Pro-war Republican Dick Cheney has been hitting the conservative news circuit the last couple of weeks promoting his new book and squawking about how President Obama‘s nuclear deal with Iran will end civilization as we know it.
However, he has been finding out the last couple of years that networks such as Fox News, once a place of refuge for Cheney and his brand of warmongers, seems to have grown weary of the former vice-president – and revisionist historian.
A great case in point point is last year when Megyn Kelly shredded Cheney in a June 2014 interview in what Fox News later described as “an accountability moment for the ex-veep.”
Kelly began by paraphrasing liberal Washington Post columnist Paul Waldman who reported earlier that week about Cheney and Iraq:
There is not a single person in America — not Bill Kristol, not Paul Wolfowitz, not Don Rumsfeld, no pundit, not even President Bush himself — who has been more wrong and more shamelessly dishonest on the topic of Iraq than Dick Cheney.
And now, as the cascade of misery and death and chaos he did so much to unleash rages anew, Cheney has the unadulterated gall to come before the country and tell us that it’s all someone else’s fault, and if we would only listen to him then we could keep America safe forever. How dumb would we have to be to listen?
Kelly then asked: “The suggestion is that you caused this mess, Mr. Vice President. What say you?” As Fox News reported at the time, Cheney gave his standard defense of the wars, replying:
I think we went into Iraq for very good reasons. I think when we left office, we had a situation in Iraq that was very positive… What happened was that Barack Obama came to office, and instead of negotiating a stay behind agreement, he basically walked away from it.
Kelly came back and slammed Cheney, telling him:
But time and time again, history has proven that you got it wrong as well in Iraq, sir. You said there were no doubts Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction. You said we would greeted as liberators. You said the Iraq insurgency was in the last throes back in 2005. And you said that after our intervention, extremists would have to, quote, ‘rethink their strategy of Jihad.’ Now with almost a trillion dollars spent there with 4,500 American lives lost there, what do you say to those who say, you were so wrong about so much at the expense of so many?
You can watch Kelly shredding Cheney in the clip, below:
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