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In a Thursday radio interview with conservative host Hugh Hewitt, Cheney was asked whether he would have advised president Barack Obama to "allow the victory dance that occurred and the operational details to come out." Cheney's answer amounted to no.
You dont go out and broadcast the fact that youve got the guy," Cheney said. "You want to take that intelligence and be able to exploit it over the next few nights, and wrap up large parts of the network.
They were in such a hurry to go out
and announce victory, that Im convinced that they probably did not get maximum damage out of the intel that they had captured.
Back in May 2011 at the time of the capture, Cheney credited the Obama administration for its sound judgment in carrying out the mission. But on Thursday, he also appeared to suggest that the president and his staff never really credited the Bush administration for its part in the puzzle.
"They needed to recognize, as some have, although he never really has, but all the work that was done by our intel professionals over a period of ten years to make that possible," Cheney told Hewitt.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/25/dick-cheney-obama_n_4163421.html?utm_hp_ref=tw
LondonReign2
(5,213 posts)As in "whatta"
arthritisR_US
(7,288 posts)his cave
appleannie1
(5,067 posts)what Dickie thinks?
spanone
(135,843 posts)Sheepshank
(12,504 posts)tblue
(16,350 posts)Xolodno
(6,395 posts)...gunfire and an exploding US Stealth Helicopter near the "West Point" of Pakistan....and not too mention a shit load of family witnesses who will no doubt spill the beans that Usama was there....and local residents seeing US troops...plus no doubt a few in the Pakistani intelligence knew he was there....
There wasn't much of a chance to keep things quiet to begin with....
Mr. Ex Vice-President...your comment actually shows how incompetent you are.
Rex
(65,616 posts)FUCK YOU DICKHEAD CHENEY!
Ohio Joe
(21,756 posts)Fuck you Dick... You belong in a prison cell you little shit.
KittyWampus
(55,894 posts)Hekate
(90,708 posts)Boy, does that make me queasy, given the NSA scandal crashing around Obama's ears this very minute.
Am I the only person here who thinks this was a ticking time bomb left by the Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld administration? Those unbelievably power-mad and paranoid trolls who renamed our country "The Homeland"?
I DO give Obama full credit for getting Osama bin Ladin, because Bush etc. refused to pursue him. No doubt some of that intel structure that aided Obama was from before. But the sheer mind-numbing totality of information-gathering -- that's Bush/Cheney.
Along come Greenwald and Snowden, with the full intent of crashing the party left by Bush/Cheney. Crashing it, and laying the blame on Obama. They may succeed where the GOP has failed, you know? Whatever dubious good they accomplish, I won't forgive them for that if they bring down the man who has been trying to clean things up.
God damn it to hell, I hate Dick Cheney.
xfundy
(5,105 posts)First, you're a dick, in the worst sense of the word. You're also a traitorous asshole who should be in jail, if not for pushing torture, then for war profiteering for you and your asshole friends.
Sometimes I wish there really was a hell, just for sanctimonious assholes like yourself, you murdering bastard.
ailsagirl
(22,897 posts)You evil, scum of the earth, lying SOB, killer
There. I feel better.
Baitball Blogger
(46,725 posts)Bush doesn't get squat of credit because he backed off on the hunt for bin Laden.
And, btw, FUCK YOU, since your administration dropped the ball when it failed to read the title, "Bin Laden determined to attack in the U.S.A."
Just the title, just the fffffffffffking title. If someone had taken speed reading training in that administration, all they had to do was read the Foooooooooking title!
What a moron.
Bigmack
(8,020 posts)...with Cheney speaking from his prison cell?
If not, there is an international injustice here.