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February 05, 2009
Former VP Dick Cheney Warns of New Attacks
Cheney Warns of New Attacks
By: Dave Eberhart Article Font Size
Former Vice President Dick Cheney is blasting the fledgling administration of Barack Obama, arguing that its policies dealing with terrorism and international foes are naïve and dangerous, making it all the more likely that terrorists will succeed in their next attempt at killing Americans, according to a report in Politico.
Simply by closing Guantanamo Bay’s detention camp for terrorists, Cheney said, Obama inadvertently will aid enemies eager to make another attack on the United States. Another major attack on this country — perhaps even using biological or nuclear materials — is very likely in the next few years, Cheney said.
“I think there’s a high probability of such an attempt,” Cheney said. “Whether or not they can pull it off depends whether or not we keep in place policies that have allowed us to defeat all further attempts, since 9/11, to launch mass-casualty attacks against the United States.”
Cheney opined that the inevitable attack will be “a 9/11-type event where the terrorists are armed with something much more dangerous than an airline ticket and a box cutter — a nuclear weapon or a biological agent of some kind” that is set off in an American city.
In a wide-ranging interview with Politico, Cheney emphasized the usefulness of the interrogations at Gitmo while lambasting the policies emerging from the new administration.
“When we get people who are more concerned about reading the rights to an al-Qaida 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.
Concentrating on the merits of Gitmo, Cheney described it as a first-class operation, noting that one of the painful lessons learned was the penchant for those detainees who were released to return to their terrorist roots.
He noted that 61 of the inmates who were released from Guantanamo during the Bush administration had “gone back into the business of being terrorists.” He also characterized the remaining 200 or so remaining detainees as “hard core” cases that were even more likely to be repeat offenders.
Releasing the prisoners or ramping up their due process would be unwise, Cheney charged.
“The United States needs to be not so much loved as it needs to be respected. Sometimes, that requires us to take actions that generate controversy. I’m not at all sure that that’s what the Obama administration believes,” he said.
Cheney defended the hard-line tactics of the Bush administration as responsible for the safety of the country after 9/11.
“If it hadn’t been for what we did — with respect to the terrorist surveillance program, or enhanced interrogation techniques for high-value detainees, the Patriot Act, and so forth — then we would have been attacked again,” he said. “Those policies we put in place, in my opinion, were absolutely crucial to getting us through the last seven-plus years without a major-casualty attack on the U.S.”
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.”
Wild Thing's comment........
God bless Dick Cheney!!! Fantastic!!
"When we get people who are more concerned about reading the rights to an al-Qaida 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
Outstanding and thanks for pointing this out.
This is unprecendented. Cheney is old school. Cheney types do NOT make statements like this about a sitting President. This is not politics it is a fair warning of what all of us with commom sense know and I think Cheney is speaking to Obama and to the ones in Obama's cabinet that KNOW MORE WHAT they are doing than Obama.
200 years from now, I want their children's children's children's children to cower and cringe in fear whenever they hear the sounds of jet engines overhead because their legends tell of fire from the sky. I want them to hide in dark caves and holes in the earth, shivering with terror whenever they hear the roar of diesel engines because the tales of their ancestors talk about metal monsters crawling over the earth, spitting death and destruction. I want their mothers to be able to admonish them with "If you don't behave, the Pale Destroyers will come for you", and that will be enough to reduce them to quivering obeisance. I want the annihilation to be so complete that their mythology will tell them of the day of judgment when the stern gods from across the sea.
....Thank you Mark for sending this to me.
Mark
3rd Mar.Div. 1st Battalion 9th Marine Regiment
1/9 Marines aka The Walking Dead
VN 66-67
Posted by Wild Thing at February 5, 2009 05:55 AM
Comments
Sadly, I think Cheney is probably quite accurate. "O" has no clue as to who he is dealing with here. He thinks that by being nice and sweet, the terrorists will suddenly say, "Oh we're sorry....we didn't mean to offend you O great One"!!! "O" reminds me of a radical Flower Child from the '60s!!! Let's all hold hands, sway back and forth, and sing "Joy To The World"!!!!
I remember going through ABC warfare training and trust me, it wouldn't be that difficult to cause significant mayhem and death in this country using chemical or biological weeapons.
The Indians used to refer to people like this as "white men with forked tongues"!!! "O" is a Black man with a tongue that looks like Medusa's head!!!!! Where is Perseus when we need him?!?!?!?!
"O" is going to get a lot of people killed before his reign of terror ends.
Posted by: John at February 5, 2009 08:02 AM
What will it take to wake up these blind, deaf and dumb lemings who followed him off the cliff? A city the size of NY gone? Friends and family killed? There's an old saying, "You don't know how good you have it until you don't have it anymore." God help us all.
Posted by: Lynn at February 5, 2009 08:04 AM
The VP is correct. All the pieces are falling into place. They closed Gitmo, they will be tried and given rights formerly only given to Americans. Obama wants to talk to the terrorists, sort of like talking to the animals, which is what they are.
All the safe guards put in place by Bush will be gone in 6 months. Be prepared for another attack. We are lowering our guard faster than a prize fighter taking a fall. We have gone from Marciano to Ted Truner in 10 days.
Posted by: Mark at February 5, 2009 08:05 AM
I'm reading "Inside Gitmo" by Lt Col Gordon Cucullu right now.
http://insidegitmo.com/
I'll tell you - these are not poor innocent misunderstood average Joes they have there at Gitmo. They attack our troops guarding them with every intent to kill. The rate of PTSD among the troops who deploy to Gitmo is off the charts, because of the constant stress of dealing with these cretins.
Did you know that the cell phones they use to blow up their bombs can be set to detonate up to 3 years from when they set the bombs? I bet The O doesn't.
The Saudi Jihad rehab facility had 11 Gitmo detainees who were sent there, escape and go right back to joining up with the jihadists.
These terrorists have patience and time. There are so many compounds right here in the US that no one seems to be too concerned about. All they need is a dirty bomb set to go off in the future. How do you fight that?
One shot. One Kill.
These are not criminals - they are so beyond that.
Posted by: yankeemom at February 5, 2009 08:42 AM
O'Reilly said If we're attacked again Obama's finished. And, If the economy bottoms out because of the freakin schip and other BS. He's outta there. I'm inclined to agree.
Posted by: JohnE PFC U.S. Army at February 5, 2009 10:03 AM
Obama and his crew are typical liberals. Aesthetics are more important to them than substance. They want to appear to be fair and kind, so they treat the terrorists like innocents who have been caught up in the big bad Bush net.
If the Obama bunch dismantle a lot of the anti terrorism measures now in place, we are in trouble. Also, signs of weakness on the part of the president will be an open invitation to terrorists to try again for a big hit on America.
Posted by: TomR at February 5, 2009 11:54 AM
Cheney has it right, we are being set up for another attack. In retrospect Cheney most likely would have been the better president, he didn't care if they liked him or not. The only reason for government is to protect the population from aggression, foreign or domestic, anything else is welfare.
Personal experience dictates that there is never enough security whether it is singular and personal, in the home, the city, the state or the nation. I can go to the local center most any day and there will be either no police, or Barney Fife setting on his ass with his radar gun pointed at traffic coming into the center, while two blocks away is a known Meth house. Last week there were multiple robberies, the local drug store was robbed, the perp pointed a gun at the pharmacist and demanded Oxycontin and left. The local grocery was robbed as were the liquor store, all perps are still on the lam, Barney is still sitting on his ass with that radar gun. Revenue generation trumps catching and prosecuting criminals, whether it be locally or nationally.
Scale that up to the national scale, we have Mexicans killing Mexicans and Americans on our Southern border, with heads and bodies everywhere. We are still importing illegal aliens at an alarming rate not to mention those of the Islamic persuasion legally.
Our young men and women fight and die every day to protect and defend our nation offshore, capturing irregular troops in the process, while at home those not involved and unconcerned spend every waking moment trying to undermine that effort.
That includes both houses of Congress and that Ubangi buffoon from Africa the they call their leader who is spearheading their effort via a fabricated financial crisis aimed at placing the nation under global control of the United Nations.
People preferring the public tit to liberty must be dying to serve Ban Ki Moon or some other Communist functionary because they sure as hell don't care about this country. They all behave like that spoiled brat at the checkout stand throwing a tantrum over being denied candy by their parents as if they were entitled to the freebies.
Posted by: Jack at February 5, 2009 12:22 PM
Give Cheney Control of this Country for two weeks and the rest of the world thats left from the full-scale salvo of American ICBM's will most definateley love us. He'll probably ensure that every American has at least one M16A4 Assault Rifle or M4A1 Carbine for every family member in their Homes call it the "Cheney Doctrine."
Posted by: JohnE PFC U.S. Army at February 5, 2009 12:35 PM
On, November 4, 2008 the country decided to put the safety of it's citizens and national security in the hands of B. Hussein Obama. President Obama has ordered the closing of Gitmo and ended the use of "war on terror" in his administration as it offends those who have declared war on the free world and, in particular, the United States. The country will reap what it sowed for the safety of it's citizens.
Hopefully, people like Dick Cheney, Sarah Palin, talk-show hosts, and Internet bloggers will continue to speak out on the major issues facing the country. It is working to educate the public on the "Porkulus & Socialism Bill" that Obama and Democrats are trying to shove down the throats of the country. It can work for national security too before Cheney's warning of new attacks comes true.
http://kovsov.org/movies/WTC/wtc2/wot/911_plane_03.jpg
Posted by: Les at February 5, 2009 03:01 PM
When you do a job for 8 years and do it well you get a little possessive about it. Obama is going to face a phalanx of Cheney and other old school Americans when he screws up and gets a major attack by his campaign contributors. The financial records still exist even if the address verification software was turned off for the credit card transactions that funded Obama's campaign, they can still be traced. As can records of the call centers in Gaza that were working for Obama.
If the attack is bio-weapons or nuclear that will be the last that anybody will ever hear from the Democrats unless they convert the entire Middle East to a new religion. If Obama is allowed to go ahead with his plan to reduce the American nuclear arsenal by 80% he will guarantee an attack and war. When the bad boys think they might be able to take you they will try.
Posted by: Avitar at February 5, 2009 05:44 PM
Thank you everyone so much for your inputs and comments and links. I am running late today but I have read all your comments and I really appreicate it so much.
Posted by: Wild Thing at February 5, 2009 11:19 PM
