The Many Lies Of Uncle Dick

Dick Cheney is back out on the hustings blathering all kinds of inaccurate shit, including that the Bush administration had left the incoming Obama administration a perfectly good troop-increase plan on Afghanistan but it hadn't seemed interested. The truth of the matter is that the Pentagon did send such a plan up to the White House, but President Bush tabled it, leaving even more heavy lifting for the incoming president.

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