Put A Sock In It, Liz

by Deacon Blues

Liz Cheney, who along with Dana Perino and other Republican history-rewriters has elevated the bald-faced lie to a sickening art form, is lashing out at VP Joe Biden and President Obama, claiming that both and the administration as a whole are ignoring the WMD threat posed by Al Qaeda. Oh, the irony.

Sorry Liz, I understand your need to defend dear old dad, but it wasn't Joe Biden and Barack Obama who got handed a transition document outlining the Al Qaeda threat in January 2001 by Richard Clarke, and then shelved it for eight months while you pursued Star Wars and traditional threats. No, that was dear old dad and W.

Sorry Liz, it wasn't Joe Biden and Barack Obama who were handed a Presidential Daily Brief on August 6, 2001 outlining the summer's emerging warning signs and "hair on fire" indicators about an Al Qaeda strike against America using planes, and then proceeded to ignore those warnings for another five weeks with a dismissive "you've covered your ass now" response. No, that was dear old dad and W.

Sorry Liz, it wasn't Joe Biden and Barack Obama who had Al Qaeda holed up at Tora Bora and ready to be killed in December 2001, only to let Donald Rumsfeld outsource the job to the locals and see Osama Bin Laden get away. No, that was dear old dad and W.

Sorry Liz, it wasn't Joe Biden and Barack Obama who allowed Rummy to begin moving assets away from Afghanistan in December 2001 before finishing Al Qaeda so that the secret build-up of the war against Saddam could start early. No, that was dear old dad and W.

Sorry Liz, it wasn't Joe Biden and Barack Obama who bumbled several chances to kill Bid Laden's lieutenants in Afghanistan and Iraq, nor was it they who didn't force the CIA to drastically ramp up the Predator drone program to track and kill the Al Qaeda leadership in the tribal areas between Afghanistan and Pakistan. No, that was dear old dad and W.

Sorry Liz, it wasn't Joe Biden and Barack Obama who green-lighted the truces by Pervez Musharraf with Al Qaeda's tribal hosts in September 2006 that allowed both the Taliban and Al Qaeda to rebuild in Waziristan, which now threatens both countries. No, that was dear old dad and W.

Sorry Liz, it wasn't Joe Biden and Barack Obama who shoveled $8 billion to Musharraf during their administration as our supposed best ally in the WOT, only to see the ISI continue to support the Taliban and gleefully set free A. Q. Khan to supply Al Qaeda's nuclear needs. No, that was dear old dad and W.

The simple truth Liz dear is that your dad is a war criminal, who should have been indicted for treason by now. But because of Joe Biden and Barack Obama's willingness to turn the other cheek, they are rewarded with your rantings about failings that were in fact dear old dad's.