Cheney's populist message..

[Virginia Dare]

An anti-ballistic missile in every pot..:eyes:


WASHINGTON (AP) — Borrowing a theme from the presidential contest, Vice President Dick Cheney said Tuesday that the possibility of a 3 a.m. emergency call to the White House is all the more reason for the next commander in chief to follow through on President Bush's plans for a national missile defense.

"It's plain to see that the world around us gives ample reason to continue working on missile defense," Cheney told the conservative Heritage Foundation at a dinner recognizing the 25th anniversary of President Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative, a proposed network of rockets capable of shooting down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles.

Bush has set in motion a more modest version of Reagan's original plan.

"In the ongoing political campaign, there's been discussion recently about 3 a.m. phone calls," Cheney said. "We all hope that a commander in chief never has to pick up the line and be told that a ballistic missile is headed toward the United States. In such an instance, catastrophe would be minutes away."

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gvsKHCj_jjvCkYgE9lKl3x9xkEvAD8VBJP0O1

[tekisui]

1. And he is using the 3 AM ad.

That is the problem with running on fear, it gets picked up by the likes of dickie, who survive and thrive on fear.

[Virginia Dare]

2. Absolutely, it was STUPID STUPID..

but unfortunately it worked. The Clintons know what works.

[tekisui]

3. Not as much as they think they do.

[Solly Mack]

4. Yep

[tanyev]

5. Cheney doesn't have a good track record with phone calls in a crisis.

Counterterrorism “tsar” Richard Clarke, who is in the White House Situation Room, is informed that Vice President Dick Cheney wants him to come down to the Presidential Emergency Operations Center (PEOC), located below the East Wing of the White House. Clarke heads down and, after being admitted by Cheney’s security detail, enters the PEOC. In addition to the vice president and his wife Lynne Cheney, the PEOC contains National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice, political adviser Mary Matalin, Cheney’s chief of staff I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, deputy White House chief of staff Josh Bolten, and White House counselor Karen Hughes. Clarke can see the White House Situation on a screen. But Army Major Mike Fenzel, who is also in the PEOC, complains to him, “I can’t hear the crisis conference because Mrs. Cheney keeps turning down the volume on you so she can hear CNN… and the vice president keeps hanging up the open line to you.”

http://www.cooperativeresearch.org/timeline.jsp?timeline=complete_911_timeline&day_of_9/11=dickcheney

[Virginia Dare]

6. Plus, he tends to nod off a lot..

[Ganja Ninja]

7. Did Dick mention who was going to pay for his anti-missile ...

system? Did he volunteer to have his taxes raised? Let me guess, no.

Republicans are all talk when it comes to real meaningful spending cuts because they can't bring themselves to apply it to military spending as well as domestic spending.

[Virginia Dare]

9. The same people who pay for..

the ones that are sitting on his property in Wyoming and Maryland.

[Johonny]

8. plans for a national missile defense

Yip the same plan Bush focused on instead of counter terrorism in the 9 months before 9/11. You know so when he actually got his "3 am" call he was totally ill prepared to understand the nature of the enemy he was fighting. He was left sitting around in a class room reading a children's book with the plans for a missile defense system that had no possible hope to help anyone on that day.