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White House hits back at Cheney, blames Bush for securi... - 12/31/2009 6:17:58 PM   
Brain


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Status: offline 		It's nice to see the White House responding to this man, who I think is out of control. He's lucky he doesn't get prosecuted for war crimes; he belongs in prison for all the people that are dead because of his lies and his bad decisions And what a waste of money in Iraq where a mess has been accomplished, I expect a civil war to break out in that country after the United States leaves. I don't know what happened to Dick Cheney. I don't remember him as a nut when he was secretary of defense in the Reagan administration.

White House hits back at Cheney, blames Bush for security failures | Raw Story

Pfeiffer also outlined an interpretation of the war formerly known as the "war on terror" that places the blame for the continuing existence of al-Qaeda on the Bush administration.

[F]or seven years after 9/11, while our national security was overwhelmingly focused on Iraq -- a country that had no al-Qaeda presence before our invasion -- Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda's leadership was able to set up camp in the border region of Pakistan and Afghanistan, where they continued to plot attacks against the United States. ... It was President Obama who finally implemented a strategy of winding down the war in Iraq, and actually focusing our resources on the war against al-Qaeda – more than doubling our troops in Afghanistan, and building partnerships to target al-Qaeda’s safe-havens in Yemen and Somalia.

http://rawstory.com/2009/12/white-house-hits-cheney-blames-bush-terror-war-failures/
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RE: White House hits back at Cheney, blames Bush for se... - 12/31/2009 8:01:03 PM   
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I don't know what happened to Dick Cheney. I don't remember him as a nut when he was secretary of defense in the Reagan administration.


He goes back to the Nixon Administration. Does that help explain it?

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RE: White House hits back at Cheney, blames Bush for se... - 1/1/2010 12:17:40 PM   
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Status: offline 		Obama blaming Bush for something...I'm shocked!!! Simply shocked, I tell you.

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RE: White House hits back at Cheney, blames Bush for se... - 1/1/2010 12:34:47 PM   
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Mr. Obama: "I don't know where the buck stops. But I do know this - I'll tell you one thing I do know. It sure as hell doesn't stop here."




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Obama blaming Bush for something...I'm shocked!!! Simply shocked, I tell you.


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RE: White House hits back at Cheney, blames Bush for se... - 1/1/2010 12:35:59 PM   
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that part you got right, doesnt stop.

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RE: White House hits back at Cheney, blames Bush for se... - 1/1/2010 12:38:08 PM   
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I think the buck is above his pay grade.


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RE: White House hits back at Cheney, blames Bush for se... - 1/1/2010 1:34:52 PM   
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Last thing we need is for this kind of "He started it, Mom!" stupidity.  I supposed it was inevitable.  It's a shame.  Bush went out of his way to be gracious to Obama at first.  But Cheney never seemed to buy into that...


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RE: White House hits back at Cheney, blames Bush for se... - 1/1/2010 3:17:28 PM   
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Status: offline 		After Dicks speech and his rambling about "enhanced interrogation" techniques.  I started wondering where I heard that term before.  Then I remembered, it was a history class in college, it is the term the Nazi's used when talking about their treatment of Jews, Gypsies, Greeks and others held in camps while being tortured/put to death during WWII. 

I find it interesting how people who support the right call O'bama and some of his policies "nazi" like but never blink an eye when their party uses a term created by nazi's for torture when discussing our countries actions.

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RE: White House hits back at Cheney, blames Bush for se... - 1/1/2010 3:28:55 PM   
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Crap.

Last thing we need is for this kind of "He started it, Mom!" stupidity.  I supposed it was inevitable.  It's a shame.  Bush went out of his way to be gracious to Obama at first.  But Cheney never seemed to buy into that...

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It seems as if Bush has also tried to distance himself from Cheney.

A tacit acknowledgment of a mistake in picking him as Vice-President?



Bush, Cheney split on Obama - Mike Allen - POLITICO.com


A person familiar with Bush’s thinking said that as a member of the former president’s club, he believes he should stay on the sidelines. The person added that Bush’s views on national-security issues are well-known.

But a former White House official under Bush said some White House alumni wish Cheney would cool it.
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“We all sort of feel the same way: It’s his right to do it,” the former official said. “We don’t necessarily think it’s a good idea.

The former official said the difference in approach reflects “a division that stretches back pretty far.” “There were a lot of differences of opinion” when the two were in the White House, the former official said. “The president prevailed, because he was president. The vice president sat back and was dutiful and loyal. But that is a different situation than you have now.”



Hot Air » Blog Archive » More evidence of a Bush-Cheney split?


Since the end of the Bush administration, rumors have swirled about the relationship between the former president and his VP.  The catalyst was supposedly Bush’s failure to pardon Scooter Libby, which reportedly angered Dick Cheney and eventually forced George Bush to stop taking his calls in the final days.  This may be playing out in a subtle fashion as the two men take very different approaches towards the new administration, as Bush may have given a not-so-subtle dig at Cheney’s outspoken criticisms of Barack Obama:
Former President George W. Bush said on Tuesday that he won’t criticize Barack Obama because the new U.S. president “deserves my silence,” and said he plans to write a book about the 12 toughest decisions he made in office.

Bush declined to critique the Obama administration in his first speech since leaving office in January. Former Vice President Dick Cheney has said that Obama’s decisions threatened America’s safety. “I’m not going to spend my time criticizing him. There are plenty of critics in the arena,” Bush said. “He deserves my silence.”


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