The American neocons lead by from former Vice President Dick Cheney are flummoxed and furious that the leading GOP presidential contender Rand Paul has put the blame for the civil war in Iraq on the very neocons Cheney still champions. Paul has come out swinging against the Cheney neocons saying the current partitioning in Iraq by the Sunni insurgent group ISIS resulted from their catastrophic war of choice in Iraq, not Obama's 2011 withdrawal from that pitiful country. Cheney, whose new heart has given him life but not a conscience or a soul, can only sputter that Rand is an isolationist. Nothing can be further from reality. Paul is simply a truth teller when he says he couldn't send his son to help Iraq retake Mosul when our fabulously funded and trained Iraqi army stripped off their American bought uniforms and fled to Baghdad. Cheney, who used five deferments to avoid the Vietnam War, would willingly add to the 4,489 GI's killed in his made up, criminal war of 2003, to salvage a shred of his bloodstained legacy.

George W. Bush may have been the puppet who announced the war as President in name, but it was Cheney, as the Bush puppet master, and his neocon conspirators, who sent hundreds of thousands to an early death. Bush, to his credit, is out of politics and warmongering. He appears to have  realized his mistake and figures he killed enough. Cheney still hasn't come to terms with either.