Vice President Richard B "Big Time" "Dick" Cheney in Charge

[Rose Siding]

Man of the Peep-hole, Face Shooter, Statesman-o-war. Sure, you've read about the continuing success of his energy task force, but what else has he done for you lately? Froomkin links one of today's WaPoo's op-eds regarding the crisis in Pakistan, to one by the same author from June:

The problem is exacerbated by a dramatic drop-off in U.S. expertise on Pakistan. Retired American officials say that, for the first time in U.S. history, nobody with serious Pakistan experience is working in the South Asia bureau of the State Department, on State's policy planning staff, on the National Security Council staff or even in Vice President Cheney's office....."They know nothing of Pakistan," a former senior U.S. diplomat said.......

Current and past U.S. officials tell me that Pakistan policy is essentially being run from Cheney's office. The vice president, they say, is close to Musharraf and refuses to brook any U.S. criticism of him. This all fits; in recent months, I'm told, Pakistani opposition politicians visiting Washington have been ushered in to meet Cheney's aides, rather than taken to the State Department.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/15/AR2007061502073.html?hpid=opinionsbox1

An unimpeachable record of failure.


Hey, wake up and pass the dick taters