The Record is Clear' - Dick Cheney is Not Credible

For certain, Cheney is not the only one pressing Obama to hurry his Afghanistan strategy. The Neo-Conservatives have taken to every media outlet that will have them; and, if they're not talking about Afghanistan, they're second guessing the president's diplomacy with Iran, Russia, etc...



For reasons I find incomprehensible, media outlets -- and not just Fox News, mind you -- treat them as if their credibility isn't completely lacking when it comes to matters of national security. That ship sailed months, if not years before Obama's election.



Consider the scathing rebuke of Cheney issued by Gen. Paul Eaton (Ret.), senior adviser for the National Security Network:

clipped from www.care2.com Former Vice President Dick Cheney, following his acceptance of The Center for Security Policy's (no joke) "Keeper of the Flame" award, gave a speech that can only be described as a full on assault on the Obama administration's foreign policy. Cheney said before an exceedingly friendly audience.  "The White House must stop dithering while America's armed forces are in danger." Cheney said the Obama administration seems to be pulling back and blaming others for its own failure to implement the strategy it had embraced earlier in the year.   White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs, when asked about Cheney's remarks, responded, "I think it's interesting that what the vice president is suggesting the president isn't acting on is what the previous administration didn't act on." Vice President Joe Biden was right on when he responded to questioning about Cheney's remarks.  “I think what the administration is doing is exactly what we said it would do,