Ford
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I'll admit I've got a bit of a beef with the whole Iraq situation going back over 20 years.
See, I'd been working at this restaurant for a few years, and there was this one waitress who was smart, beautiful, and frankly out of my league. In fact, near as any of us cooks could tell she had a waiting list of guys lined up to go out with her. I can't remember how exactly I pulled it off, but against all odds I'd secured a date with this chanteuse for the evening of January 17, 1991.
On the weekends, I'd also been working for a radio station where - on the AM dial side of things - there was a full-on news radio operation. Of course when the bombs started falling on Baghdad, I was called in to work that night. I had to break that date that had been a few years in the making. "Sorry, but there's a war on, and I need to help deliver the news."
It sucked, I know!
The thing is, my little trip down memory lane was triggered by this fellow that - at the time of my ill fated romantic encounter - was Secretary of Defense. Dick Cheney.
The same guy that just the other day penned an op-ed and starred in a video which blamed Barack Obama for screwing the pooch in Iraq.
Excuse me?
A decade before the 9/11 attacks which set us on the path to (another) war with Iraq...15 years before Barack Obama emerged on the national scene...Dick Cheney was knee deep in Iraq. After supporting Saddam during the Reagan years 'ole Dick was put in charge of the Pentagon when we turned on him.
Ten years later Dick helped depose our former ally, and ten years after that the country has gone to shit.
Can someone please explain to me how this is Obama's fault and Dick has nothing to do with it?
See, I'd been working at this restaurant for a few years, and there was this one waitress who was smart, beautiful, and frankly out of my league. In fact, near as any of us cooks could tell she had a waiting list of guys lined up to go out with her. I can't remember how exactly I pulled it off, but against all odds I'd secured a date with this chanteuse for the evening of January 17, 1991.
On the weekends, I'd also been working for a radio station where - on the AM dial side of things - there was a full-on news radio operation. Of course when the bombs started falling on Baghdad, I was called in to work that night. I had to break that date that had been a few years in the making. "Sorry, but there's a war on, and I need to help deliver the news."
It sucked, I know!
The thing is, my little trip down memory lane was triggered by this fellow that - at the time of my ill fated romantic encounter - was Secretary of Defense. Dick Cheney.
The same guy that just the other day penned an op-ed and starred in a video which blamed Barack Obama for screwing the pooch in Iraq.
Excuse me?
A decade before the 9/11 attacks which set us on the path to (another) war with Iraq...15 years before Barack Obama emerged on the national scene...Dick Cheney was knee deep in Iraq. After supporting Saddam during the Reagan years 'ole Dick was put in charge of the Pentagon when we turned on him.
Ten years later Dick helped depose our former ally, and ten years after that the country has gone to shit.
Can someone please explain to me how this is Obama's fault and Dick has nothing to do with it?
