Bush-era Architects of Iraq war Reappear to Criticize Obama

The Bushies are back.

With the news that a militant Islamic group has seized parts of Iraq, key members of former President George W. Bushs nationalsecurity team who served as architects of the 2003 war there have reappeared -- to either criticize the Obama administration or advocate for another round of intervention in the country.

"The policies of the last six years have left American diminished and weakened. Our enemies no longer fear us. Our allies no longer trust us," former Vice President Cheney says in a new video.

Additionally, he and his daughter, Liz Cheney, penned a Wall Street Journal op-ed, arguing: "Rarely has a U.S. president been so wrong about so much at the expense of so many."

And it's just not the Cheneys.

Former Bush Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz said on MSNBC Tuesday that the United States has an obligation to stop what he said is an Al Qaeda-linked group. "This is about preventing another 9/11."

And Paul Bremer, the Bush administration's envoy to Iraq, said that the U.S. might need troops on the ground in Iraq. Im not in favor of sending combat forces into Iraq at the moment, he said on Monday. But I can well imagine that we would have to have some troops on the ground.

With Team Bush's return to the spotlight on Iraq, Democrats are responding with incredulity. Why, they ask, are the people who launched war in Iraq in the first place -- when their claims of the country having weapons of mass destruction turned out to be untrue -- even allowed to criticize the Obama administration?

"If there's one thing that this country does not need, it's that we should be taking advice from Dick Cheney on wars," Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said on the Senate floor on Wednesday. "Being on the wrong side of Dick Cheney is being on the right side of history."

Being on the wrong side of Dick Cheney is being on the right side of history

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Bush-era Architects of Iraq war Reappear to Criticize Obama