Posted on 03/29/2009 8:14:13 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Gen. Petraeus: U.S. no less safe under Obama By Michael O'Brien Posted: 03/29/09 10:12 AM [ET] General David Petraeus countered recent suggestions by former Vice President Dick Cheney on Sunday that the United States is less safe under the Obama administration.
“I wouldn’t necessarily agree with that,” Petraeus said during an appearance on CNN where he was asked about Cheney's comments.
In an interview on CNN two weeks ago, Cheney defended Bush administration interrogation policies and the detention camp in Guantanamo Bay as making the U.S. safer. He criticized Obama for announcing changes to U.S. interrogation policies, which he said had foiled terrorist attacks on the U.S.
Pressed about Cheney's comments, Petraeus did not directly criticize U.S. interrogation policies that some have said amounted to torture. But in offering a defense for traditional U.S. "values," he also did not defend Cheney's remarks.
“I think that there is in fact a good debate going on about the importance of values in everything we do,” Petraeus said. “It is hugely significant to us to hold so dear to the values we’ve fought for over the years,” he said.
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
He didn’t counter it, and he didn’t say we are no less safe.
That’s all the headline writer and article writer putting words in his mouth.
He speaks the truth
Even less safe now.
the media is trying to get the general into a political hotspot. Whatever the answer, yes or nay, they’re going to either use it as a weapon against the general or against Republicans
He is trying to say what he can without a Chain of Command violation (and that is not much). By Petraeus saying that we are not less or more safe under Obama is an admission that we are, indeed, LESS safe.
Maybe that was Rove's plan all along? N'yessss, ha ha ha ha!
He is careful with words, unlike his CIC.
POTUS = Commander In Chief of the Armed Forces of the United State of America.
End of discussion.
He has to be carefull for obvious reasons. On the other hand we have no clue of his political leanings.
Pray for America and Our Troops
““It is hugely significant to us to hold so dear to the values we’ve fought for over the years,” he said.”
And isn’t one of those abiding values TRUTH? Why not state the TRUTH, that America is naturally LESS SAFE under a radical leftist president?
Brazen!
lets see if we are safer under this idiot.
Russia right now is building their nuclear weapons
Russia is building their conventional military a lot
Russia is now sending navel patrols around the top of Norway and the arctic to AK
Russia is deploying military to south and central America
North Korea is full steam ahead on their weapons programme and is laughing right now in front of phony
China is building up their military and taking over assets in this country.
Islamic nutjobs are going to be released and even talk of them being released int to the streets of America because they might be harmed back in their country.
charges have bene postponed against one and others can soon get the pathetic liberal group of the ACLU on their side with tax payers money
Islamic nutjobs like Hamas and Hezbollah are coming across our southern border
which brings me onto the southern border
The phony and his ilk are ignoring the problem and saying ,”well it has not come over here the violence and it is not a huge problem”
They say something and then do something else as Napolitano has always done.
Our military is being cut with spending and future weapons and equipment is bring cancelled or postponed.
Are we safer
NO CHANCE and it is not like the General can say otherwise as CNN knew this but hey they got their headline and twisted the story to back their messiah and they wonder why they lose rating.
Exactly, is he supposed to telegraph the enemy that now is the time to attack because zer0 is an idiot?
Only enemies of America (dems) would do such a thing. Our guys do not sacrifice the security of this Nation for political reasons
As an Active Duty Officer, Petraeus is very limited in what he can say about Chain of Command publicly.
Expect the biased left leaning media to twist anything said to favor Obama.
Don’t forget, when Petraeus spoke under the Bush administration, it was Hillary who said his words “required a willing suspension of disbelief.”
Now, they will twist and embrace what they can twist to bolster their own shortcomings into positives.
I'm guessing they were smart enough to know that when it comes to Defense, the Zero team is in way over their paygrades.
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.