I am really getting tired of hearing the Cheneys trying to both rewrite history and justify their crimes.
Dick is trying to blame Richard Clarke for 9/11, when everyone knows Clarke warned the Bush administration from day one on al-qaeda. And Condi all but dismissed the August 2001 memo.
We also hear from Dick that there was never really any real evidence tying Iraq to 9/11. Yet we all remember how they tried to tie al-qaeda to Iraq and thus Iraq to 9/11. This revisionist history is really getting annoying to say the least. More lies on top of the crimes.
Iraq was never about freeing people from a dictator. We know that these wolves saw this as a means to gain control of oil and insinuate themselves into the Middle East as we had never done before.
Bush had no real understanding of Muslim history, factions and conflicts. And there certainly was no plan other than rushing in to topple Saddam. “Mission Accomplished.”
Now for Liz to call this a tremendous success and “huge service” is ludicrous. It’s insulting to the thousands of Iraqis who have been murdered.
What can we do to make the Cheneys go away? Personally, I think they should move to Iraq and peddle their goods there.
Wolves of a Feather…
From Huffington Post:
Liz Cheney admitted on Monday that when it came to her father’s handling of the occupation of Iraq by U.S. forces, “certainly we made mistakes.”
“There is just no question about that,” said the former state department employee and ubiquitous defender of the Bush administration’s national security policies.
Speaking at the U.S. Capitol Visitors Center for the Clare Boothe Luce Policy Institute’s Conservative Leadership Seminar, Cheney pinpointed the errors as stemming from a fundamental misjudgment about the strength of Iraq’s political institutions.
“I think that when we were in the months and years right after Saddam was deposed, there are things that I probably would do differently now,” she said. “We had this sense that one could go into a nation like Iraq and if you sort of either arrested or removed from office the top layer of leadership that other Iraqis would sort of rise up and take over. I don’t think we expected the population to be so traumatized. But I think what we saw is that after decades of Saddam’s rule nobody was willing to step up and take over. People waited for instruction for everything.”
The remarks, which went relatively unnoticed, reflect a willingness for introspection on Iraq that few of the war’s most ardent defenders have allowed. The former vice president himself has admitted that mistakes were made, but primarily in posture, not policy. For instance, he has said it was wrong for him to have declared that the insurgency was in its last throes when it clearly wasn’t. He has been decidedly less reflective about the troop levels that were deployed to the war in the first place and that had to deal with that insurgency.
Despite calling America’s invasion of Iraq “by no means perfect,” Liz Cheney, like her father promised that history books would declare the invasion to be a tremendous success. Already, she declared, the war had proven to be “a huge service for humanity, a huge service for security, a huge service for the Middle East, for the people of Iraq.”
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June 10, 2009 at 6:05 am
Ewe.. the Cheney’s… nothing but bad blood from a bad gene pool.
Actually, the more the Cheney’s talk, the more people move away from the Republican Party.
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