Cheney to White House: Stop the 'dithering' as troops face danger

Thursday 22nd October, 12:07 PM JST

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Sarge at 08:53 PM JST - 22nd October

U.S. military commanders on the ground in Afghanistan, as well as Secretary of Defense Gates are saying more troops are needed there.

Question: When is our commander in chief going to give the order to deploy the needed troops?
Sarge at 09:12 PM JST - 22nd October

"having given bush co a free ride all those years as they promptly forgot Afghanistan to secure Iraq's oil fields"

Fact: U.S. troop levels in Afghanistan have steadily increased since 2002.
Madverts at 10:47 PM JST - 22nd October

Fact: The security has worsened steadily in Afghanistan - and this is in part some of the incomptence from the dectractor named in the title of this thread.

"Question: When is our commander in chief going to give the order to deploy the needed troops?"

When he sees he has a reliable partner controlling the country, I guess. After the ridiculous corruption in the elections, any adult can understand the worry of sending more troops to a failure.
Good_Jorb at 11:02 PM JST - 22nd October

Ironic statement, considering that one of the biggest criticisms of Cheney and Bush's treatment of the Afganistan and Iraq wars was thier failure to have a big enough invading force to be effective early on in the war. The lack of troop levels was also a noted reason for the failure to catch Osama early on in the invasion before he escaped to Pakistan.

What did the war in Afganistan gain, an apparently fraudulently democratically elected government that voted to allow Sharia Law which defines a women's role as "readiness for sex and not leaving the house without the husband's permission" to part of the law of the land. A huge leap forward in Afghan human rights.
Madverts at 11:22 PM JST - 22nd October

"What did the war in Afganistan gain, an apparently fraudulently democratically elected government that voted to allow Sharia Law which defines a women's role........"

Let's not forget the hike in opium production.

I supported taking action in Afghanistan un-like in Iraq, it's just bordeline comic to see cheney having the gall to rear it's head and complain.
usaexpat at 11:31 PM JST - 22nd October

What is this opposite world? When I agree with Cheney you know the world has shifted on its axis. He's right, this along with the spat with Fox news is making Obama look like a child in over his head. When you pick a general you trust and then won't head his requests for more troops what message are you sending as commander in chief?
Madverts at 11:35 PM JST - 22nd October

"When you pick a general you trust and then won't head his requests for more troops what message are you sending as commander in chief?"

That one general's request is not the basis ofa whole foreign policy pertaining to one troubled country?

If Obama made a snap decision to send troops, and the election fiasco continued which in turn put more US troops in harms way I bet my bottom dollar the same people agreeing with cheny's ra-ra will be whining at Obama for a troop surge.
RomeoRamenII at 11:39 PM JST - 22nd October

Other than killing a fly on TV, Obama's entire time in office has been all talk and no action; so, it comes as no surprise that his vote on the "winnable war" is:

[ ] Send troops

[ ] Don't send troops

[X] Present
30061015 at 12:12 AM JST - 23rd October

1. Dont think Mr. Nobel Peace Prize has what it takes.

2. Not sure he even wants to win.
TheMarion at 12:16 AM JST - 23rd October

When SARGE writes what he writes, there is very little more to be said. Frankly, he is the expert in this particular blog. Frankly speaking our present Commander in Chief has very little experience to fall back on and thus has gained the reputation of being a foul ball. He should listen to Cheney.....
Good_Jorb at 12:45 AM JST - 23rd October

He should listen to Cheney.....

Wouldn't you rather have Obama listen to people who previously made the right choices in the battle field, instead of someone who blundered the initial invasion? Obama repeated Bush's bailouts and stimulus spending which didn't turn out well, so he should be weary of repeating other mistakes.
zurcronium at 01:24 AM JST - 23rd October

8 years of failure after the invasion in Afganistan that somehow allowed OBL to escape and now Cheney says Obama is moving too slow?

Nothing Cheney says make sense. He is a war criminal and the primary reason why the US is losing in two wars today, wars that did not have to happen at all, wars of choice.
DickMorris at 01:35 AM JST - 23rd October

Good call Dick. Straight from the mouth from a true patriot who can be trusted.

Obama is lacking in nerve and honesty. Dick is correct, this lame duck President is destroying all the great progress in Iraq and Afghanistan.
bdiego at 04:16 AM JST - 23rd October

7 years of dithering by Cheney and Bush on Afghanistan, what a joke. The depths of self-ignorance never fail to impress.
pathat at 04:26 AM JST - 23rd October

"WHITE HOUSE TO CHENEY: DROP DEAD.”

(credit to the famous New York Daily Post headline of 1975 involving the city and then President Gerald Ford.)