ABC Exclusive: Nat'l Security Adviser Says Obama Is Having Greater Success Taking Terrorists Out

Source: ABC

ABC News Exclusive: National Security Adviser Says President Obama Is Having Greater Success Taking Terrorists Out of Commission Than Bush Did

August 31, 2009 6:00 PM


Responding to criticism from former Vice President Cheney that President Obama is making the nation more vulnerable to terrorism, the president’s National Security Adviser, Gen. Jim Jones (Ret.), told ABC News in an exclusive interview that actually the reverse is true: President Obama’s greater success with international relations has meant more terrorists put out of commission.

“This type of radical fundamentalism or terrorism is a threat not only to the United States but to the global community,” Jones said. “The world is coming together on this matter now that President Obama has taken the leadership on it and is approaching it in a slightly different way – actually a radically different way – to discuss things with other rulers to enhance the working relationships with law enforcement agencies – both national and international."

Jones said that “we are seeing results that indicate more captures, more deaths of radical leaders and a kind of a global coming-together by the fact that this is a threat to not only the United States but to the world at-large and the world is moving toward doing something about it.”

The former Marine General didn't provide any specific numbers to back up his claim, but he said “there is an increasing trend and I think we seen that in different parts of the world over the last few months for sure.” He added that he was not “making a tally sheet saying we are killing more people, capturing more people than they did -- that is not the issue.”

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Maybe that will topple Cheney off his high horse.

Or at least wipe that smug little smirk off his face.

This one has no relevance to anything in particular.

Very fitting that he would be positioned on a Shetland pony. He thinks he is a big man, riding high, ruling the world, but in reality he is small, mean, petty and marginalized.

Even though I know it's photoshop, I still wince, and wish the pony bites a chunk out of his leg.

Not only was he paling around with them, but now he's taking them out too?!? What next, romantic walks on the beach? :silly:

said that he and Barack once shared a milkshake (with two straws).

LOL.

Oh, Barack, you sure do spoil a terrorist.

That's good. Given some of the fox crowd's penchant for "editing" I really wouldn't be surprised to hear them say that is really what he meant. Irony and satire may just be dead, or harder to do.

The dick is headed for some hard times and I think he's worried about that.

and say two things...

1) Mr FORMER Vice President, if you have information regarding terrorists that you are withholding from my administration, you are committing treason.

2) You and your daughter should move to North Korea.

his fascist agenda!

(That we've heard of.)

the case.

and under Obama, they are not as 'rogue' as under Bush

Not that I'm comparing Dick to the Great White Whale....Moby Dick! :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

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He's talking about Dick Cheney.

How the hell does this guy KNOW that the human beings killed were terrorists? How does he know that they weren't innocent Afghani civilians in the wrong place at the wrong time? Were there trials? Were they read their Miranda warnings before they were so ruthlessly slaughtered? How is it that torturing these innocent Afghanis by blowing second-hand smoke in their faces is unconscionable, but separating their brains from their skulls, their spleens from their torsos, and their limbs from everything else is not only A-o.k. but something this Administration brags about?

BTW, why haven't we killed or captured Osama Bin Laden yet? Bush took his eye off the ball by invading Iraq; if Barack has his eye on the ball, why isn't Bin Laden in custody today so that he can face trial? That would end the need for anyone else to die.

he has done better than Bush/Cheney, or even finds out exactly what has happened to him, then he has done/found out more than those two criminals ever did...

Google the internets.

Who knew?

“It's an outrageous precedent to set, to have this kind of, I think, intensely partisan, politicized look-back at the prior administration,” Cheney said.

This is an interesting statement the ABCs of the Bush administration amounted to "Anyth...ing But Clinton." They went so far as to cancel the joint briefing meetings Sandy Berger and Janet Reno had been holding between the CIA, FBI, NSA and other alphabet soup of security.

http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0900/091900nj.htm

Sandy Berger told Rice that Osama Bin Laden would be her number one threat, but the Bush administration had little time for it. Thomas Pickard testified to the 9/11 commission that John Ashcroft "had little interest in terrorism in the summer of 2001." He was too busy planning a crusade against pornography.

http://www.cwalocal4250.org/news/binarydata/language.pdf

Bush's "intensely partisan, politicized look-back at the prior administration" led to a rejection of Osama as a threat. We all know how that turned out.

I hope we keep catching them.

"The former Marine General didn't provide any specific numbers to back up his claim, but he said 'there is an increasing trend and I think we seen that in different parts of the world over the last few months for sure.” He added that he was not “making a tally sheet saying we are killing more people, capturing more people than they did -- that is not the issue.'"

and too many Dems buying into the TERRAIST meme. What fucking goddamned planet do these people live on?
just because Obama is in office doesnt make it OKAY to continue the BUSH occupations and blindly follow the BUSH admin. TERRA 'wars'
some of you remind me of the same sheep that followed Bush and Cheney down the path of this bullshit...Obama, wake up buddy, you are losing a LOT of dems if you continue to suck up to american empire.