Posted on 02/19/2016 9:24:32 PM PST by TBP
Former Vice President Dick Cheney, who served alongside former President George W. Bush, issued a bold criticism of Republican presidential contender Donald Trump Monday, saying the billionaire âsounds like a liberal Democratâ when it comes to the Iraq war and 9/11.
âYou heard at the debate Saturday Donald Trump accuse President Bush and his team of purposefully lying the country into war in Iraq, saying, âI will tell you they lied, they said there were weapons of mass destruction, there were none. They knew there were none.â Your response?â Fox News anchor Bret Baier asked.
The former vice president was quick to voice his feelings, telling the âSpecial Reportâ host that not only does he believe the billionaire businessman is wrong, but he also said he âsounds like a liberal Democrat.â
âHe sounds like a liberal Democrat to me, Bret. Heâs wrong and I think heâs deliberately promoting those views in order to advance his political interests,â Cheney said.
Regarding Trumpâs claim that the Bush administration âliedâ about having weapons of mass destruction, Cheney cited the investigation by the Robb-Silberman Commission, telling Baier that âthey found no evidence whatsoeverâ to support the GOP hopefulâs assertions.
As for Trumpâs comments during Saturdayâs debate that Bush did not keep the U.S. safe because âthe World Trade Center came down during [his] reign,â Cheney argued there was ânothingâ that could be done.
âOn the notion, for example, that the president failed to act before 9/11 to stop it, we had no actionable intelligence at that point. It simply wasnât available. There was nothing we could have done and we didnât have intelligence at that point to suggest other than thereâs a general kind of a threat,â Cheney said.
The former vice president went on to defend the polices he and Bush instituted, saying that the Bush White House did âkeep the nation safe for 7 1/2 years.
âThe president put in place important programs, the terrorist surveillance program, enhanced terrorist techniques, all of those things gave us the information we needed to be able to act, and we had the tremendous support of the American military, they did a superb job,â Cheney added.
Cheney added that Iraq was in âgreat shapeâ when he left Washington, D.C. As for what has happened since, the former vice president placed the blame on President Barack Obamaâs policies.
âWhat happened then was that Barack Obama came to town, withdrew presence from that part of the world, and ISIS emerged after that. Youâve got to tell the whole story if you want to focus on those events. And, of course, Mr. Trump never does,â Cheney said.
Cheney told Baier is it âhard to tellâ if Trump is a Republican, but ultimately said he would support the GOP presidential nominee. However, he says Trump wonât be selected if he continues to act the way he is.
âIf he continues operating the way heâs operating, as a liberal Democrat, I donât think heâll get the nomination,â he said.
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All love and support for our guys (my brother included), but I don’t know why we sent them there either. Middle East needs to handle (kill) itself and we need to leave them alone to blow themselves up.
What does Cheney sound like on sealing the borders?
Dickh*ad Janie STFU !
It was all about oil and not one America life was worth it. So stuff it Cheney!
A liberal who wants to muslim immigration and kick out illegal aliens, yeah thats liberal alright
You summed it up quite well.
Many supported it out of loyalty because Bush II was a pretenda-conservative Republican, knowing full well Saddam was keeping the region reasonably secure and that Iraq had little to no relationship to 9/11.
The Iraq war was a huuuuuuuuuuuuge mistake! So many of the nations finest young people died, disabled or emotionally scared for life. What worsens this tragedy is obama just giving the place away.
I hack Cheney s picture and signature
But he went along with bush’s refusal to defend himself. THAT is what allowed the liberal take on wmds to grow.
They blew it
Dick Cheney should go back and crawl under whatever rock he’s calling his home since 2008. The Bush administration’s actions in Iraq were indefensible no matter how much he tries to spin it today. If this wasn’t the case, then the Democrats never would have won control of Congress in 2006, his boss wouldn’t have left office with a 25% approval rating, and Jeb Bush wouldn’t be polling in the single digits today.
Who then shoots somebody in the face while drinking, in office.
Iâll take a sober man, successful in the business world than a government War Profiteer.
... and the Little Green Footballing of Free Republic continues.
Richard Bruce Cheney is so evil that Satan himself looks to ol’ Dick for inspiration...
What you say is the indisputable truth, and I can deal with a lot of the BS from Trump, but his stance on this makes my blood boil, and that is precisely why: If Code Pink admires you, you are doing something very, VERY wrong, because there is not one single issue they have ever made a public statement on, ever, anytime, that I could not find myself in agreement with them on.
But you say the obvious fact that he is allied with Code Pink on this important issue, and it is amazing to see what comes out of the woodwork from conservatives.
This specific thing appalls me.
And you get people like stormy_2021 and charleyspride who sign up here to post those types of things. They sound exactly like Code Pink or MoveOn.org types.
Exactly like them.
Makes you wonder about who they are and what they are doing on FR, doesn't it?
So, if I post something that you don’t agree with, I’m automatically labeled a rabble rouser..?
Do you try to get people zotted as a passtime..?
I may be new here, but I’ve been reading FR for years...
Rabble-rouser would be considered a compliment by many, and I did not label you as such.
What I take issue with is an ad hominem attack on someone you disagree with. If you had said that you disagreed with someone like Dick Cheney (of whom there is much valid to disagree with on the part of many people) I wouldn’t have batted an eye.
To come into a thread (as you did) about the coupling of Code Pink with anyone, and to use their vile lexicon as a contribution to a thread, yes, I have a major issue with that.
Did I email the Admin Mods to get you dotted? No. Did I suggest in any way you should be dotted? No.
I even included you as a recipient on my post when I stated factually that you and the other poster used the exact same type of verbiage in your attack that Code Pink and MoveOn.org use.
And just to be clear, I meant “zotted”, not “dotted”, but I’m sure you knew what I meant.
Someone with as much blood on his hands as Mr. Cheney ought to stay out of this discussion.
Trolls are one thing. You see ThinkProgress talking points and a 2015 sign-up date, you know what you’re dealing with. It’s seeing the old timers blindly following this pied piper and marching arm-in-arm with the trolls into oblivion that’s so tough to watch.
The good news is, it all ends in November. The bad news is, it doesn’t end well.
Romney first unveiled the âself-deportationâ idea in a debate in January, explaining that he supported strict standards on employment that he claimed would force undocumented immigrants to return to their home countries.
That's because the Trump Tower, his new hotel in Dc, and many other Trump projects were (or are) built by illegals. Those strict standards Romney favored (I'd bet mine are even stricter) would have slowed down Trump's developments and made them cost him more.
As usual, it's not about the country, it's about Trump and his narrow self-interest.
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