Reid: It’s ‘Terrifying’ The GOP Is Listening To Dick Cheney

FILE - In a Dec. 13, 2013 file photo, former U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney smiles as he talks about his new book, "Heart: An American Medical Odyssey," at Little America Hotel and Resort in Cheyenne, Wyo. The Wyomi... FILE - In a Dec. 13, 2013 file photo, former U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney smiles as he talks about his new book, "Heart: An American Medical Odyssey," at Little America Hotel and Resort in Cheyenne, Wyo. The Wyoming State Bar invited Cheney, a prominent Republican with deep Wyoming ties, to be keynote speaker at its annual convention banquet Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2014. Some lawyers are objecting, both to Cheney’s selection and to how the bar announced his appearance. (AP Photo/Wyoming Tribune Eagle, Miranda Grubbs, File) MORE LESS
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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid chastised House Republicans after they met Tuesday with former Vice President Dick Cheney and discussed potential U.S. military action against the radical Islamic group ISIS.

“Taking advice from Dick Cheney on foreign policy? That’s a terrifying prospect,” the Nevada Democrat said Wednesday on the Senate floor. “We should be learning from our past mistakes, not repeating them. Airstrikes and strategic use of drones and, of course, covert action are the most effective way to take out ISIS without committing troops — American troops in harm’s way. So I support President Obama’s decision not to send in ground troops. That’s not an option for the American people. I can guarantee everyone that, within the sound of my voice.”

Reid warned rushing into another ground war in the Middle East.

“Now that the Republicans are taking advice from Dick Cheney on foreign policy, I’m concerned that they once again will rush to commit U.S. troops to a ground war in the Middle East. We could accomplish the mission in a more strategic way. I say to Democrats and Republicans, let’s destroy these despicable terrorists, but let’s do it the right way this time,” he said.

President Barack Obama is scheduled to address the nation on Wednesday night at 9 p.m. ET to discuss U.S. strategy against ISIS, which in recent weeks brutally executed two American journalists who were captured in Syria.

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  1. "We should be learning from our past mistakes, not repeating them

    Sadly this does not be the case.
    Media has been rolling out all members of the Bush administration that convinced us bin Laden had mushroom clouds and yellow cake. They were the ones that insisted we spend two weeks at war, where our troops would be greeted as liberators and have roses rained on them. Oh and that it would be paid for with Iraq oil.

    Except that’s not what happened. And our wonderful media seems to have forgotten that. Instead, we seem to be assailed with interviews of said past officials regaling Bush and insisting that war was right. Oh and everything would be peachy keen if Obama had just kept us into war (ya know, the one that was supposed to pretty much end after the “shock and awe” show)

    Because “fool us once, shame, shame on you… It fooled us you can’t get fooled again”.

  2. Hmmm – You will be known by your fruits –

  3. The media is in it for the money and that’s a serious problem.

  4. Someone tell Dick Cheney to return to his cigars and brandy-stained war maps in the basement of the American Enterprise Institute. Obama’s got this. Thanks anyway.

  5. Airstrikes, drones and covert operations are very effective if there is someone on the ground mopping up whatever is left of ISIS. Ideally Iraqis and Syrian troops would take care of that. Given the level of cowardice shown by Iraqi troops when confronted by a ragtag militia, I think Reid envisioned strategy for keeping American boots away from Iraq/Syria it’s what is terrifying.

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