Megyn Kelly to Dick Cheney: Wrong, sir

politico ^ | 6-19-2014 | Kendall Breutman

[nathanbedford]

I once watched a news clip in which Karl Rove stated emphatically that the biggest mistake of the Bush administration was to fail to fight back against the meme, "Bush lied, people died." He said he took the matter to Bush and Bush instructed him not to mount a defense. Say what you will about Karl Rove, he has certain skills as a mechanic and he can read polls.

This passivity was chronic in the Bush administration and we see it post administration in Bush's failure to defend his own record. He presents himself to the world as a noble posture in which he is above politics who as an ex-president stands aside to give the new president a chance.

Bush forgets that he solicited the money, the votes, the prayers, the shoe leather, and the hopes of millions and millions of Americans for a set of principles which he promised he would champion. When Bush failed to fight his own corner the let the side down. He gave us a Democratic Congress and the most radical and dangerous president in American history.

If all things you prophesy in the first paragraph of your reply come true, and they might well come true, blame will not be assessed against the active in favor of the passive. Especially is that true if the passive are Republicans or conservatives and the active are the Democrat darlings of the media.

Dick Cheney, thank God, has not been afflicted with George Bush's distorted and, may I say, selfish brand of modesty.

[dfwgator]

Bush 43 went into Iraq to get even with saddam hussein for making Bush 41 look bad.

Also because Saddam tried to kill his dad.

[latina4dubya]

I saw this segment, and thought that Cheney answered brilliantly.

he always does... he and his wife Lynn are so intellectually sharp... i can listen to him any time... there are not many like him... there are many faux intellects (such as Obama) but when you come across someone genuinely intelligent, he stands out... Ted Cruz is another one... i think they are examples of what it is to be educated, truly...

[tflabo]

Post 8 is spot on IMO. Plus Sadaam’s Iraq was a natural foe of Iran. We made a mistake to invade Iraq under GWB when Iran was more of the snake’s head.

[Pietro]

"..every poll has a huge majority saying it was a mistake to enter Iraq."

We have two options in the ME: Proactive or Reactive.

We are in reactive mode now; how's that working?

[dfwgator]

Our option is Energy Independence, so we no longer have to deal with that god-forsaken part of the world.

[chatham]

I truly lost a lot of respect for Kelly as she barraged Vice pesident Cheney and his daughter. His answers were right on target and I thought Kelly was wrong and being a Bully.
She seemed to be trying to discredit him and the Bush administration. She did look a little off the “TROLLEY’.
Very, Very Sad.

[sheik yerbouty]

You bet..

[sheik yerbouty]

Try One America News.. www.oann.com

[neocon1984]

Good analysis.

I agree.

[dowcaet]

Good point. Also, where in the world does the Assad regime in Syria get stockpiles of chemical weapons to use against their own people? We know it wasn’t produced in their own country. Stupid media in our country. Anything to make their lefty benefactors look good at the country’s expense.

[dangerdoc]

I think the idea was to have boots on the ground on both sides of Iran. Theoretically I can understand why somebody thought that was a good idea. In hind sight, I don’t think it worked out so well.

[Jane Long]

You can do that with an experienced and intelligent interlocutor like Dick Cheney or a Ted Cruz but you have to be careful if you try it with a George Bush.

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Okay....that ^^ made me laugh.

[McCloud-Strife]

Look at a map.

A base right in the very middle of every Middle East trouble spot is as effective as bases we keep in Germany to keep Europe quiet. Just like bases in South Korea makes Asia a much quieter neighborhood.

[ThomasMore]

AGREED! You could see a variation in her questioning when she went to Liz. And both Cheney’s answered well. The real point at hand is that Obama IS the WORST Pres we’ve ever had. He is SO incompetent that all that was accomplished in the Middle East was torn apart and now worse than before we went their after 9/11 simply and truly because of OBAMA’s lack of policy and total ineptness as a leader.

[School of Rational Thought]

Having watched it live, she was not making a real point.

Obama’s incompetence and poor decision making is not dependent on prior president’s mistakes (if making the right decision on the evidence is somehow equally bad as making the wrong decision based on evidence).

There is no merit is the argument that Obama is no better than Bush. Obama has to be judged on his own merits, not others.

[elpadre]

Saddam was an enabler of terrorists of every stripe. He not only supported them but gave them cover. He developed WMD which every intelligence agency in the West knew and proclaimed (probably sent to Syria), and defied the US and UN for 12 years prior to the invasion.

[DoughtyOne]

Sadly, she’s also an airhead far too often.

It’s okay to have fire in the belly. I want that. You still need to take all things into consideration.

[DoughtyOne]

Not only that, they did find a location with a lot of WMD type material, gas or poison, I forget exactly what it was, but it could have been used to kill a massive number of people.

It got very short shrift in the media.

[DoughtyOne]

Didn’t see the interview, so I appreciate that take on it.