Former vice president Dick Cheney and his daughter Liz Cheney appeared on MSNBC’s Morning Joe Wednesday morning to promote their new book, Exceptional. The Cheneys spoke about national security, foreign policy issues like the Iran deal, and 2016 politics.
The vice president called on Congress to hold a vote on the Iran deal and to treat it as a treaty. “What we need to do is have Congress reject the deal,” Cheney said. “It ought to be treated as a treaty, for one thing. I’m offended by the fact that it’s not treated as a treaty. It should require two-thirds vote of the Senate to go in force.”
Cheney also defended the decision to invade Iraq and oust Saddam Hussein from power. “Wasn’t the world more stable with Saddam Hussein in power?” asked host Joe Scarborough.
“No,” Cheney responded. “When we took down Saddam, [Libyan dictator Muammar] Qaddafi gave up his nuclear program.”
Cheney added: “The most important thing was he get rid of the nuclear materials. Imagine what would have happened if he hadn’t done that and ISIS moved in and took over in Libya.”
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