his list. but so were some other notable figures, including steve case, the former chairman and ceo of america online and bill gates. ralph nader, of course, ran as a third party candidate in the year 2000. ask al gore how that turned out for him. next up, he may be five years out of office, but former vice president dick cheney hasn t exactly held his tongue when it comes to the foreign policy decisions of the obama administration. but when the outspoken former veep criticized chuck hagel s proposed military spending cuts this week, it earned him a strong rebuke from retired major general paul eaton, a 30-year veteran of the army who served in operation iraqi freedom. here is what eaton had to say about cheeney. vice president cheeney is one of the architects of the worst
for him. next up, he may be five years out of office, but former vice president dick cheney hasn t exactly held his tongue when it comes to the foreign policy decisions of the obama administration. but when the outspoken former veep criticized chuck hagel s proposed military spending cuts this week, it earned him a strong rebuke from retired major general paul eaton, a 30-year veteran of the army who served in operation iraqi freedom. here is what eaton had to say about cheney. vice president cheney is one of the architects of the worst foreign policy disaster of the 21st century decision. the decision to attack iraq and to do so in such an incompetent manner does not give him a platform to say anything about the foreign policy under execution today. in other words, shut up, dick.
he ran the first time in 87. first time was completely humiliated. and ran again in 2008. his past is so fraught, we re talking about between the time he gets elect at 29 for the senate and gets sworn in, his wife and young daughter are killed. this is a guy by necessity has to knock off the rear view mirrors on any cars he drives. he s got to look forward. he has to keep impelled forward or he really loses his momentum. that s really the arc of this guy s story. what i find, howard, he is unusual. he is this high. he is not like dick cheney who had all the health problems and said he couldn t run for president, right? guy isn t term limited politically. no, he is not. and i too have spent a lot of time with him over the years. i covered that 88 campaign. and what happened in iowa was is he would go to a campaign event, and he would never stop talk. and he had them for the first 15 minutes of the event. i remember down by the river in davenport, iowa, beautiful night.
wow. five years later, still waiting for shooter to say he s sorry. for more on this let s bring in washington correspondent the nation john nichols who wrote a book on dick cheney. john, good to have you with us tonight. do you think that the former vice president will ever apologize? no. come on, ed. we all know dick cheney well enough to know that not only doesn t he apologize, he jokes about the incident. he actually joked about shooting a trial lawyer. now, it is true that mr. whittington is a trial lawyer but he s also a pretty republican-friendly one, but that was for dick cheney, a good punchline. and this is the reality. throughout his life, dick cheney hasn t just stepped on other people, he s punched them. and he never apologizes. he didn t apologize to the five kids from nebraska that had to serve in vietnam when he took draft deferments. he didn t apologize to nelson mandela for voting to keep
for shooter to say he s sorry. for more on this let s bring in washington correspondent the nation john nichols who wrote a book on dick cheney. john, good to have you with us tonight. do you think that the former vice president will ever apologize? no. come on, ed. we all know dick cheney well enough to know that not only doesn t he apologize, he jokes about the incident. he actually joked about shooting a trial lawyer. now, it is true that mr. whittington is a trial lawyer but he s also a pretty republican-friendly one, but that was for dick cheney, a good punchline. and this is the reality. throughout his life, dick cheney hasn t just stepped on other people, he s punched them. and he never apologizes. he didn t apologize to the five what does it tell us about the way they did business as if we didn t know that the injuries were far more serious than were originally reported? well, what we know, ed is that they extracted a, an apology from mr. whittington while he was still