Today Dick Cheney Joins Sarah Palin and Anne Coulter as a Never Again On the Blog

"Blather blather blather. HATE! Obama is evil. President wants to ruin America! Quack qauck qauck! Gun control means I can't shoot my friend in the face or hunt captive birds! Argel bargle argle BARGLE!  I'm looking at you, hippie!"

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Dick Cheney has driven the PenguinMobile over the cliff joining Thelma and Louise.  And, like Thelma and Louise, he has become a fictional character.
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His final banishment from the files of Nincompoopery occurs with his latest asinine attack in the Wall Street Journal against Obama's policy.
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It isn't his argument that Obama is a wrong that offends me to the point of banishment.  It is the crazy ass extra assertions that cannot be tolerated in the Reality based world.  Here is his editorial - and my favorite bits noted.
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Let's start with the easy bait at the first sentence.  That particular hyperbole is always easy to refute in a picture.

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As the terrorists of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) threaten Baghdad, thousands of slaughtered Iraqis in their wake, it is worth recalling a few of President Obama's past statements about ISIS and al Qaeda. "If a J.V. team puts on Lakers' uniforms that doesn't make them Kobe Bryant" (January 2014).(Scott - this wasn't in reference to ISIS but to random Jihaddi groups claiming to belong to Al Queda)  "[C]ore al Qaeda is on its heels, has been decimated" (August 2013). "So, let there be no doubt: The tide of war is receding" (September 2011). (This was on the 10 year anniversary of the 9-11 attacks. And yeah, it is receding).

Rarely has a U.S. president been so wrong about so much at the expense of so many. 

It might be rare, Dick, but not unprecedented....

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Then there is this crapola.
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Mr. Obama had only to negotiate an agreement to leave behind some residual American forces, training and intelligence capabilities to help secure the peace. Instead, he abandoned Iraq and we are watching American defeat snatched from the jaws of victory.
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This is the recent Official Republican Talking Point Lie (tm) that has gotten so much traction.  It is, of course, bullshit.  The "simple agreement to negotiate" was actually already in place.  George W Bush had negotiated it.  And, if his Vice President didn't like it, they could have re-negotiated it.  No wait, the couldn't because we had left a broken shell of Iraq with a Shite President who wouldn't work with the minorities.  VP Dick Cheney's administration left the time bomb.  it happened to go off last week.
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And finally there is this jewel.
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In 1983, President Ronald Reagan said, "If history teaches anything, it teaches that simple-minded appeasement or wishful thinking about our adversaries is folly. It means the betrayal of our past, the squandering of our freedom."
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Look, I like President Reagan, but he was no Mid-East Saint.  He high-tailed it out of the Mid-East when our Embassy in Lebanon was bombing killing hundreds of Marines.  IN late 1983 -   241 Marines were killed in a terrorist bombing of the Embassey in Lebanon.  Lebanon fell (to the Shites!) and started slaughter Christians.  On Feb 3rd and 4th 1984, Reagan committed (to the Wall Street Journal - ironically) that we would stay in Lebanon.  And on Feb 7th Reagan ordered the evacuation of Lebanon.
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The Embassy Attack in Lebanon - Before partisan hackery ruined our country.

And, by the way, there was less Congressional Review of the Lebanon bombing of an Embassy that killed 241 Marines (and assorted civilians) than the 18 plus months of hearings and Fox News argle bargle we have had to pretend to listen to over Benghazi.