Retired General Paul Eaton, senior adviser to the National Security Network was even tougher in hitting back at Cheney's comments about Obama's "dithering." In a press release from NSN, Eaton let him have it:
The record is clear: Dick Cheney and the Bush administration were incompetent war fighters. They ignored Afghanistan for 7 years with a crude approach to counter-insurgency warfare best illustrated by: 1. Deny it. 2. Ignore it. 3. Bomb it. While our intelligence agencies called the region the greatest threat to America, the Bush White House under-resourced our military efforts, shifted attention to Iraq, and failed to bring to justice the masterminds of September 11.
The only time Cheney and his cabal of foreign policy 'experts' have anything to say is when they feel compelled to protect this failed legacy. While President Obama is tasked with cleaning up the considerable mess they left behind, they continue to defend torture or rewrite a legacy of indifference on Afghanistan. Simply put, Mr. Cheney sees history throughout extremely myopic and partisan eyes.
Now that's telling him. But Cheney's speech was at a hyper-partisan sort of Bush crowd reunion, at which they gave him an award as "Keeper of the Flame" and Scooter Libby was also honored. So who really cares what he says?
I try not to. But he is so outrageously wrong and contemptible that I can't help it. I want him to be publicly repudiated until he stops doing it.
Ralph
And here's a blow-back response from the White House, Robert Gibbs speaking:'
ReplyDelete"What Vice President Cheney calls dithering, President Obama calls his solemn responsibility to the men and women in uniform and to the American public. I think we've all seen what happens when somebody doesn't take that responsibility seriously."