Cheney: After Yemen strike, Obama owes apology to Bush

washington post ^ | 10/2/2011 | By Joby Warrick

[tobyhill]

Former vice president Dick Cheney on Sunday called last week’s CIA drone strike against al-Qaeda operative Anwar Awlaki a validation of the George W. Bush administration’s terrorist-fighting strategy, and said that President Obama should apologize for his past criticism of those policies.

Cheney endorsed the killing of Awlaki as “justified,” despite Awlaki’s U.S. citizenship, and suggested that the Obama White House was being hypocritical when it approved a deadly strike against the New Mexico-born Awlaki while condemning Bush’s use of so-called enhanced interrogation methods of al-Qaeda prisoners.

[Darkwolf377]

I imagine Obama made killing this guy a priority when he learned he was an American citizen. That’s the first thing I thought of when I heard of his death.

[americanophile]

Good for Cheney! He's absolutely right. Of course, Obama’s death to the 5th Amendment cheering section here on FR should keep their mouths shut, since they're in love with secret, non-judicially reviewed, pre-indictment executive assassinations.

[sitetest]

Ah, Dick, you just don’t get it. It’s okay to kill ‘em, just not splash a little water up their noses.

[mrspeelwerneeded]

As if he wasn’t just playing politics with such a critical issue. I find this very damning and something that should be used against the ba**ard. Yet Republican opponents know incompetence when calling out the enemy of this country that is 0bama. SOB was all for opposing this only to hit at Bush and was willing to sacrifice the United States security for political points and attacks.

[ken21]

yes.