What Good Has Cheney's Experience Been So Far?

[louis c]

The repukes have been so quick to try to tout Dick Cheney's experience as an international player, former Defense Secretary, and Presidential adviser. Let's see how he's done so far.

Certainly Cheney's "vast experience" was no help in preventing 9/11. He was unaware or incapable of advising President Bush of co-ordinated action following a whole host of warnings of the upcoming threat from various Intel sources, including the now famous August 6, 2001 PDB.

V.P. Cheney didn't use his "vast experience" in being able to inform the President that there were no Weapons of Mass Destruction in Iraq. In fact the evidence is that he may have used this false security blanket to actually mis-inform the Chimp. Either that or they were in on it together.

At the same time, he was supporting the Intel coming from Chalabi, that ended up being false. In fact, this "experienced" diplomat, Dick Cheney, protected us so much, Ahmed Chalabi sat right next to Laura Bush at the President's State of the Union address, while Chalabi was funneling secrets to our enemies in Iran.

Cheney's long years in diplomatic circles failed to convince the U.N., NATO, or even a single Muslim nation to support our invasion in Iraq. We went in essentially alone, except for Blair's England.

When the war in Iraq was decided, our "experienced" V.P., Dick Cheney, convinced the President to take Rumsfeld's advice, against that of career military personal, like General Zinni. We went in with too few troops to secure that country. As a result, the Iraqi army melted back into their society with their weapons. We didn't even secure the stock piles of conventional weapons that have ended up in the hands of insurgents.

Cheney's years as Defense Secretary and a Cabinet member under past administrations failed to serve him or the nation in properly measuring the Iraqi resistance and implementing a workable plan for the occupation.

In assessing Cheney's performance, maybe we would have been better off if the Vice President didn't have as much experience, and the FBI, CIA, and Military personal with the right experience, with no political motives, advised the President.

To sum up, Cheney's supposed "experience" has demonstrated that he is an abject failure as a foreign policy adviser to the President and to our nation, and I didn't even mention Halliburton.

[rpannier]

1. It made him and his friends richer.

No one else.

[olddem43]

2. excellent post! I hope Sen. Edwards can use this kind of

argument in the debate, if there is one. Hopefully, old foul-mouth will be gone by then.

[louis c]

3. No, No, for God's sake No.

I want Dick Cheney on that ticket. Did you see his numbers. He even divides the Repukes.

What a wonderful contrast between Cheney and Edwards. Please, oh please keep Cheney on the ticket and healthy until election day.

[Lerkfish]

4. FWIW

As much as I don't like Cheney, I would be remiss not to point out that the intelligence stovepiping on WMDs is all Rumsfeld's baby.
The halliburton pork barrel is all Cheney's, though.

[louis c]

5. They market him as the co-President

He's suppose to advise the nit-wit drunken piece of shit on everything.

We always knew that Bush was incapable of running a lemonade stand. It was Cheney's experience that was going to keep us from disaster. I, of course never bought into this bull shit, but that was their line.

Cheney was supposed to tell Rumsfeld what to do, not the other way around.

[Lerkfish]

6. sorry, to clarify...

what I meant when I said it was all Rumsfeld's baby is that the idea of stovepiping (bringing cherrypicked intel to the top and discarding other intel that doesn't fit the agenda) came from him. Rumsfeld developed his own secret handpicked group within the intel community to do just that.

sorry for the confusion.

[coda]

7. LOL, yeah Halliburton. Now that Dick "serves the public"

you'd think he could neogotiate some great deals for the taxpayer that he feigns concern for when talking about tax cuts.

Oooooppps. Did I say "serves"? I meant "services". :-)

[leesa]

8. He did his job. His job was to enrich his friends via the war machine

and that's what he did.