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http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/kerry-strikes-backJohn Kerry hits back at former Vice President Cheney
05/29/14 09:46 PMUpdated 05/29/14 10:00 PM
By Rachel Kleinman
Im not surprised to hear from Dick Cheney something thats obviously, number one, negative, and number two, wrong.
Thats what U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry told PBSs Gwen Ifill in a Thursday interview on PBS NewsHour, when asked what he thought of the former vice presidents comments about President Obamas timeline to withdraw American troops from Afghanistan.
Earlier this week, Obama outlined his plan to wrap up what has become the longest war in American history. Responding to the news, Cheney told Fox Newss Sean Hannity, Thats stupid, unwise and will in fact just reinforce the notion that were weak and that we have a president that doesnt understand his obligations.
Kerry didnt take Cheneys jabs lying down. Dick Cheney was completely wrong about Iraq, and we are still struggling with the aftermath of what Dick Cheney and his crew thought was the right policy to go in and start a war of choice for the wrong reasons, he told Ifill.
They turned topsy-turvy the entire region with respect to Sunni and Shia and the relationships there, the 2004 Democratic presidential candidate added. So the fact is that they have been deeply, deeply wrong in the policy that they pursued, and any advice from him really has no meaning to me with respect to what were doing today.
In addition to Afghanistan, Ifills interview with Kerry covered a wide range of topics, from Edward Snowden (He should prove his respect for that system, Kerry insisted.) to the mission to rescue kidnapped Nigerian schoolgirls (It could be very risky to the young women, Kerry warned.) and the Veterans Affairs Scandal (I think its fair to say that every veteran is deeply concerned about what has taken place, Kerry, himself a veteran of the Vietnam war, commented.).
warrior1
(12,325 posts)You go Kerry!
spanone
(135,886 posts)BootinUp
(47,197 posts)Gidney N Cloyd
(19,847 posts)Carpet of gold/carpet of bombs...
http://www.heartson.com/Politics/background.html
bemildred
(90,061 posts)MohRokTah
(15,429 posts)Enrique
(27,461 posts)or as I call them, the "Dick Cheney fan club"
http://swampland.time.com/2013/10/28/dick-cheney-calls-snowden-a-traitor-defends-nsa/
Former Vice President Dick Cheney called Edward Snowden a traitor for leaking top-secret documents from the National Security Agency, in an interview that aired Monday afternoon on CNN.
Martin Eden
(12,875 posts)That's an accurate characterization of Bush/Cheney's invasion of Iraq (I'd go a bit farther and say it was a war crime and a pack of lies).
That's what I thought (and most here at DU thought) when Bush/Cheney started beating the Iraq war drums in 2002.
Question for John Kerry:
Why did you vote in October 2002 to give Bush/Cheney authority to invade Iraq?
MBS
(9,688 posts)Beacool
(30,253 posts)It's about time that Cheney was told off. The guy who pushed his boss into not one, but two wars, has no business criticizing the administration that came after and had the difficult task of cleaning up their mess.