Cheney's self-criticism sent to an undisclosed location

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BY JOEL CONNELLY, SEATTLEPI.COM STAFF
Published 10:34 p.m., Tuesday, August 30, 2011

Instead of going on TV to peddle his memoirs, Dick Cheney should volunteer his time in a veterans hospital, caring for those he sent to Iraq and Afghanistan who came home missing limbs or internally scarred from America's longest wars.

But our former vice president displays no regrets over predicting U.S. forces would be "greeted as liberators" in Baghdad, or telling the Veterans of Foreign Wars in a 2002 speech: "Simply stated, there is no doubt that Saddam Hussein now has weapons of mass destruction."

Any capacity for critical self-examination has been sent to an undisclosed location. "The United States has never lost its moral bearings," Cheney writes. "The liberation of Iraq" was "one of the most significant accomplishments of George Bush's presidency."

"In My Time," if he persuades you to buy it, should be read alongside a 1992 speech to the Discovery Institute in Seattle, when Cheney was secretary of defense under the first President Bush. Its major theme: America made the right decision to leave Saddam Hussein in power after the first Gulf War.


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