Cheney Bashes Clinton On Benghazi, Obama On Bin Laden Raid
Source: TPM
CAITLIN MACNEAL OCTOBER 25, 2013, 12:07 PM EDT
Former Vice President Dick Cheney on Thursday criticized former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on her handling of the Benghazi attack and President Obama on the way he approached the Osama bin Laden raid.
Cheney said that Clinton did not take responsibility for her role in the response to the 2012 attack on the U.S. mission in Benghazi, Libya.
"No, she clearly wasn't hands on, and now she doesn't want to be hands on. And shes doing everything she can to avoid responsibility for what clearly fell into her bailiwick," Cheney told conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt. "And what I always recall is her testimony saying what difference does it make? And the fact of the matter is it makes a huge difference. And we should have been able to protect those people or certainly go to their rescue."
Cheney also criticized Obama for not taking better advantage of the intelligence he had on bin Laden.
Read more: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/cheney-bashes-clinton-on-benghazi-obama-on-bin-laden-raid
WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)Zorro
(15,740 posts)so he overcompensates by acting like a tough asshole when he's got nothin' on the line.
WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)onehandle
(51,122 posts)TheCowsCameHome
(40,168 posts)Big Dick ran away with top spot.
grasswire
(50,130 posts)I wish the rant would get better exposure.
http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/2013/10/22/vice-president-cheneys-legacy/
lakercub
(659 posts)Had he and Bush been in charge, we would have invaded and spent billions to accomplish regime change in Canada after the Benghazi attack. We really missed an opportunity to put soldiers needlessly at risk.
As for Bin Laden, it's hard to believe Obama would get the guy when clearly our policy was trot him out every 6 months to keep everyone scared. It's like Obama didn't want to rule by fear. Amateur.
blm
(113,063 posts)Just so they could have years of War on Terror that would extend to other countries they wanted to invade.
angry citizen
(73 posts)If you are Dick Cheney, you do not get to Criticize anyone about anything
snooper2
(30,151 posts)I wonder what the odds are on him vs. Babs?
lakercub
(659 posts)He's more machine now than man...twisted and evil (thank you Star Wars)
Thor_MN
(11,843 posts)I'd have a meal of asparagus and the cheapest beer I could find....
Berlum
(7,044 posts)Chickenhawk Cheney sure whines like a Grade-A Republicon FAIL Freak.
Jesus -- who suffered so brutally at the hands of torturers (R) -- will likely have lots to say to TorturePimp Cheney (R) as he crosses the Great Divide.
heaven05
(18,124 posts)of a right wing rabid animal of the rethug party pissed at B.O because he is a better leader. I'm sorry he and bush monkey didn't take better advantage of intel to prevent 9/11. Not all of us have short memories like the people he is a representative of. Fuck Cheney. POS.
SaveAmerica
(5,342 posts)that the RW has taken (probably directed by this fool and Rove) to bring him down. I was thinking earlier how Obama has done an amazing job of staying above their mess and deflecting what they've thrown at him. He seems to have come on board as President well-versed on the evil capabilities of the RW and is making preemptive moves that protect him (Obama protecting himself) before they can set their plans in motion.
eppur_se_muova
(36,263 posts)Initech
(100,079 posts)Kingofalldems
(38,458 posts)sharp_stick
(14,400 posts)of the poor bastard that had his heart implanted in this psychotic piece of shit.
madrchsod
(58,162 posts)he has a mechanical 'pump' now. he does`t have a pulse
NastyRiffraff
(12,448 posts)Oh yeah, Hugh Hewitt. Hugh Hewitt
BumRushDaShow
(129,052 posts)except directly on Shrub?
Will Ferrell illustrates -
graywarrior
(59,440 posts)deminks
(11,014 posts)/sarcasm off.
leftynyc
(26,060 posts)Like the President should listen to the opinion of the clown who claimed he knew EXACTLY where the WMD's were and that we would be treated as liberators. Asshole. I'm going to really enjoy watching his spawn get her ass kicked in that primary.
lostincalifornia
(3,639 posts)TheCowsCameHome
(40,168 posts)What a waste of a perfectly good organ.
srican69
(1,426 posts)croak already !!
titanicdave
(429 posts)is the devil incarnate.........the bastard just won't go away........he is like a bad cold that just hangs on and hangs on and hangs on and is a complete pain in the ass
totodeinhere
(13,058 posts)instruct his attorney general to indict Cheney for war crimes or refer him to the proper international body that can.
tofuandbeer
(1,314 posts)there were probably hundreds of other useful humans who could have used it.
That man is filled with shear hate, and it rubs off on me toward him.
totodeinhere
(13,058 posts)a heart. But it doesn't matter how many new hearts he gets, he remains a heartless bastard.
liberal N proud
(60,334 posts)That is all anyone needs to say about Cheney!
blue sky at night
(3,242 posts)May he rot in HELL.
underpants
(182,819 posts)I agree completely.
What a complete piece of shit
MindMover
(5,016 posts)mtasselin
(666 posts)Who really cares what the war criminal has to say. He along with his boss and several other people should be locked up, but the American sheeple are to stupid to realize what happened.
joanbarnes
(1,722 posts)KansDem
(28,498 posts)Didn't think so...
SoapBox
(18,791 posts)DallasNE
(7,403 posts)You had in hand at Tora Bora and how well that worked out for you. Or the August 6, 2001 PDB saying "bin Laden determined to strike inside the US" and what the outcome from that was. Besides, it wasn't like Obama could have kept bin Laden's death a secret and thus allowed others to control the messaging. Lastly, what is this "huge difference" you are talking about regarding Benghazi Cheney. Don't you think you are obligated to spell that out if you make the charge or are you just jumping on the BENGHAZI, BENGHAZI, BENGHAZI bandwagon.
You may have had a heart transplant Cheney but you still don't have a heart.
George II
(67,782 posts)Rebellious Republican
(5,029 posts)Do you have a challenge coin DICK? When you get one let me know, then we will talk, oh thats right you never served in the military did you DICK!
For those that do not know what a challenge coin is, then you have never been in the military, google it if your curious.
Seal team six has a challenge coin, they earned theirs asshole. A tribute to my brothers who accomplished the mission.
zonkers
(5,865 posts)together with Iraq, terrorism, the Bush Admin, Cheney himself and ultimately all the bad memories associated with the failed policies of that era. The man is a traitor and war profiteer.
Jack Rabbit
(45,984 posts)Remember when former Vice Presidents just faded into obscurity, usually as soon as they were elected rather than waiting for retirement?
I'll get outraged at Cheney when he says that interrogation techniques the Bushies borrowed from the Spanish Inquisition weren't torture or that the War against Iraq was a great benefit to America and the world for liberating the Iraqi people -- from their mineral rights.
However, when the Big Dick brings up events spun into scandals in the active imagination of Darrell Issa and talks critically about President Obama's handling of the mission to kill Osama bin Laden, then it time to roll over over and go back to sleep.
By the way, Big Dick, do you remember this performance from your pet Frat Boy?
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bobGandolf
(871 posts)I wish he would pass away quietly, and in no pain.
CBHagman
(16,984 posts)...but the GOP and its media/ideological allies are hammering on Benghazi as though assaults on diplomatic facilities and workers from U.S. and allied missions were never seen until September 11th, 2012. The U.S. ambassador to Lebanon was assassinated in 1976, and the American Embassy in Beirut was bombed more than once during the 1980s.
[url]http://lebanon.usembassy.gov/about_the_embassy.html[/url]
[url]http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/2367311.stm[/url]
Unfortunately many people either don't know the history, can't be bothered to look it up, and/or just parrot the talking points they get from GOP congressmen and right-wing media.
I've heard various estimates of the number of people killed in attacks on U.S. installations during the time Bush and Cheney were in office. The story below records nearly a hundred fatalities. There are others at the link.
[url]http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bob-cesca/13-benghazis-that-occurre_b_3246847.html[/url]
January 22, 2002. Calcutta, India. Gunmen associated with Harkat-ul-Jihad al-Islami attack the U.S. Consulate. Five people are killed.
June 14, 2002. Karachi, Pakistan. Suicide bomber connected with al Qaeda attacks the U.S. Consulate, killing 12 and injuring 51.
October 12, 2002. Denpasar, Indonesia. U.S. diplomatic offices bombed as part of a string of "Bali Bombings." No fatalities.
February 28, 2003. Islamabad, Pakistan. Several gunmen fire upon the U.S. Embassy. Two people are killed.
If you haven't already, you are going to encounter people who will misuse "Four dead in Ohio" to invoke the four men killed in Benghazi. The next time someone does that, ask them if they have heard of any of the above, or of the barracks bombings in 1983, or the multiple attacks on the U.S. Embassy in Beirut. People get away with skewing the story because we let the ignorant and the vicious control the story.
Renew Deal
(81,859 posts)I guess that's the way you take advantage of intelligence when you're a Bushite
Beacool
(30,249 posts)I wonder if Bush's presidency would have been different if he had had another person as his vice president.
SaveAmerica
(5,342 posts)still?
Getting furious all over again remembering the evil of the Bush regime over the years and want to know, if we can't have this fool behind bars, why he's not kept out of the public eye and not allowed to make any remarks about anything at all.
Festivito
(13,452 posts)Yes she did take responsibility.
Responses began within minutes of reports.
You expect anyone to be hands on each one of hundreds of locations. Ridiculous.
The Bush Cheney administration had nine times, the number of Benghazi like attacks.
Sounds like a paid political announcement, Paid for by the same guys who made a fortune Off hard working Americans lost housing values.
daybranch
(1,309 posts)where you failed, ain't going to get you any votes but may lose you a lot.
Hosnon
(7,800 posts)He couldn't get the job done so he has to shit all over the person who did... or else admit that Obama performed better than he did in that area (which is of course not an option).
Scairp
(2,749 posts)We are all sick beyond reason of his evil ass. If there was any justice left in the world he would have croaked on the table when they gave him that heart, which he didn't deserve.
Thinkingabout
(30,058 posts)AndyA
(16,993 posts)You ignored warnings, did nothing. You have no right to talk about anything anyone else did or did not do. Your cabal failed to protect America, and you're a war criminal.
So shut the hell up.
c588415
(285 posts)I wish Cheney would invite Ted Cruz to go on a hunting excursion together.
Dick" elmer fudd" Cheney: It's wabbit season, and I'm huntin Wepublican Rabbit
Steviehh
(115 posts)Did I read that right? Obama didn't make good use of the intelligence he had?
Two Words - Tora Bora
ck4829
(35,077 posts)6000eliot
(5,643 posts)Ellipsis
(9,124 posts)bemildred
(90,061 posts)Cheney is still trying to prove he was right all along.
THIS is why our leaders are so imcompetent, they are never wrong.
ourfuneral
(150 posts)Quantess
(27,630 posts)That creep has a lot of fucking nerve to be bashing another administration, after what he has done.
woo me with science
(32,139 posts)Bill USA
(6,436 posts)Pelosi: In the 2011 continuing resolution, Congress, at the insistence of the House of Representatives, slashed the presidents request for embassy security and construction and forced another cut in fiscal year 2012. Altogether Congress has eliminated $296 million from embassy security and construction in the last two years with additional cuts in other State Department security accounts.
Roarybeans
(48 posts)Any time you have a chance to vote against a Cheney (Liz) please do it!