Obama hits back at Cheney: Terror policy "a great advertisement for anti-American sentiment.”

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March 21, 2009

WASHINGTON — President Obama has hit back at Dick Cheney, the former vice president, calling Bush administration policy on detainees at the military prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, “unsustainable.”

“How many terrorists have actually been brought to justice under the philosophy that is being promoted by Vice President Cheney?” Mr. Obama said on Friday in an interview that will air Sunday on the CBS program “60 Minutes.” The president was responding to recent charges by Mr. Cheney that the administration’s decision to shut down the Guantánamo prison, along with other policies on the treatment of terrorism suspects, would make the United States more vulnerable to attacks.

Bush administration terrorism policy “hasn’t made us safer,” Mr. Obama said, according to excerpts of the interview released Saturday. “What it has been is a great advertisement for anti-American sentiment.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/22/us/politics/22obama.html?hp=&pagewanted=print

[HysteryDiagnosis]

1. But but but we got great intelligence from these people, especially

the ones who had no frigging business being there!!! We got daily updates on what the enemy was up to, so I imagine they had direct lines to their friends in Afghanistan and Pakistan, perhaps the ISI even.

Look at it this way Dick, you can explain it all until you run out of breath at the Hague.

[spanone]

2. knr

[madokie]

3. One of the many things I like about President Obama

is that he won't back down from these assholes.

[Uzybone]

4. Bank on it: MSM and Obamabashers

will say that he is demeaning the office of the presidency bu responding to a direct question about the evil Dick Cheney.

Damned if he does...

[madokie]

10. and damned if he don't.

I hear ya' and agree with it

[malaise]

5. Cheney should be in chains in a dungeon

way below the surface. Fuck him.

K & R

[DCKit]

6. He could go that one step further and refute Cheney's claim that we've gained vital intelligence...

via GITMO and/or torture.

The entire Residency of Dick and W was based on lies.

[Marr]

7. What do you want to bet the corporate media will say it's inappropriate

for a sitting President to criticize a former Vice President? They said nothing at all about the extreme impropriety of Cheney's comments, so it'll be interesting to see.

[Urban Prairie]

8. As if the evil incarnate Cheney still worries about keeping the US safe

Now that he is out of office, it is all about keeping his ass safe from possible prosecution. During his years in office it was like guarding the US from arson-minded terrorists, while his burglar military contractors were busy robbing it blind.

[gratuitous]

9. Will the popular media even know what Obama is talking about?

They've been so enamored of the fiction that the Bush administration and its outlaw policies have "kept us safe" that it wouldn't surprise me in the least to hear bulldog after bulldog from the Fourth Estate reacting to Obama's comments wth a mixture of puzzlement and outright indignation.

But it has to be said. Over and over again.

[malletgirl02]

11. Press Conference

I wonder how long it will take the MSM to say that Obama disrespected Cheney at the next press conference.