Cheney Leads Iraq War Architects Back to Blame Obama

June 20 (Bloomberg) - Bloombergs Andrew Davis reports on the crisis in Iraq as pressures mount for Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki and President Obama sends military advisers to the region. He speaks to Rishaad Salamat on Bloomberg Televisions On The Move. (Source: Bloomberg)

Dick Cheney is back, warning of terrorists on the march.

Condoleezza Rice has re-emerged, urging patience in the Middle East. Even the ubiquitous John McCain has amped up his rhetoric, calling on President Barack Obama to get rid of his entire national security team.

The band of architects and supporters of the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq that ousted Saddam Hussein is back together, many of them waging a blame-Obama media offensive as the president weighs whether to take military action against Sunni militants in the turmoil threatening to break apart the country.

The interventionist Republicans, who sometimes called themselves neoconservatives, are portraying Obama as a weak leader because of his decision to withdraw troops from Iraq in 2011 after failing to reach a security agreement with the Iraqi government for an extended U.S. presence.

Rarely has a U.S. president been so wrong about so much at the expense of so many, former Vice President Cheney said in a Wall Street Journal column on June 17 written with his daughter Liz, a former State Department official.

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White House officials shrugged off the criticism.

Which president was he talking about? Obama spokesman Jay Carney deadpanned yesterday at the White House, when asked about Cheneys remark.

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