Former Vice President Dick Cheney, R, told Candy Crowley on State of the Union that President Obama should apologize to President Bush and his administration for campaigning against Bush’s anti-terrorism policies and for remarks Obama made in his presidential visit to Cairo, Egypt.
Crowley and Cheney agreed that Obama has continued most of President Bush’s anti-terrorism policies, such as the on-going Predator drone strikes, which precipitated Cheney criticizing Obama as saying “we walked away from our ideals” and suggesting that Obama should “go back and reconsider what [he] said when he was in Cairo.”
“If you’ve got the President of the United States out there saying we overreacted to 9/11 on our watch, that’s not good,” Cheney said, prompting Crowley to say “you’d like an apology, it sounds like.” Cheney replied:
Cheney’s daughter, Liz, appeared with him on the show and interjected at this point that Obama “slandered the nation and . . . owes an apology to the American people.”
You can watch the Cheneys talking to Crowley below.
