Democratic Vice President Joe Biden is showing his typical penchant for just calling it like he sees it. When asked about former Republican Dick Cheney and his comments regarding the Obama Administrations handling of the military action in Afghanistan, Biden was his typical open self. Using words like irrelevant, absolutely wrong and who cares, he showed his complete disdain for the former VP’s rantings and ravings.
From the New York Times:
In the latest exchange between old and new administrations, Mr. Biden rebuffed his predecessor’s criticism about President Obama’s handling of Afghanistan as “absolutely wrong.” And Mr. Biden rejected the last review of the war conducted by the White House under former President George W. Bush and Mr. Cheney as “irrelevant.”
The dismissive reply, which came at the end of Mr. Biden’s three-day swing through Eastern Europe during an interview with reporters traveling with him, underscored the weariness in the current White House with Mr. Cheney’s periodic assaults. At the same time, advisers to Mr. Obama and Mr. Biden consider the former vice president a useful public foil and have not shied away from escalating the debate by taking him on directly.
At the heart of the dispute is a fundamental disagreement on national security, from how to wage war in Iraq and Afghanistan to how to protect Americans at home from possible terrorist attacks. In a speech in Washington this week, Mr. Cheney complained that Mr. Obama was “dithering” in deciding whether to send more troops to Afghanistan and had committed a “strategic blunder” in scrapping the last administration’s missile defense plan in Eastern Europe.
Mr .Cheney was wrong every step of the way about both Afghanistan and about the absurd invasion of the sovereign country of Iraq. To this day we have not seen the rose petals thrown at the feet of our soldiers, nor have we seen them treated as liberators like the troops after WWII. I don’t think I’ve heard anything about Osama bin Laden being captured or killed and I don’t think the mission was accomplished before Bush stood in front of the infamous banner.
Mr. five deferments because he had more important things to do during the Vietnam War is a joke, and his blond spawn is also a joke. It is just too damn bad that the jokes were definitely not funny and we paid with billions of our dollars and thousands of our sons and daughters lives. The father of this ungodly twosome should be tried for war crimes. The daughter should experience sleep deprivation and water boarding first hand.
Mr. Cheney, you are a coward in the true sense of the word and you are a traitor to your country. Needless to say, you have no honor. President Obama and Vice President Biden just prove how small a man you are. They have been in office and kept us safe for over nine months now. The 9-11 attack occurred barely over seven months into the administration you like to say kept us so secure. Just put your old bald head back up your ass and head off to your undisclosed location until we bring the charges against you. After that I hope you spend the rest of your useless life behind bars periodically being shown how enhanced interrogation isn’t really torture.
Read the rest of the New York Times article at the link.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/24/us/politics/24veep.html?_r=1&hp
Noe THAT'S what a Vice President should look like!
