Cheney: Obama's Afghan War Strategy 'Bears Striking Resemblance' to Bush's -- FOX News
Former Vice President Dick Cheney returned fire on the Obama administration Wednesday over an allegation that the Bush White House did not ask any key questions about the war in Afghanistan, forcing Obama officials to form a strategy from scratch and leaving the war "adrift."
Former Vice President Dick Cheney said Wednesday that the Bush administration had developed a new strategy on the war in Afghanistan before leaving office -- a strategy that he said "bears a striking resemblance" to the one announced by President Obama in March.
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My Comment: I may disagree with many things that the former Vice President has said or done in the past .... but he is probably right on this one. President Obama made it very clear that Afghanistan was/is a war of necessity, and that they had a plan on what to do in Afghanistan (March 2009). 8 months later .... we are at the end of October ..... and still no firm decision on how to address the growing insurgency in Afghanistan has been made from the White House.
Instead, we now have an Administration that prefers to blame the previous White House for the problems that they themselves put into motion when they ordered the shipping of thousands of additional soldiers to Afghanistan this past spring. This failure by some in the White House to grasp that this is their war now .... and their responsibility .... is not helping the situation. What is worse, the perception that I am receiving is that some in the White House do not want to assume this responsibility .... and are trying their best to wash their hands of it.
They cannot. President Obama IS the Commander in Chief .... and he is the man ultimately responsible for what happens in Afghanistan .... for better or worse.
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Cheney should shut up. This war has been going on for years and suddenly it's a crisis because Obama hasn't responded quickly enough to McChrystal's request? Nonsense. There is also the matter of their recent bogus elections to be sorted out. For Cheney to call anyone afraid is laughable. The guy with 5 deferments. Please. Doesn't joking about torturing people put our troops in danger as well? He lies repeatedly and hides behind a veil of patriotism.
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