Dick Cheney wrote a book and I can't wait to read it! I really like Mr. Cheney and
In My Time appears to provide an inside look into his world while serving in the White House.
Drudge is reporting some juicy details that include some non-apologetic explanations of certain highlights during the term of the administration. Click title of this post for article. He admits errors but, on Iraq he maintains we did the right thing. Here's more:
* In a chapter entitled, SETBACK, Cheney is blunt about failures in Bush Administration foreign policy, especially in the second term. He criticizes 'concessions delivered' to North Korea 'in the naive hope that despots would respond in kind,' and says the president was badly served by his State Department, including through advice that was 'utterly misleading.'
* Cheney excoriates Colin Powell for standing by silently, knowing that his deputy Richard Armitage was responsible for leaking Valerie Plame's identity to the press.
* Says that it's not Guantanamo Bay that hurts America's image abroad but rather critics like Barack Obama who 'peddle falsehoods about it.
Good for Cheney! I enjoy his character so much because he's not a bullsh****. He's confident in what he believes in and is not scared of the silly liberals who attack him constantly. This book should have liberal pundits foaming at the mouth in no time!
Condoleezza Rice, George W. Bush, Laura Bush and Dick Cheney at a groundbreaking for the George W. Bush Presidential Center, November 16, 2010.
(Credit: CBS)
During the groundbreaking ceremony for George W. Bush Presidential Center, former vice president, Dick Cheney took a little stab at Obama by remarking that, "this may be the only shovel ready project in America."
Cheney lauded Mr. Bush as a president who refused "to put on airs," stating that he was thrilled to find that the most powerful person he knew was "among the least pretentious." He said Mr. Bush was someone who could "walk with kings, yet keep the common touch," added that "there were no affectations about him at all - he treats everyone as an equal."
He spoke admiringly of Mr. Bush's actions in the wake of the Sept. 11th attacks, telling the former president that "because you were determined to throw back the enemy, we did not suffer another 9/11 or something even worse."
Cheney, who (unlike Mr. Bush) has been a vocal critic of President Obama, also took a shot at the current administration. Speaking of his expectation that construction would move quickly on the presidential center following the groundbreaking, Cheney quipped that "this may be the only shovel ready project in America." The reference was to the Obama-supported stimulus package that Republicans have criticized as ineffective.
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