Harkin: Cheney is a coward

[Thrill]

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[Career Prole]

1. Tom Rocks!!!

Harkin, D-Iowa and a former Navy fighter pilot, said Monday, "It just outrages me that someone who got five deferments during Vietnam and said he had 'other priorities' at that time would say that."


He said President Bush and Cheney are "running scared because John Kerry has a war record and they don't." He said of Cheney, "What he is doing and what he is saying is cowardly. The actions are cowardly."


"When I hear this coming from Dick Cheney, who was a coward, who would not serve during the Vietnam War, it makes my blood boil," said Harkin. "He'll be tough, but he'll be tough with someone else's kid's blood."

:yourock:

[w13rd0]

5. GO HARKIN!

Man, hit it OUT OF THE PARK. No equivocation in that statement.

Cheney is a coward, brave with someone else's kid's blood.

Or, in Cheney language, that's Harkin saying to Cheney, "No, go f*ck YOURSELF you chickenhawkshit coward oil-vampire bastard."

[Career Prole]

8. Yup, and that would be former "authentic Navy fighter pilot" Tom Harkin,

not "make-believe-Navy-pilot-Mission-So-Far-From-Accomplished-It'd-Be-Funny-If-It-Wasn't-So-Sad" bush.

[rkc3]

2. Good job Tom! Keep up the fight.

Maybe Uncle Dick will have the stroke the Repubs are looking for.

On Edit - the last line is a bit disheartening - Bush served in the Texas Air National Guard.

[bobbieinok]

3. was in IA 68-89; back in OK......HARKIN IS MY SENATOR

[eleny]

4. I might have taken issue with Harkin's using the word "coward"

...if it was said about people who disagreed with the war and found a way out. But Cheney was a Vietnam hawk. He got his deferments, according to Cheney, because he had more important things to do at that time. So, the "coward" shoe fits quite well.

Sen. Harkin - you nailed Cheney. Bravo!

[DaveinMD]

6. he might as well have said this in outer space

I've seen no mention of this on tv at all.

[neoSattva]

7. Keep the heat on Cheney!

Hopefully Iowa will get something started again. In the better late than never category, I'd really like to hear Kerry come back at Cheney on the sensitivity thing with something like -

In spite of what Mr. Cheney says, it is absolutely essential that we be sensitive about how we wage war. The sensitive application of US power has been called for by every president in recent history, including Ronald Regan and Bush 41. The current president called for sensitivity in the war on terror just last week. Everyone understands that to go into Iraq and bomb mosques would be catastrophic to the mission, and would undermine our own homeland security. For anyone, especially vice president Cheney, to try to turn this into some sort of joke shows the shallowness of the thinking that goes on in the Bush administration. It is time for them to stop making snide remarks and start a real dialog about how to best deal with the situation we are in.

[pacalo]

13. Goooooooo, Tom! Bravo!

(Where are all the other Democratic senators??? Step up to the plate!)

[David Zephyr]

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[in_cog_ni_to]

10. WHOA! Tom!

THAT'S what we like to hear!!! :bounce:

[buycitgo]

12. every DAY this should be up here

maybe the friction will cause the story to come out of orbit, and the rest of the media will mention it

amazing, isn't it, that a US Senator calls the VP a coward, but when the VP makes fun of the sensitive remark, they can't STOP having fun over it, while DISTORTING what he said, and ignoring the MYRIAD times that junta stooges have said the same thing

[Devil Dog Dem]

I LOVE THIS!!!

Go Tom!!!

[CBHagman]

11. Well, Cheney does stay in the hidey-hole, for the most part.

I mean, come on! He doesn't like to be scrutinized. He doesn't want to reveal what went on in the energy task force or who was there. He turns up at the Senate photo session to tell Patrick Leahy to go himself, because Leahy dared question the sacred Halliburton.

Why, yes, there is considerable empirical evidence that Cheney is a coward.

And you can take that to the bank.

[David Zephyr]

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Help make a difference.

[David Zephyr]

15. Kicking. 269Votes at Yahoo with 3.37 Rating. We Can Do Better.

Help get this story to Chris Matthews and to CNN so that they interview Tom Harkin and so the "coward" remark gets out there.