Does Dick Cheney owe President Barack Obama an apology?: Mother Jones

[Nostalgic]

From Mother Jones:

Dick Cheney, the President Will Take Your Apology Now

If the ex-VP still thinks Obama's soft on terror, perhaps he should consult Osama bin Laden. Oh wait, he's at the bottom of the ocean.

By David Corn

Fri May. 6, 2011 3:00 AM PDT

Does Dick Cheney owe President Barack Obama an apology?

Ever since Obama entered the White House, the former vice president has been decrying him as a weak leader whose actions place the nation at risk. He's been the lead-singer of the Obama-is-bad-for-national-security mantra on the right. Yet in the wake of the successful raid on Osama bin Laden's suburban compound, Cheney has not rescinded his previous assaults on the president.

The ex-veep did release a statement hailing the operation as "a tremendous achievement for the military and intelligence professionals who carried out this important mission. Their tireless work since 9/11 has made this achievement possible, and enabled us to capture or kill thousands of al Qaeda terrorists and many of their leaders." (Cheney did not rush into the debate over whether enhanced interrogation techniques—or torture—had yielded the intelligence nuggets that led to Obama's comfortable whereabouts.)

Almost as an aside, in that statement, Cheney added one line about the president, "I also want to congratulate President Obama and the members of his national security team." But there was, of course, no reference to Cheney's past criticism of Obama and no recognition that Obama had, if only in this episode, performed ably as commander in chief. After all, any such acknowledgment, however slight, would undermine over two years of Cheney's Obama-bashing.

But let's roll the tape. In 2009, after Obama was in office less than a month, Cheney told Politico that there was a "high probability" that terrorists would attempt a nuclear or biological attack in the coming years and that, thanks to Obama's policies, the odds were better that such an assault would succeed. He also said, "When we get people who are more concerned about reading the rights to an Al Qaeda terrorist than they are with protecting the United States against people who are absolutely committed to do anything they can to kill Americans, then I worry."

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[lumberjack_jeff]

1. "That led to Obama's comfortable whereabouts"

Et Tu Mother Jones?

Can no one get this right?

[angstlessk]

3. Mother Jones said bin Laden..so it might be the poser..er uh, poster who made the change..er uh

mistake?

[WingDinger]

2. Getting his sociopathic daughter to STFU is all the apology we need.

[The Wizard]

4. Dick Cheney owes

the people of the United States a blowjob.

[classysassy]

5. Dick Chaney

is an evil man and sooner or later justice pays a visit to all evil men and women.

[yellowcanine]

6. Never mind Obama. Dick Cheney owes the American people an apology.