(CNN) - The White House is responding forcefully to former Vice
President Dick Cheney's comments Wednesday that are sharply critical
of President Obama's response to the botched terror attack on
Christmas Day.
"It is telling that Vice President Cheney and others seem to be more
focused on criticizing the Administration than condemning the
attackers," White House Communications Director Dan Pfeiffer wrote on
the White House's official blog. "Unfortunately too many are engaged
in the typical Washington game of pointing fingers and making
political hay, instead of working together to find solutions to make
our country safer."
The response comes hours after Cheney delivered a blistering statement
saying the administration's response is proof that the president "is
trying to pretend we are not at war."
"He seems to think if he gives terrorists the rights of Americans,
lets them lawyer up and reads them their Miranda rights, we won't be
at war," Cheney said in the statement. "He seems to think if we bring
the mastermind of 9/11 to New York, give him a lawyer and trial in
civilian court, we won't be at war. 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."
Cheney also said Obama outwardly "pretends we aren't [at war]," and
the former vice president repeated his months-long criticism that the
new president has made America "less safe."
In his blog posting Wednesday, Pfeiffer writes the Bush-Cheney
strategy of focusing on Iraq led to a strengthened al-Qaeda on the
boarder region between Afghanistan and Pakistan, and maintained it is
President Obama's new policy of focusing resources on the war in
Afghanistan that has made the country more safe.
"To put it simply: this President is not interested in bellicose
rhetoric, he is focused on action," Pffiefer writes. "Seven years of
bellicose rhetoric failed to reduce the threat from al Qaeda and
succeeded in dividing this country. And it seems strangely off-key
now, at a time when our country is under attack, for the architect of
those policies to be attacking the President."
Pfeifer also takes issue with the former vice president's contention
that Obama "pretends we aren't at [war]," saying the president and
members of his administration have referred to being at war with al
Qaeda several times.
"There are numerous…public statements that explicitly state we are at
war," writes Pfeifer. "The difference is this: President Obama doesn't
need to beat his chest to prove it, and – unlike the last
Administration – we are not at war with a tactic ("terrorism"), we at
war with something that is tangible: al Qaeda and its violent
extremist allies. And we will prosecute that war as long as the
American people are endangered."
"Juan" <fly...@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:77a5df4d-b540-49bc...@35g2000yqa.googlegroups.com...
> December 30, 2009
> White House forcefully responds to Cheney
>
> (CNN) - The White House is responding forcefully to former Vice
> President Dick Cheney's comments Wednesday that are sharply critical
> of President Obama's response to the botched terror attack on
> Christmas Day.
>
>CNN is a State Run propaganda machine and is phony. ( Not unlike the
>MORJUAN)
> "It is telling that Vice President Cheney and others seem to be more
> focused on criticizing the Administration than condemning the
> attackers,..."
It is telling that this administration seems more focused on condemning
critics of the administration than preventing attacks from enemies of
the nation. As they prepared the condemnation of the critics, the pantie
bomber lawyered up and clammed up.
It is telling that this administration quietly handed over unprecedented
rights to INTERPOL within our borders, rights not available to domestic
law enforcement agencies or citizens.
It is telling that an American President is a champion of the UN effort
to restrict free speech globally, siding with Muslim nations to further
international shariah law.
Usually, when the Obama administration goes into uber-attack mode on
critics, it means the critics are spot-on. These guys are truly rubes.
How's the divorce coming , fatboi?
http://www.itpreport.com/upload/Juan_Jimenez_200x150.jpg
Sheesh, even a Polack dumped your lard ass...