“I think he did get it right,” Cheney insisted. “We’ve now had three and a half years of Obama policy and it looks an awful lot like — whether you’re talking about the Mexico City speech in 2009, the Cairo Speech in 2009, the extent to which he’s been apologizing for America, he’s abandoned some of our key allies like Israel, Poland, Czechoslovakia. He’s attempted to appease our enemies, the Iranians, for example, the Russians. … The president himself has got a terrible record on national security, and it’s clearly something that Gov. Romney ought rightly to be pushing.” -- Liz Cheney on ABC
An Associated Press fact check last week determined that President Obama never apologized for the United States or expressed sympathy for the people who attacked the U.S. embassy in Libya.
“The claim that Obama repeatedly has apologized for the United States is not borne out by the facts, especially if his full quotes are viewed in context,” Washington Post fact checkers wrote in 2011. “Note to GOP speechwriters and campaign ad makers: The apology tour never happened.”
As for the claim that Obama “abandoned” Czechoslovakia, that country was dissolved in 1992 — over 16 years before he took office.
Of those, Bush apologized for a Mulim Leader's removal from the White House, for G.I.'s killing two girls in Korea, Iraqi prisoner abuse, to Chinse Pres. Hu after Hu was heckled by a protester, to Mubarak for Suez shooting, to Irqi prime minister over Quran "target practice."
The statement from the embassy in Cairo was made BEFORE it was attacked and the word "apology" was never there. Just another day in GOP fairy tale land.
