You have to hand it to Dick Cheney. How many people, knowing what has happened in Iraq over the last 12 , would dare to write an op-ed in The Wall Street Journal
containing this line: "Rarely has a U.S. president been so wrong about
so much at the expense of so many" -- and not be talking about George W.
Bush? The man has chutzpah.
Read more: Opinion: Dick Cheney's amazing chutzpah on Iraq - CNN.com
The op-ed in question
was co-written with Cheney's daughter Liz, former State Department
worker and failed Senate candidate. The two are forming a new
organization, the Alliance for a Strong America.
Of all the former Bush
administration officials who have emerged in the last few days to blame
the deteriorating situation in Iraq on Barack Obama, one might think
Cheney would be among the last.
It's one thing to turn on
your TV and hear that Obama is a dangerous weakling from people like
Paul Wolfowitz and William Kristol, the ones who told us that war with
Iraq would be cheap and easy, then bring a wave of peace and democracy
across the Middle East.
But Cheney?
Cheney was the war's
chief propagandist, who told the American public more spectacular
falsehoods than anyone, including Bush himself. Cheney was the one who told us in 2002
that "Simply stated, there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has
weapons of mass destruction. There is no doubt he is amassing them to
use against our friends, against our allies, and against us."
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