Liz Cheney Blames Bush-Era ‘Policy Of Weakness’ For North Korea’s ‘Belligerence’

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by Frances Martel | 9:27 pm, November 29th, 2010

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Liz Cheney is often about as strong an ally as the Bush administration can hope for in cable news. A veteran of the state department with family ties to the Vice President, most of her commentary tends to support the choices of the administration for which she worked. But this weekend on Fox News Sunday, she candidly admitted that the blame for a “policy of weakness” for which she blamed some of North Korea’s aggression fell on the shoulders of President Bush.

Asked by Chris Wallace about recent tensions on the Korean peninsula, Cheney was not shy in pointing out that she believed their decision to become more aggressive against South Korea was a response to the lack of consequences in the past for their behavior. And by the past, she not only meant the work of diplomats under President Obama:

“What we’ve seen there is an example of how provocative American weakness can be. And I think that, unfortunately, it is a policy of weakness that has expanded back into the Bush administration, into the last years of the Bush administration. I think that, we’ve seen time and time again– North Korea, if they test a nuclear weapon, there are no consequences. They build a reactor for the Syrians, there are no consequences. And what they’ve learned is that their belligerence in fact oftentimes yields from us capitulation and concessions. I think it’s time for us to put them back on the terrorist list.”

This also led Cheney to emphasize the need to take a strong stance in negotiating with China, North Korea’s biggest ally, lest they prefer to see “nuclear proliferation in your neighborhood.”

The segment from Fox News Sunday below:

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http://www.facebook.com/people/Dronetek-Bulk-Vanderhuge/100000918732763 Dronetek

It wasn’t just the Bush administration though. It was the Clinton administration and its totally inept diplomacy that gave North Korea nuclear plants in the first place. Who could forget pictures like this?

http://www.knowledgerush.com/wiki_image/e/e5/Great_Leader_Comrade_Kim_Jong_Il_(122).jpg

I wouldn’t expect mediaite to give this sort of information though. You all are just looking for chances to distract from Democrats and focus on people out of power.

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Liz would be a great candidate for President. She would kick Obama’s rear in any debate on any subject.
Palin would support her.
Rusty Shackelford

I’d love to see Liz debate McCains plus sized daughter.
Nacho

Here they go blaming Bush again…
RobDavis

gordonbloyershow said:
Palin would support her

Something gives me the idea Liz would rather she’d not.
dexterneptune

Dronetek said:
It wasn’t just the Bush administration though. It was the Clinton administration and its totally inept diplomacy that gave North Korea nuclear plants in the first place. Who could forget pictures like this?

Clinton gave NK reactors to appease them which Kim Jong Il diverted nuclear resources from, and Bush ignored the blatant NK nuclear weapons tests even as he was spouting rhetoric about intolerance of nuclear proliferation. There’s plenty of blame to go around for all. Point is, our softball policies on NK over the past couple of decades have fueled the mess that is the Korean peninsula today. Should have taken the little rat out on a number of occasions during more than one administration…
the real john t

Dronetek said:
You all are just looking for chances to distract from Democrats and focus on people out of power.

Is Bill Clinton still in power? Do you see the hypocrisy of your comment?
puck30

Nacho said:
Here they go blaming Bush again…

It’s like what Jimmy Durante once said, “Everybody wants to get into the act.”
NeoKong

What was Bush supposed to do….?
He already had two wars on his hands and he was getting hammered hard by the press. He couldn’t start anything with North Korea and they knew it.
So did China.
Once the treason filled Pelosi Congress came into power he was holding on by his fingernails.
They would fund his war as long as he went along with their plans and absolutely no more new conflicts.
North Korea is opportunistic if anything.
When they can extort something they will and they ain’t done with Obama by a long shot.
Just4thefax

Fact: Bush didn’t act on North Korea since South Korea asked him not to bomb them!
skyfet

These Cheney clowns and their neocons friends are the loudest warmongers but the least to sacrifice one of their own to the cause. Dick didn’t serve Liz didn’t, she has 5 Children (she should encourage them to join the Military). They talk the talk but don’t walk the walk, they are happy to send other people’s kid to war but not their own nor them selves when they had the chance (Dick).
disenlightened

Good for her. Bush continued much of the weak approach to N. Korea of Clinton’s, and it’s nice to see she recognizes that and is honest enough to publicly point it out. Madeline Albright dancing with Kim Jong-il?
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skyfet said:
These Cheney clowns and their neocons friends are the loudest warmongers but the least to sacrifice one of their own to the cause. Dick didn’t serve Liz didn’t, she has 5 Children (she should encourage them to join the Military). They talk the talk but don’t walk the walk, they are happy to send other people’s kid to war but not their own nor them selves when they had the chance (Dick).

Hmmmm, what do we have here? A loud mouth coward hiding behind a phony name calling other people cowards. LOL.
Go hide under your bed like all of your nameless friends commenting here.
The Real Royal King

skyfet said:
These Cheney clowns and their neocons friends are the loudest warmongers but the least to sacrifice one of their own to the cause. Dick didn’t serve Liz didn’t, she has 5 Children (she should encourage them to join the Military). They talk the talk but don’t walk the walk, they are happy to send other people’s kid to war but not their own nor them selves when they had the chance (Dick).

I have to agree. Unfortunately, Cheney-like creatures, feasting on the carrion of the young men and women they view as so disposable, have become a permanent feature of American life. Wrongway Kristol is another vulture I find particularly disgusting.
The Real Royal King

Liz seems to have become something of her father’s death rattle, incarnate. Desperately trying in his dying days to rehabilitate his image, without regard to the destruction and carnage it may cause, and whilst sparing her father the rather undignified, messy and embarrassing redemption generally required of rehabilitation and so needed by her father. It isn’t working. It won’t work. He dies much alone, discredited, dismissed and despised, his image the victim of his stubborn pride.
The Real Royal King

gordonbloyershow said:
Hmmmm, what do we have here? A loud mouth coward hiding behind a phony name calling other people cowards. LOL.
Go hide under your bed like all of your nameless friends commenting here.

Marceaux, I mean Blower, I hate to tell you this but a failed and canceled show on Portage, Indiana, cable access, and a picture of you in a prison jump suit doesn’t exactly put you “out there”.
Hugo Daun

The Real Royal King said:
…a picture of you in a prison jump suit…

Circa the 1980′s, no less…
The Real Royal King

Hugo Daun said:
Circa the 1980’s, no less…

Alas! The jumpsuit did not get time off for good behavior.
skyfet

@gordonbloyershow
So you can’t defend the Cheney’s, so you had to call me names. Truth hurts, but you have to show your immaturity. By the way, why don’t you disprove of what I said about them and the neocons. Joker
skyfet

@The Real Royal King
When I refer to ‘Neocons’ Kristol is one the top people on my mind. He is mad, always wanting more war, Iran before Iraq was finished, North Korea when the Country is stuck in two wars. He never served, not sent his kids to war, POS.
http://gordonbloyershow.com gordonbloyershow

skyfet said:
When I refer to ‘Neocons’ Kristol is one the top people on my mind. He is mad, always wanting more war, Iran before Iraq was finished, North Korea when the Country is stuck in two wars. He never served, not sent his kids to war, POS.

I know you are stupid but this post goes beyond stupid. Since when did anyone SEND their kids to war?
There is no draft. “Kids” turn 18 and they do what they want to do.
I know this may come as a shock to you but the people in Iraq and Afghanistan are volunteers.
You seem to be stuck with the talking points of the 70′s.
The Congress voted to go to Iraq and Afghanistan. Many of their children have served or are serving there. In case you missed it Sarah Palin’s son served in Iraq.
In the last election I don’t remember to many people running on the plateform, “Get out of Iraq and Afghanistan NOW.”
Save your ignorant anti-war rant for Code Pink and hippies from the 60′s.
Put your crayons away and go to take a nap.
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The Real Royal King said:
Marceaux, I mean Blower, I hate to tell you this but a failed and canceled show on Portage, Indiana, cable access, and a picture of you in a prison jump suit doesn’t exactly put you “out there”.

You should try to post something that makes sense to someone other than yourself?
You keep repeating lies as if repeating them will make them true. Do you ever try to gain any credibility?
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writer

In all fairness, North Korea has been a pain in the ass since Truman was in office. They didn’t just become that way since the Bush administration.
Dandee

Who the he!! asked her for her opinion? I would think someone else may have a truthful opinion, so just ask someone else.