Posted on 02/04/2009 5:00:21 PM PST by markomalley
The Obama administration's new policies on Guantanamo Bay prison and the treatment of detainees makes it more likely a terrorist attack against the United States will succeed, former Vice President Dick Cheney said Tuesday.
In an interview with Politico, the former vice president issued a stringent defense of the Bush administration's record on the war on terror, and said he worries the President Obama has already made the country more vulnerable.
“When we get people who are more concerned about reading the rights to an Al Qaeda terrorist than they are with protecting the United States against people who are absolutely committed to do anything they can to kill Americans, then I worry,” Cheney said in the interview published Wednesday.
Cheney also predicted the Obama administration is likely to backtrack on its pledge to end coercive interrogation techniques, since the protection of the United States from terrorists is a "tough, mean, dirty, nasty business.”
"These are evil people. And we’re not going to win this fight by turning the other cheek," he said.
The blunt comments come two weeks after President Obama issued executive orders that will close Guantanamo Bay within a year, and shut down secret CIA prisons abroad. Obama also signed an executive order calling on U.S. personnel to follow the Army Field Manual's guidelines when it comes to interrogation.
(Excerpt) Read more at politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com ...
Bet America is already missing W.
Pray for America, Our Troops and obama’s Guidance
0bama is pond scum (no disrespect to actual pond scum).
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/search?m=all;o=time;q=quick;s=Cheney%20warns
6 +3 more under another title
different articles, but I see your point.
>> the former vice president issued a stringent defense of the Bush administration’s record
A “stringent” defense?
How about a “strident” defense.
CNN pseudojournalist at work.
But I digress. Tell it like it is, Dick! I like that guy. Always have.
I am missing W already.
I would never wish for any harm to come to any American or really any innocent.
But if its going to happen, its pretty ironic that it will likely hit the liberals hardest in a major city. That’s commeupance.
Stringent: exacting, forceful, convincing, severe, compelling.
Sounds about right to me.
But it won't.
And Dick, as usual, is exactly right. Sigh. If only America would listen to the man.
But it won't.
You should read the comments on the CNN link above. I agree with you, based on that alone.
He is SPOT ON. Obama is a clear and present danger to our National Security.
ping
>>Pray for America, Our Troops and obama’s Guidance<<
Pray that we are delivered from evil.
God I hope Cheney and W do to Obama what Carter did to Bush! I hope they speak out at every opportunity.
I would not trust the current president to clean up the dog poop in my yard....
Cheney put a marker down. I like it.
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