The White House attacked former Vice President Dick Cheney on Tuesday, ahead of a speech he’s set to deliver later in the day opposing the Obama administration’s Iran deal.
The White House created a YouTube video titled, “Vice President Dick Cheney: Wrong Then, Wrong Now” that features several statements from Cheney supporting the 2003 invasion of Iraq, arguments that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction, and that U.S. soldiers would be greeted as liberators by the Iraqi people.
One clip during the video shows Fox News commentator Juan Williams questioning why the American people should listen to Cheney on the Iran deal when he was wrong on so many aspects of the Iraq war.
“Because I was right,” Cheney responds.
“Right? About the Iraq War? Let’s review,” the video then states, before showing a series of clips of news anchors, ranging from CBS’ Bob Schieffer to Fox’s Megyn Kelly questioning his record on Iraq.
It ends with a clip in which Cheney predicts that eventually only a military strike will stop Iran from attaining a nuclear weapon.
Early highlights of Cheney’s speech to American Enterprise Institute later Tuesday show that he plans to make the case that the administration’s Iran deal will give Tehran the ability to launch a nuclear attack on the U.S. homeland, according to Politico.
“I know of no nation in history that has agreed to guarantee that the means of its own destruction will be in the hands of another nation, particularly one that is hostile,” he plans to say.
“What President Obama is asking the United States Congress to do is unique historically and dangerously unique. The results may be catastrophic … It is not, as President Obama claims, the only alternative to war. It is madness.”
The administration plans to post its Cheney video on the whitehouse.gov’s Iran deal page Tuesday.
“As the former vice president and others continue to make the case against the Iran deal, it’s important that the American people remember that many of these same voices were among the strongest proponents of the Iraq war,” a senior administration official said in an emailed statement. “They were wrong then and remain wrong now.”
