Megyn Kelly Confronts **** Cheney,' You Got It Wrong on Iraq,' Talking Points Memo:
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Catherine Thompson – June 19, 2014, 7:48 AM EDT
Fox News host Megyn Kelly confronted former Vice President **** Cheney on Wednesday night about his own foreign policy track record in Iraq, arguing history proves he "got it wrong."
Cheney had co-authored a blistering Wall Street Journal op-ed with his daughter Liz that blasted President Barack Obama for failing to negotiate an agreement to leave a residual force behind in Iraq and accused him of willfully undermining American leadership abroad.
"Rarely has a U.S. president been so wrong about so much at the expense of so many," they wrote.
"But time and time again, history has proven that you got it wrong as well in Iraq, sir," Kelly said. "You said there was no doubt Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction. You said the Iraq insurgency was in the last throes, back in 2005. And you said that after our intervention extremists would have to 'rethink their strategy of jihad.'"
"Now with almost a trillion dollars spent there, with 4,500 American lives lost there, what do you say to those who say you were so wrong about so much at the expense of so many?" she asked.