Cheney Snickers at Joe Biden Taking Credit for Success in Iraq (Video)
Posted by Jim Hoft on Sunday, February 14, 2010, 11:18 AM
Dick Cheney was on This Week this morning. During the interview he was asked about cut-and-runner Joe Biden’s claim that Iraq would be one of the great achievements of the Obama Administration (even though they both voted to leave the country to the terrorists).
Dick Cheney got a good laugh out of that.
From the interview:
ABC’s Jonathan Karl: One thing he (Joe Biden) said is that he thinks Iraq would ultimately prove to be one of the greatest achievements of the Obama Administration.
Former Vice President Dick Cheney: Well (laugh) I guess I shouldn’t be surprised by my friend Joe Biden. I’m glad he now believes Iraq is a success. Of course, Obama and Biden campaigned from one end of the country to another for two years criticizing our Iraq policy. They opposed the surge that was absolutely crucial to our getting to the point where we’re at now with respect to Iraq. For them to try to take credit for what’s happened in Iraq strikes me as a little strange. If they had had their way, if we followed the policies of pursued from the outset or abdicated, Saddam Hussein would still be in power in Baghdad today.
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Published February 7, 2012 at 8:46 pm - 113 Comments
Militant Conservative commented:
I love this stuff. The WH buffoons are just stepping in it left and right. LOL you could not write a SNL skit this stupid and funny. LOL i me me i. Barry your such a poser.
Dell commented:
The statement – uttered by Joe Biden on Larry King’s CNN show – will go down as one of the all-time greatest lies ever told by a politician.
Fortunately, even the far left wing of the Democrat Party knows the truth. The “surge” worked brilliantly and, once given the opportunity to “fight to win”, the American military came through once again with flying colors. All this DESPITE the effort of Senators Biden and Obama, who resisted the effort in Iraq at EVERY turn.
This effort by Biden ranks just ahead of the “General Betrayus” quote, “The war is lost” quote from Harry Reid and the sick comments by the late John Murtha regarding the Hadatha charges against U.S. Marines.
More ad fodder for the Republicans this Fall and certainly to be seen and heard again in ’12.
You have to have nads the size of Texas to make such an utterly pathetic statement.
A total, bald faced lie.
Elektra commented:
I love it, too.
Related:
http://livewyer.blogspot.com/2010/02/blog-post.html
OCBill commented:
Biden’s claim is similar to Clinton’s claiming a balanced budget and welfare reform as his successes. If he’d had Obama’s congressional majorities, the budget wouldn’t have been balanced, and there would never have been welfare reform These things only happened because of the post-1994 Republican majorities.
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Jayne on the left coast commented:
The water carrying media will try very hard to spin history and facts to repeat this false statement by Sheriff Joe.
Major Kong commented:
Sure do miss having adults in charge of things.
Auntie Em commented:
All that’s left to do is laugh. Obama will accomplish nothing that is any good for this country. He’s a fool and deserves every sneer and jeer he gets. I’d throw tomatoes at him.
AnnS commented:
obama voted against going to war with Iraq when he was Senator. He wanted Saddum Hussein to stay in power. Saddum was one of his sugar daddys. A kickback and for obama and Resko to get Auchi off bar entry into the US/State Department list. There was a money wire transfer to Resko from Iraq of about 1 million dollars; later obama buys his Georgian mansion.
Check out the connections with the Resko, Saddum’s money bagman Auchi.
OT but I think this is worth keeping aware of: From Pat Dollards web:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/13/us/politics/13obama.html
New York Times:
Obama Making Plans to Use Executive Power
WASHINGTON — With much of his legislative agenda stalled in Congress, President Obama and his team are preparing an array of actions using his executive power to advance energy, environmental, fiscal and other domestic policy priorities.
Mr. Obama has not given up hope of progress on Capitol Hill, aides said, and has scheduled a session with Republican leaders on health care later this month. But in the aftermath of a special election in Massachusetts that cost Democrats unilateral control of the Senate, the White House is getting ready to act on its own in the face of partisan gridlock heading into the midterm campaign.
“We are reviewing a list of presidential executive orders and directives to get the job done across a front of issues,” said Rahm Emanuel, the White House chief of staff.
Any president has vast authority to influence policy even without legislation, through executive orders, agency rule-making and administrative fiat. And Mr. Obama’s success this week in pressuring the Senate to confirm 27 nominations by threatening to use his recess appointment power demonstrated that executive authority can also be leveraged to force action by Congress.
Mr. Obama has already decided to create a bipartisan budget commission under his own authority after Congress refused to do so. His administration has signaled that it plans to use its discretion to soften enforcement of the ban on openly gay men and lesbians serving in the military, even as Congress considers repealing the law. And the”….
more on links
AnnS commented:
Sorry:
http://patdollard.com/2010/02/obama-plans-to-dictate-law-by-executive-power/
Lauren commented:
There’s an old saying that when you’re being run out of town, the best thing to do is to get at the head of the line and act like it’s a parade. Somehow that came to mind when I heard what Biden said.
James commented:
God bless our brave troops and God bless President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney, the greatest president and vice president in american history. Boy, do we miss you now.
Militant Conservative commented:
Greatest, no. Patriots yes.
I’ll be kind, its VD day.
God and Country commented:
WOW!! I thought Harry Reid “Snatched DEFEAT from the Jaws of Victory”. How can we take CREDIT NOW???? Dems must think we are stupid or don’t have video tape!!!!
Scott Jerome commented:
At what point do we simply begin to react with sarcasm and ridicule and mocking?
You’d have to be out of your mind to believe what Biden said.
Liberal A$$hat commented:
But! [sputter] But! [sputter]
And, he’s a liar! Obama and Biden weren’t campaigning against the war against Iraqi mass murerers for two years! It was 23 months! Liar!
And he’s old and ugly and his mother dresses him funny!
The greatest president (and father of his country) was another George W.
Corporal Vere commented:
Bidiot’s moronic remark is equally as valid as a rooster claiming credit for the sun risiing.
Actually, roosters serve more useful purposes than the nutjobs in the WH. They beget chicks!
pm commented:
How about Obama and Biden = the worst president and vice president in our history?
SOOOsickofit commented:
http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/19992
GREAT ARTICLE
czekmark commented:
The Obama administration is so hard up for successes that they have either create imaginary ones or try to take credit for others successes. Sort of reminds me of a manager I once had that would take credit for the inventive work of all his subordinates.
Valerie commented:
Does Dick Cheney’s manner, or tone, or word choice suggest “viciousness” to anybody? The reason I ask is because Politico characterized Dick Cheney’s “attacks” on the Obama administration’s policies as “viciousness” and I just don’t see that.
I do see “effective” and “pertinent.”
Here’s the article.
http://dyn.politico.com/printstory.cfm?uuid=C8F3167A-18FE-70B2-A8FE0F471682C602
Now, I do agree that some of the reported anonymous responses have been “vicious.”
“The backlashes to Cheney over the past year have become every bit as vicious as his own attacks. Some nonpartisan national security analysts have called Cheney’s critiques distorted and even demagogic. Some prominent liberal commentators have called them unpatriotic, and possibly mentally unbalanced. Even a conservative Republican senator respected on foreign policy issues recently called Cheney’s criticism of Obama unfair.”
In this context, failing to name the “nonpartisan” “national security” “analysts” — could that be that fake analysist Ayers (no relation to the bomber Ayers)? What about the unnamed “prominent” “liberal” commentator(s) calling him “mentally unbalanced” — would that be by chance a well-known nut? What about the people who say he has a point? They aren’t all “conservatives.”
Americaneocon commented:
American Power tracked-back with, ‘Dick Cheney Hammers Obama Administration on National Security’.
aprilnovember811 commented:
Good for you Dick Cheney. Everything bad that happens in the Obama regime is Boooosh’s fault, and every victory, is Obama’s. Yes, we’re to believe the guy who has never ran so much as a lemonade stand, and spent his adult life agitating companies, and shaking them down for money for people who couldn’t pay it back, is the reason for a victory in Iraq? Right.
jainphx commented:
The left lies and is corrupt? Is this even possible? I mean if you read the papers or tune into Msnbc you hear just the opposit—– HMMMMM I wonder is Chenney right or is MSNBC? I’m not sure , but I think I’ll go with Chenney.
aprilnovember811 commented:
“Does Dick Cheney’s manner, or tone, or word choice suggest “viciousness” to anybody? The reason I ask is because Politico characterized Dick Cheney’s “attacks” on the Obama administration’s policies as “viciousness” and I just don’t see that.”
Anytime someone tells the truth about Obama they view that as vicious. But the guy can lie to the faces of the American people, on a daily basis, about jobs created, the Supreme Court decision, the deficit he says Booosh created, etc. but they don’t utter a peep. Don’t pay attention to Politico, or anyone else, they are communists, statists, whatever you want to call them, and what they do best is LIE!
Reaganite Republican commented:
IF we’d had listened to Slow Joe with his birdbrained plan for surrender and splitting Iraq in three back in 2006, Iraq would be an Al Qaida caliphate by now… maybe he forgot that.
This administrations’ taking credit for W’s accomplishments -who’s means they opposed- is beyond the pale… shameless… and appalling.
Shut up Joe, all the dumb crap you said is on tape- duh!
down with dems commented:
I’ve been watching the Olympics and TWICE NBC has talked about the Cheney-Biden back-and-forth on tv shows and both times called it… you guessed it… UNPRECEDENTED.
That had better be the banned word of 2010… it’s already annoying, and it’s only February.
AuntieMadder commented:
Does the Obamao admin’s claim to success in Iraq mean that “Obamao Lied. People Died.”?
jim commented:
In Biden, we have a liar who is even more shameless than his mendacious boss. This clown will say anything.
Iconoclast commented:
It was so delightful watching former VP Cheney snort in derision at joey hairplugs’ latest live demonstration of the term “clueless.” If only all conservative & rational centrists expressed themselves so clearly, this whole crew of babbling clowns would be laughed off the public stage in jig time. That non-verbal communication expressed my opinion far more precisely than a doctoral dissertation could have.
bg commented:
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SOOOsickofit @ 2:02 pm #19
[The Left wrote the Narrative in order to supplant America’s real Narrative, and it has been disseminated via Progressive journalists, academics, and politicians for over a century. It has been repeated so pervasively, and insistently, that it is now taken as a matter of course
by most people. It is, however, a lie.
In his article, Bergner quotes Progressive scribe and pundit, Walter Lippmann, opining in 1932. “In the name of progress, men who call themselves communists, socialists, fascists…progressives, and even liberals, are unanimous in holding that government with its instruments of coercion, must by commanding the people how they shall live, direct the course of civilization….”
Got it? That’s progressivism in a nutshell. “We the people” are to be “commanded” and “coerced” by a tyrannical government, into doing what a Progressive elite feels is best for the collective. Social engineering at its reprehensible and vile “best.”
You should note that Lippmann shows no hesitation in lumping fascists in with communists, progressives, socialists, and liberals. Before the advent of WW II, it was accepted wisdom among the left-wing intelligentsia that fascism was one of “their” doctrines. Hitler and Mussolini were lionized by the Left.
So when you’re adding up the bloody body-count of failed leftist regimes of the last century, don’t forget to add Hitler and Mussolini to the list of Lenin, Stalin, Mao, and Pol Pot. Left-wing totalitarian governments always work out so well (that’s sarcasm).]
great article (added some interchangeable links to it), thanks..
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bg commented:
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all great reads written by anti-Islamist Muslims..
It’s not over until it’s over
“The Arabs Have Stopped Applauding Obama”
Weakening Islamism is Vital to Improve US Image in the Muslim world
On the Job Training
A Cold-Blooded Foreign Policy
[History and its furies have their logic, and they have not bent to Mr. Obama's will. He had declared a unilateral end to the "war on terror,"
but the jihadists and their mentors are yet to call their war to a halt.
From Yemen to Fort Hood and Detroit, the terror continues.
But to go by the utterances of the Obama administration and its devotees, one would have thought that our enemies were Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld, not the preachers and masterminds of terror. The president and his lieutenants spent more time denigrating "rendition" and the Patriot Act than they did tracking down the terror trail and the latest front it had opened at the southern tip of the Arabian Peninsula in Yemen. Our own leaders spoke poorly of our prerogatives and ways, and they were heard the world over.]
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bg commented:
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thanks AnnS..
seems to me that while some are fretting a third party, the Gov.
is turning into a party in & of it’s own accord aka: a dictatorship..
under our noses, tone deaf ears, eyes wide shut, and lips zipped..
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