THE CHENEY FAMILY APPARENTLY HAS PERMANENTLY DISABLED MEMORIES

 

The former veep himself, Richard Bruce “Dick” Cheney, as many see him

 

Memory confusion must be a congenital defect that is passed on from the male.

 

Do the family members of former VP, Richard (Dick) Cheney, really think that our memories only go back a couple of months at a time?

This week, former VP, Dick Cheney and his daughter Liz wrote an op-ed article for the Wall Street Journal, and they did a video, cowboy hat and all, basically charging President Obama with treason. 

The Cheney’s actually wrote and said, ““President Obama, is on track to securing his legacy as the man who betrayed our past and squandered our freedom. Only a fool, would believe American policy in Iraq should be ceded to Iran, the world’s largest state sponsor of terror.” 

 

They said this as if this is what Obama is actually doing.  As if this war weren’t the war that Cheney so passionately pushed for and supported that actually made Iran, the biggest winner of Cheney’s Iraq war.  And this was long before Obama even took office.

In trying to imitate a famous quote by Sir. Winston Churchill, the former veep then actually wrote and said the following, “Rarely has a U.S. president been so wrong about so much at the expense of so many.”  Now that’s really disgusting! 

I have to say that I now agree with what the current president’s press secretary said when a reporter asked him about this quote from the Cheney’s.  Jay Carney, on his last day as the president’s press secretary, listened to the reporter repeating this Cheney quote about President Obama, and Carney interrupted the reporter asking “Which president are you talking about?”

This drew laughs with the press corps, but they were laughing about all the harm from Bush-Cheney administration, not President Obama.

Yes, based on the bad and highly expensive decisions by the Dynamic, Bush-Cheney Duo, Cheney’s quote is much more appropriate for the Bush-Cheney administration than that of President Obama.

Not many leaders can actually be as responsible for the many major screw-ups as were President Bush and especially his veep, Dick Cheney.

How many US administrations can be responsible for sending a nation into an unnecessary war under false pretenses?  And a war that cost the deaths of over 4000 US troops, and over 100,000 Iraqi civilians, while costing a trillion US dollars.

Let’s look at just a few of the many falsehoods and screw-ups of this particular VP himself:

·       Cheney was wrong in almost every prediction he made about the war. With the late Tim Russert on NBC’s Meet the Press, Cheney was adamant that “to suggest that we need several hundred thousand troops there after military operations cease, after the conflict ends, I don’t think is accurate. I think that’s an overstatement.”

It’s hard to get a good number today, but it took well over 1 million deployments of US troops to Iraq over 10 years.

·       Cheney had said about the people of Iraq, “We will, in fact, be greeted as liberators.”  Not even close.

·       Cheney was asked, “You are convinced the Kurds, the Sunnis, the Shiites will come together in a democracy?” He said yes, and was so wrong as there became an internal civil war amongst these groups as thousands of US soldiers were stationed in Iraq.

·       Here is an actual quote from Mr. Cheney that speaks for itself: “If you look at the opposition, they’ve come together, I think, very effectively, with representatives from Shia, Sunni and Kurdish elements in the population. They understand the importance of preserving and building on an Iraqi national identity. They don’t like to have the U.S., for example, come in and insist on dealing with people sort of on a hyphenated basis — the Iraqi-Shia, Iraqi-Sunni — but rather to focus on Iraq as a nation and all that it can accomplish as a nation, and we try to be sensitive to those concerns. I think the prospects of being able to achieve this kind of success, if you will, from a political standpoint, are probably better than they would be for virtually any other country and under similar circumstances in that part of the world.” And today there is a new civil war going on in Iraq as we speak.  They have been at war for 13 centuries.

·       Cheney had told the Veterans of Foreign Wars about the war in Iraq: “Extremists in the region would have to rethink their strategy of jihad, moderates throughout the [Middle-East] region would take heart.  Our ability to advance the Israeli-Palestinian peace process would be enhanced.” So, according to the veep, this was the war that would cure all of the problems in the middle east.

·       In one month before the war, Cheney claimed that Saddam Hussain was trying to buy yellowcake uranium from Niger and aluminum tubes used in centrifuges to enrich uranium for nuclear weapons.  Both were very wrong.

·       It was the Bush-Cheney duo that had said the war in Iraq would take, at the most, 6 months, and would be paid for by Iraq’s petroleum reserves.  (It took 10 years and was paid for by trillions of US tax dollars.)

·       Cheney had said it was proven that Iraq had WMD’s that included nuclear weapons.  We all know where that one went.

·       Cheney stated that there was a direct connection between al Qaeda and Iraq.  Wrong again.

·       I find it interesting that this war mongering coward had five deferments so that he would not have to fight in the war in Vietnam.

Today, when the Cheney’s are called out for how mistaken they were about Iraq, they immediately take the pious approach and begin lecturing against “re-litigating the past”.  They then say, “We must instead look forward.”

 

At the same time, their idea of looking forward is by feeling perfectly free to trash the current president in extreme and vile terms.

You know, I cannot think of anyone that I truly “hate”.  But I do think that perhaps, push comes to shove, if I had to choose one, this man could be the one.

Copyright G.Ater  2014