Dick Cheney, Liz Cheney Join Attack On Obama For 'Abandonment Of Iraq'
Source: Huffington Post
One day after President Barack Obama announced the planned deployment of hundreds of troops to Iraq, former Vice President Dick Cheney and his daughter, Liz Cheney, joined the chorus of critics accusing the president of abandoning Iraq.
Cheney and his daughter penned an opinion piece that will be published in The Wall Street Journal Wednesday, slamming Obama for being "so wrong about so much at the expense of so many." They criticize the president for abandoning Iraq and for failing to "keep the peace," while terrorist groups are "emboldened and on the march."
"Iraq is at risk of falling to a radical Islamic terror group and Mr. Obama is talking climate change. Terrorists take control of more territory and resources than ever before in history, and he goes golfing. He seems blithely unaware, or indifferent to the fact, that a resurgent al Qaeda presents a clear and present danger to the United States of America," they write.
While serving as President George W. Bush's vice president, Cheney was instrumental in justifying the American-led invasion of Iraq, saying time and time again that it was necessary to search for weapons of mass destruction. None were found.
Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/06/17/dick-cheney-liz-cheney-obama-iraq_n_5505619.html
You just knew the architect of the disaster, along with his loser daughter, were going to try to join the discussion in a sad attempt to try to rehab daddy's failure
lovemydog
(11,833 posts)well, nothing. I can't think of anything more hypocritical. Though I can't say I'm surprised, coming from those warmongering jerks.
underpants
(182,603 posts)SHUT. THE. F¥CK. UP.
Scarsdale
(9,426 posts)Are they afraid their Halliburton stocks will take a dive? For a person who has NEVER, EVER worn the uniform ol' heartless Dickless certainly loves to send others into harms way. Riding her father's coat-tails along comes snarling, snapping Lizzie. He threw an old friend under the bus, trying to get her elected and it failed. These people need to STFU and Lizzie needs to get a REAL job, she has lived off the taxpayers long enough. Daddy got her a "do-nothing" job in the Cheney administration, and she is still milking it to get on TV. Where is Mrs. Cheney, is she busy writing her lesbian porn novelettes? Another camera hog.
Twenty1first
(32 posts)...Cheney's are despicable in sense of the word...there, I said it!
SmittynMo
(3,544 posts)Bush signed a document in late 2008, indicating that all troops would be out of Iraq by the end of 2011. Obama completed that promise. So, how is this Obama's fault? These two are total idiots not to recognize that it was their own party that lied and got us into this mess, and then wanted to get us out of there by 2011. And just yesterday I read that Cheney is praying for the oil wells in Iraq. These two are total morons.
I cannot understand why they even get air time any more.
Ineeda
(3,626 posts)believed they created a political win-win for themselves: If Obama keeps their promise (as now), they win because he's weak or somesuch. If he doesn't keep their promise, they win because he violated the sacred word of the USofA.
IOW, everything is Obama's fault.
Cha
(296,821 posts)chillfactor
(7,572 posts)with not one functioning brain between them.....just looking at them makes me want to puke.....
Ichingcarpenter
(36,988 posts)Jun 20, 2005 - I think they're in the last throes, if you will, of the insurgency."
http://edition.cnn.com/2005/US/05/30/cheney.iraq/
Dick needs to travel outside of the country
where there are arrest warrants for war crimes.
Baitball Blogger
(46,682 posts)give the US a permanent profile in the country? Why doesn't Cheney just come out and say it. Was that their plan all along?
Scuba
(53,475 posts)George II
(67,782 posts)BlueStater
(7,596 posts)Hasn't this planet suffered enough with 73 years of Dick Cheney? No more!
Orsino
(37,428 posts)warrior1
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So sweet.
Cheney is nothing but a war criminal. He and his daughter need to fade from this earth.
George II
(67,782 posts)Were they looking in a mirror when they said this?
NastyRiffraff
(12,448 posts)And I've no doubt it was said without a trace of irony.
No one should listen to ANYTHING this war criminal has to say about Iraq (or anything else)
Demeter
(85,373 posts)"Only a fool fights in a burning house." Especially if the fools set it on fire in the first place.
orbitalman
(1,098 posts)I personally would have used the word, "escape."
yellowcanine
(35,693 posts)Seriously the man should be in prison for treason.
Fearless
(18,421 posts)Then we'll talk about "abandonment".
mahatmakanejeeves
(57,290 posts)Hat tip, JMG: Dick Cheney And Liz Cheney Blame President Obama For Civil War In Iraq
Today the two Cheneys launched The Alliance For A Strong America, which advocates for even more of the disastrous military interventions that got us to where we are today.
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LeftInTX
(25,122 posts)I wonder why?
NYC Liberal
(20,135 posts)William Seger
(10,775 posts)I grew up in the 50s and 60s, when we were taught that the US defended the world from countries that invaded other countries to get control of their resources, justified their actions with lies, and tortured their captives. Now, thanks primarily to this evil man, we are instead that country.
aint_no_life_nowhere
(21,925 posts)These assholes never accept blame. Whittington apologized to Cheney for getting shot when he came out of the hospital, implying that privately Cheney blamed him for making him look bad. Why else would a victim apologize unless the VP demanded it, especially after getting buck shot lodged in his heart? Dick Cheney certainly didn't apologize.
grahamhgreen
(15,741 posts)SoapBox
(18,791 posts)Fuck them.
Dopers_Greed
(2,640 posts)The current Iraqi crisis should be the final stake in the heart of Neocons and PNAC...
But instead the media is just giving them a fresh neck to bite into.
Harry Monroe
(2,935 posts)I will not shed a single tear when this skidmark kicks the bucket, as a matter of fact I will be in that line to take a well deserved piss on his grave.
Harry Monroe
(2,935 posts)I'm just vocalizing what I think we all feel about this fuckstick.
George II
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mahatmakanejeeves
(57,290 posts)(Getty Images)
The article itself is ludicrous and not worth your time. If little knives are coursing through your blood right now, read Mark Danner's authoritative series on Cheney and his impact on the world.
IcyPeas
(21,841 posts)from Wikipedia:
Early on the morning of January 17, 1991, allied forces launched the first attack, which included more than 4,000 bombing runs by coalition aircraft. This pace would continue for the next four weeks, until a ground invasion was launched on February 24, 1991. Allied forces penetrated Iraqi lines and pushed toward Kuwait City while on the west side of the country, forces were intercepting the retreating Iraqi army. Bush made the decision to stop the offensive after a mere 100 hours. Critics labeled this decision premature, as hundreds of Iraqi forces were able to escape; Bush responded by saying that he wanted to minimize U.S. casualties. Opponents further charged that Bush should have continued the attack, pushing Hussein's army back to Baghdad, then removing him from power.[15] Bush explained that he did not give the order to overthrow the Iraqi government because it would have "incurred incalculable human and political costs.... We would have been forced to occupy Baghdad and, in effect, rule Iraq."
Who was Secretary of defense at the time: DICK CHENEY.
DisgustipatedinCA
(12,530 posts)I could use this space to talk about how despicable Dick Cheney is for trying to blame Iraq on the current president. But I want to accentuate the positive instead of dwelling on the negative. So wherever you are, whatever you're doing when this piece of human garbage finally dies, get yourself to a keyboard and come to GD for a big celebration. We will afford the deceased all the respect he deserves, by which I mean none. Free Republic will accuse us of grave dancing, and they'll be right. And I'll be happy.
In the meantime, shut your worthless fucking mouth, Dick. You serve no function, and your words are worthless.
zonkers
(5,865 posts)Hekate
(90,552 posts)warrprayer
(4,734 posts)to both of them
Hekate
(90,552 posts)Just asking.
Thor_MN
(11,843 posts)but to keep the heart from rejecting him.
antiGOPin294
(53 posts)Dick should be thanking his God every day that he hasn't been arrested for war crimes. But his time will come soon....