Posted on 02/04/2009 7:51:47 AM PST by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!
Cheney's dramatic language came while speaking in his office in a non-descript suburban office building in McLean.
Former Vice President Dick Cheney warned that there is a “high probability” that terrorists will attempt a catastrophic nuclear or biological attack in coming years, and said he fears the Obama administration’s policies will make it more likely the attempt will succeed.
In an interview Tuesday with Politico, Cheney unyieldingly defended the Bush administration’s support for the Guantanamo Bay prison and coercive interrogation of terrorism suspects.
And he asserted that President Obama will either backtrack on his stated intentions to end those policies or put the country at risk in ways more severe than most Americans — and, he charged, many members of Obama’s own team — understand.
“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.
Protecting the country’s security is “a tough, mean, dirty, nasty business,” he said. “These are evil people. And we’re not going to win this fight by turning the other cheek.”
Citing intelligence reports, Cheney said at least 61 of the inmates who were released from Guantanamo during the Bush administration — “that’s about 11 or 12 percent” — have “gone back into the business of being terrorists.”
The 200 or so inmates still there, he claimed, are “the hard core” whose “recidivism rate would be much higher.” He called Guantanamo a “first-class program,” and “a necessary facility” that is operated legally and with better food and treatment than the jails in inmates' native countries.
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Bush made the same comments during his “exit interviews”.
Bambi wasn’t listening.
God I miss this man..........
Just one more reason to move out of a large urban area if you can folks.
We did in 2000, one of the best decisons we’ve ever made.
All true.
Thank you, Vice President Cheney! Ameicans deserve to hear the straight truth even if 50% of them are too dumb to listen.
Obama and his gang won’t lift a finger to protect Americans.
“Bambi wasn’t listening.”
With those gigantic ears of his you would think some of those words would penetrate.
If you read DU, you also believe that President Bush secretly is still the president and is creating detention camps and railroad cars, along with FEMA coffins for those who disagree..
Bush and Cheney know, there will be an attempt, perhaps there already have been that were stopped. With Hussein in power it will most likely succeed. When it does happen, the democrats in Washington better go into hiding.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDMzHlkB-Yg
Little boy saluting Canadian troops!
(off topic but a patriotic video)
God Bless Dick Cheney.
Wise advice, Badeye. We’re in Northern California and *want* to get out but my husband’s job is here and our home wouldn’t sell for squat in this market. We’re stocking our way-cool vintage trailer with necessities and will leave asap if necessary.
um...then the dummies at DU are confused because it’s the dems who would do such a thing. idiots.
If I’m at work when this country is attacked again, if I live through it, I’m gonna knock the crap out of my liberal co-workers and head for the house.
Then I’m gonna head for the mountains where the water is clean.
No I think they and the press lackeys will scream at us on the TV that its the America’s fault and code pink will light candles for the Jihadist martyrs.
I like your style! See yah at Galt’s Gulch.
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