MioMyo
2009-04-08 12:23:57 UTC
Notice this idiot didn't quote General Petraeus or any other military and/or
credible source.
Oh well. he make his brain-dead leftist lemming following fell all warm and
fuzzy, so all other considerations and facts are irrelevant.....
Or maybe he based his uninformed opinion on the basis that bamby did his
level best to suck the king's dick!
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jd4KxcvoCqTzTae-Tw9LhnWYfgKQD97DSB580
Biden says Cheney 'dead wrong' on security policy
WASHINGTON (AP) - Vice President Joe Biden said Tuesday his predecessor,
Dick Cheney, is "dead wrong" when he says President Barack Obama's national
security policies are making the United States less safe. Biden said the
exact opposite is true and added that President George W. Bush's vice
president was part of a dysfunctional decision-making system.
"I don't think he is out of line, but he is dead wrong. ... The last
administration left us in a weaker posture than we've been any time since
World War II: less regarded in the world, stretched more thinly than we ever
have been in the past, two wars under way, virtually no respect in entire
parts of the world," Biden said. "And so we've been about the business of
repairing and strengthening those. I guarantee you we are safer today, our
interests are more secure today than they were any time during the eight
years" of the Bush administration.
Since becoming president, Obama has ordered the closing of the U.S. military
prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and banned certain interrogation methods for
suspected terrorists.
Cheney last month said the Bush administration programs involving suspected
terrorists were critically important and overturning them had made the
country less safe.
"I think those programs were absolutely essential to the success we enjoyed
of being able to collect the intelligence that let us defeat all further
attempts to launch attacks against the United States since 9/11," Cheney
said.
"I think that's a great success story. It was done legally. It was done in
accordance with our constitutional practices and principles," he said.
"President Obama campaigned against it all across the country. And now he is
making some choices that, in my mind, will, in fact, raise the risk to the
American people of another attack," Cheney said.
Biden said he and Obama are working to repair the United States' reputation,
which was damaged abroad by the unpopular 2003 invasion of Iraq. He also
said Obama's team is working together, unlike Bush's.
"Look, everybody talks about how powerful Cheney was," Biden said. "His
power weakened America, in my view. Here's what I mean by that. What I mean
by that was, there was a divided government."
He said Cheney had his own sort of national security council and there was
the actual National Security Council.
"There was (Secretary of State Colin) Powell, who didn't agree with Cheney,"
Biden said, "and Cheney off with (Defense Secretary Donald) Rumsfeld."
Biden promoted Obama's administration as more conducive to better decision
making.
"The strength of this administration is that the president and I work in
concert. I am very straightforward in my views. I am as strong - I hold them
as strongly as I ever have."
But he said those decisions are made with one National Security Council, "a
united national security team."
Biden was interviewed on CNN's "The Situation Room With Wolf Blitzer."
credible source.
Oh well. he make his brain-dead leftist lemming following fell all warm and
fuzzy, so all other considerations and facts are irrelevant.....
Or maybe he based his uninformed opinion on the basis that bamby did his
level best to suck the king's dick!
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jd4KxcvoCqTzTae-Tw9LhnWYfgKQD97DSB580
Biden says Cheney 'dead wrong' on security policy
WASHINGTON (AP) - Vice President Joe Biden said Tuesday his predecessor,
Dick Cheney, is "dead wrong" when he says President Barack Obama's national
security policies are making the United States less safe. Biden said the
exact opposite is true and added that President George W. Bush's vice
president was part of a dysfunctional decision-making system.
"I don't think he is out of line, but he is dead wrong. ... The last
administration left us in a weaker posture than we've been any time since
World War II: less regarded in the world, stretched more thinly than we ever
have been in the past, two wars under way, virtually no respect in entire
parts of the world," Biden said. "And so we've been about the business of
repairing and strengthening those. I guarantee you we are safer today, our
interests are more secure today than they were any time during the eight
years" of the Bush administration.
Since becoming president, Obama has ordered the closing of the U.S. military
prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and banned certain interrogation methods for
suspected terrorists.
Cheney last month said the Bush administration programs involving suspected
terrorists were critically important and overturning them had made the
country less safe.
"I think those programs were absolutely essential to the success we enjoyed
of being able to collect the intelligence that let us defeat all further
attempts to launch attacks against the United States since 9/11," Cheney
said.
"I think that's a great success story. It was done legally. It was done in
accordance with our constitutional practices and principles," he said.
"President Obama campaigned against it all across the country. And now he is
making some choices that, in my mind, will, in fact, raise the risk to the
American people of another attack," Cheney said.
Biden said he and Obama are working to repair the United States' reputation,
which was damaged abroad by the unpopular 2003 invasion of Iraq. He also
said Obama's team is working together, unlike Bush's.
"Look, everybody talks about how powerful Cheney was," Biden said. "His
power weakened America, in my view. Here's what I mean by that. What I mean
by that was, there was a divided government."
He said Cheney had his own sort of national security council and there was
the actual National Security Council.
"There was (Secretary of State Colin) Powell, who didn't agree with Cheney,"
Biden said, "and Cheney off with (Defense Secretary Donald) Rumsfeld."
Biden promoted Obama's administration as more conducive to better decision
making.
"The strength of this administration is that the president and I work in
concert. I am very straightforward in my views. I am as strong - I hold them
as strongly as I ever have."
But he said those decisions are made with one National Security Council, "a
united national security team."
Biden was interviewed on CNN's "The Situation Room With Wolf Blitzer."