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After Bush Security Failures, Cheney Attacks Obama On National Security

By National Confidential | 10 February 2013 9:48 am EST Updated 10 February 2013 9:52 am EST
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Dick Cheney

Former vice president Dick Cheney has attacked President Barack Obama on national security, despite the Bush administration’s repeated failures on the issue.

In comments to the Wyoming Republican Party, Cheney described President Obama’s national security nominees as “second-rate people” and described President Obama’s record on national security as “dismal.”

Under President Obama, several top Al Qaeda leaders have been killed or captured, most notably Osama Bin Laden was killed by Navy SEALs. The 9-11 terror attacks occurred under George W. Bush, not long after he was given a national security memo that warned Bin Laden was determined to strike.

President Bush launched the invasion and occupation of Iraq, often at the prodding of Vice President Cheney. There were never any weapons of mass destruction found in Iraq, and many national security experts criticized the war as distracting from the ongoing fight against Al Qaeda.

Both Bush and Cheney backed then-Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, despite repeated incompetence, sanctioned torture at Abu Ghraib, and insufficient armor and equipment for U.S. soldiers in combat.

For Bush’s entire presidency, Osama Bin Laden was a free man.

In July of 2012, Dick Cheney endorsed Mitt Romney for president. In November 2012, Romney lost to President Obama.

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