Yet again, former VP Dick "Dark Side" Cheney has flapped his irrelevant gums regarding President Obama's foreign policy decisions. This time, he's politicizing Obama's response to the attempted terrorist attack on Christmas Day.
From Politico:
"As I’ve watched the events of the last few days it is clear once again that President Obama is trying to pretend we are not at war. He seems to think if he has a low-key response to an attempt to blow up an airliner and kill hundreds of people, we won’t be at war. He seems to think if he gives terrorists the rights of Americans, lets them lawyer up and reads them their Miranda rights, we won’t be at war. He seems to think if we bring the mastermind of Sept. 11 to New York, give him a lawyer and trial in civilian court, we won’t be at war.
Once again, Cheney and the Rovian Republicans have shown their willingness to politicize pretty much anything, including the attempted murder of 300 American civilians. Stay classy, Darth.
And yes, you can clearly see how President Obama is pretending we're not at war. After all, he risked further alienating his base by choosing to escalate the war in Afghanistan, sending even more troops. And after several months of trying to decide what to do in Afghanistan, no less. Surely this was all an elaborate scheme to click his heels and wish the war into oblivion, as Mr. Cheney suggests he is doing.
I suppose we should listen to the advice of the former Vice President. After all, his administration gave us the foreign policy disaster that was and is the Iraq war; he's an expert at alienating the entire world and saddling the nation's military with an unnecessary and ill-planned war, costing thousands of American lives, hundreds of thousands of Iraqi lives and hundreds of billions of dollars. I suppose President Obama should have continued the shoot-first-ask-questions-later mentality of the Bush Administration, rather than planning the right course of action. That'll prove we're at war!
Shame on Dick Cheney for politicizing what could have been a Christmas tragedy, and shame on any Republicans who attempt to do the same in the coming elections.
And yes, you can clearly see how President Obama is pretending we're not at war. After all, he risked further alienating his base by choosing to escalate the war in Afghanistan, sending even more troops. And after several months of trying to decide what to do in Afghanistan, no less. Surely this was all an elaborate scheme to click his heels and wish the war into oblivion, as Mr. Cheney suggests he is doing.
I suppose we should listen to the advice of the former Vice President. After all, his administration gave us the foreign policy disaster that was and is the Iraq war; he's an expert at alienating the entire world and saddling the nation's military with an unnecessary and ill-planned war, costing thousands of American lives, hundreds of thousands of Iraqi lives and hundreds of billions of dollars. I suppose President Obama should have continued the shoot-first-ask-questions-later mentality of the Bush Administration, rather than planning the right course of action. That'll prove we're at war!
Shame on Dick Cheney for politicizing what could have been a Christmas tragedy, and shame on any Republicans who attempt to do the same in the coming elections.
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