You have to hand it to Dick Cheney. How many people, knowing what has happened in Iraq over the last 12 years, would dare to write an op-ed in The Wall Street Journal recently containing this line: "Rarely has a U.S. president been so wrong about so much at the expense of so many" -- and not be talking about George W. Bush? The man has chutzpah. The op-ed in question was co-written with Cheney's daughter Liz, former State Department worker and failed Senate candidate. The two are forming a new organization, the Alliance for a Strong America. Of all the former Bush administration officials who have emerged in the last few days to blame the deteriorating situation in Iraq on Barack Obama, one might think Cheney would be among the last.
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Paul Waldman: Dick Cheney has some nerve slamming Obama on Iraq -- did he mean Bush?
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He says Cheney was Iraq war's chief propagandist, insisted Hussein had WMDs
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Waldman: Cheney fails to mention the loss of life, trillions spent in Iraq on his watch
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Waldman: Where are his recommendations to solve Iraq? He blames Obama for his mess
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Dick Cheney
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@placeholder had a central role in bringing on a war in which 4,500 Americans gave their lives, tens of thousands more were gravely injured, we spent a couple of trillion dollars, and somewhere between 100,000 and 500,000 Iraqis died.
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"Mr. Obama had only to negotiate an agreement to leave behind some residual @placeholder forces, training and intelligence capabilities to help secure the peace," he writes.
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We'll never really know, but here's what we do know: The agreement mandating that all American troops leave Iraq by the end of 2011 was signed by one @placeholder, before Obama took office.
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Without that immunity, there was simply no way @placeholder forces could remain there.
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They're happy to say that whatever @placeholder is doing isn't enough, and it isn't strong.