Former Vice President Dick Cheney:“We cannot protect this country by putting politics over security and turning the guns on our own guys”
Post date: Thursday, October 22, 2009
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* FOXNews.com brings us the following report and it starts off like this... Former Vice President Dick Cheney returned fire on the Obama administration Wednesday over an allegation that the Bush White House did not ask any key questions about the war in Afghanistan, forcing Obama officials to form a strategy from scratch and leaving the war "adrift."... Former Vice President Dick Cheney said Wednesday that the Bush administration had developed a new strategy on the war in Afghanistan before leaving office -- a strategy that he said "bears a striking resemblance" to the one announced by President Obama in March... In a speech to the Center for Security Policy, Cheney said the Bush administration handed Obama's transition team a policy review of the Afghan war conducted last fall to meet the new challenges posed by the Taliban... "They asked us not to announce our findings publicly, and we agreed, giving them the benefit of our work and the benefit of the doubt," Cheney said... Cheney's comments countered a recent claim by White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel that the Obama administration had to form an Afghan war strategy from scratch because the Bush administration hadn't asked any key questions about the war and left it "adrift."...
Read the full report at link below...
Cheney: Obama's Afghan War Strategy 'Bears Striking Resemblance' to Bush's
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Dick Cheney: Obama "Putting Politics Over Security"
About this video: On Wednesday night, October 21st, former Vice President Dick Cheney received the Center's Keeper of the Flame Award. He was introduced by Senator Jon Kyl and former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld.
Read his prepared remarks in full HERE
This video posted on YouTube by securefreedom
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Thank you for your past service... and your continuing efforts to stand up for this great country of ours, Mr. Cheney. In my opinion... your speech last night was spot-on!
AubreyJ.........
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Past White House file photo by David Bohrer
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* Karl Rove has the following article posted up on The Wall Street Journal website today and it starts off like this... In an interview with CNN's John King on Sunday, White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel said President Obama is now asking tough questions about Afghanistan "that have never been asked on the civilian side, the political side, the military side and the strategic side." It was a not so subtle dig at Mr. Obama's predecessor and was meant to distract from the White House's mishandling of the war... The Bush administration did in fact conduct a top-to-bottom strategic review of Afghanistan in 2008. That review was provoked by two developments...
Read Mr. Rove’s article in full at link below...
Obama Goes Wobbly on Afghanistan
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Updated Friday, October 23, 2009
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* CSMonitor.com brings us the following article early this Friday afternoon and it starts off like this... Rep. Tom Price, chairman of the conservative Republican Study Committee, disagrees with former Vice President Dick Cheney’s charge earlier this week that President Obama is “dithering” over the path forward in Afghanistan... “Dithering is probably not the right description, but I think that the policy they are currently adopting is a reckless policy and that is a policy of wait and see,” Representative Price told a Monitor-sponsored breakfast for reporters on Friday...
Read the rest at link below...
Obama’s Afghanistan policy isn’t ‘dithering.’ It’s ‘reckless.’
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