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Purveyor

(29,876 posts)
Wed Jun 18, 2014, 05:47 PM Jun 2014

Dick Cheney Should be Rotting in The Hague, Not Writing Editorials

Wednesday, 18 June 2014 15:38 By The Daily Take Team, The Thom Hartmann Program

If there's one person who has absolutely zero business criticizing anyone for how they're running the country, it's Dick Cheney.

This should be obvious to pretty everyone by now, but apparently the Wall Street Journal didn't get the message. Today, the paper published an editorial by Cheney and his daughter Liz in which the former Vice President blasts the "collapsing Obama doctrine" of foreign policy."
Taking the rapid advance of ISIS radicals through northern Iraq as his cue, Cheney accuses President Obama of "emboldening" America's enemies. He writes:

Rarely has a U.S. president been so wrong about so much at the expense of so many. Too many times to count, Mr. Obama has told us he is 'ending' the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan - as though wishing made it so. His rhetoric has now come crashing into reality...America's enemies are not 'decimated.' They are emboldened and on the march.


According to Cheney, the "failures" of the Obama presidency - which I guess are to not get the country involved in any more decade-long wars - are proof that our first African-American president is actively trying to take down America. He writes:

Despite clear evidence of the dire need for American leadership around the world, the desperation of our allies and the glee of our enemies, President Obama seems determined to leave office ensuring he has taken America down a notch. Indeed, the speed of the terrorists' takeover of territory in Iraq has been matched only by the speed of American decline on his watch.


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Dick Cheney Should be Rotting in The Hague, Not Writing Editorials (Original Post) Purveyor Jun 2014 OP
The international community should see that he rots somewhere The Blue Flower Jun 2014 #1
In the ground - a war criminal should not have gotten a heart transplant Nobel_Twaddle_III Jun 2014 #4
Dick Cheney should shut up. He and Bush 43 started the failed policy that has Louisiana1976 Jun 2014 #2
I wonder what makes him think any of us give a fig what he says. babylonsister Jun 2014 #3
MUST. LOOK. FORWARD. blkmusclmachine Jun 2014 #5

The Blue Flower

(5,419 posts)
1. The international community should see that he rots somewhere
Wed Jun 18, 2014, 05:56 PM
Jun 2014

I can't help but wonder in what way and at what time both justice and karma come calling for his rotted soul.

babylonsister

(170,958 posts)
3. I wonder what makes him think any of us give a fig what he says.
Wed Jun 18, 2014, 07:46 PM
Jun 2014

Maybe he's trying to distract from his complicity?

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