Rose Soft-Pedals Obama Talking Points, Asks Cheney: ‘Give The President Some Credit For Trying’

Curtis Houck | June 25, 2014
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More in the cross-post on the MRC's NewsBusters blog.

On Tuesday night’s edition of his PBS show, Charlie Rose interviewed former Vice President Dick Cheney and pushed him to “give the president some credit for trying” to negotiate for a contingent of American troops to stay in Iraq after the status of forces agreement expired in 2011. 

Later, Rose defended the president’s move to leave no residual American troops there by saying that "[h]e wanted to extract us from there and understood the great sacrifice that Americans had made but that he wanted, in a sense, to build new relationships."

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