Hillary Clinton doesn't have to respond to Richard Cheney. Richard Cheney is being his USUAL manpulative self.

Cheney stated Senator Clinton had no right to ask for a 'troop withdrawal plan' from the DOD because it was serving the purpose of the enemy in that if the enemy; which Cheney never identifies except those that might attack American troops right or wrong, armed or unarmed, innocent or guilty; in that the enemy will 'hunker down' and wait out the withdrawal.

Senator Clinton DID NOT ask the DOD for a 'withdrawal plan.' She asked for a 'contingency plan' should the nation's security issues shift and the troops are needed elsewhere. There is something like 150,000 soldiers in Iraq. The movement of those people is not simply a matter of an order, it needs a plan.

Dick Cheney's statements are not only manipulative to the reality of this administration as it reveals they never had a contingency plan and never planned to have one. In other words, should the USA military have been needed elsewhere to secure THEIR country, THEIR homeland, there was no plan. None considered.

Dick Cheney is a liar and is one of the worst delusionists in politics.

Eric Edelman, the Defense Department's undersecretary for policy, offered a sharply-worded response, saying such discussions boost the enemy.
"Premature and public discussion of the withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq reinforces enemy propaganda that the United States will abandon its allies in Iraq, much as we are perceived to have done in Vietnam, Lebanon and Somalia," Edelman wrote. His tough language in a letter obtained Thursday was surprising in part because it came in correspondence with a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, which has oversight of the Pentagon.

Clinton responded Friday in a letter to Edelman's boss, Defense Secretary Robert Gates, asking if he agreed with Edelman's charge.

She said Edelman had ducked her questions and "instead made spurious arguments to avoid addressing contingency planning."

"Undersecretary Edelman has his priorities backward," Clinton wrote, calling his claim "outrageous and dangerous."

Five days after this exchange between Clinton and the Pentagon this was Gates reply.

"You may rest assured that such planning is indeed taking place with my active involvement as well as that of senior military and civilian officials and our commanders in the field," Gates said. "I consider this contingency planning to be a priority for this department." A Pentagon spokesman stressed there were no plans for a quick or wholesale withdrawal. A phased reduction would be in line with a Bush administration view that some long-term US presence in Iraq may be needed.

Dick Cheney couldn't his facts straight when he invaded Iraq and he still can't today, we actually needed ANOTHER interview to tell us what we already know about Cheney?