Cheney warns of new attacks
By JOHN F. HARRIS & MIKE ALLEN & JIM VANDEHEIFormer Vice President Dick Cheney warned that there is a “high probability” that terrorists will attempt a catastrophic nuclear or biological attack in coming years, and said he fears the Obama administration’s policies will make it more likely the attempt will succeed.
In an interview Tuesday with Politico, Cheney unyieldingly defended the Bush administration’s support for the Guantanamo Bay prison and coercive interrogation of terrorism suspects.
And he asserted that President Obama will either backtrack on his stated intentions to end those policies or put the country at risk in ways more severe than most Americans — and, he charged, many members of Obama’s own team — understand.
“When we get people who are more concerned about reading the rights to an Al Qaeda 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.
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”…
I have been aghast at this lunatic’s lack complete disregard of protocol, process, and posture. Former Vice Presidents of the United States simply do not behave this way. It is unseemly, inappropriate, counterproductive and so far over the line that I’m not sure there are adequate descriptors in the language. What is it going to take to shut this jizzball up?? I think some felony charges would be a good place to start and I feel rather confident that W’s last minute presidential orders can be overcome in this connection. Holy Mother of God!