{"id":182856,"date":"2015-05-20T20:27:00","date_gmt":"2015-05-21T01:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/05\/20\/the-most-incompetent-member-of-the-bush-administration\/"},"modified":"2015-05-20T20:27:00","modified_gmt":"2015-05-21T01:27:00","slug":"the-most-incompetent-member-of-the-bush-administration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2015\/05\/20\/the-most-incompetent-member-of-the-bush-administration\/","title":{"rendered":"The Most Incompetent Member of the Bush Administration"},"content":{"rendered":"

I think that we have a winner, and despite a spirited competition, Richard Bruce Cheney has won the “most incompetent” crown<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Dick Cheney would like you to believe that he knows more about protecting the nation from terrorism than anyone else. But he actually knows less. <\/p>\n

When presented with an actual terror threat \u2014 the one that turned into the 9\/11 attacks \u2014 Cheney thought al Qaeda was bluffing<\/i>. <\/p>\n

No kidding. This is from The Great War Of Our Time: The CIA\u2019s Fight Against Terrorism<\/a><\/i>, a new book by former acting CIA director Mike Morell:<\/span><\/p>\n

The threat reporting continued [in the spring and summer of 2001] \u2014 other pieces were titled \u201cBin Ladin Attacks May Be Imminent\u201d and \u201cBin Ladin Planning High-Profile Attacks\u201d \u2014 but I sensed some skepticism about it. The vice president one morning asked me whether all this threat reporting might not be deception on the part of al Qa\u2018ida \u2014 purposely designed to get our attention and to get us to needlessly expend resources in response.<\/i><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

UBL Threats Are Real. Take a minute and think about that. Think about what would have happened on the afternoon of September 11, 2001 if Americans had known that had been Cheney\u2019s attitude just a few months before. Think about how, if he\u2019d been a Democrat, that would have defined liberals as weak, cowardly children for the next 50 years.<\/p>\n

So it\u2019s not just that Cheney is cartoonishly evil, it\u2019s that he\u2019s monstrously incompetent; in fact, his monstrous incompetence is a large part of why he\u2019s so cartoonishly evil. He was overwhelmingly powerful, but with no understanding of reality, and so blundered around the world strewing destruction wherever he went. <\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Dick Cheney initiated the privatization of key military functions as SecDef under Bush 1.<\/p>\n

He ignored the threat of  al Qaeda.<\/p>\n

His response to the attacks of September 11 was to gin up a war with Iraq, who was secular Arab enemy of Jihadists.<\/p>\n

As White House Chief of Staff, he convinced Gerald Ford to dump Nelson Rockefeller as VP for his reelection bid, killing any chance at grabbing a portion of Black vote.  (In 1976, Jimmy Carter was viewed with some suspicion by elements of the Black community)<\/p>\n

This is a guy who has failed upward throughout his career.<\/p>\n

No wonder that  Harry Whittington who was shot in the face by Cheney, ended up apologizing to Cheney for his being shot in the face<\/b>. <\/p>\n

It appears to be some sort of twisted Republican imperative.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I think that we have a winner, and despite a spirited competition, Richard Bruce Cheney has won the “most incompetent” crown: Dick Cheney would like you to believe that he knows more about protecting the nation from terrorism than anyone else. But he actually knows less. When presented with an actual terror threat \u2014 the …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1203,1011,982,1076,979],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dick-cheney","category-history","category-stupid","category-terrorism","category-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182856"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=182856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182856\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}