DICK CHENEY SHOULD FOLLOW THE LOW PROFILE LEAD OF “DUBYA” BUSH

…The man of many mistakes himself, Richard Bruce Cheney

According to Dick Cheney, he and Dubya made no mistakes during their 8 years in the White House.

It must have been like déjà vu, all over again, at the good-ole-boys reunion this week at the highly conservative American Enterprise Institute in Washington DC . 

Just think of it!  Here together again were Scooter Libby, Paul Wolfowitz, all right up front with Dick Cheney speaking at the podium.

Too bad Condi, Dubya and Rummy weren’t able to be there to complete the bizarre group.  That would have really been a good reason for all the papers and the networks to show up. 

Of course, the reason for this get together was for Crazy Dick to proclaim in his pre-buttal to President Obama’s prime-time speech, that whatever the president was going to say about fighting the Islamic State (ISIL) in Iraq and Syria, Cheney would be proclaiming that it was all wrong.

At some point, one would hope that Mr. One Note, (War, war and more war), war-monger Cheney would understand that after the unnecessary debacle(s) that he and Dubya caused this nation to go through, the nation is just not ready to listen to, “Ole Tricky Dick”, one more time.

Mr. Marc Thiessen of the AEI, also a previous speech writer for Dubya Bush, even he tried in vain to mention that The Post’s, Robert Costa, was an example of a House Republican who disagreed with Cheney’s position about putting boots back on the ground in Iraq.  Marc asked Cheney, “Don’t we have to convince a lot of people in our party first?”

Of course, Mr. Cheney’s response was classic “Cheney”. Dick’s response: “I’m sure there were probably a few in the audience who disagreed….I think The Washington Post found two of them.”

Why can’t the likes of the Dick Cheney’s, Donald Rumsfeld’s and Condi Rice’s get the fact that even though there is public support for going after the Islamic State in Syria and Iraq with air power, there is no appetite in the country, or even in most of the GOP, for Cheney’s extreme approach of going back to full scale war.

Cheney’s has become the perfect example of the definition of “insanity”, which is to keep doing the same thing over and over again, while expecting a different result.

To be clear, here is from Cheney, what he thinks the president should do:  “We are at war.  We must do what it takes, for as long as it takes, to win.  We should halt the drawdown of our troops in Afghanistan.  We should take military action if necessary in Iran, and give full backing and support of those fighting the Muslim Brotherhood.”

In other words: 

·       Stop the troops leaving Afghanistan.  In fact, re-build the troops stationed there.

·       Start bombing Iran and be prepared to invade that very large middle eastern country with “boots on the ground”.

·       Go after and make full enemies of the Muslim Brotherhood.  The group that also supports the Hamas in Gaza that has been attacking Israel.

All this war talk is coming from a man that had 5 college deferments in order to not have to go to war in Vietnam.  Therefore, he instead wants to send our sons and daughters to fight another foreign war, while Dickie C. (with his new 2 year old heart), and his family sits on their asses. 

 

…Dick Cheney actually likes being referred to as "Lord Vader"…..

Yes, Cheney is back to business-as-usual with his sneering grin and his Darth Vader persona, while he summarily dismisses any outside information that is contrary to his personal military bliss.

Don’t get me wrong, there is a small percentage of those out there that agree with Cheney’s views of President Obama, namely Senator’s John McCain and Lindsay Graham. 

 

As Cheney correctly said, Obama has been hesitant to use military power via ground troops.  Even as Obama had announced an expanded campaign against the Islamic State, Obama also reminded Americans that combat in Afghanistan will end this year, and that 140,000 troops are home from Iraq.  In addition, that “we will not get dragged into another ground war” in the middle east. 

But from Cheney’s point-of-view, as a totally flawed war fanatic, Cheney’s alternative is, “war everywhere and always”.

This was not the first time Cheney has taken on President Obama with a pre-quell to an official Obama presentation.  Old “Blood & Guts” Cheney in 2009 seriously opposed Obama’s counterterrorism policies.  Cheney back then accused Obama of “recklessness cloaked in righteousness”.  In that speech, Cheney used the word “attack” 19 times.

Cheney even went after the current Secretary of Defense, Chuck Hagel, saying that Secretary Hagel agreed with Cheney because Hagel had said that, “The world is exploding all over.”

Actually, Hagel’s “world is exploding” comment is part of his speech-question Secretary Hagel often asks.  But, of course, Mr. Cheney would not have taken the time to check-out that fact.

What is so disparaging and sad about the former vice president is that he goes after the president that has fixed so many of the past Bush-Cheney mistakes.  But Cheney refuses to even admit that they ever made any mistakes.  Even “Dubya” has properly stayed away from getting into the fray of what the Obama Administration has had to deal with after the debacles of the Bush-Cheney days.

 

…The caricature of Cheney after he had mistakenly, accidently shot a friend durring a hunting trip.  There have been many unflattering caricatures of Dick Cheney over the past two decades

But Cheney continues to be unable to recognize the destabilization that was caused by both of the Bush-Cheney wars.  Cheney, is instead, a real expert on Obama’s failings, while being blind to his own missteps.  Per Mr. Cheney, “A policy of nonintervention can be just as dogmatic as its opposite, and this president has seemed at times only more sure of himself as he is disproved by events.”

One thinks that perhaps Mr. Cheney is not aware that, in saying this statement this way, he is actually saying the same about his own past performances...?

As the old saying goes, “Does one protest a bit too much?”

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