Dick Cheney’s own verdict
Dick Cheney has said that he believes that the Bush Administration has done “pretty well”. Considering the circumstances.
One does not expect the likes of Cheney to talk himself down from a mountain of justification for disasterous policies.
The Bush administration’s illogical framing of Saddam Hussein being briefly accepted as a good enough reason to go ahead and invade, the billions that Halliburton has reaped, and the trillions invested in a financial industry that is failing says enough about how well they did.
Cheney appears unable to contemplate how much better they would have done – if they had simply done their jobs with balance and skill, and not undermined American democracy with an illegal war – the world would not be having a financial crisis of unbelievable proportions.
I give Cheney F-
