You undoubtedly are aware that former Vice President Dick Cheney has been extremely critical of President Obama. On Wednesday, June 18th, 2014 - in an outrageous op-ed piece in The Wall Street Journal - Mr. Cheney blasted the President and wrote..."Rarely has a U.S. President been so wrong about so much at the expense of so many. Too many times to count, Mr. Obama has told us he is ending the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan - as though wishing made it so."
Has Vice President Cheney forgotten that it was he...along with his boss - the Commander-in-Chief on March 20th, 2003...former President George W. Bush - who started the Iraq War - a war that should never have begun? Mr. Cheney wants to sweep under the rug that the then Iraqi President Saddam Hussein had nothing whatsoever to do with 9/11 - the horrific and tragic attacks on the United States on September 11th, 2001 - and that Saddam Hussein did not possess any Weapons of Mass Destruction...which were the reasons the Bush Administration sold the war to Congress...and to some - and I say some, not all - of the American people. 
Mr. Cheney has a lot of gall - a whole lot of nerve - criticizing President Obama. Does the former Vice President not remember that less than two months after declaring war on Iraq...President Bush - on May 1st, 2003 - stood on the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln...and made a televised speech to the American people that major combat operations in Iraq had come to a stop? A banner was hung on the ship behind Mr. Bush that boasted... "MISSION ACCOMPLISHED"...thus enthusiastically bragging that he ended the war in Iraq. But the war was not over. It continued throughout nearly 6 more years of Mr. Bush's administration...with President Obama having to inherit it for another 3 years - when Mr. Obama withdrew the last of our American troops from Iraq on December 18th, 2011. A total of 4,489 U.S. troops were killed during the almost 9 years of the Iraq War with 32,021 troops wounded - and the vast majority of those military casualties came after President Bush's "Mission Accomplished" speech.
Frankly...I penned the bulk of this commentary prior to President Clinton's remarks...but I wholeheartedly agree and echo his feelings. Vice President Cheney needs to come clean...and face the facts...that he and President Bush were wrong...and that they should never have begun a war with Iraq. It's President Bush and Vice President Cheney's fault that the United States of America was in Iraq to begin with...and we never should have been there at all. Enough said.And that's The Controversy for today.
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Once again you, President Obama, President Clinton, much of the main stream media and you did what you and they always like to do BLAME BUSH. President George W Bush did what he felt was in the best interest of the USA and the best way to help keep America safe. I will not debate if it was bad intelligence or it the WMD's were moved out of the country be fore we got there, or if the war was right or wrong. The intelligence the White House was working with said he had WMD's and the President did what a president should do and protected America. Right or wrong you can't go back in time and everything Obama has done with Iraq and now with Afghanistan along with Syria, Libya and Egypt (I could go on) has been on him, his screw-up ( with Hillary) not President Bush or Dick Cheney! The President should man-up and take responsibility for all his screw-ups and scandals but that's not the way of the left, they lie and demonize the other side and blame them for all of there own short comings.
ReplyDeleteIn an unprovoked invasion on Iraq, President George W. Bush declared war on a country for no credible reason whatsoever. There was a lie sold to the American people - some of whom - the frightened and scared who believed - that Saddam Hussein was plotting to attack the United States with Weapons of Mass Destruction - which was never true...because Hussein did not have any WMDs to perform such an attack. President Bush (#43) wanted to avenge his father - President George H. W. Bush (#41) and help his daddy save face from the failures of his war years earlier. Plain and simple. President Obama inherited the Iraq War and he did what he needed to do. And that's get our troops home. Too many Americans died for no justifiable cause. President Obama doesn't need to "take responsibility" for that. GBD
DeleteFirst of all, the fact is that the President did not declare war the US Congress (joint Senate and House) passed a resolution for the use of military force (including your favorite then Senator Clinton voted for it) which in affect was a declaration of war. Second anyone who believes the story about 43 doing this for 41 is no different in my mind then the birthers and those who claim the US government was responsible for 9/11. Do you also believe in the tooth fairy? All intelligence showed he still had WDM’s he had used them in the past and may make them available to terrorist. As President he had to error on the side of protecting the homeland from these weapons. I believe Iraq had them and they were moved out of the country before we invaded (ever hear of Syria, many Iraq military personnel have claimed they were moved to Syria). You and many others never got over that George W Bush beat Al Gore under the rules of electing the President set up in the Constitution. Nowhere in the Constitution does it say every vote must be counted no matter how long it takes, it says that each state’s legislative branch has the right and obligation to setup its own means in electing it’s representatives to the Electoral College. Florida has had the same rules for decade and all the SC did was up hold the state law and the Constitution!
ReplyDeleteIt's interesting how some of my readers who disagree with me will bring up issues that have nothing to do with the editorial they are commenting about. Your thoughts about the election between George W. Bush and Al Gore are totally irrelevant to my commentary above. But since you brought it up, if Vice President Gore had insisted that EVERY SINGLE VOTE be re-counted in Florida, not just a select few districts, then the United States of America would be different today as the Supreme Court would never have made the decision they did. Gore would have won Florida and, therefore, The White House, and a President Gore would never have done what a President Bush (#43) did by going to war with Iraq for no justifiable reason. GBD
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