A Cheney Endorsement is NOTHING for Dems to Brag About
In the vice presidential debate, Tim Walz bragged about Kamala Harris being endorsed by both Dick and Liz Cheney. Today, I got the following email in my inbox from Hold the Line, a political action committee working to elect Democrats up and down the ballot.
Why should I give *them* money? According to them, it is because Liz Cheney has endorsed Harris:
NEW YORK TIMES: “Liz Cheney to Campaign With Harris at the Birthplace of the G.O.P.”
Liz Cheney just DROPPED THE HAMMER on Donald Trump!
– She knows better than anyone else just how dangerous Donald Trump is.** Remember, she took a HUGE risk to bring Trump to justice on the January 6th Committee – and she lost her job because of it. **
Democrats are beside themselves with glee about these Cheney endorsements. They frame them as matters of principle but I suspect it is a matter of spite: Trump criticized Dick Cheney for the liar he is about the Iraq War and that rankled both Dad and Daughter.
In case anyone needs a refresher, Dick Cheney lied--yes, lied--he was not mistaken. As a result, hundreds of thousands of Iraqis died. The Democrats have lost their collective minds if they think a Cheney endorsement will help Kamala Harris.
Here are some of Cheney's pearls:
- In August, 2002, Dick Cheney made the following claim about Iraqi WMD in a speech:
We now know that Saddam has resumed his efforts to acquire nuclear weapons. Among other sources, we’ve gotten this from the firsthand testimony of defectors — including Saddam’s own son-in-law [Hussein Kamel].
The problem? Hussein Kamel said the exact opposite--that Saddam Hussein had demolished his WMD program. As the vice president and former Secretary of Defense, Cheney had to have known what Kamel had said.
We do not know exactly how many Iraqis died in Cheney's war based on lies, but Brown University's Cost of War program extimates that minimum number of civilians killed by acts of violence is over 185,000. If deaths due to indirect causes such as disruption of medical care and a lack of clean water, the total nummber of deaths may be several times higher.
Here are some other gems from Dick Cheney:
- Cheney on torture:
Cheney said he had not read the entire 500-page report summary, which was released Tuesday, but defended the CIA's use of enhanced interrogation techniques, which committee chair Dianne Feinstein said in some cases amounted to "torture." Some of those tactics detailed in the report included waterboarding, "rectal rehydration," and, in one instance, placing a detainee in a "coffin size" confinement box for 11 days.
During the interview, which aired on Fox News's Special Report With Bret Baier on Wednesday night, Baier asked Cheney what his response was to people who "say America is better than these methods."
"I think what needed to be done was done. I think we were perfectly justified in doing it. And I'd do it again in a minute," Cheney answered.
- Cheney looking back on the Iraq War: "I believed in it then," Cheney told Politico's Mike Allen. "I look back on it now, it was absolutely the right thing to do."
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