Liz Cheney Warns Against 'Walking Away' From Afghanistan, Apparently Forgetting That Dick Cheney Did Just That - video

Liz Cheney is making all of the noises one would expect if she's considering going into politics herself. However the huge mistake she in making is aligning herself with one of the least popular and some (like me) would say most hated politicians in America, her father. As long as she remains his echo chamber and defender she'll never reach national prominence in politics. These days her last name doesn't carry much more respect then if it was Manson, McVeigh or Bundy. If she really wants to successfully run for office, then she needs to run as far away from her father as possible.

I wonder will President Obama raise taxes to pay for this troop increase.This the first war that we've fought,that we did pay as we go.We can't keep borrowing money from China to spend in Afghanistan .Lets take this to Congress and get a vote on the troop increase and tax increase.I dont think very many Republicans would vote to send troops ,if they had to increase taxes to do it.

I can't say that I'm surprised by this, especially by Liz Cheney conviently omitting the detail about how the previous administration virually ignored Afganistan for years...

Liz Cheney-The newest nominee for the Darwinian Award.

I'm surprised Liz has time for this. Isn't she supposed to be re-writing history for dear ol dad.

I'd like to get out. We did that when we helped the Mujahadeen kick out the Ruskies. Looked what happened then.

Those that keep repeating the same mistakes, hoping for a different result are just idiots, regardless of position or Party. The common denominator is "Govt Employee".

Hey Liz.. were we in Saigon I would insist "do khon nan".

I like the fact that Obama is thinking, ask the officials from the former Soviet Union. How do you unify100 different valleys that exist as 100 countries in one geographic nation and are you ignoring the problems with Pakistan, where the Taliban seems to reside? How about India? Iran, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan or China? How simple do you think this is? You don't just shove your middle finger up the butt of someone that you do not know.

Go easy on Liz; she's our legitimate sister. Her father, Dick, conceived all of us alive and those yet to be born. But Liz seems to be as reckless as her father's first name.

Reality exists in the minds of a Republican. As their needs dictate, they will inform us of reality from time to time. We are to embrace that reality as if it was ours. When reality changes, even in the past, we will be informed so that we might comply. Graciousness is our duty: we do not want to ruin the trance or break the spell.

HEY LIZ! YOU'RE FULL OF CRAP! How's that for keeping the spell?

Worst of all? Hearing Cheney try to jam Obama about the dangers of “walking away” from her father’s mess — after Dick and W. did exactly that when they got the genius idea to launch their epic fail in Iraq.

These criminals have absolutely no shame.

Yep, just like daddy.

The Cheneys, Jesus! Why isn't the old man in jail yet? Oh well, the Devil will get his turn.

ComSen

This seed is inaccurate. "Walking away from Afghanistan" means what has been circulated in the Obama administration as pulling all combat troops. Cheney or Bush did no such thing. They may have reduced troop levels when fighting in Iraq, but they did not pull out all troops.

This is just another paranoid troll piece.

ComSenWhen they went to Iraq to fight a war of choice what would you call that, if Bush and Cheney had done their jobs we would not be where we are now, WAR, LIE, UNNECESSARY

Considering that the Cheneys have been wrong about everything, I guess this means that we need to get out of Afghanistan NOW.

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported that 500 farm-raised pheasants were released yesterday morning at the Rolling Rock Club in Ligonier Township for the benefit of Cheney's 10-person hunting party. The group killed at least 417 of the birds. Vice President Dick Cheney reportedly shot more than 70 stocked pheasants and an unknown number of mallard ducks at an exclusive private club. The birds are pen-reared and released to be shot in large numbers by patrons.

Foreign policy whiz Liz should ask her father the same question. She could also ask Reagan and George Bush Sr supporters why they abandoned Afganistan after the Soviets left and the Mujahadeen now Taliban moved in. Conservative foreign policy under Reagan, Bush and Junior has been a disaster and not only in Afganistan. Iraq anyone?

I don't know why legitimate Sunday morning political talk shows would even have someone like Ms. Cheney on as a panelist. I mean, what in the world makes her an expert on anything! It's not just the Cheneys of the world who are the problem, it's the 'left wing' media that gives them air time that are just as bad.

George Stephanopoulos showed his true colors back in April of 2008 when he used Sean Hannity questions for then candidate Obama. I sent the following e-mail to Mr. Stephanopoulos at "This Week with George Stephanopoulos" after the show yesterday:

Rumor is that ABC wants you to move to GMA. I hope you take the position.

When you allow Coburn and Blackburn to lie and over-talk the Democrats’ response, you fail as a moderator. When you include someone with no Bona fides as an expert on issues to sit on a panel because she is the daughter of a former VP, you fail as a commentator. When you allow a panelist to repeatedly misinform without challenging her, you fail as a journalist.

Baking Christmas cookies on GMA suits you better.

I would have said more but I was limited to 500 characters. . .

Once again the first family of Neo-Con lies and nonsense rears it's ugly head. I guess one can't fault Lying Lizzy for taking up for her war criminal daddy but - reality check!

The Dick, Cheney himself has openly admitted that the Bush administration ignored the War in Afghanistan and they never even had a "strategy review" until 2008. The Dick, Cheney would be the first to admit that we never had a chance of winning in Afghanistan because the Neo-Con strategy called for "fighting them on their turf so we don't have to fight them over here"....except the "turf" in Afghanistan wasn't quite suitable for these warfreaks because Afghanistan ain't got no oil...wallah, The War in Iraq!

Remember all that crap from The Dick Cheney about how we will fund the Iraqi War with Iraqi oil revenues? Riiight! KBR & Haliburton - close friends of The Dick Cheney are being funded by those revenues! The US taxpayer is still footing the bill - at around $30 billion a month~!

The War in Iraq was nothing more than "nation building"....and if you don't believe it go back and listen to The Dick Cheney during the first Bush campaign - it was clear even then that Neo-Cons wanted to "finish the job in Iraq"....

Liz Cheney like so many of these war lovers just don't want to face the reality that they have killed nearly 5,000 American soldiers (and by extension their families) for no good reason and we are mired in what is now the longest war in US history because they failed to do their duty...which would have been to go in with "overwhelming force" from the very beginning..

Someone should tell Lying Lizzy to do America a solid and STFU!

Just in- Cheney has once again changed the objective. It wasn't WMD's (Weapons Of Mass Destruction) they were searching for but WAD"s (Weapons of Ass Destruction). They found them! Corporate America had them all along and they were using it on us. We (Americans) were bent over and were raped economically. We wasted our blood and treasure to support failed policies here and abroad. Ms. Cheney your ranting and advice compares to the Rapist blaming the Victim for not providing the condom.

Cheney & Bush got out of their because there was no money there to be made... Iraq was a more profitable war for them...

Dick Cheney and George Bush instead of going into Afghanistan and actually fighting and winning the war have engaged us in another prolonged police action that will take years to resolve and billions if not trillions of dollars to end. We would be better served to pull out save the lives of our troops and the billions of dollars and hope that we never have to return.

We haven't won one war the politicos have gotten us into since World War 11. Our leaders in Washington haven't learned to leave fighting the wars to the people we pay to do so and keep their noses out of it. There will be plenty of time to claim a hand in winning when it is over. Patton, Marshall, Bradley, and others must be rolling over in their graves at this mess the politicians have created and tried to control.

If we aren't going to listen to our generals, then we might as well as lay off the military and send the loud-mouthed politicians over to fight the war. Fat chance of that, the first shot fired and they would be out of the country.

Bring the boys home and save the money. By the way, bring the tanks, planes, jeeps and all other equipment home to. Also, fire all security companies, put the marines back in charge of the embassies and eat a little crow. Whatever fat head decided it was cheaper to hire these firms instead of using the marines, who we were already paying to perform the job, was a real meat head.

Why doesn't somebody tell the Cheney's to keep their noses out of our countries business. They screwed things up, left things in one hell of a mess, made sure the millionaires made their money legally and illegally, and then ran. I can't wish them enough bad luck.

I am not endorsing Obama, because he and his batch of tax dodging idiots are finishing the job of destroying this country. The American people are either a bunch of fools or just plain stupid.

We need some moral, ethical, and honest citizens to step forward and run for office. We already have to many jackasses in Congress filling their pockets at our expense.

And we care because....???????

Why?

This article has no credibilty. Just by it's language it lacks credibility but it is also not based in fact. 1) We went to Afghanistan after we went into Iraq because we saw increased activity by AQ and AQ related groups in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Afghanistan was not as high a priority as Iraq at that time and did not become as important until later. 2) We never "walked away" from Iraq. We have had changing levels of engagement but have never left. 3) Even if it were true that we "walked away" Dick Cheney was not the Commander in Chief and it would not ultimately have been his decision to "walk away". 4) Even if it were true that we "walked away" from Afghanistan, is there some law that a wife cannot disagree with her husband? 5) Is the situation in Afghanistan static? And would not changing circumstances lead to changing strategies?

This is a really weak attempt to create a story where there isn't one.