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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHere's The White House's Snappy Comeback To Dick Cheney's Iraq Op-Ed
Here's The White House's Snappy Comeback To Dick Cheney's Iraq Op-Edby Colin Campbell at Business Insider
http://www.businessinsider.com/heres-the-white-houses-snappy-comeback-to-dick-cheneys-iraq-op-ed-2014-6
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President Barack Obama's official spokesman had a sarcastic response to former Vice President Dick Cheney's op-ed eviscerating the current administration's approach to the increasingly volatile situation in Iraq.
"Rarely has a U.S. president been so wrong about so much at the expense of so many," Cheney wrote in Wednesday's Wall Street Journal.
After a reporter quoted that exact line to White House Press Secretary Jay Carney, he pretended to be uncertain about whether Cheney was addressing Obama or President George W. Bush, under whom Cheney served.
"Which president was he talking about?" the outgoing Carney deadpanned during his final White House briefing Wednesday afternoon drawing laughter from the press corps
Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/heres-the-white-houses-snappy-comeback-to-dick-cheneys-iraq-op-ed-2014-6#ixzz352GPzUhI
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Here's The White House's Snappy Comeback To Dick Cheney's Iraq Op-Ed (Original Post)
applegrove
Jun 2014
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IggleDoer
(1,186 posts)1. The key word might be "Rarely"
Cheney's Presidency was far worse, and evidently, he knows this.
randys1
(16,286 posts)2. Good one, Jay...Cheney needs a hard slap to the face, or lifetime in prison
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)5. A kick in the nuts, per Rude Pundit.
madamesilverspurs
(15,782 posts)3. Cheney adds historical insult
to historical history with his pitiful attempt to channel Churchill.
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)4. Mockery is the best antidote to the fascist infection.
Baitball Blogger
(46,572 posts)6. Is it too late to go on the offensive and prosecute Cheney and Bush?
Didn't those two not understand the gift they were given when Obama decided to lean forward, and not look back?
Aerows
(39,961 posts)7. I hate to say it
But has anyone told Jay Carney that a squirrel climbed on his face and died? He seems like a nice enough guy.
He's a better press secretary than Gibbs imho, but that dead squirrel on his face needs to go.
applegrove
(118,008 posts)8. They are desperate. George Bush thought, "history? We'll all be dead".
Not so fast. This may be then ending history of the Iraq war. A failed democracy. A religious war. And they're alive to see it.