Cheney amps up pressure on critics of Iraq policy

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Seems the threats of terra are getting tougher to peddle for dick.

http://www.kansascity.com/136/story/71863.html

Cheney amps up pressure on critics of Iraq policy
Terrorism’s threat to American cities is “very real … every single day,” he says in TV interview.
By MARK SILVA
Chicago Tribune

WASHINGTON | Vice President Dick Cheney is often called upon to deliver the administration’s toughest talk about the wars abroad.

He now says this about the threat of terrorists detonating a nuclear bomb in an American city: “It’s a very real threat … something that we have to worry about and defeat every single day.”

Cheney’s warning about what’s at stake for the U.S. in withdrawing from Iraq, delivered in a TV interview Sunday and coupled with a war statement that President Bush plans to make today, is part of an escalating chorus of pressure that the White House hopes to exert on Democrats to approve a new war-spending bill.

Vowing to veto any spending bill that includes a timeline for withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq, the Bush administration thinks it ultimately will win a “clean” bill — predicting that Democratic leaders will buckle after Bush vetoes their bill. “I’m willing to bet” the Democrats eventually will concede, Cheney said in a Sunday interview on CBS News’ “Face the Nation” recorded the day before.

Sen. Carl Levin, a Michigan Democrat, said a veto would likely prompt Democratic lawmakers to come back with a second try that requires the Iraqi government to meet performance benchmarks or face consequences.

“We are very, very serious about what the American people said in November,” Levin said, referring to the election that put Democrats in charge of Congress. “They want a change of course.”

Cheney’s criticism drew harsh words from Levin.

“He has misled the people consistently on Iraq,” Levin said. “He has misstated. He has exaggerated. And I don’t think he has any credibility left with the American people.”

The uncooperative tone comes just as Bush plans to meet bipartisan leaders of Congress this week at the White House.

The purpose of that session on Wednesday is to discuss how to get a war-funding bill done, yet no negotiation is expected.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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1. your right

THIS MAN HAS NO CREDIBILITY LEFT- IN FACT HE IS INCOMPETENT AS A LEADER OR AUTHORITY ON ANY SUBJECT!

[INdemo]

2. Democrats cannot cave on this bill

They must keep the time line in the funding bill.Bush will eventually sign it.