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Former Vice President Dick Cheney did a good job embarrassing himself on Sunday when he appeared on Fox News and tried to blame President Obama for Iran’s nuclear proliferation program. He was there trying to promote his new book, Exceptionalism, which is where he compares Obama’s treatment of Iran to Neville Chamberlain’s appeasing of Hitler during WWII.
Instead, it backfired on him in a big way.
Fox Host Chris Wallace reminded him, for the second time in a row, that Iran went from having zero uranium enrichment centrifuges to 5,000 of them by the time he and Bush left office.
Chris Wallace: “So in fairness, didn’t you leave — the Bush-Cheney administration — leave President Obama with a mess?”
Cheney: “I don’t think of it that way. There was military action that had an impact on the Iranians; it was when we took down Saddam Hussein. There was a period of time when they stopped their program because they were scared that what we did to Saddam, we were going to do to them next. Chris Wallace: “But, the centrifuges went from zero to 5,000.”
Cheney: “Well, they may have well have gone but that happened on Obama’s watch, not on our watch.”
Chris Wallace: “No, no, no. By 2009, they were at 5,000.”
Cheney: “Right. But, I think we did…uhh…a lot to deal with the arms control problem in the Middle East.”
