Cheney slams Bush

After hearing comments by Dick Cheney recently, the debates this fall should not be between George Bush and John Kerry but between George Bush and Dick Cheney.

Cheney has criticized the use of the term "sensitive" in regard to United States foreign policy, a term George W. Bush has used several times in terms of US foreign policy.

Bush said in 2001 at the christening ceremony of the USS Ronald Reagan that ‘‘precisely because America is powerful, we must be sensitive about expressing our power and influence."

At the recent UNITY: Journalists of Color convention Bush said "Now, in terms of the balance between running down intelligence and bringing people to justice obviously is -- we need to be very sensitive on that."

Cheney, on the other hand, apparently has a very different view.

‘‘America has been in too many wars for any of our wishes, but not a one of them was won by being sensitive,’’ Cheney said. ‘‘President Lincoln and General Grant did not wage sensitive warfare — nor did President Roosevelt, nor Generals Eisenhower and MacArthur. A ‘sensitive war’ will not destroy the evil men who killed 3,000 Americans and who seek the chemical, nuclear and biological weapons to kill hundreds of thousands more.”

One might think that Cheney would be fired for so forcefully criticizing his boss. Well of course he won’t. The White House is full of hypocrites and Cheney was in full hypocrite mode when he made the comment.

Sen. John Kerry had said at the same UNITY meeting "I believe I can fight a more effective, more thoughtful, more strategic, more proactive, more sensitive war on terror that reaches out to other nations and brings them to our side and lives up to American values in history."

Cheney couldn't question Kerry regarding fighting a war more strategic, more proactive, or thoughtful so he jumped on sensitive, the EXACT same word George W. had used at the SAME convention.

Cheney was going for cheap laughs and expected that the public would never figure it out. And he's probably correct, although a few media people are starting to show some life. In a New York Times article which some other papers actually carried, included Bush's use of the word, although far down the story.