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Originally Posted by LexusLover
Like a lot of your other "assessments" ... you just had to be there to know.
And you were MIA on the interview, ....
.... so you rely on a retread, makeover, cherry-picked quote. Go figure!
Lying again, are you, and using propoganda to do it.
Did you actually hear the interview, or were you "sipping" again?
The ARTICLE was "clear" .... clearly wrong! And NOW YOU ARE!
Just as WRONG as you have been on your "MISSION ACCOMPLISHED" bullshit conclusions ...
....... looking at banners and not substance.
Your envy overwhelms you!
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I saw excerpts on the "Daily Show". I saw the whole thing on Fox.
Where did you see a version that left any doubts?
From FoxNews Politics.
Kelly began by quoting liberal Washington Post columnist Paul Waldman:
“‘There is not a single person in America who has been more wrong and more shamelessly dishonest on the topic of Iraq than Dick Cheney, and now as the cascade of misery and death and chaos, he did so much to unleash raises anew, Mr. Cheney has the unadulterated gall to come before the country and tell us that it's all someone else's fault.’
The suggestion is that you caused this mess, Mr. Vice President. What say you?”
Cheney responded with his standard defense: “I think we went into Iraq for very good reasons. I think when we left office, we had a situation in Iraq that was very positive… What happened was that Barack Obama came to office, and instead of negotiating a stay behind agreement, he basically walked away from it.”
Kelly came back hard:
“But time and time again, history has proven that you got it wrong as well in Iraq, sir. You said there were no doubts Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction. You said we would greeted as liberators. You said the Iraq insurgency was in the last throes back in 2005. And you said that after our intervention, extremists would have to, quote, ‘rethink their strategy of Jihad.’ Now with almost a trillion dollars spent there with 4,500 American lives lost there, what do you say to those who say, you were so wrong about so much at the expense of so many?”
Cheney stuck to his guns:
“We inherited a situation where there was no doubt in anybody's mind about the extent of Saddam's involvement in weapons of mass destruction. We had a situation where if we -- after 9/11, we were concerned about a follow-up attack, it would involve not just airline tickets and box cutters as the weapons, but rather something far deadlier, perhaps even a nuclear weapon.”
Except there were no WMDs or nuclear weapons.
Whether you agree with the decision to invade or not, and whether you believe Obama made a mess of the aftermath or not, this was accountability in action.
The latest Cheney offensive, which began with a Wall Street Journal op-ed written with Liz, who recently withdrew as a Senate candidate in Wyoming, has drawn intense criticism. A debate was already brewing over whether the media should give a platform to the likes of Bill Kristol, Paul Wolfowitz, Paul Bremer and other pro-war advocates to make the case for renewed military intervention in Iraq now that terrorists have seized nearly a third of the country.
CNN’s Don Lemon, for example, declared “the fact that Dick Cheney has the gall to offer anyone advice on Iraq is laughable, except it’s not funny.”
But the more stinging critique comes from the right, from folks who might be expected to be sympathetic to Cheney.
Fox News contributor Byron York writes in the
Washington Examiner: “The former vice president simply does not take into account the Bush administration's failures in Iraq. Reciting
President Obama's own failures, Cheney writes: ‘Rarely has a U.S. president been so wrong about so much at the expense of so many.’ There's a remarkable lack of self-examination in that line.
“It's not that Cheney, with a crisis raging, should write a piece apologizing for decisions made years ago. It's just that any article pointing out the Obama administration's mistakes in Iraq would be far more credible if it included even a brief admission of the Bush administration's errors, too.”
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/06/20/megyn-kelly-vs-dick-cheney-accountability-moment-for-ex-veep/
