Dick Cheney was Bush’s silent partner for 8 years, but now he won’t shut up (Dowd)

[struggle4progress]

WHEN BUSH 41 was ramping up to the Gulf War, assembling a coalition to fight Saddam, Jimmy Carter sent a letter to members of the UN Security Council urging them not to rush into conflict without further exploring a negotiated solution.

The first president Bush and other Republicans in Washington considered this treasonous, a former president trying to thwart a sitting one, lobbying foreign diplomats to oppose his own country on a war resolution. In 2002, when Bush Junior was ramping up to his war against Saddam, Al Gore made a speech trying to slow down that war resolution, pointing out that pivoting from Osama to Saddam for no reason, initiating "pre-emptive" war, and blowing off our allies would undermine the war on terror.

Charles Krauthammer called Gore’s speech "a disgrace." Michael Kelly, his fellow Washington Post columnist, called it "vile" and "contemptible." Newt Gingrich said that the former vice president asserting that W. was making America less safe was "well outside the mark of an appropriate debate."

"I think the president should be doing what he thinks is best as commander in chief," Gingrich said flatly. Now, however, Gingrich backs Dick Cheney when he asserts that President Barack Obama has made America less safe ... http://thechronicleherald.ca/NovaScotian/1122467.html

[ixion]

1. IOKIYAR

'nuff said.

[Demeter]

2. Neither Will Maureen Dowd--How About a Prisoner Exchange?

[Joe Bacon]

3. Looks like Mauron committed a little plagiarism

Mauron is back to her old tricks, She took a paragraph Josh Marshall wrote and used it without noting the source.

http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/blogs/thejoshuablog/2009/05/ny-times-maureen-dowd-plagiari.php

This coming from the same Mauron who torpedoed Joe Biden in 1988 for plagiarism

Maybe DUers need to start a pool to guess when Mauron will finally have an original thought :evilgrin:

[struggle4progress]

4. !

[Politicalboi]

5. Cheney was the silent

President for 8 years. And Newty and friends need to STFU.