Dick Cheney goes for the jugular

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Dick Cheney goes for the jugular
Like a horror movie monster, the former vice-president keeps coming back to sink his teeth into Obama's foreign policy
o Cliff Schecter
o guardian.co.uk, Thursday 5 November 2009 14.00 GMT


Dick Cheney: still hanging around. Illustration by Shahid

In response to Dick Cheney's idiotic attack on Barack Obama's Afghanistan policy, newly-minted progressive hero Alan Grayson said what many of us have often thought: "When he was done speaking, did he just then turn into a bat and fly away?"

If only it were so easy to get rid of the former vice-president. While Cheney may disappear into an undisclosed location for a period of time, before you know it he slinks on back, more excruciating than ever.

Look, there's Dick – the guy who had absolutely no clue or care about Afghanistan for eight years – attacking Obama for supposedly employing the Bush administration's strategy there, or at least one "bearing a striking resemblance to the strategy we passed to them".

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I'll sum up my feelings about the Cheneys by allowing retired General Paul Eaton do the talking. The description of our former vice-president by this 30-plus year army man, charged from 2003-2004 with overseeing the training of the Iraqi army, can pretty much be applied to the entire Cheney clan:

The record is clear: Dick Cheney and the Bush administration were incompetent war fighters. They ignored Afghanistan for seven 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.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2009/nov/04/dick-cheney-us-foreign-policy

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1. old goat sucker

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2. "When he was done speaking, did he just then turn into a bat and fly away?"

:rofl: :applause: :rofl:

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3. I love this part

All this might be comical if the arrogance and ignorance of the Cheneys hadn't ruined so many lives, including those of many members of the US armed forces abroad. I think the large majority of Americans who expressed their displeasure with Dick Cheney in poll after poll would be happy to see this clique of corruption, cronyism and cockeyed thinking just go away.

Bagram, perhaps? At least Liz seems to really like how things work there.