Retired General Slams Cheney As "Incompetent War Fighter"

[Poiuyt]

In an NSN press release, (Retired General Paul) Eaton empties his chamber:

The record is clear: Dick Cheney and the Bush administration were incompetent war fighters. They ignored Afghanistan for 7 years with a crude approach to counter-insurgency warfare best illustrated by: 1. Deny it. 2. Ignore it. 3. Bomb it. While our intelligence agencies called the region the greatest threat to America, the Bush White House under-resourced our military efforts, shifted attention to Iraq, and failed to bring to justice the masterminds of September 11.

The only time Cheney and his cabal of foreign policy 'experts' have anything to say is when they feel compelled to protect this failed legacy. While President Obama is tasked with cleaning up the considerable mess they left behind, they continue to defend torture or rewrite a legacy of indifference on Afghanistan. Simply put, Mr. Cheney sees history throughout extremely myopic and partisan eyes.


Read more at: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/22/national-security-network_n_330033.html

[Overseas]

1. K&R for truth telling. //nt

[Oceansaway]

2. K&R...n/t

[leanderj]

3. Which war did Cheney serve in?

Remind me....

[Kadie]

7. Welcome to DU leanderj !

:hi:

[bdamomma]

4. those retired Generals know what a "dick" Dick is.

[Kadie]

5. K&R! n/t

[quiet.american]

6. Affirmative! nt

[Uncle Joe]

8. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, Poiuyt.

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

9. Let's ask General Shinsheki what he thinks! nt.

[tularetom]

10. Um, wouldn't he have to actually FIGHT in a war to be an "uncompetent war fighter"?

Since he has never to my knowledge fought in a war, and since he wet to great lengths to avoid doing so, IMO it is grossly unfair to the dick to call him incompetent.

[CoffeeCat]

11. The neocons unleashed McChrystal on Obama...now--

Obama and the good guys show those bastards that 'two can play at that game', and they found their own military expert to
attack Cheney.

No wonder Bush Sr. summoned Obama down to Texas. You can bet George Sr gave Obama
a piece of his mind.

Obama isn't playing nice with the neocon overlord psychopaths who have not yet figured out that they aren't in power.