Does Dick Cheney have a right to criticize the current administration re: Iraq?

Yes, he does. Everyone has such a right. Those who opposed the current administration's policies could also argue a moral right to do the "I told you so dance."

Whether the current, former, or any other administration's policies/stance are the right one is left as an exercise to the reader. All that is really relevant here is that VP Cheney has clearly and consistently been in opposition to the policy that the current administration has pursued.

Of course he does. He is still an American citizen and is afforded the 1st Amendment rights that we all have served to protect. He is probably more qualified than most to provide a critical review on the situation, having been very close to previous actions in the region.

To tack on to your other observations, I too believe that the British and French have created many of the 3rd World issues as we know them today. Both were expansionist colonial powers that brought their own administrators and police forces into many nations of the world including the Middle East. Much of Africa fell under their governance. The ruling nations decided that the burden of global rule was too great, to expensive, not politically popular anymore, whatever the reason. They left. They took all of the administrators and managers with them. There was no transitional government, and no real attempt to train the local peoples to govern themselves once again. The result was akin to the disaster that was the fall of the Soviet Union for the peoples who lived in that region. No one to manage the trade routes.. The grain stayed in the field, the millers did not know how to get it to the mills, the bakers had no flour. And it happened over and over again in nation after nation and in almost everyone of these locations warlords rose up and decimated any tribal systems that had formed. Emergency resources flown in by other nations were intercepted and kept by the warlords and still are. Many of those nations have still not recovered, and while they may have a small central government, their influence does not extend far outside of the capitol cities. I could go on, but you get the picture. The withdrawal of the British and French governments have left the areas they once ruled in a state of war for decades now.

They Knew What would happen if we went into Iraq , and Left ! Powell told them if you Break it you own it ! Instead they decided to , in doing so bringing up the worth of Companies Like Halliburton , and Texo at the cost of American Lives ! Now Look at the Region it is in total disaray