around the world has never been lower and our alliances are weakened."
"Left unresolved for now is whether intelligence was intentionally misconstrued to justify military action," he said.
Republican Rep. Doug Bereuter is a senior member of the House International Relations Committee and vice chairman of the House Intelligence Committee.
http://www.journalstar.com/articles/2004/08/18/top_story/10053833.txtOf course any ordinary republic Americans you don't give a shit about, but here is We The People regardless, dick;Most say no to Iraq buildup http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2007-01-08-gallup-poll_x.htmPoll: Most Americans Opposed to Bush's Iraq Plan http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/11/AR2007011100282.htmlAmericans Oppose Troop Surge in Iraqhttp://www.angus-reid.com/polls/index.cfm/fuseaction/viewItem/itemID/14350Gallup: Americans Back Congressional Resolution Against Iraq http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003532744Nor do Senate republics have any voice unless they parrot the regime, eh dick?"My conclusion was that it would be a mistake to send more troops to Baghdad. I think the sectarian violence there requires a political, not a military, solution," said Sen. Susan Collins (R-Me.)
Rep. Heather Wilson (R-N.M.), an Air Force veteran and member of the House Intelligence Committee, said she would not support increasing troop levels...http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/01/06/politics/main2334974.shtmlBrownback opposes sending more troops to Iraqhttp://www.kansas.com/mld/kansas/16429391.htmOr how 'bout THIS stupid sonuvabitch republic, dick! Be sure to blast away at this MFer!Dick Cheney in April 1991, then Defense Secretary:"If you're going to go in and try to topple Saddam Hussein,you have to go to Baghdad. Once you've got Baghdad, it's not clear what you do with it. It's not clear what kind of government you would put in place of the one that's currently there now. Is it going to be a Shia regime, a Sunni regime or a Kurdish regime? Or one that tilts toward the Baathists, or one that tilts toward the Islamic fundamentalists?
How much credibility is that government going to have if it's set up by the United States military when it's there? How long does the United States military have to stay to protect the people that sign on for that government, and what happens to it once we leave?" http://slate.msn.com/?id=2072479 All these years and ya still dunno the answers, eh dick?
You stupid lying hypicritical worthless little MFer.
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