Cheney offers "wise counsel" to Obama on Afghanistan

Just when you think you've heard it all from former US Vice-President Dick Cheney, he once again proves right the old adage, "that it is impossible for the sewer to out-stink itself since the sewer is in-and-of-itself the very epitome of filth and unsavory odor."

Earlier tonight at a dinner hosted by a conservative national security organization (talk about an oxymoron) in Washington D.C., the former vice-president, in company of fellow war criminal and former secretary of defense, Donald Rumsfeld (shown in photo - courtesy AP), did not pass up the opportunity to take another ill-advised swipe at President Obama on the latter's perceived (from Cheney's perspective) "dithering" on the issue of sending more troops to Afghanistan.

But wait a minute! Dick Cheney giving advice on war strategy? The same discredited warlord who saw every opportunity to serve this nation in uniform as just the right time to "decline for family reasons"?!        

It is at best disgraceful that this certified coward , who has actually contributed to the death of more promising American lives (I have personally lost two great friends who served in Iraq) than Al Quaeda did in the 9/11 attacks, continues to embolden our enemies and undermine the current president for no other reason, other than to stroke his own (perceived) bruised ego. It is utterly unbecoming that this chicken hawk would chide the president for wanting to ensure that not only is the right strategy being adopted with regard to Afghanistan, but more importantly, that the United States does not adopt a "flooding" solution to a conflict that may not necessarily require that approach.

The vice-president, while enjoying his new role as an armchair quarterback, may want to answer this basic question for the American people. Why did we neglect the actual theater of operation (Afghanistan) for close to a decade while we wasted valuable lives and resources on a war (Iraq) we NEVER should have fought? I am sure he has an answer for that much like he has had one for the past eight years, for everything perturbing this nation. The problem though is that not only have his answers been wrong at just about every turn, his continued arrogance at insisting on the tried and failed solutions of the last decade, have in fact made this country and the American people less safe. 

Yes Mr. Cheney, Iran and North Korea are either nuclear or close to being nuclear-capable today because you took your eye off the ball for eight years, while you and your cronies in Washington and beyond, engaged in an endless orgy of self-aggrandizement and sadistic blood-letting. Even George W. Bush would agree.  

President Obama is on the right track with regard to Afghanistan, and America is safer today in spite of you (Dick Cheney) and because of the wisdom and vision of the man you love to malign so much.