Vice President Dick Cheney scolded House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Thursday for "bad behavior" in traveling to Syria, a country that he said promoted terrorism.
In a conversation with fellow conservative Rush Limbaugh on Limbaugh’s radio show, Cheney belittled Pelosi’s public statement after she met with Syrian President Bashar Assad in Damascus on Wednesday.
"It was a non-statement, a nonsensical statement, and didn’t make any sense at all that she would suggest that those talks could go forward as long as the Syrians conducted themselves as a prime state sponsor of terror," Cheney said…
All week the White House has criticized Pelosi’s trip to the Middle East, but no comments have been as colorful as Cheney’s.
"This is a bad actor," the vice president said of Assad, "and until he changes his behavior, he should not be rewarded with visits by the speaker of the House of Representatives."
Limbaugh asked, "Don’t you get enraged when this kind of thing happens?" Cheney said he was "obviously disappointed" in Pelosi.
"Fortunately," Cheney said, "I think the various parties involved recognize she doesn’t speak for the United States in those circumstances; she doesn’t represent the administration. The president is the one who conducts foreign policy, not the speaker of the House."
Limbaugh asked Cheney about President Bush’s use of a recess appointment Wednesday to install Sam Fox, a St. Louis businessman and GOP fundraiser, as ambassador to Belgium…
Limbaugh called Fox a "great American," and said the recess appointment showed that the White House was "willing to engage these people and not allow them to get away with this kind of — well, my term, you don’t have to accept it — Stalinist behavior from those people on that committee."
"Well, you’re dead-on, Rush," Cheney said.
and if that weren’t enough…
Vice President Dick Cheney and the Pentagon are offering conflicting views about whether al-Qaida had links to Saddam Hussein’s Iraq.
Cheney continues to insist there is a connection but a declassified Defense Department report cites more evidence that Saddam’s regime did not cooperate with the terrorist group.
Speaking to radio host Rush Limbaugh, Cheney contended that al-Qaida was operating in Iraq before the March 2003 invasion led by U.S. forces. He says terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was leading the Iraqi branch of al-Qaida. Others in al-Qaida planned Nine-Eleven.
But the Pentagon report released Thursday says seized documents, along with interrogations of Saddam and two of his former aides, confirm that the terrorist organization and the Saddam government were not working together before the invasion.
Rule by sarcasm continues to be his major tool – one that just keeps on giving…
still trying the saddam 9/11 link…. yeesh
check out this column http://joeleonardi.wordpress.com/2007/03/31/the-taunts-of-a-coward/
and on the same site
“a challenge”
very interesting reads
“I think the various parties involved recognize she doesn’t speak for the United States in those circumstances; she doesn’t represent the administration.”
Fortunately, most parties recognize that Bush & Cheney may speak for the administration, but they don’t speak for Americans.