Dick Cheney goes for the jugular

SOURCE: LONDON GUARDIAN

In response to Dick Cheney's idiotic attack on Barack Obama's Afghanistan policy, newly-minted progressive hero Alan Grayson said what many of us have often thought: "When he was done speaking, did he just then turn into a bat and fly away?"

If only it were so easy to get rid of the former vice-president. While Cheney may disappear into an undisclosed location for a period of time, before you know it he slinks on back, more excruciating than ever.

Look, there's Dick – the guy who had absolutely no clue or care about Afghanistan for eight years – attacking Obama for supposedly employing the Bush administration's strategy there, or at least one "bearing a striking resemblance to the strategy we passed to them".

Really? Does that mean Obama will appropriate other groundbreaking national security stratagems too? Should we expect to see Obama outing covert CIA agents working on stopping the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction? Hiring felons as his top advisers? Talking tough because he's perhaps just a bit insecure about dodging the draft five times?

And if only we were cursed with just one Cheney on the scene. The vice-president's daughter Liz has also been popping up to defend that patented assault on our founding fathers' vision of our republic called "harsh interrogation techniques", also known by their maiden name: torture.

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