It is the first ever call for an air strike over a captured drone, former Vice President Dick Cheney said on Monday that President Barack Obama should have ordered an “air strike” on Iran..
“The right response to that would have been to go in immediately after it had gone down and destroy it,” Cheney told CNN’s Erin Burnett. “You can do that from the air. You can do that with a quick air strike, and in effect make it impossible for them to benefit from having captured that drone.”
“I was told that the president had three options on his desk. He rejected all of them,” the former vice president added.
“They all involved sending somebody in to try to recover it, or if you can’t do that, admittedly that would be a difficult operation, you certainly could have gone in and destroyed it on the ground with an air strike.”
When all you have is a hammer...
ReplyDeleteI am sure Cheney would also advocate invading and occupy Iran so as to create more income producing projects for his old buddy Haliburton.
ReplyDeleteI'm calling for Cheney to put a sock in it and just die already.
ReplyDeleteSigh....
ReplyDeleteIs the neoconservative answer to anything and everything just "lets go kill some people"? Bomb, bomb, bomb, kill, kill kill! This is becoming almost like some twisted sexual fetish with them. Geez.
A wretched and despicable human being.
ReplyDeleteHe and others like him need to be quickly and soundly rebutted at every turn.
ReplyDeleteDrop Cheney out of a plane into the ocean.
ReplyDeleteThis reminds me of a B&E that ends in murder; the home owners walked in on the crime in progress and the thieves decide to shoot them.
ReplyDelete@Anonymous 8:02 PM,
ReplyDeleteI agree.
Why doesn't he just shoot his own friends instead? At least they live to tell about it....
Drones have been over sold as America's "Wunderwaffen" - what the nazis called Wonder Weapons. In the German case the expectations always outstripped their performance and they diverted scarce military resources from more established and reliable programs. We need to treat Wunderwaffen claims with skepticism. They promise a quick solution to a complex military problem that is seductive but often misleading and sometimes self defeating. Drones are not magic bullets.
ReplyDeleteThe rate of loss of drones to date has actually been quite high - so the loss of one over Iran should not really come as a surprise. Between 1994 and 2003 the USAF lost 50% of it's Predator drones. (There is more on drone losses here.)
As the US expands it's drone program, the number of downed drones increases and along with that so increases the risk of reverse engineering by rival powers. Sometimes caution in the short term allows a temporary advantage to be preserved for a longer period.
Holy shit, Dick Cheney is insane. Straight up nutcase. Needs medication or some type of intensive mental care.
ReplyDeleteHey Dick, take the quiz for us will ya! We all want to see the results.
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