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Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Dither This, Dick!

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Former Vice-President Dick Cheney accuses President Obama of dithering on executing a plan for the Afghan War. Typically overstated, the former VP criticizes the President for taking too much time to formulate a cohesive plan for prosecuting the war. Lives are being lost, he says, as President Obama consults with his advisors on strategy for Afghanistan.


Dick Cheney has no shame. None. It is precisely because Dick Cheney and his administration failed to take enough time to formulate plans for initiating the Afghan and Iraqi wars that Barack Obama is even facing this decision. Thousands of Americans and allied soldiers died while Bush-Cheney-Rumsfeld took years to fix their half-assed strategy. That is an historical fact. If they had thought these wars through to their full-assed endgames, President Obama wouldn’t be struggling with Afghan war strategy eight years later.


When we send our troops to war let’s make sure we have a plan. Give President Obama the requisite time to do it the right way this time, not the Cheney way.


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