From the CNN transcript:(emphasis mine)
BLITZER: Senator, if you could sit down with the vice president and have a direct one-on-one meeting with him, what would you say to him?CLELAND: Where the hell were you in the Vietnam War?
If you had have gone to Vietnam like the rest of us, maybe you would have learned something about war. You can't keep troops on the ground forever. They've got to have a mission. They've got to have a purpose. You can't keep sending them back and back and back with no mission and no purpose.
As a matter of fact, the real enemy is al Qaeda. It's al Qaeda -- stupid. It's not in Iraq. That's why we have to withdraw the ground forces there, settle Iraq with a diplomatic solution and go after al Qaeda.That's what we should have been doing for the last four years.
Instead, this administration and this vice president and this president wants to send more troops to Iraq. Unbelievable.
One other minor thing occurred to me after viewing this.
You know those comparisons of Dick Cheney to Darth Vader?
I CALL BULLSHIT!
Darth Vader actually fought in the Clone Wars.
Darth Cheney would have asked for a deferment due to a broken lightsaber.
And your anti-comparison of Darth and Dick, Genius!