European refugee crisis "direct consequence" of FAILED OBAMA POLICY!

As much as my Progressive good friends here HATE former VP Dick Cheney, here are the FACTS. The truth is, Cheney is being kind, when he said "a failed Obama Policy". There has been NO POLICY.


Cheney: European refugee crisis 'direct consequence' of failed Obama policy

Published September 06, 2015
·FoxNews.com

Former Vice President Dick Cheney said Sunday that the European refugee crisis is “a direct consequence” of President Obama’s failed foreign policy and that he does not support the Iran nuclear deal.

Cheney, who was vice president in the George W. Bush administration, said Obama has helped to “create a huge vacuum” in Iraq for terror groups like the Islamic State to flourish and kill by failing to secure an agreement with Iraqi leaders to keep U.S. troops in the country after the war.

“That contributed directly to the refugee crisis,” Cheney told “Fox News Sunday.” “It’s a crisis of major proportions.”

Tens of thousands of refugees from Syria, Iran, Pakistan and other Middle East countries are now flooding into Europe as a result of civil wars and terror attacks in that region.

The war in Iraq began during the Bush administration, which established a troop-withdrawal date of December 2011.

The Obama administration has argued it had to honor the date because then-Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki rejected a proposal to keep several thousand U.S. troops in that country for training purposes.

Regarding the U.S.'s nuclear deal with Iran, Cheney also said Sunday that the deal is bad for the United States because “Iran got everything that they asked for.”

The international deal lifts billions of dollars of crippling economic sanctions on Iran in exchange for the rogue nation curtailing its nuclear development program.

“It’s a major, major defeat in terms of our position in that region,” Cheney said.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/09/06/cheney-european-refuge-crisis-direct-consequence-failed-obama-foreign-policy/

Don't think you posted the whole story:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/fox-news-dick-cheney-iran-iraq_55ec450de4b093be51bbb96f

Fox News Embarrasses Dick Cheney On Iraq And Iran
The former vice president waved off numbers that showed Iran’s nuclear capacity grew rapidly under the Bush administration.

Former Vice President Dick Cheney on Sunday shrugged off the rapid growth of Iran's nuclear capacity during the Bush years, insisting that the American invasion of Iraq had curbed Iranian nuclear ambitions.

"There was military action that had an impact on the Iranians when we took down Saddam Hussein," Cheney said on "Fox News Sunday." "There was a period of time when they stopped their program because they were afraid what we did to Saddam we were going to do to them next."

The invasion of Iraq in fact deeply strengthened Iran's hand in the region, ousting a traditional enemy of Iran and installing a new government far more sympathetic to the Iranian regime. Much of Iraq has effectively functioned as a client state of Iran for years.

Fox News host Chris Wallace pointed out to Cheney that Iran had no uranium enrichment centrifuges prior to the Iraq War, but had 5,000 of them by the time Bush and Cheney left office.

Cheney waved off the statistic. "I think we did a lot to deal with the arms control problem in the Middle East," he said.

Cheney also claimed that the Iraq invasion forced Libyan strongman Muammar Gaddafi to dispose of his own weapons of mass destruction -- a claim that was debunked several years ago.

In 2006, Time magazine reported that Hussein's ouster nearly derailed lengthy nuclear negotiations with Gaddafi. American and British leaders had been pressing since the Clinton years to cut a deal with Gaddafi that would require him to dispose of weapons of mass destruction. When Hussein was toppled, Time reported, Gaddafi nearly walked away from the talks, concerned that diplomacy with the United States would make him look weak in the face of the U.S. invasion of Iraq.

Former Secretary of State Colin Powell spoke about the shortcomings of the invasion of Iraq on “Meet the Press” on Sunday.

"The fact of the matter is, we did it right in the first Gulf War. We had to listen to arguments for years afterwards about, 'Why didn't you go to Baghdad?' And the 2003 war came along and you saw why you didn't want to go to Baghdad," Powell said. "We had a clear mission, clearly defined and put resources against that mission and took out the Iraqi army in Kuwait, restored the government, what we set out to do."

"Once you pull out the top of a government, unless there's a structure under it to give security and structure to the society, you can expect a mess," he added.

Cheney's comments on Iraq came amid his criticism of President Barack Obama's recent diplomatic deal that aims to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons. Cheney said the U.S. is a "loser" in the pact, while the Iranian regime is "the only winner."

Supporters of the pact have noted that economic sanctions against Iran have not curbed its nuclear capacities, and that other nations will not be willing to enforce economic levies against Iran if the U.S. abandons the deal. They argue that rejecting Obama's agreement would leave war as the only remaining tool to deal with a potential nuclear threat.

Actually it's the destruction of Europe and it's terrible white bias...soon it will be a goat herders shithole....I mean paradise...

Wordslinger wrote:
The majority of the refugees are from Syria and Iraq -- fleeing war.  It wasn't Obama's policy which resulted in Iraq or Syria's conflagrations.  Assad acted on his own, and our puppet Shiite government in Iraq has failed under the Bush and Obama administrations.  Reality.

Actually, the Shia led government was fine and the Army was fine before Odumer pulled the plug on the last training of SOF that needed to be done and cut off all Intel to the SOF that was in place. despite his opinion contrary to the surge and its chances, it worked well and Odumer was handed off a peaceful Iraq. He lost the peace.

Wordslinger wrote:
The majority of the refugees are from Syria and Iraq -- fleeing war.  It wasn't Obama's policy which resulted in Iraq or Syria's conflagrations.  Assad acted on his own, and our puppet Shiite government in Iraq has failed under the Bush and Obama administrations.  Reality.

How soon you "forget".



"I don't think you can criticize the President for trying to act on the belief that they have a substantial amount of chemical and biological stock. . . . That is what I was always told," Clinton said.
-  Former President Clinton Wednesday, April 16, 2003

"Could Be One of the Great Achievements of This Administration" The vice president said he’d been to Iraq 17 times and visits the country every three months or so. "I know every one of the major players in all the segments of that society" he said. "It's impressed me. I've been impressed how they have been deciding to use the political process rather than guns to settle their differences."
- Vice President Joe Biden (D) Feb. 10, 2010

How has the war President Barack Hussein Obama said we SHOULD have been fighting going?  How is the Middle East going now that President Obama is President?  Oh, Afghanistan just crossed 2,330 American fatalities.  Seventy percent of whom died since President Obama took office.



Many refugees are also from semi-retired President Obama's war in Afghanistan.  

Here is the result of the lack of a policy in the Middle East.  Of this you are proud.

ZVUGKTUBM wrote:Fox News host Chris Wallace pointed out to Cheney that Iran had no uranium enrichment centrifuges prior to the Iraq War, but had 5,000 of them by the time Bush and Cheney left office.



If only George W. Bush had never become president; think of the possibilities:

9/11 might not have happened....

Iraq and Afghanistan would not have been invaded.....

7,000+ American soldiers (between Iraq and Afghanistan) would not have perished in useless combat....

Iran might not have pursued its nuclear program.....

The conflicts that eventually led to the current Middle East refugee crisis might not have happened.....

The stock market crash of 2008 might not have happened.....

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