Posted on 05/12/2009 4:26:32 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
WASHINGTON (AFP) — Former vice president Dick Cheney stepped up his assault on President Barack Obama on Tuesday, warning he was making "huge" mistakes on the economy and stripping America's anti-terror arsenal.
Cheney, who has emerged as a fierce defender of the last US administration -- while former president George W. Bush's has remained silent -- also said Obama's plan to close the Guantanamo Bay terror camp was a "terrible" idea.
"Bottom line is, we successfully defended the nation for seven-and-a-half years against a follow-on attack to 9/11," Cheney said in an interview with Fox Business Network.
"That was a remarkable achievement. Nobody would have thought that was possible, but it was. I believe it was possible because of the policies we had in place, which they're now dismantling."
Cheney defended the harsh CIA interrogation methods used on terror suspects, branded by critics as torture, which the Obama administration has halted.
He also weighed in on Guantanamo Bay camp which Obama has vowed to close within a year.
"I think it's a terrible idea," Cheney said.
Cheney's interview represented his second attack on the administration within three days, especially targeting anti-terror policies repudiating the tactics of the former Bush administration.
"I think that we are stripping ourselves of some of the capabilities that we used in order to block, if you will, or disrupt activities by Al-Qaeda that would have led to additional attacks," Cheney said.
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OK. See, I could say something about future veterans and DHS but then....we’d all be on A LIST. Or THE list.
I suppose we already are though. Who ISN’T is the question.
I know I WILL be on the list. I may not have 1,000 rounds of ammo, but I can make every one hit its target. I’ve fired expert the past 15 years and was on my unit’s pistol team for many years. All we shot was the M1911, not the sissy man 9MM.
That only resonates with us. If the other information gets released it’ll be buried on page 37.
With our red diaper Commie president in toilet training we can’t even get a good image in North Korea! Shocking!
...and we surely are paying the price for this one as we speak....
If we cannot find a way to keep the welfare class from voting themselves largess from the public treasury soon...the consequences of our election process will eventually end up with Zimbabwe-en results.
Mugabe and Zero think alike...not much different from just about other African dictator, I fear....
One difference is, however, that at least Zero hasn't yet eaten any of his political rivals...
...(that we know of)...
..Cheney/Petreaus....2009?
...make the call, gentlemen...
Notice that Gibbs never even addresses Cheney’s assertion that the Kenyan is making the nation weaker. Instead, he brings up the usual strawman that Cheney is making the Republicans more negative and looking back into the past. Reminded me of the BS of how Clinton said Republicans were preventing him from doing the job of the American people. Gibbs has all the intelligence of a dirty dish rag, the guy has CHUMP written all over him.
Probably because Cheney wasn't President and didn't want to convey the feeling that he was some type of Svengali or protector of Bush?
Thank Goodness Dick has balls.
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