POS Cheney Discredited Obama to Israelis: "Pro-Palestinian...never make it in the major leagues."

[jefferson_dem]

Sy Hersh reports -

The Obama transition team also helped persuade Israel to end the bombing of Gaza and to withdraw its ground troops before the Inauguration. According to the former senior intelligence official, who has access to sensitive information, “Cheney began getting messages from the Israelis about pressure from Obama” when he was President-elect. Cheney, who worked closely with the Israeli leadership in the lead-up to the Gaza war, portrayed Obama to the Israelis as a “pro-Palestinian,” who would not support their efforts (and, in private, disparaged Obama, referring to him at one point as someone who would “never make it in the major leagues”). But the Obama team let it be known that it would not object to the planned resupply of “smart bombs” and other high-tech ordnance that was already flowing to Israel. “It was Jones”—retired Marine General James Jones, at the time designated to be the President’s national-security adviser—“who came up with the solution and told Obama, ‘You just can’t tell the Israelis to get out.’ ” (General Jones said that he could not verify this account; Cheney’s office declined to comment.)

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/04/06/090406fa_fact_hersh?currentPage=all

[Jennicut]

1. I detest Cheney every day. This man needs to stop interfering with Obama.

Cheney was still VP then but what a complete Ahole!

[hlthe2b]

2. I am fervently opposed to capitol punishment... But for war crimes

and treason of the magnitude that I believe Cheney to be guilty--I might have to reconsider.

[Political Heretic]

3. Cheney is a dick, though I wish he had actually been right about the pro-palestinian part.

I think its time at least one leader was... I mean, its never happened before in U.S. history - ever.

[Clio the Leo]

4. 12 hours and I'm still blown away by this one.

Remember when some were complaining "why isn't President Elect Obama doing anything?!!!"

Well, turns out ..... he was.

[Supersedeas]

5. where do Cheney's priorities lie -- undermining the President elect?

[firedupdem]

6. I hate Dick Cheney. What a creep and criminal. n/t