Cheney: over the edge

31 December 2009 |permalink | email article

Disordered is now the appropriate adjective to describe the mental condition of former Vice President Dick Cheney after he described President Obama as “trying to pretend we are not at war” with terrorists.

As if that was not insulting enough to describe our elected president Cheney told Politico that Obama doesn’t want to admit we are at war because “he has a different goal of his presidency – social transformation – the restructuring of American society.”

The White House finally took off the gloves, noting that the system that missed the would-be bomber was put in place by President George W. Bush. Dan Pfeiffer, the White House communications director, made the point that Obama has repeatedly said the nation is at war with Al Qaeda, “even if he doesn’t beat his chest to prove it.”

Pfeiffer argued that the Bush-Cheney administration’s focus on Iraq allowed Al Qaeda to to reconstitute itself not only in the border regions of Afghanistan and Pakistan but also with Yemen.

After 9/11 the U.S. first went into Afghanistan in search of Osama bin Laden but the Bush-Cheney focus on Iraq centered on taking down Saddam Hussein. “Seven year of bellicose rhetoric failed to reduce the threat from Al Qaeda and succeeded in dividing this country.”

Pfeiffer added that “it seems strangely off-key, with the U.S. under attack, for the architect of those policies to be attacking the President.” The truth is Cheney is incapable of admitting the White House went to war in the wrong country.

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