Posted on 05/21/2009 7:11:47 AM PDT by kristinn
He sure did.............Now the world knows how Obama suppressed it.
Obama didn’t even give Biden a plug in his speech!! :-)
Exactly!
Yeah...Beckel doth protest too much.
Truth hurts.
-—like a frickin’ waterfall of cash!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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And Then There Was Only Guantánamo . . . [Victor Davis Hanson]
With the Democratic no-go on Guantánamo (I’ll leave it to the better informed to ascertain the degree that the Democratic Congress came to the rescue of an embarrassed Obama administration and cut off funding for the shutdown to allow him an out with the now familiar excuse of “they did it — not me, who keeps promises”), I think we now have come to the end to the five-year left-wing attack theme of Bush “shredding the Constitution.”
Except for the introduction of euphemisms and a few new ballyhooed but largely meaningless protocols, there is no longer a Bush-did-it argument. The Patriot Act, wiretaps, e-mail intercepts, military tribunals, Predator drone attacks, Iraq, Afghanistan — and now Guantánamo — are officially no longer part of the demonic Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld nexus, but apparently collective legitimate anti-terrorism measures designed to thwart killers, and by agreement, after years of observance, of great utility in keeping us safe the last eight years.
Add in the Holder statements about Guantánamo in the 2002 interview, the Pelosi/Rockefeller/et al. waterboarding briefings, the need to consider torture in past statements by senators such as Schumer, and I think historians will now look back at these “dark years” as largely a collective, bipartisan effort.
All of which leaves us a final musing: If so, what was the hysteria of 2001-2008 about other than simple politics?
I doubt we get any more movies about ongoing renditions, redactions, any more Checkpoint-like novels, any more waterboarding skits and reenactments, any more late-night comedians doing their Bush tapped, intercepted, tortured, renditioned, tribunaled poor suspect X routines.
And I guess as well that the good old days of supposedly flushed Korans in Guantánamo and Omar the poor liberationist renditioned to Cairo are over. We are now in the age of a sober and judicious President Obama who circumspectly, if reluctantly and in anguish at the high cost, does what is necessary to keep us safe.
And we won’t see a brave young liberal senator, Obama-like, barnstorming the Iowa precincts blasting a presidency for trampling our values with the shame of Guantánamo, wiretaps, intercepts, renditions, military tribunals, Predators, Iraq, etc. That motif just dissolved — or rather, it never really existed.
In short, all the fury, the vicious slander, the self-righteous outbursts, the impassioned speeches from the floor, the “I accuse” op-eds by the usual moralistic pundits — all that turned out to be solely about politics, nothing more.
Biden already has plenty of plugs. He didn't need another one.
And Rush follows both.
Cheney for President!
Obama deserves a longer term, like 15 to 20 in prison.
But I bet he made what “plugs” he has on his head stand up!
Text of Cheney’s AEI Speech
http://www.weeklystandard.com/weblogs/TWSFP/2009/05/text_of_cheneys_aei_speech.asp
Let me know if he deviated, since CSPAN radio saw fit to screw it up.
I LOVE this man!! Do they even make men of this stuff anymore?? Bravery, courage...WoooooHooo!
That was one KICK ASS speech by Dick Cheney! WOO HOO!
I’d pay to see that.
No kidding. I hope when that happens it's televised nationally and I get to record it.
RNC out-raised DNC again.
See No Evil
On February 2, a Department of Defense spokesman told THE WEEKLY STANDARD that a Pentagon report documenting the recidivism of some former Guantanamo detainees would be released imminently. The report was coming so soon that we were told to check defenselink.mil for it that afternoon.
Nothing.
Today, the New York Times, which has obtained a copy of the report, says that two administration officials claim it was squashed for political reasons.
Two administration officials who spoke on condition of anonymity said the report was being held up by Defense Department employees fearful of upsetting the White House, at a time when even Congressional Democrats have begun to show misgivings over Mr. Obama’s plan to close Guantánamo. (emphasis added)
What other reason could there be for the report’s delay? The Times cites a DOD spokesman as saying that it is still “under review.” It is now May 20. We were told that the report was coming soon on February 2. Other news organizations, including Newsweek and the Times, expected the report to be released in late January.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/weblogs/TWSFP/2009/05/see_no_evil.asp
First Cheney wipes up the floor with zero, now Rush can wipe up the floor with Beckel.
beckel is a broken down alcoholic has-been....that can't remember his own talking points......
Cheny ROCKS.....in the TRUTH!!!!!!
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