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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: 1Old Pro
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.


61 posted on 06/19/2014 6:40:13 AM PDT by nathanbedford ("Attack, repeat, attack!" Bull Halsey)
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To: jonose
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.

62 posted on 06/19/2014 6:40:33 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: NEMDF
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...

63 posted on 06/19/2014 6:41:44 AM PDT by latina4dubya (when i have money i buy books... if i have anything left, i buy 6-inch heels and a bottle of wine...)
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To: Westbrook

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.


64 posted on 06/19/2014 6:46:31 AM PDT by tflabo (Truth or Tyranny)
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To: nhwingut
"..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?

65 posted on 06/19/2014 6:49:56 AM PDT by Pietro
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To: Pietro

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


66 posted on 06/19/2014 6:52:00 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: yldstrk

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.


67 posted on 06/19/2014 6:56:03 AM PDT by chatham
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To: Madam Theophilus

You bet..


68 posted on 06/19/2014 6:58:54 AM PDT by sheik yerbouty ( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
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To: silverleaf

Try One America News.. www.oann.com


69 posted on 06/19/2014 7:00:18 AM PDT by sheik yerbouty ( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
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To: nathanbedford

Good analysis.

I agree.


70 posted on 06/19/2014 7:02:08 AM PDT by neocon1984
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To: Slump Tester

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.


71 posted on 06/19/2014 7:03:53 AM PDT by dowcaet
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To: Gaffer

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.


72 posted on 06/19/2014 7:05:01 AM PDT by dangerdoc ((this space for rent))
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To: nathanbedford

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.


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


73 posted on 06/19/2014 7:05:54 AM PDT by Jane Long ("And when thou saidst, Seek ye my face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek")
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To: Westbrook

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.


74 posted on 06/19/2014 7:07:56 AM PDT by McCloud-Strife ( USA 1776-2008)
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To: JLAGRAYFOX

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.


75 posted on 06/19/2014 7:15:02 AM PDT by ThomasMore (Islam is the Whore of Babylon!)
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To: yldstrk

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.


76 posted on 06/19/2014 7:16:57 AM PDT by School of Rational Thought
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To: Westbrook

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.


77 posted on 06/19/2014 7:18:49 AM PDT by elpadre (AfganistaMr Obama said the goal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-hereQaeda" and its allies.)
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To: B4Ranch

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.


78 posted on 06/19/2014 7:21:58 AM PDT by DoughtyOne
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To: Slump Tester

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.


79 posted on 06/19/2014 7:23:21 AM PDT by DoughtyOne
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To: nathanbedford

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


80 posted on 06/19/2014 7:25:22 AM PDT by DoughtyOne
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