Obama making U.S. less safe, Cheney says
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(CNN) - The Obama administration's new policies on Guantanamo Bay prison and the treatment of detainees makes it more likely a terrorist attack against the United States will succeed, former Vice President Dick Cheney said Tuesday.
In an interview with Politico, the former vice president issued a stringent defense of the Bush administration's record on the war on terror, and said he worries the President Obama has already made the country more vulnerable.
Earlier: Cheney: Bush should have pardoned Libby
“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 in the interview published Wednesday.
Cheney also predicted the Obama administration is likely to backtrack on its pledge to end coercive interrogation techniques, since the protection of the United States from terrorists is a "tough, mean, dirty, nasty business.”
"These are evil people. And we’re not going to win this fight by turning the other cheek," he said.
The blunt comments come two weeks after President Obama issued executive orders that will close Guantanamo Bay within a year, and shut down secret CIA prisons abroad. Obama also signed an executive order calling on U.S. personnel to follow the Army Field Manual's guidelines when it comes to interrogation.
Related: What's next for Guantanamo Bay detainees?
In the interview, Cheney suggested Obama was irresponsibly adhering to “campaign rhetoric,” and called Guantanamo Bay a “first-class program.”
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Cheney to me you should be rotting in jail as a traitor to the US. You have zero credibillity. How about the truth? Haliburton was getting a $1 billion contract to build a permanent base in Guatanamo. I never believed for a minute you were not still involved with them. Go crawl back under your rock
Cheney needs to sit down and shut up
Go drive your car off a cliff, dick face.
Go to hell Cheney
GO AWAY
Dear Mr. Dick Cheney,
the politics of the last administration had polarised the world and had made the world more unsafe than Obama.
Closing Guantano Prison will surley help improve America image in the world.
Ameruca should lead by example and not bully other countries.
thanks
Bush Admin released about 500 of the 700 Gitmo detainees. They were being forced by court decisions down the path that President Obama is on. To infer that any changes at all are capitulation to the the enemies is the height of disingenuousness. President Obama is making the hard choices on how to protect the US Constitution without shredding it at the same time, unlike Bush.
Back seat drivers need to shut up. When it was your turn in the driver seat, you got us 'lost' and made numerous 'wrong turns'. So sit back and let those who ahve the wheel now, take their turn.
Isn't there a nursing home calling your name..???? Shut up sit down and take a look at the wonderful mess you made that last 8 years... I would be focusing on all the illegal allegations you have coming to you.
Vice President Cheney is deff right!
How can you take anything this Chicken Hawk takes seriously? He concocted a fake war with Iraq, then awarded his own company a no bid contract to "Clean" up in Iraq. When critizied, he outed his own CIA agent. How did that make the US safe? Bush was a rotten President. Cheney was even worse as VP. He isa cowardly little man who had other people do his dirty work. Then tried to hide behind the Constitution.
Please, just crawl back under your rock, and let the President we elected do his job without your corrupt 2 cents
Isn't it time for his war crimes trial???
And, what kind of security did you and your cracker-jack puppet Dubya provide? Oh that's right, you were to busy fighting his daddy's war to take car of your country.
Crawl back under your rock, Cheney. No one cares what you think – you've done enough damage to this country already.
Evil is as evil does. Tell Mr. Cheney to shut his face for awhile.
Let's give President Obama a chance to do something before we start criticizing his efforts. and that includes YOU Dick Cheney... Jerk.
cheney should worry about his own possible jail time due to torture.
Go away Darth
I couldnt disagree with Cheney more.
The resentment of the U.S. is fueled by are selfish interests and pompous elitism we portray to the rest of the world.
We need to embrace and recognize other people of the worlds interest and participate in the world community. Not shut it out if it happens to clash with our own interests.
We try to project freedom of expression as a core value within our society yet we dont allow other countries to disagree with our policies.
Ummm Dick,
I hope you are investigated and charged as the war criminal that you are!
You are a disgrace and your opinion no longer matters! There is a spot waiting for you in hell! I just hope you have to pay for some of your crimes here before you arrive!
didn't Cheney say that Sadam Had chemical weapon?
give me a break cheney.
If Cheney wants to see "evil" he can always look in the mirror. Just when and how did this chicken hawk get so tough?
Shouldn't Mr. Cheney be in a whirlpool somewhere - nursing his back problem?
Dick Cheney should shut up, and spend his Halliburton money in complete isolation from the rest of the world.
His opinion on anything is completely worthless and he should be thankful that he has not been indicted on his actions while in office.
This man is a criminal and a sadist.
Go away Dick Cheney.
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