All This Is That: Vice President Cheney

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Thursday, December 03, 2015

Images from the unveiling of Ex-VP Dick Cheney's marble bust in the Capitol

By Jack Brummet, National Affairs Ed.

Vice President Dick Cheney and friends at the U.S Senate dedication ceremony to unveil his bust at the Capitol Visitor Center this morning. (Photos by Brendan Smialowski, AFP, courtesy of Getty Images)

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Tuesday, September 08, 2009

Ex-First Lady Laura Bush on President Obama: Thurmbs Up!

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Let me tell you, this is a bit of a mindf***er. At a United Nations meeting in Paris, where Mrs. Bush was promoting literacy, she told CNN, among other things:

● Obama "is doing a good job."

● On the ridiculous brouhaha over BHO addressing the nation's schoolchildren: "I think there is a place for the president ... to talk to schoolchildren and encourage them."

● She does not think it is fair for Obama to be labeled a "socialist"

● On her husband George failing to work in a bipartisan manner: "He was disappointed that that was not the way it worked out in Washington."

● Paradoxically, she criticized the excessive partisanship of Washington, while she expressed gratitude for Cheney's decision to vocally "defend her husband's performance," even though he is one of the torch bearers for destructive partisanship.

● While she defended Cheney, she also said her husband still speaks with Cheney "occasionally." As you know, those last couple of years they were at odds, particularly over Bush's refusal to pardon Cheney's henchman Scooter Libby.
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Thursday, October 11, 2007

President Carter calls Dick Cheney a "disaster"

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In an interview on Wednesday with the BBC World News America service, one time U.S. President Jimmy Carter (1977-1981) and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, denounced Vice President Dick Cheney as a "disaster" for the country and a "militant" who has had an excessive influence in setting foreign policy.

Cheney has usually been on the wrong side of the debate on many issues, including a current "internal White House discussion over Syria" in which Cheney is pushing a bellicose approach, Carter said. [ed. note: With Iraq blown up in his face, does he hope to save face by going to war with Syria or Iran?]

"He's a militant who avoided any service of his own in the military and he has been most forceful in the last 10 years or more in fulfilling some of his more ancient commitments that the United States has a right to inject its power through military means in other parts of the world," the former President told the reporter.

"You know he's been a disaster for our country," Carter said. "He's been overly persuasive on President George Bush and quite often he's prevailed."

In an interview in May, Carter called the Bush administration the "worst in history" in international relations.
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Wednesday, August 01, 2007

V.P. Cheney: "I was wrong"

For perhaps the first time since he shot his friend, Austin attorney Harry Whittington, Vice President Dick Cheney acknowledged on Tuesday that he has made a mistake. He said that he was wrong in 2005 when he insisted the insurgency in Iraq was in its "last throes."

It was Cheney's first real public admission of what everyone else seems to already know: The Administration badly bungled in their estimation of the strength of America's enemies in the unpopular war in Iraq. The architect of the war, and Shadow President made the admission in an interview on CNN's "Larry King Live."