Politics | 05/14/2009 8:30 am

Bill Clinton Laughs Off Dick Cheney Question (Video)

Bill Clinton has a message for Dick Cheney: ‘It’s over.’

By The Staff at wowOwow.com

Former President Bill Clinton was in Virginia campaigning for potential governor Terry McAuliffe yesterday when CNN asked him how he felt about Dick Cheney, who has come out in recent weeks to blast the Obama administration.

Clinton, however, apparently doesn’t think much of Cheney, for he replied, "I wish him well. It’s over," by which he can only mean the Bush administration’s reign.

Then, for reasons unknown, Clinton joked, "I do hope he gets some more target practice before he goes out again," in an apparent reference to Cheney’s 2006 hunting incident, when he accidentally shot one of his friends.

Watch, via CNN:

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Good advice…Cheney is more visible trying to save himself, than he was as VP! His up-front-in the-face-of-all-cameras shtick, does have me wondering why he is fighting so hard to save his reputation, when he didn’t give a hoot about what people thought of him, when he was VP…hmmmm….

By Patty E on 05/14/2009 8:57 am

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Cheney was busy running the country for Bush, now he obviously doesn’t know what to do with all the time he has on his hands. =)

By MK P on 05/14/2009 9:12 am

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MK P he is hoping to take it back. I hope he keeps puttung his foot in his mouth till he pulls the noose tight. My intention: to say how Chenney makes me sick.

By S G on 05/14/2009 9:23 am

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Your reaction to Chaney mirrors the reaction of most voters — myself included.

By MK P on 05/14/2009 9:28 am

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Dick Cheney is not trying to save himself….he is trying to save our country from an inexperienced administration at the helm. He sees the security dangers from an administration that doesn’t understand the problems in the Middle East. They are a naive group trying desperately to change all of our lives to suit their leftist agenda. They made a bad call on releasing the photos and it took our experienced military to open their eyes to the dangers.

Dick Cheney, as Bill Clinton is speaking out, so can you. After all, Bill Clinton, too, is out of the White House.

By deber B on 05/14/2009 9:06 am

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My intention: to ask a question. Deber yesterday you said you were a party for responsibility I would like to ask the following. If that is the case and waterboarding is illegal ( do you agree it is or isn’t) Shouldn’t Chenney rather than trying to save his rear step up and take responsibility rather than rationalize his actions? There is a quote in indy Sheehans book that dubbah when govoner of Texas said he wanted to be a war president and go into Iraq. Should he not take responsibility for his actions? There were soldiers 2 years ago in the desert who could not drink the water Halliburton was suppling it made them sick. They were forced to steal local water and got dissentary. Shouldn’t Halliburton take responsibility for the damage done to soldiers by being electrocuted by their own bathroom sink and shower? I see so much rationalization and very little responsibility. I am sure it is another agree to disagree aspect but I have to ask.

By S G on 05/14/2009 9:30 am

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VERY good point——instead of ‘taking responsibility’ for the ‘mis-steps’….Cheney is attempting to rationalize, justify, intimidate the new administration, and inject fear in Americans—-all at the same time….in my upbringing…’making excuses’ instead of acknowledging the mistakes, was ‘punishable-by-parent’, and grand-parent-and every aunt, uncle, great aunt-and so on…One must be honest with themselves…and especially when the lives of others were at stake! I don;t see Cheney acknowledging his mistakes….I see him as protecting himself using that ‘ol projection tactic of finding the mistakes in everyone BUT him! as his ‘excuse’ to justify his bad decisions and lack of responsibility to correct the failures created by those decisions……..like the water—-like the ‘we don;t know where the oil has gone’….like the lack of medical care for those who lost their limbs and their mental capacities—-the Vets’ hospital is a disgrace! WHY doesn’t Cheney address his failures? As expected—-by him—of everyone else?

By Patty E on 05/14/2009 9:54 am

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My intention: to state my feelings. Patty I agree. George Washington was against torture. The rationalization doesn’t work. An interrogator under oath yesterday said they got more information before the torture and nothing when they tortured. I wonder if Dubbahs administration had something to hide and didn’t want the real intelligence. I just wonder where that might have led.

By S G on 05/14/2009 10:03 am

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*nod*

By Amanda C on 05/15/2009 3:17 pm

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S G, why should Dick Cheney take responsibility for using extreme interrogation methods? That administration put the waterboarding and other methods before their attornies, the democrats knew about it….in fact, everybody knew about it and obviously didn’t have a problem with it because we were in extraordinary times….terrorists destroyed parts of our country and killed American citizens. We have heard that these methods produced valuable information. Now, to connect that to personal responsibility. It takes more than a Vice President to approve anything in the White House. He doesn’t stand alone. Too many checks and balances in place, SG.

Regarding Sheehans book or anyone’s book, I don’t know if her information is correct or not. No one does. You are addressing that question to a republican who believes the war in Iraq was necessary.

The Halliburton water? Well, let’s expound on that. Two soldiers? Out of thousands and thousands of other soldiers who didn’t get sick from the water? Since I don’t know if they are telling the truth or not and I don’t know if they had medical or psychological issues being in the war, it would be difficult for me to blame Halliburton. And, because several soldiers may have been electrocuted by their own bathroom sink my first response would be to question the troops who put the compound together and if they made a mistake of some kind. Most Middle Eastern deserts are primitive and there’s alot of jerry rigging going on to set up a camp or a command center.

I think you are grasping at straws, SC. Accidents happen. One isn’t immune from accidents because they enlisted in the military.

By deber B on 05/14/2009 12:14 pm

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Agreeing to disagree. As for Cindy Sheehans book I would say the statement would have had to have been verified or he would have sued her.

By S G on 05/14/2009 4:13 pm

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I’ll agree to disagree. Don’t have a problem with that. Not everyone sues. Many people just discount it for what it is.

By deber B on 05/14/2009 4:45 pm

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May we assume some didn’t watch the testimony (broadcast on C-SPAN) given to Byron Dorgan by the whistleblowers who testified to the truth of what the "no-bid crony contractors" did to our service men and women?

http://dpc.senate.gov/hearings/hearing46/dorgan.pdf

ACCIDENTS? Here is testimony about just ONE aspect of the criminal negligence that caused injury and death to our combat troops being "served" by Cheney’s business associates at Haliburton:

http://dpc.senate.gov/hearings/hearing46/bliss.pdf http://dpc.senate.gov/hearings/hearing46/crawford.pdf ACCIDENTS? If you have a strong stomach, here is a list of allegations from a suit filed in Texas by Joshua Eller against Haliburton and KBR: (A number of these allegations were verified by witnesses in Dorgan’s hearings.)

Eller accuses that KBR "knowingly and intentionally supplied to US forces and other individuals food that was expired, spoiled, rotten, or that may have been contaminated with shrapnel, or other materials".

KBR "supplied water which was contaminated, untreated, and unsafe", Eller said citing several examples.

KBR also "failed to properly train its personnel in proper water operations, despite its acceptance of a contract to provide safe water to the US force in Iraq," Eller said

He also said the service giants "shipped ice served to US forces in trucks that had been used to carry human remains and that still had traces of body fluids and putrefied remains".

The lawsuit also said the "defendants burned medical waste that contained human body parts on the open air burn pit. Wild dogs in the area raided the burn pit and carried off human remains. The wild dogs could be seen roaming the base with body parts in their mouths."

Eller further said the companies "prevented their employees from speaking with government auditors" tasked with inspecting the military base.

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KBR is already subject to several complaints about its role as a subcontractor through the Pentagon.

Halliburton, once led by former vice president Dick Cheney before he took office in 2001, and KBR have come under scrutiny for contract controversies since Halliburton was awarded a no-bid $2.4 billion contract to supply the US military just before the 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq.

KBR agreed last year to pay the US government $8 million to settle fraud claims related to an army supply contract.

(Halliburton was headed by Cheney from 1995 until 2000.)

More about this deplorable story here: http://www.armytimes.com/news/2008/12/military_kbr_lawsuit_121508w/

By ~ countrywoman ~ on 05/14/2009 5:32 pm

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Good info country woman and our soldiers that suffered and their families SHOULD be compensated. But, I don’t believe that Mr. Cheney was part of the ‘cost-cutting’ greedy, despicable bunch that over-saw the contracts in Iraq just as I don’t believe Obama had anything to do with the ACORN voter registration fraud, even tho he was actively involved with the group.

By laureen f on 05/16/2009 3:25 pm

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Point well taken, Laureen f

And I should have made mention of the fact that Mr. Eller was a civilian employee of KBR. I am not aware of any claims for compensation from our service men/women, although that is exactly where I think all KBR filthy "profits" should now be allocated…..EVERY LAST CENT! Whew, it is one thing that US taxpayers were fleeced by this "greedy, despicable bunch" but it makes my blood boil that our troops were subjected to such deplorable treatment as they willingly put their lives on the line each and every day. It was like having an additional enemy to cope with. I can see the logic about Cheney not being part of the company during the time of these inexcusable criminal events, but I sure wish someone had been paying attention and providing some oversight! Bless our military!!

I appreciate your posts.

By ~ countrywoman ~ on 05/17/2009 1:55 am