Even Cheney is now slamming Obama on Benghazi
Posted: Wed May 08, 2013 12:03 pm
Obama is in trouble when even Dick Cheney speaks up.
Former Vice President Dick Cheney criticized the Obama administration on Tuesday for its handling of the September 11, 2012 terror attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya, calling it 'a failure of leadership.' Cheney said U.S. leaders should have been better prepared for violence on the anniversary of the al-Qaeda attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon in 2001.
'They should have been ready before anything ever happened,' Cheney told MailOnline exclusively during a party in Georgetown celebrating the launch of a new book by former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld.
'I mean, it's North Africa - Libya, where they've already had major problems,' Cheney said. 'You know that al-Qaeda is operating there, and you have some of the other al-Qaeda-affiliated groups there like Ansar al-Sharia and others.
Cheney said that the George W, Bush administration made a point of ramping up security at military bases, diplomatic outposts and other American facilities worldwide each year on September 11.
'When we were there, on our watch, we were always ready on 9/11, on the anniversary,' he recalled. 'We always anticipated they were coming for us, especially in that part of the world.'
'I cannot understand why they weren't ready to go,' the former two-term vice president said of the Obama administration.
'You've got units in the Defense Department that are superb. They practice for this contingency. And they didn't have anybody in the area, it was if the Obama Administration felt if they ignored the threat it would go away. Then 5 days later sending Rice on 4 major net works saying it was just some protestors that got out hand while Hillary made a video apologizing to the terrorists for making them mad trying to act as if a youtube clip was to blame. I've never witnessed such incompetence in my entire life." "The night of the attack Obama was packing his bags for a fund raiser in Vegas and the next morning he actually went"