Iraq decisionmaking as courageous as pardoning Richard Nixon, Cheney says

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Source: The Raw Story

Asked last week what he thought of the fact two thirds of Americans no longer supported the war in Iraq, Vice President Dick Cheney had a simple reply: "So?"

But in a followup interview -- which received little attention -- Cheney went on to compare President Bush's decision to invade the country with President Gerald Ford's decision to pardon Richard Nixon.

"I had the experience, for example, of working for Jerry Ford, and I've never forgotten the travails he went through after he had been president for 30 days when he issued the pardon of former president Nixon," Cheney told ABC News correspondent Martha Raddatz. "And there was consternation coast to coast."

"The president had to go up -- chose to go up before the Judiciary Committee of the House and testify in order to put down the rumors that somehow there had been a deal between he and President Nixon, that if he would pardon Nixon, then he would get to be president himself," Cheney continued. "I rode up there with him that day and sat in the hearing room while he answered all those questions. I know how much grief he took for that decision, and it may well have cost him the presidency in '76."

Read more: http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Cheney_compares_Iraq_decisions_with_Richard_0325.html

[snooper2]

1. Fuck you Cheney

Die already...

[fascisthunter]

2. Thank You for Saying What I Wanted to (nt)

[Lone_Star_Dem]

3. Is it really wise to remind people of Watergate and a pardon which angered vast amounts of Americas?

Not to mention reminding Americans of how entrenched in the situation he was at the time?

[bemildred]

4. A rather strange comparison, if I do say so. nt

[hatrack]

5. Wow. Just about as labored an analogy as is mathematically possible . . .

Whatever, Dick (and I do mean "dick").

[tanyev]

6. I think "erroneous" is the word you should be using, Dick.

[Winterblues]

7. "and it may well have cost him the presidency in '76."

Duhhh. Americans didn't like that decision any more than they like this Administration's decisions. None of them are good for America..

[spanone]

8. FUDC

[ProfessorGAC]

9. What A Piece Of Work!

You know this kind of thing makes me disbelieve, more and more and more, the "evil genius" thing about this dolt.

I think he's hyperambitious, a suck-up and a lucky son of a gun who couldn't solve the maze on the children's menu at Denny's.
The Professor

[lunatica]

10. That pardon is why he's now our VP

Of course he reveres it. He and the neo-cons, including Rumsfeld are all the spawn of the Nixon administration who Gerald Ford simply gave a pass to when he pardoned them by extension. Instead of doing time, they got a break to use time to plan and implement their coup. For Cheney it was the gift that keeps on giving.

It's also his way of thumbing his nose at us. He knows full well that the pardon worked in his long term favor as do many Americans. It's been written about extensively. Otherwise his statements are total non-sequiters. He owes his wealth and his power to the milk of human kindness.

edited to add the last paragraph