"For example, just in the last two weeks the prime minister of Kuwait has gone to Iran on an official visit, the first time in 30 years. Why did he do that? Well, he wants to make sure he's got a foot in all camps." Weakness has consequences. "Cheney: Obama 'more radical' than seen," by Mark Silva in the Chicago Tribune, December 8:
President Barack Obama, bowing to other leaders of the world, fails to understand the concept of "American exceptionalism,'' former Vice President Dick Cheney contends."There's never been a nation like the United States of America in world history, and yet when you have a president who goes around and bows to his hosts and then proceeds to apologize profusely for the United States, I find that deeply disturbing,'' Cheney says in an interview that FOX News will air tonight. "That says to me this is a guy who doesn't fully understand or share that view of American exceptionalism that I think most of us believe in."
The Republican also contends that Obama is a "more radical'' Democrat than he first appeared to be - yet stops short of calling Obama, as some critics have, a socialist: "I don't want to use that kind of a label."
"I saw him when he got elected as a liberal Democrat, but conventional in the sense of sort of falling within the parameters of the national Democratic Party,'' Cheney says in the interview with FOX's Sean Hannity airing tonight at 9 pm EST and again tomorrow, same time. "I think he's demonstrated pretty conclusively now during his first year in office that he's more radical than that, that he's farther outside the parameters if you will of what we've traditionally had in Democratic presidents in years past." [...]
Cheney maintains that Obama has shown the world a dangerous lack of understanding about the war on terror. He maintains that the Obama Justice Department's planned trial of the 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and al-Qaida accomplices in a federal courtroom in New York will make him "a hero in certain circles.''
The former vice president calls the trial of the terrorist known as KSM and others in criminal court "a huge mistake...
"He'll be able to go in whenever he's up on the stand and proselytize, if you will, millions of people out there around the world including some of his radical Muslim friends and generate a whole new generation of terrorists,'' Cheney says. "I think it will make Khalid Sheikh Mohammed something of a hero in certain circles, especially in the radical regions of Islam around the world.
"It will put him on the map. He'll be as important or more important than Osama Bin Laden, and we will have made it possible."...
"Everybody is watching. The Taliban are watching, the al-Qaida are watching, the Afghans who are on our side are watching, and when they see hesitation, uncertainty, lack of clarity from an American president, they begin to think the Americans aren't going to be here very long.... Then you see governments in that part of the world start to shift their alliances and their friendships. For example, just in the last two weeks the prime minister of Kuwait has gone to Iran on an official visit, the first time in 30 years. Why did he do that? Well, he wants to make sure he's got a foot in all camps."...
Not included in the article, was a question of whether Cheney thought that the administration had offered the civilian court trial as a way to put the Bush administration on trial.
Second, the question of the admissibility of evidence, as KSM was under indictment in the US at the time of capture and was not read his Miranda rights nor given opportunity to meet with counsel.
To all that Cheney said he doubted whether the DOJ knew what it was doing.
The KSM trial will make the blind, Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman World Trade Center bombing I trial look like nothing.
It was all so preventable, even KSM believed he would be found guilty in a military trial at Gitmo and left there to rot. Giving him his day in court will only encourage more terrorism and give him a pulpit from which to spread the seeds of more death. Unfortunately the current administration has balls the size of raisins.
Maybe the ghost of Jack Ruby can take care of the KSM like Oswald. A dead man walking could solve a lot of problems one could foresee in this endeavor.
Cheney's right, as usual - no BS, straight talking.
Most civilians don't realize how hard it is to convict.
ALL 12 jurors must agree BEYOND A REASONABLE DOUBT that defendant is guilty.
In other words, if one juror is only 95% certain of guilt, cannot convict.
Based on the "better that 10 guilty men go free than one innocent man get convicted" principle.
If one of his peers, i.e. a muslim isn't on the jury, it's an automatic appeal.
If one of his peers is on the jury, it's possible/probable not guilty.
With KSM, Rifqa, and SEALs going on at the same time, we Infidels have our hands full.
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Glad to see Cheney coming out of seclusion, but I'm pretty sure it's only because he is disturbed by how the current administration is so badly fumbling foreign policy that he felt he had to speak up. I wonder if he called Fox or they called him? The MSM will castigate both of them, of course, and they will be cheered for doing so by the usual anti-America crowd. But I rather think a very large segment of Americans will listen intently to what he said and agree with him. Hopefully, they will act accordingly next November (U.S. midterm elections) and inject some new conservative voices in the U.S. House of Representatives. My fervent wish is that it will include a sizable enough number of U.S. veterans who understand from first hand experience what Obama and his Leftist advisers do not, and never will, and that they will take resolute measures to stop the mad policies of the current administration.
"He'll be able to go in whenever he's up on the stand and proselytize, if you will, millions of people out there around the world including some of his radical Muslim friends and generate a whole new generation of terrorists"
What Hussein is counting on. He couldn't care less about American "exceptionalism," and in fact would love to see the U.S. become a Mohammedan Caliphate. Along with village idiot "There wouldn't be anything wrong with having a Muslim president" Colin Powell.
The liberal elites have truly sent the world upside down, when a Patriot like Cheney is made to look sinister and evil, and all he is a very proud American who exposes conservative values, l am glad for one that he speaks out. He should of been president instead of VP!
Certainly the idea of handling a war adversary in civilian court is an inappropriate action. But trying to tie a Kuwaiti's visit to Iran to this is absurd acrobatics, at best.
The only absurd acrobatics going on are banging your head on the floor five times a day...go pound sand retard.
lol
Thanks for the chuckle, Comic Relief!
"I think it will make Khalid Sheikh Mohammed something of a hero in certain circles, especially in the radical regions of Islam around the world.
This is the most chilling aspect of this NYC trial. His face will be all over the news; he'll become a worldwide "celebrity jihadist" to rival bin Laden.
But, Mr. Cheney, where exactly are these "radical regions of Islam"? London? Paris? Ft. Hood? Your backyard?
Anywhere Muslims are is a "radical region of Islam."
"But, Mr. Cheney, where exactly are these "radical regions of Islam"? London? Paris? Ft. Hood? Your backyard?
Anywhere Muslims are is a "radical region of Islam."
Yeah, I guess Cheney doesn't get it completely yet, does he?
"It will put him on the map. He'll be as important or more important than Osama Bin Laden, and we will have made it possible."...
Okay, so maybe Justice should do as Bushco. in the Mohammad al-Qahtani case?
You can watch the first segment of that interview with former vice president Cheney right now on ATLAS SHRUGS.
http://atlasshrugs2000.typepad.com/
I watched this interview and what was foremost in my mind as the exchange between Hannity and Cheney occurred was how substantive, how three-dimensional, even profound Cheney was compared to our current Chief Executive. Yep, no contest.
'He'll be as important or more important than Osama Bin Laden, and we will have made it possible."...'
No.
Obama's crazy views have made it possible.
The victim becomes the perpetrator and the perpetrator becomes a hero.
Unless I am mistaken the good Mr. Cheney has finally used the phrase "aid and comfort to the enemy" in another, but related context.
It's about time.
They guy's got to be developing back strain from bending over backwards to stay polite on these subjects.