Jay Carney Takes A Dig At Dick Cheney For Iraq Op-Ed

White House press secretary Jay Carney speaks during the daily briefing at the White House in Washington, Tuesday, May 6, 2014. Carney was asked about the situation in Ukraine and on climate change. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
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White House Press Secretary Jay Carney took a dig at former Vice President Dick Cheney on Wednesday for his scathing Wall Street Journal op-ed on President Barack Obama’s handling of the situation in Iraq.

Carney was asked about the opinion piece, in which Cheney declared “rarely has a U.S. president been so wrong about so much at the expense of so many,” during his final White House briefing.

“Which president was he talking about?” Carney said with a straight face, drawing laughter from reporters.

“Look, it’s always good to hear from former Vice President Cheney,” he added. “It’s pretty clear that President Obama and our team here have distinctly different views on Iraq from the team that led the United States to invade Iraq back in 2003, so he’s entitled to his opinion.”

Carney was also asked about Cheney’s accusation that Obama was off playing golf when he should have been focusing his attention on addressing the Islamic insurgency in Iraq.

“I think it’s pretty clear the President’s been paying close attention to this and has been engaging with his national security team,” he responded.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) did away with such sarcasm earlier Wednesday and blasted former Bush administration officials, including Cheney, for continuing to advocate putting U.S. troops back into combat in Iraq.

“If there is one thing that this country does not need, it’s that we should be taking advice from Dick Cheney on wars,” Reid said. “Being on the wrong side of Dick Cheney is to be on the right side of history.”

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  1. Bingo Jay and good for Harry Reid who so far is the only fricking Dem who has the President’s back.

  2. Why the media even bothers to report what an immoral idiot like Cheney says is a question that can’t be asked enough.

  3. “Carney was also asked about Cheney’s accusation that Obama was off playing golf when he should have been focusing his attention on addressing the Islamic insurgency in Iraq.”

    Oh Yea? Now watch this drive…

  4. Rewrite!

    “It’s pretty clear that President Obama and our team here have a distinctly less paranoid crazy view on the Middle East than the team that lied to the country as a premise to invade Iraq back in 2003, so we can’t understand why the WSJ would be willing to publish his crackpot views, but he’s certainly entitled to them. In fact, it’d be better for everyone if he just kept those views instead of indiscriminately sharing them.”

  5. Dick Cheney’s heart goes out to the oil wells in danger in Iraq. Dick Cheney’s Halliburton might be about to lose a few bucks since there is no taxpayer-funded American military force there to defend their continuing profits.

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