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Cheney's chutzpah

By Walt - Oct 28th, 2009 at 2:51 pm EDT

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Dick Cheney, the master of pulling strings on his puppets from backstage, has lost his position backstage at the White House and his puppets who have retired, resigned or been convicted of a crime. Now that he is in the unfamiliar position of speaking for himself in front of the curtain, he is trying to be a Republican spokesman at the same time as he tries to defend himself from looming charges of sponsoring torture. To suggest that the Obama administration is incapable of defending the country when he and his puppets let bin Laden escape, invaded Iraq needlessly and neglected Afghanistan is the height of chutzpah and hypocrisy.

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By "Obama Doug" Evans Betanco Oct 28th 2009 at 8:30 pm EDT (Updated Oct 28th 2009 at 8:30 pm EDT)

The man is such a political animal he's forgotten ethics, morality, and the American Way! Gracias, OD

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By The Bard of Wilmette Oct 28th 2009 at 10:13 pm EDT (Updated Oct 28th 2009 at 10:13 pm EDT)

Cheney's characterization of Obama's careful policy review regarding Afghanistan as "dithering" is contemptible... even by Cheney's standards. One of the qualities many people admired about George W. Bush was that he was supposedly decisive. He took little time to make a decision, and then he stuck to the decision that he made. Often, this would take place after Dick Cheney had carefully made sure that the only advice Bush ever got came from Cheney, or others whose thinking was identical to Cheney's. That "decisiveness" might have been a good thing... if most of the decisions were good ones. There is no doubt in my mind how history will judge the Bush/Cheney administration.

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