During a Wyoming fundraiser, the former vice president said that his experience in Washington taught him that every president would have to deal with an international crisis that could mean sending U.S. forces into harm's way.
"When I think about the kind of individual I want in the Oval Office in that moment of crisis, who has to make those key decisions, some of them life-and-death decisions, some of them decisions as commander-in-chief, who has the responsibility for sending some of our young men and women into harm's way, that man is Mitt Romney," Cheney said, according to The Associated Press.
For his part, Romney called Cheney a "great American leader," but avoided mentioning to former President George W. Bush until a question-and-answer session when he contrasted President Barack Obama's policies with Bush's "freedom agenda."
While Cheney has not been a vocal presence during the 2012 campaign season, he may have good reason to trust that Romney will be hawkish on foreign policy.
"Of Romney's forty identified foreign policy advisers, more than 70 percent worked for Bush," The Nation's Ari Berman pointed out in May. "Many hail from the neoconservative wing of the party, were enthusiastic backers of the Iraq War and are proponents of a US or Israeli attack on Iran."
"On some key issues, like Iran, Romney and his team are to the right of Bush. Romney's embrace of the neoconservative cause - even if done cynically to woo the right - could turn into a policy nightmare if he becomes president," Berman wrote.
"Romney's malleability is an advantage for his neocon advisers, giving them an opportunity to shape his worldview, as they did with Bush after 9/11. Four years after Bush left office in disgrace, Romney is their best shot to get back in power."
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Approval From the man who's 'experience' created the crisis that sent US forces into harms way? Approval For a man that straps his dog to the hood of his car and called Cheney a 'great American Leader'. Holy Mother of God, if this doesn't get people to realize that their vote means nothing, and our entire electoral system is a crock of shit, the
n I can't image what could. Christ's sake, I think that even Jesus would say 'WTF?'
. . .and not only, they're nothing more than self-animating, self-annihilating puppets whose "actions" simply beg us to look behind the curtain in respect of the nature of who, exactly, and what, exactly, are we dealing with, because it is not clowns like the Necro-Cons with whom we need first concern ourselves.
Remember, this STS dimension in third density is NOT run by humans.
We are not, as the Cs have pointed out so many times, in control of ourselves and until we truly take that reality upon ourselves, and do so with a view to gaining the objectivity demanded in order to see the Greater Reality in which we find ourselves, we will change nothing.
Given that, the preeminent WTF then is the one we pose to ourselves in front of a mirror.