Cheney: Obama Reserves Right to Authorize Same Interrogation Methods He Condemns
"Yet having reserved for himself the authority to order enhanced interrogation after an emergency, you would think President Obama would be less disdainful of what his predecessor authorized after 9-11."
May 21, 2009 at 12:07 pm - CNN Dateline: Washington DC
Golly GMay 21st, 2009 - 12:11 pm
Thank god for Cheney. He has been there and knows what it takes to defeat terrorists. The policies Bush/Cheney put into place have worked and worked well. They have been challenged by the courts and nearly every time their tactics were upheld.
How anyone could not see this man does not have the best interests of the United States as hand baffles my mind.
How small will Obama look if we get attacked again? So far just about everything Obama does is designed to make it easier for a terrorist to hit us. Harder for us to hit them. Cheney and Bush will look like oracles if we are hit again, god knows the islamic terrorists aren’t going to quit trying.
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Craig AllenMay 21st, 2009 - 12:14 pm
***the ENEMY knows which interrogation technique…***
Mr Cheney, would you say you are ‘Christian’?
Well, of course.
If you identify with the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, what did He tell you to do, regarding your ENEMY?
John 5:44
What did He tell you, regarding the use of weapons?
Matthew 26:52
What did He tell you to do, regarding persecution?
1 Corinthians 4:12
Congratulations Mr Christian, you have denied your LORD 3 times.
Persecuted; we suffer it!
Not very American is it?
Dr. StrangeloveMay 21st, 2009 - 12:31 pm
And in related news, a Tsunami Warning has been issued for the Atlantic Ocean in light of a series of gigantic Flip Flops emanating from Washington, DC.
Obama, Pelosi, and Reid are finally discovering that…..wow, like demagoguing is fun and easy.
But governing is hard.
It's all how you look at it!May 21st, 2009 - 12:43 pm
Actually, Golly, what Mr. Cheney did most effectively was help produce more terrorists than he defeated.
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Steve FMay 21st, 2009 - 1:09 pm
“It is all how you look at it” what a ENORMOUS idiot you are! Talking points from the DNC. When we are attacked by Moslem/Terrorist we will PIN it ALL on Obama/Democrat House-Senate! The Moslem/Terrorist have been at ALL non Moslem since it became a “religion”. At the present Isreal and the US are the biggest “enemies” they consider! Moslem have ALWAYS spread their “religion” by the sword! Cheney is so CORRECT on these issues (Interrogation Methods)..it makes Obama look all the more the “PATHETIC LOSER” he really is!
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kmichaelsMay 21st, 2009 - 1:14 pm
Craig Allen, you seem devoid of a correct understanding of the scriptures and spirit of Christianity.
One aspect of Christ is that he was willing to fight for the right, to defend his people.
Your abuse of the scriptures is appalling at best.
Matthew 26:52 has to do with using weapons on an aggressive basis, not on a defensive basis. The scriptures are full of God condoning and requiring self defense of his people.
To live by the sword means that you use violence as your means of making a living and a means of how you acquire your strength and your resources. Therefore, those that live by the sword.
These sort of people do indeed tend to die by the sword, since nobody likes an aggressive bully.
To paint America as this aggressive bully is inaccurate and just plain stupid.
The idea that you just let your enemies destroy America and equate that to individuals that allow a certain amount of persecution personally is again, very stupid.
Finally, on Christs admonition to love your enemy, I can think of no greater love than to spread freedom and democracy to our entire earth. This allows our current enemies to become our friends and allies being a great blessing to themselves, their children and to us, their new friends.
America does not choose to have enemies. And we freely give them all the best advice, best care, best love that we can afford to give them.
But to have a weak defense as a nation, Craig Allen, is as stupid and backwards thinking and anti-Christian as you can get.
And you condemning Cheney who is a far better wiser Christian that you will ever be is just laughable.
TrentMay 21st, 2009 - 1:15 pm
The difference, Mr. War Criminal Cheney, is that torture was used by you and your minions in order to create a tissue of lies to justify what you wanted to do BEFORE 9/11 (they had an agenda going in to take orders from Israel and Israel wanted Iraq invaded). Torture in this case did not save lives, it destroyed them. ALL those who died in the ill-advised and very expensive (not to mention illegal) Iraq war (American and Iraqi alike) are the fault of YOU, CHENEY, and your traitorous entourage from Tel Aviv.
the devil to payMay 21st, 2009 - 1:27 pm
Three terrorist were waterboarded!Thats all..I wish Hussein Obama was concerned with his black voters that terrorize Southern Cities. Every week in my city a black man will kill a white person.Every year blacks kill more whites in my town than were lynched in all the years of my city’s history added together. One day there will be books written about this chaotic crazy era where right is wrong and wicked people are the chosen few.
Mr BMay 21st, 2009 - 1:28 pm
Craig Allen. What is your point? Can’t help yourself with your Bigotry?
Your post has nothing to do with Dick Cheney being correct on the policy still being used by the Obama administration.
Do you wonder why Obama hasn’t brought the troops home? Why did the Democrats just fund 97 Billion more for Iraq and Afg.? No war for oil!? Illegal war. Right?
Why does Obama keep continuing so many Bush policies that were “so wrong” before?
As far as you cute little word game, I offer this:
Ecclesiastes 3
There is an appointed time for everything. And there is a time for every event under heaven–
A time to give birth and a time to die; A time to plant and a time to uproot what is planted.
A time to kill and a time to heal; A time to tear down and a time to build up.
A time to weep and a time to laugh; A time to mourn and a time to dance.
A time to throw stones and a time to gather stones; A time to embrace and a time to shun embracing.
A time to search and a time to give up as lost; A time to keep and a time to throw away.
A time to tear apart and a time to sew together; A time to be silent and a time to speak.
A time to love and a time to hate; A time for war and a time for peace.
Please keep talking. The more your side speaks the better it is for America to see who you really are.
OtherMay 21st, 2009 - 1:28 pm
“It’s all how you look at it! May 21st, 2009 – 12:43 pm
Actually, Golly, what Mr. Cheney did most effectively was help produce more terrorists than he defeated.”
A statement that is used often since it cannot be proven.
If it were true that would mean we have counted them.
If we had counted them that would mean we knew where they were.
If we knew where they were there wouldn’t be any more terrorists.
sandyMay 21st, 2009 - 1:31 pm
Hey Craig…..
do you prefer abortion to waterboarding?
I don’t want a president who will lecture me about values being breeched because of methods used to save American lives when he lets babies die alone in linen closets.
rider237May 21st, 2009 - 1:43 pm
i wonder, if obama and co. had been in power when we went to war, where he would have put all those we captured? might he have done as FDR did and have secret camps in the US? might he have used rendition as clinton did? might he have simply dumped them into the american legal system?
if you redefine a word (torture) you can make it mean whatever you want it to mean.
from websters online:
Main Entry: 1tor·ture
Pronunciation: \ˈtȯr-chər\
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle French, from Old French, from Late Latin tortura, from Latin tortus, past participle of torquÄ“re to twist; probably akin to Old High German drÄhsil turner, Greek atraktos spindle
Date: 1540
1 a: anguish of body or mind : agony b: something that causes agony or pain
2: the infliction of intense pain (as from burning, crushing, or wounding) to punish, coerce, or afford sadistic pleasure
3: distortion or overrefinement of a meaning or an argument : straining
in this case, the last applies to the argument.
the bush admin. did some things wrong. not among those things was their decision to handle the captured enemies of the US, as enemy combatants and withhold from the the constitutional protections that WE have fought and died for.
James KMay 21st, 2009 - 1:47 pm
Keep it up kmichaels and Mr B. Continue the Good fight, opposing such heretical intepretations of sacred scripture.
Truth marches onMay 21st, 2009 - 2:59 pm
Obama is a slavemaster of whites.Don’t believe it, drive downtown you will see whole families living off the fat of the land, free homes, food stamps, they have Escalades(somehow), welfare checks, free health care, they all have cell phones and cable TV,and no one is working….meanwhile we whites are working the fields(business)to care for the black slavemasters.
racerxMay 21st, 2009 - 3:01 pm
Hopefully, there will be less rapes (and murders) of prisoners under Obama. Of course, nothing surprises me anymore.
That must be one of those gay translators the left has been so worried about getting back into the service.
LKMay 21st, 2009 - 6:03 pm
Once again Cheney proves what a lightweight Obama truly is!
Someday we’re going to learn who the PUPPET MASTER is behind Obama. They have a Marxist agenda and no one had better get in their way.
Obama and GE are well one their way to screwing the lot of us with all their GREEN PLANS! Ask yourself who’s in line to make BILLIONS! Just wait and see! This will prove to be one very corrupt administration. (Just look how many tax cheats have been exposed and that’s just the tip of the iceberg.)
TomMay 21st, 2009 - 8:15 pm
I beg to differ with DICK, President Obama has said that these enhanced interrogation methods are against not only U.S. law but international laws and even against a U.N. treaty on humane treatment of prisoners that President Reagan signed saying the U.S. does not and will not torture. KSM also did not give up any information while being water boarded but rather every solid piece of info. he gave up was while he was questioned during a civil interrogation. And why is DICK calling the U.S. the homeland? Does he know where we are? We are in THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA not NAZI Germany, but then if we are the homeland then I guess BUSHIE was HITLER!
Eileen for Freedom/LibertyMay 21st, 2009 - 8:33 pm
America…Dick Cheney has shown more backbone than any other in past days in either party.
He is a man of character and substance.
Why? Because he is not defending his days as VP and his legacy…he is speaking up because he believes that what they did during the last 8 yrs worked and it needs to be protected.
Not for the good of his legacy…but because he sees under the leadership of Bilderberg Bush-Obama we are open to attack and lacking in the security we need.
I admire and support what he is doing.
Keep it up Dick…we are with you…and support you…and are against where Bilderberg Bush-Obama is leading our nation.
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GOD BLESS AMERICA THE LAND OF THE FREE AND THE HOME OF THE BRAVE…MAY OUR ‘CHRISTIAN’ GOD IN OUR ‘CHRISTIAN’ NATION BLESS OUR NATION AS WE ASK HIS FORGIVENESS FOR THROWING HIM OUT OF OUR SCHOOLS, OUT OF OUR COUNTRY, OUT OF OUR HOMES AND OUT OF OUR LIVES. HE IS OUR ONLY SALVATION…NOT BILDERBERG BUSH-OBAMA!
WhatwhatwhatMay 21st, 2009 - 9:05 pm
Never has America been more unsafe than it was on September 11, 2001, under the foolish eyes of a lil’Bush and ole Dick.
They were warned. They ignored those warnings and people died.
Never take advice from a foolish ole Dick or else you’ll wind up like a stupid lil’Bush.
WhatwhatwhatMay 21st, 2009 - 10:55 pm
You can’t blame me for 911, I was only three years old.
USA in troubleMay 22nd, 2009 - 2:00 am
Oh come on Give it up You guys We are all fighting about the stupidist things, just like they want!our “2″ party system was meant to keep u busy while they Weave their webs around us. red team Blue team and it is still the same Company! we are not a christian Nation u idiots! we are a Caste System with Jews at the top running us all! the rest are just the slaves of the times.if we move to Communism so be it it COULDNT be any worse! we have been taken advantage of by the rich soooo long now its broken! they forget if we cant pay our bills cause they charge too much and pay too less and scamming is considered normal business here, we will collapse and no-one will have Money,oh but Desperate workers are the Crem’de la Creme’ in this society.So slavery it is thanks to the Elite and the Banks (owned by Jews) Wake up Stop petty arguing with ourselves and look at the real picture u are all Zombie Brainwashed slaves!!!…and soon we will all answer to CHina cause they know how to work together to get there goals! even if it means taking us over economicaly then by force!
kmichaelsMay 22nd, 2009 - 3:20 pm
Clinton was warned about Alqaeda using hijacked planes for no less than three years, between 1995 and 1998. Clinton did nothing to change security on use of US planes, controlling cockpits, having air marshals or watching terrorist flight training.
Funny nutnutnut, but how was Bush warned about the attacks? You mean the report that was issued while Clinton was still president that terrorists may use planes? Yes, nutnutnut, apparently Clinton got right on that report and fixed all of our potential plane hijacking problems.
nutnutnut, you are pathetically stupid to say the least.
kmichaelsMay 22nd, 2009 - 3:34 pm
Clinton was warned about Alqaeda using hijacked planes for no less than three years, between 1995 and 1998. Clinton did nothing to change security on use of US planes, nothing about securing controlling pilot cabins, nothing about having air marshals and nothing about watching terrorist flight training.
Thank god Mary Gay Pat is still a school principal spending taxpayer money to blog all day long, during school hours.
Mary, go to h-ell, lying political w-hore.
doogleMay 22nd, 2009 - 10:01 pm
Speaking of vice presidents…
…where’s Deputy Barney Fife Biden?
Azul Del FuegoMay 22nd, 2009 - 10:44 pm
It’s embarrasing – the boy (meaning, a young immature person) president. I’ve never seen such a defensive set of arguments that Obama made in his teleprompter-enabled speech. Head held high, look back and forth. All style, no substance,
On the other hand, VP Cheney made very convincing arguments – and if you didn’t believe them, we can check them via the CIA files that document EIT and the information we extracted by the use of EIT. But for some reason, Obama is afraid to release them – methinks because it proves Cheney’s point. If no one was killed, if no one was hurt, if there was no short or long term bodily damage, if a doctor was present, and if the ones who handed out the EIT had the technique practiced on them – then it is not torture. It is unpleasant, but it’s not torture.
Thank god for Cheney. He has been there and knows what it takes to defeat terrorists. The policies Bush/Cheney put into place have worked and worked well. They have been challenged by the courts and nearly every time their tactics were upheld.
How anyone could not see this man does not have the best interests of the United States as hand baffles my mind.
How small will Obama look if we get attacked again? So far just about everything Obama does is designed to make it easier for a terrorist to hit us. Harder for us to hit them. Cheney and Bush will look like oracles if we are hit again, god knows the islamic terrorists aren’t going to quit trying.