Dick Cheney: Barack Obama 'trying to pretend'

Source: Politico

Dick Cheney: Barack Obama 'trying to pretend'

Former Vice President Dick Cheney accused President Barack Obama on Tuesday of “trying to pretend we are not at war” with terrorists, pointing to the White House response to the attempted sky bombing as reflecting a pattern that includes banishing the term “war on terror” and attempting to close the Guantanamo Bay detention center.

“We are at war and when President Obama pretends we aren’t, it makes us less safe,” Cheney said in a statement to POLITICO. “Why doesn’t he want to admit we’re at war? It doesn’t fit with the view of the world he brought with him to the Oval Office. It doesn’t fit with what seems to be the goal of his presidency – social transformation—the restructuring of American society.”

Cheney was joining a chorus of Republicans who have criticized Obama following the Christmas Day attack, in which a Nigerian suspect is accused of trying to blow up a loaded airliner with a bomb stitched into his underwear.

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From Cheney's Full Statement:

“He seems to think if he closes Guantanamo and releases the hard-core al Qaeda trained terrorists still there, we won’t be at war.

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As for who released the "hard-core al Qaeda trained terrorists" behind this particular terrorist attack, Dick Cheney has nothing to say. Let's remind him:
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/men-believed-northwest-airlines-plot-set-free/story?id=9434065

PS: SHUT THE FUCK UP!

because his war criminal ass isn't in prison where it belongs

The affront isn't that Cheney spews bullshit, the affront is that he's even free.

Fuck off, DICK.

now he gets to say whatever he wants because he hasn't been held responsible for ANYTHING! This is not a country of Kings and Queens, damnit, this is supposed to be a democracy, which allows "We the People" to hold our reps in check.

Speak of the devil...

My grandmother is 98, and barely remembers her family, but she has more sense than this putz.

He'll fit right in with the waterboarding guards we can leave there too.

Is Obama "trying" to pretend, or is he pretending? What does Dick mean? Pretending like Dick and Dubya were pretending we had no terrorist problem Jan -Aug 2001? If Obama is just "trying" to do that, then we're STILL better off than 8 years ago.

support his war against humankind and his homeland made security industry built by his own hands.

If we refuse to use it, he will lose it.

Atlas Wept for Cheney for too long

No one care what you think, you lying traitor.

unprecedented. Maybe I'm wrong.

Dick has shown no respect to President Obama since he took office. Dick and his minions have broken protocol left and right to attack the president.

Obama should say to Cheney STFD and STFU.

Dick "the Dumbass" Cheney

He has brought nothing but carnage and destruction to this world.

Fuck this man already.

That's nice. Kind of like the republinazi goal of restructuring of American society by using NAFTA and H1-Bs and L1s, etc, to make sure that as many Americans remain unemployed as possible, and the republinazi goal to make sure healthcare remains reserved for the wealthy in this country. :eyes:

of dick and his war crimes. I see his kindness is paying off.

I don't care what war criminals say. Cheney should be irrelevant.

to the Shooter. We are at war. We happen to be in two wars that are on part because of the Dubya/Shooter administration. Had Shooter read and took the reports of the terrorist cell that was plotting 9/11 we would not be in a war in Afghanistan.Had he not lied about weapons of mass destruction we would not be in a war in Iraq.So if i didn't know any better i would think that the Dubya/Shooter administration are the breach in security.But we all know that war is the specialty of the cons.:sarcasm:

:rofl:

Bush has basically avoided commenting on most situations that involved Obama's presidency. Yet, Cheney continues to put in his two cents with his spawn then doing the rounds on all non-FOX News stations.

Make no mistake...There will be a Cheney on the Republican ticket somewhere in 2012.

How many people have terrorists kill since the year 2000? How many people have the Afghan and Iraq wars killed as a result of the PNAC's policies? Did the PNAC's policies make the world a safer place for anyone? So, who is the terrorist?

during a time of war, and that they like Presidents with broad power? Typical neocon hypocrisy from Cheney.

is having them free to spew their poison, and again attempt to realize relevancy. The danger is, out of jail, they someday might find another figure head to acquire the throne. I thought we had seen the last of their influence after the Reagan Bush years, but eight years later they were back, in force, with force. It only took the figure head, to appoint the entire scurrilous lot, regardless of previous convictions or congressional reprimand. I was surprised they were unable to find a spot for Ollie North, all the others slithered in.

IMHO it is a big mistake not to pursue their crimes, foreign and domestic, and raise the bar of what is expected and accepted from our elected officials, whose actions are perpetrated in our name and at our expense.

But, if wishes were horses beggars would ride.

Or is just visiting? Good gawd.

THAT is not allowed, for it gives aid and comfort to the enemy.

Cheney tried to pretend (very poorly, indeed) that he wasn't really the president.

though he does look a little bit more like Frankenberry...

He needs to go the fuck away. :eyes:

Somebody needs to put an Oscar Meyer sausage in between his dentures and call it a m.f. day! He to stop FORGETTING that HE and the Bush croonies has STARTED the fucking war!

n/t

because we won't do a fucking thing about the shit he's done.

It's a damn shame really.

It's not working.

... he's human, but nobody's buying it.

speak up, otherwise STFU!!!

Freaking hypocrite rarely spoke a word as "VEEP". Instead masterminded torture for his personal sadistic satisfaction.