There He Goes Again

Dick Cheney is -- once again -- criticizing the President on his approach to the War on Terror.

Look, I understand why Cheney is saying crap like this.  What the fuck else is he going to say?  But what I can't believe is that Republicans are stupid enough to actually listen to this idiot.

If someone had led me down the primrose path and got me to support a war with Iraq -- and that war quickly became the biggest foreign policy blunder in U.S. history -- I would have little interest in getting more advice from this guy (unless, of course, it was for the purpose of listening to what he had to say and then doing the exact opposite).

And his role in creating this on-going cluster-fuck in Iraq was just the tip of the iceberg with regard to Cheney's over-the-top incompetence. Don't forget: the 9/11 Attacks happened on his watch -- even though the outgoing Clinton people told Cheney and his administration eight months prior to September 11, 2001 that Al Qaeda would be their top national security priority. And who could forget that his administration was warned a month before 9/11 that bin Laden was "determined to strike within the U.S."

Al Qaeda wasn't even on Cheney's radar in September of 2001, despite the admonitions from the bipartisan-authorized Hart-Rudman Commission earlier that year, which predicted a 9-11-type of attack where Americans would die on American soil, "possibly in large numbers." Indeed, the Bush people basically scrapped the Hart-Rudman recommendations and turned the whole terrorism deal over to (you guessed it) Dick Cheney, who then proceeded to not do a goddamned thing.  And 3000 Americans died as a result.

Now, if Cheney were to come out and say that he'd made some big mistakes during the run-up to the 9-11 Attacks and then compounded his errors by pushing a silly war with Iraq -- and then acknowledged that he had learned something from those colossal fuck-ups -- well, that might be different.  But this asshole thinks he made the right decisions all along and has nothing to apologize for.

To paraphrase Bill Maher, Dick Cheney is akin to some dude who dumps shit all over you and then tries to sell you relief from the flies. Cheney never learned from his mistakes, but that doesn't mean other Republicans can't learn from theirs.  And one of the GOP's biggest mistakes was listening to Dick Cheney in the first place.