Even Fox News roasted the former vice president over his attack on Obama's Iraq policy.
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Republican opportunists
hoping to score political points are hammering President Barack Obama with
vitriolic criticism and blaming him for the latest upheaval in Iraq. So I was
pleased when, finally, two Republicans spoke out loudly to deflect those
partisan attacks.
Thank you, Dick and Liz
Cheney.
I mean it. The
snarling, self-righteous, shameless old hypocrite wrote a nasty op-ed with his daughter in The Wall Street Journal. They
meant to skewer Obama on Iraq, but their words backfired.
It was former Vice
President Dick Cheney and his imperious regime of neo-con chicken-hawks.
The punchline in their
op-ed was a haymaker intended to floor Obama: “Rarely has a U.S. president been
so wrong about so much at the expense of so many.”
But — whammo — it was
such a wild swing that instead of socking Obama, the Cheneys’ roundhouse punch
went full-circle and smashed into the former vice president’s own glass jaw.
Even Fox News, which had been a wildly enthusiastic backer of Cheney’s wars, roasted
him over that line.
“Time and time again,
history has proven that you got it wrong as well in Iraq, sir. You said there
was no doubt Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction. You said we would
be greeted as liberators. You said the Iraq insurgency was in the last throes
back in 2005,” Fox interviewer Megyn Kelly told Dick Cheney. “What do you say to
those who say you were so wrong about so much at the expense of so many?”
Precisely, right.
Thank you, Dick and Liz
Cheney, for taking the heat off of Obama and putting it right where it belongs.
OtherWords columnist Jim Hightower is a radio commentator,
writer, and public speaker. He’s also editor of the populist newsletter, The
Hightower Lowdown. OtherWords.org