By John W. Lillpop
Former Vice President and American patriot Dick Cheney has a way with words that seems to tweak our alleged Commander-in-chief even more than the brutal truths dished out by FOXNEWS and Glenn Beck.
As reported in part at cbsnews.com (+):
"Former Vice President Dick Cheney on Wednesday night accused the White House of dithering over the strategy for the war in Afghanistan and urged President Barack Obama to 'do what it takes to win.'
'Make no mistake. Signals of indecision out of Washington hurt our allies and embolden our adversaries,' Cheney said while accepting an award from a conservative national security group, the Center for Security Policy."
"Cheney disputed remarks by White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel that the Bush administration had been adrift concerning the war in Afghanistan and that the Obama administration had to start from the beginning to develop a strategy for the 8-year-old war.
"To the contrary, Cheney said, the Bush administration undertook its own review of the war before leaving office and presented its findings to Obama's transition team.
'They asked us not to announce our findings publicly, and we agreed, giving them the benefit of our work and the benefit of the doubt,' Cheney said. The strategy Obama announced in March bore a 'striking resemblance' to what the Bush administration review had found, the vice president said."
Americans owe a special debt of gratitude to Dick Cheney for speaking out with courage and intelligence on an issue that concerns the well being of young Americans in harms way in Afghanistan.
With any luck, Cheney's words will prompt the Obama administration to vacate the "Blame Bush" strategy long enough to take take the war seriously, including steps to win the damn thing!
+http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/10/21/ap/preswho/main5407819.shtml
