Rangel: Obama like Cheney on Iraq

The Hill reports:

A senior House Democrat likened President Barack Obama to former Vice President Dick Cheney over his handling of the war in Iraq.

Rep. Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.), the former chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee who's been plagued by ethics investigations, compared the Democratic president to the former Republican vice president in an interview with the New York Daily News.

Rangel blasted Obama for having stayed in Iraq to continue the war initiated by the preceding administration, accusing the president of being there for oil — a refrain leveled often by Democrats against Bush during the Iraq war.

Obama really is the Bush third term in many ways.