The Nobel Audacity Prize Goes to Cheney

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If there were a Nobel Audacity Prize, former Vice-President Dick Cheney would deserve to win it, hands-down.

This guy is unbelievable. He’s taking President Obama to task for “dithering” by not immediately sending 40,000 more troops to Afghanistan.

So, here’s a guy who, along with President Bush, had 7 years to straighten things out in Afghanistan.

For all practical purposes, nothing tied their hands — not the Constitution (e.g., the declaration of war requirement), not the Congress, not the courts, and not the UN. Here was omnipotent government in action.

Yet, despite having the power to do whatever they wanted in their invasion, occupation, and rebuilding of Afghanistan, seven years later, as Bush and Cheney were exiting Washington, U.S. troops were still occupying the country, and, even worse, things were going from bad to worse, as reflected by the call to send in thousands of more troops to fortify the occupation.

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