According to an April 6, 2009, article investigated and written by Seymour Hersh that will appear in The New Yorker, Dick Cheney disparaged Obama to Israeli officials during the transition period. Read this previewed post about the changes in Middle Eastern strategy underway in the Age of Obama.
Like a possible treaty between Israel and Syria.
And if you ever had any doubt that the Israeli invasion of Gaza at the tail end of the Bush administration was sanctioned by the outgoing Bush-Cheney madmen, here it is:
According to the former senior intelligence official, who has access to sensitive information, “Cheney began getting messages from the Israelis about pressure from Obama” when he was President-elect. Cheney, who worked closely with the Israeli leadership in the lead-up to the Gaza war, portrayed Obama to the Israelis as a “pro-Palestinian,” who would not support their efforts (and, in private, disparaged Obama, referring to him at one point as someone who would “never make it in the major leagues”). But the Obama team let it be known that it would not object to the planned resupply of “smart bombs” and other high-tech ordnance that was already flowing to Israel. “It was Jones”—retired Marine General James Jones, at the time designated to be the President’s national-security adviser—“who came up with the solution and told Obama, ‘You just can’t tell the Israelis to get out.’ ” (General Jones said that he could not verify this account; Cheney’s office declined to comment.)
So all of the gloves are off. Since when does the prior administration attack the current one just days after an election? Because Bush-Cheney have a lot at stake: everything is political in an attempt to make their decisions in the "war on terror" look benign and patriarchal, and not illegal and subject to indictment.
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