same old cheney fear-mongering

Cheney warns of new attacks

Former Vice President Dick Cheney warned that there is a “high probability” that terrorists will attempt a catastrophic nuclear or biological attack in coming years, and said he fears the Obama administration’s policies will make it more likely the attempt will succeed.

In an interview Tuesday with Politico, Cheney unyieldingly defended the Bush administration’s support for the Guantanamo Bay prison and coercive interrogation of terrorism suspects.

And he asserted that President Obama will either backtrack on his stated intentions to end those policies or put the country at risk in ways more severe than most Americans — and, he charged, many members of Obama’s own team — understand.

“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.

Protecting the country’s security is “a tough, mean, dirty, nasty business,” he said. “These are evil people. And we’re not going to win this fight by turning the other cheek.”

Citing intelligence reports, Cheney said at least 61 of the inmates who were released from Guantanamo during the Bush administration — “that’s about 11 or 12 percent” — have “gone back into the business of being terrorists.”

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Man, isn't it glorious not to have these obsessive, fear-mongering assholes in charge of this country anymore? No matter what issues I may ever have with Obama, it is so wonderful not have these fuckers in power any longer.
Cheney is like a broken record - hasn't he heard the story of the boy (or ex-VP) who cried wolf? Eventually, no one will ever listen to him again.
He is so insulting to insinuate - or outright say - that Obama doesn't understand the risks from terrorists. As if the past administration did anything to help us on 9/11...
And, they keep harping about their failure - the Gitmo inmates that they released that returned to or joined al-Qaida - most likely due to their treatment at Gitmo. As if that somehow justifies Gitmo? What kind of "logic" is that? Oh yes, it is the bush administration - logic had nothing to do with them.

It really is like a brand new day without these pricks around any more...

More on this classless jerk from Think Progress:

Cheney’s Reprised Scare Tactic: Warns Of WMD Attack If Bush Policies Are Reversed

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