Posted on 05/11/2009 3:09:00 AM PDT by Man50D
Former Vice President Dick Cheney on Sunday continued his verbal attack against President Obama, saying that the country is more vulnerable to a potential terrorist attack since the Obama administration took power.
Mr. Cheney said that administration's dismantling of many of the policies and protections instituted by President George W. Bush after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks — including the planned closing of the Guantanamo Bay detention camp in Cuba and halting controversial prisoner interrogation techniques — have made the country more vulnerable to future attacks.
"That's my belief," Mr. Cheney said on CBS' "Face the Nation." "I think to the extent that those [Bush-era] policies were responsible for saving lives, that the administration is now trying to cancel those policies … means in the future we're not going to have the same safeguards we've had for the last eight years."
The former vice president defended controversial interrogation techniques such as waterboarding, saying that it had been an effective tool in extracting useful information from suspected terrorists such as Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, who is accused of helping carry out the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks Washington and New York.
"He did not cooperate fully in terms of interrogations until after waterboarding," Mr. Cheney said. "Once we went through that process, he produced vast quantities of invaluable information about al Qaida."
Mr. Obama in January banned the practice on prisoners by U.S. interrogators.
Mr. Cheney said he believes it's his duty to speak out against the Obama administration "because I think the issues that are at stake here are so important."
Mr. Cheney also took a shot at former Bush administration Secretary of State Colin Powell, saying that the conservative broadcaster Rush Limbaugh is a more loyal Republican than the former Army commander.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
VP Cheney speaks for us Conservatives, who within the RNC is speaking for us now?
It is time to ask all our 535 reps to resign at their next election cycle and come up with a clean slate, plumbers, cops, stay at home moms, and Vet's back from the theatre, have more common sense than all these guys put together.
When a former VP has to speak almost weekly for the Conservative Wing of the GOP when she should be spending time with the grand kids, that is not good. We are overwhelmed via the press by the moderates and RINO's it is a sad state of affairs....
Oops, when “He”.... Sorry :-)...
Problem is he is like the old grandfather sitting there telling stories of how it used to be. You know the kind, tells the same story over and over. You roll your eyes, tell the kids to sit cross-legged on the floor and listen. Whether they want to or not.
Then a day comes and the old story telling grandfather isn’t there anymore to politely listen too. And somehow you realize it wasn’t just a story he was telling you. He was telling you about how to survive living.
Cheney in Steele’s job won’t do the trick to turn around the GOP.
Maybe you were thinking of Sarah Palin speaking for conservatives.
Cheney SHOULD be RNC Chairman!
Where are the Repubicans in the House and Senate—not only as Soetoro surrenders to Jihad, but also as he charges ahead on Communist Health Care, and Euthanasia by Rationing?
True. We're getting hit by terrorists every day straight from the WH.
Thats inpossible because Obama is so cool! /sarc
I find your post to be very sound and well thought out.
I listened to my grandfather, as well as my mother and my father. It is because of them that I learned to survive and how to live through life’s problems.
I am now the old grandfather that passes on those stories to my little ones. They will remember those things I have taught them. They will remember them when they need it the most.
I hold, that one of the greatest problems in today’s society is that parents no longer ‘raise’ their children. People simply bring little people into the world and watch them grown into bigger people... A child needs to be raised.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.