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Megyn Kelly to Dick Cheney: Wrong, sir
politico ^ | 6-19-2014 | Kendall Breutman

Posted on 06/19/2014 5:48:13 AM PDT by yldstrk

FOX News’ Megyn Kelly had some tough questions for former Vice President Dick Cheney on Wednesday night, after he and his daughter, Liz, offered a scathing review of the Obama administration’s foreign policy.

“In your op-ed [in the Wall Street Journal], you write as follows: ‘Rarely has a U.S. president been so wrong about so much at the expense of so many,” Kelly said on her show “The Kelly File.” “But time and time again, history has proven that you got it wrong as well sir.” Continue Reading Text Size

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Kelly then began listing shortcomings of the Bush administration, pointing out Cheney’s statements that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction, that the U.S. forces would be considered liberators and that Iraqi insurgency was “in the throes” in 2005.

Cheney responded that invading Iraq was “the right thing” and that it would have been “irresponsible for us not to act.”

Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2014/06/dick-cheney-megyn-kelly-fox-interview-108049.html#ixzz355ZX5OFe

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: cheney; iraq
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To: yldstrk
What caused Megan to lose her mind?

She didn't lose her mind. In asking devil's advocate questions, she was acting as an effective interviewer--and the Cheneys rose to the occasion in their responses.

21 posted on 06/19/2014 6:05:41 AM PDT by Fiji Hill
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To: Westbrook

If I knew then what I know now I would feel differently about it. I suspect plenty of people would.


22 posted on 06/19/2014 6:05:43 AM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin.)
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To: Westbrook

Actually, I think all of this - the second Iraq war and the ensuing deaths of thousands of Americans - can be laid at the feet of George Herbert Walker Bush.

In Desert Storm, this country and the coalition he assembled utterly routed the Iraqis from Kuwait (later, deeply into IRAQ - to the outskirts of Baghdad, even.)

Accounts of the two (or three?) F15s that massacred an entire column of fleeing Iraqis (booty and plunderings accompanying) are legendary.

Bush (1) had the power to apprehend and contain Iraq’s Hussein in his hands. Instead, he listened to a lilly-livered RINO Secretary of State (Powell) who was just in the beginnings of his own insurgency toward this government masquerading as concern for the optics of the “Highway of Death”, and Bush (1) stopped dead cold short of the prize that could have saved several thousand soldiers’ lives a decade later.


23 posted on 06/19/2014 6:06:13 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: yldstrk

She’s interviewing for a slot on CNN —


24 posted on 06/19/2014 6:06:18 AM PDT by Uncle Chip
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To: Gaffer

Exactly. You attack a country, but leave the leader in power, he will try to eventually exact revenge.


25 posted on 06/19/2014 6:07:58 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Westbrook

“I never thought boots on the ground in Iraq was a good idea.”

Agreed. To the extent military action needed to be taken, bomb them to smithereens. Then get out and stay out.

Another lie was “the Iraqis will pay for it with their oil revenue.” Let them build their own schools, roads, hospitals, water plants, etc., etc. But, of course, as always, the American taxpayers got stuck with the hundreds of billions of dollars of bills so that we could “win their hearts and minds.”


26 posted on 06/19/2014 6:08:22 AM PDT by SharpRightTurn (White, black, and red all over--America's affirmative action, metrosexual president.)
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To: yldstrk
Iraq's missing WMDs were used on the Syrian people.
28 posted on 06/19/2014 6:09:38 AM PDT by Mister Da (The mark of a wise man is not what he knows, but what he knows he doesn't know!)
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To: FrankR

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29 posted on 06/19/2014 6:09:39 AM PDT by b4its2late (A Progressive is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
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To: Uncle Chip

Curious. Why would she do that? Viewership there would be down several fold.

What got her where she is today is hard driving logical and reasoned thought, argument and determination in the face of illogical and hysterical progressivism.

I don’t see where this would buy her anything except money.


30 posted on 06/19/2014 6:09:48 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: NEMDF

I agree with you...Megyn Kelly did the right thing....she set-up Cheney and then quietly let him respond in total....which he and his daughter did brillantly!!!!


31 posted on 06/19/2014 6:10:09 AM PDT by JLAGRAYFOX ( My only objective is to defeat and destroy Obama & his Democrat Party, politically!!!.)
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To: nathanbedford
I agree with your assessment.

Ask the Looney Tunes questions the left always spews and let him annihilate it.

32 posted on 06/19/2014 6:10:28 AM PDT by Aevery_Freeman (Historians will refer to this administration as "The Half-Black Plague.")
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To: Westbrook
Bush made his case before the American people the US Congress and before the United Nations multiple times

Saddam's violations of UN Security Council provisions, that led to the UN backing the US/allied invasion on 2003, were not just about WMD

Although the WMD assessments came from the UN inspectors themselves who were increasingly blocked by Saddam from inspections - yet another violation of UN security council provisions (why?) - and most foreign intel services, not just the US community

Russia itself right after 9-11 warned Pres Bush that another terror attack was planned from Iraq - maybe disinformation (if so why? since the Russians had some in country advisors and control over Iraqi WMD which was reported being convoyed by Russians under diplomatic protection out of Iraq and into Syria, just before the 2003 invasion); the Russian warning added to the information Bush had about follow-on threats in the first 30-90 days after 911

You may disagree with Pres Bush's case
But you can't say you didn't understand it unless you didn't try

33 posted on 06/19/2014 6:10:42 AM PDT by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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To: Slump Tester

The WMD argument is a legitimate Bush gripe, no matter how you look at it. We went into Iraq with a primary goal being the removal of Saddam’s WMD’s. It turned out there were no WMD’s in Iraq, and we were all misled by bad intelligence.

Even if Saddam somehow succeeded in smuggling them out of the country, as you seem to think is the case, then it’s even more disastrous for the Bush Administration; not only did Bush and Cheney fail to destroy the WMD’s but they were hoodwinked into believing there were no WMD’s when they had in fact fallen into the hands of other Muslims.


34 posted on 06/19/2014 6:11:07 AM PDT by Corporate Democrat
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To: yldstrk

I saw the interview and I thought that Megyn was tough but fair with Mr. Cheney and Liz. She asked the tough questions, but allowed him the chance to answer them. What more can we ask? Don’t we criticize the leftist reporters for not asking the tough questions to people like Obama and his cronies. Remember, we’re on the right side here. All we should ask for is a fair opportunity to defend ourselves which both Cheneys did very well at.

Unlike when I saw Erin Burnett on CNN interviewing Paul Bremmer taking the Obama administrations side while interrogating him. They had a split screen on and you could see her smirk as she’s listening to his answers, then constantly interrupting him. That’s what we should be outraged about, not Megyn Kelley’s tough but fair questions.


35 posted on 06/19/2014 6:11:13 AM PDT by Old Teufel Hunden
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To: Westbrook

“For the life of me, I can’t understand why Bush thought it was necessary when ...”

Like any war, it is called geography. One of the major issues in the region was intelligence and reaching the enemy. Remember this, we were very hampered with fly zones in the ME. GWB gave us infrastructure in the ME, airfields, bases, hospitals, etc. Saddam HUSSEIN rolled out the red carpet with his international defiance, why not take the opportunity. I think we are seeing right now how important OWNING GEOGRAPHY is, unfortunately because of Obama’s lack of warrior intellect, we have lost everything in the ME and we will be revisited someday on our shores. Leaving Iraq will prove to be the beginning of the next deadly terrorist attack in the US.


36 posted on 06/19/2014 6:12:36 AM PDT by Toespi
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To: yldstrk

Megyn Kelly is using Roger Ailes’ , (FOX’s CEO), “Be the Devil’s advocate” definition of “Fair and Balanced” questioning.

Top practitioners of this don’t-forget-the-obsolete-Liberals-point-of-view “Fair and Balanced” method are as follows:

# 1. Neil Cavoto

# 2. Bill O’Reilley

# 3. Megyn Kelley.

Rarely do any of these three pseudo journalists have guests with none-of-the-above Conservative opinions allowed to appear on their shows.

These three “Shows” are a notch above MSNBC Shows.

Note to Roger Ailes:

WE KNOW WHAT THE LIBERAL AND GOP-E POINTS OF VIEW ARE, SO STOP TELLING AND THUS PROMOTING THEIR HARMFUL IDEAS!


37 posted on 06/19/2014 6:12:56 AM PDT by Graewoulf (Democrats' Obamacare Socialist Health Insur. Tax violates U.S. Constitution AND Anti-Trust Law.)
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To: nathanbedford

The kind of thoughtful commentary that originally brought me to FR.

Well done.


38 posted on 06/19/2014 6:13:22 AM PDT by Lee'sGhost ("Just look at the flowers, Lizzie. Just look at the flowers.")
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To: yldstrk

and if Bush/Cheney had done nothing-—just sat on the report from Clinton holdover CIA head that told them Iraq had WMD’s, Clinton stated it also.............if Bush had done nothing could still hear the hue and cry from the left about the “soft” response.


39 posted on 06/19/2014 6:15:45 AM PDT by sbark
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To: certrtwngnut

My impression as well.


40 posted on 06/19/2014 6:16:00 AM PDT by daler
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