Cheney: Obama Chose Hagel So A Republican Will ‘Take The Heat’ For Defense Cuts

[Purveyor]

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CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Former Vice President Dick Cheney said Saturday night that President Barack Obama has jeopardized U.S. national security by nominating substandard candidates for key cabinet posts and by degrading the U.S. military.

“The performance now of Barack Obama as he staffs up the national security team for the second term is dismal,” Cheney said in comments to about 300members of the Wyoming Republican

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Cheney said Hagel, a former Nebraska U.S. senator, was chosen because Obama “wants to have a Republican that he can use to take the heat for what he plans to do to the Department of Defense.”

He said Obama’s plans are to allow severe cuts in U.S. defense spending, which would limit the capability of the U.S. military to respond to future foreign crises well after Obama has left office.

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[immoderate]

1. Cheney always aims his remarks at a third grade mentality.

--imm

[Cha]

6. 'Cause he knows that's the only group who

will take him seriously.

[DJ13]

7. Thats from too many years of having Bush as his VP

[MAD Dave]

2. Dick! What a perfect name.

[quinnox]

3. that is a hilarious pic of Cheney

[msanthrope]

4. Must piss you off to no end, Dick, to know you've been outmanuvered by Obama. nt

[Mister Ed]

5. So, for Defense cuts, someone must take the heat

For lying us into war, not so much.

[LeftInTX]

8. Survey says:

Most Evil in History
1. Adolph Hitler
2. Jeffrey Dahmer
3. Caligula
4. Queen Mary I, aka Queen Bloody Mary
5. Ivan the Terrible
6. Dick Cheney
7. Vlad the Impaler
8. Attila the Hun
9. Idi Amin
10. Ghengis Khan

[spanone]

9. hey dick, fuck u.

[tavalon]

10. Why, oh why, did they give this asshat a new heart?

That's a waste of a perfectly good organ.

[bemildred]

11. So? nt

[cbrer]

12. Cheney's still alive?

Must be that new heart we bought him...

[AsahinaKimi]

13. Cheney is no longer

relevant to anything.

[karynnj]

14. The comments are real sewer!

Very very right wing. It is like entering an alien universe - where Cheney and Rumsfeld are defined as being honest and honorable!

[LiberalAndProud]

15. Cheney says 'take the heat,' I say 'share the credit.'

Po-tay-to, po-tah-to.

I hope for once in his life he's correct. It is long past time that our bloated military budget takes a trimming.