Friday, April 17, 2015

Jon Stewart destroys ‘disingenuous’ Dick Cheney: It was you that propped Iran up at our expense


http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/04/jon-stewart-destroys-disingenuous-dick-cheney-it-was-you-that-propped-iran-up-at-our-expense/

Jon Stewart faces off with 'Dick Cheney' on 'The Daily Show' on April 16, 2014. [Crooks and Liars]

Jon Stewart donned his sleuth cap on Thursday’s Daily Show to spell out the extent of the hypocrisy in former Vice President Dick Cheney’s “disingenuous, utterly lacking in self-examination” attacks against President Barack Obama regarding Iran.
Stewart questioned Cheney’s recent argument that, by proposing a nuclear deal with Iran, Obama was weakening the U.S.
“I can’t think of more terrible burden to leave the next president than what Obama’s creating here,” Cheney told conservative radio host Hugh Hewett last week.
But using Cheney’s own logic, Stewart demonstrated that Cheney was “the greater threat to America,” showing footage of the former vice president complaining to colleagues at Halliburton in 1998 that the US had become “sanctions-happy” and cut Halliburton and other weapons companies out of potential business opportunities in Iran.
“You, sir, were arguing for the United States to lift sanctions on Iran, so that your company, Halliburton, could get contracts with this radical regime,” Stewart told a balloon representing Cheney. “Contracts worth millions of dollars. And pardon me if I am impugning your character, but what would you make of a man whose final act in the business world, before joining the American government as Vice President, would be to enter into contracts with the number one state sponsor of terror, just before leaving to become Bush’s running mate — contracts that were only legal because you did them through a foreign subsidiary.”

there is no spoiler here yiu really have to see Stewart at his best giving us the facts with a smile on his face and ours too.  check it out  there is a tip to Cheyney