Dick Cheney’s contemptible shamelessness: The Vader veep strikes again

[DonViejo]

The man who promised we'd be "greeted as liberators" in Iraq dings Obama as the "worst president" on foreign policy

LUKE BRINKER

Richard Bruce Cheney waited all of four months following the end of his disastrous tenure as vice president to begin castigating newly minted President Barack Obama, asserting before the American Enterprise Institute that by jettisoning the Bush-Cheney torture regime, the nascent administration was dangerously conveying “weakness and opportunity” to would-be terrorists. It was a brazen claim for Cheney to make, given that the disgraces for which he served as a despicably smug champion — the Iraq war, Guantanamo, the Orwellian “enhanced interrogation” program — were nothing if not Grade-A recruitment tools for terrorists, to say nothing of their ramifications for America’s international standing. The ex-veep did allow, however, that Obama was capable of making “wise decisions,” by which he meant decisions that perpetuated the war footing of the Bush era; Cheney specifically applauded the Obama administration’s escalation of the U.S. war in Afghanistan — a policy worthy of “our support,” the trigger-happy Dick told his conservative audience.

But whereas our 46th vice president could once bring himself to admit that Obama adhered to many of the hawkish precepts that undergirded the Bush-Cheney foreign policy, he now depicts Obama as a man whose global agenda is no different from that of someone bent on the destruction of America. Appearing alongside his daughter Liz — she’s the one who was supposed to be a senator by now — on the conservative Hugh Hewitt Show on Tuesday, Cheney assailed the recently announced framework for a nuclear deal with Iran, connecting the potential accord to a broader record that Cheney contended makes Obama the “worst president we’ve ever had.”

“This is the most, one of the most radical regimes in history, headed up by the mullahs who believe in a very, sort of, I think, twisted version of the Koran, who are sworn to destroy Israel, who always have these big meetings. They did just this week, because they were negotiating in Geneva, shouting ‘Death To America,’” Cheney said. “This is a totally radical regime that is the premiere sponsor of state terrorism in the world, and Obama’s about to give them nuclear weapons. It’s — I can’t think of a more terrible burden to leave the next president than what Obama is creating here.”

He continued: “If you had somebody as president who wanted to take America down, who wanted to fundamentally weaken our position in the world and reduce our capacity to influence events, turn our back on our allies and encourage our adversaries, it would look exactly like what Barack Obama’s doing. I think his actions are constituted in my mind those of the worst president we’ve ever had.”

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[Peregrine Took]

1. The hatred is keeping him alive- its why he gets up in the morning. n/t

[HassleCat]

2. We Know

I think we all know he just says this stuff to extend his 15 minutes, and to cover for the fact that he and his puppet president created one of the biggest messes we've had in a while. He should stick to what he does best, shooting his friends in the face.

[Wellstone ruled]

3. Mr. Cheney has real

personal issues and it is vary apparent. Only met the man once,and chatted ever so briefly,made the hair on my neck stand on end. Very cold and egocentric.

[hifiguy]

4. We had better get used to it.

The undead tend to have very long existences.

[BlueStater]

5. Will he just fucking die already?

I've given up hope of ever seeing his vile ass get tossed in prison so he can please do the whole world a favor and simply expire? Just have his new heart reject the evil, revolting shell it was placed into.