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Former Vice President Dick Cheney and his daughter Liz Cheney launched a broad attack against President Barack Obama's foreign policy in an excerpt of a forthcoming book that was published in The Wall Street Journal on Friday.
Both Cheneys accused Obama of lying about the Iran nuclear deal and said that the agreement would lead to the first use of a nuclear weapon since 1945.
"Nearly everything the president has told us about his Iranian agreement is false. He has said it will prevent the Iranians from acquiring nuclear weapons, but it will actually facilitate and legitimize an Iranian nuclear arsenal," they wrote. "The Obama agreement will lead to a nuclear-armed Iran, a nuclear-arms race in the Middle East and, more than likely, the first use of a nuclear weapon since Hiroshima and Nagasaki."
The Obama administration has aggressively defended the deal, saying that it cuts off all pathways to a nuclear bomb. Secretary of State John Kerry has said that a better deal simply does not exist.
The Cheneys also blamed the rise of terrorist groups like ISIS on the withdrawal of American troops from Iraq in 2011 -- a talking point that Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush has also used.
"He has abandoned Iraq, leaving a vacuum that is being tragically and ominously filled by our enemies. He is on course to forsake Afghanistan as well," the Cheneys wrote.
But former U.S. Army Chief of Staff Gen. Raymond Odierno, who was one of the architects of the 2007 surge and a top official in Iraq, has disputed that the decision to leave Iraq was Obama's.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/dick-cheney-iran-deal_55e20a7de4b0c818f618224c
Why this lying POS is given any credibility by the WSJ says everything about Murdoch's WSJ. The NY Times is moving that way also, by giving Peter Schweizer, a right wing hack, unfettered access.
Yup, the MSM is a worthless tool of corporate America, and journalism is long gone
spanone
(135,838 posts)oh dick.
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Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)BTW,Dickey should know,his company supplied key components to Iran and the rest will be History.
Croak war criminal of a dick and do the planet a favor
Thor_MN
(11,843 posts)liberal N proud
(60,334 posts)DefenseLawyer
(11,101 posts)Fluoridation, Mandrake.
roamer65
(36,745 posts)SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)Rex
(65,616 posts)So his words can go on and on and on, most of the WORLD knows he is a war criminal breathing free air ONLY because of the control the GOP has over America and mass communication.
hifiguy
(33,688 posts)krispos42
(49,445 posts)...with the government of Iraq that U.S. armed forces would leave the territory of Iraq by the end of the year 2011.
pResident George Walker Bush decided that the United States would abandon Iraq by December 31st, 2011. Period. There is no debating this.
Nor is there any debate that Richard Cheney was Vice-pResident at the time pResident Bush signed the agreement. Again, this was in 2008, prior to Barack Obama taking the Oath of Office in January 2009.