The man who would be president is again running his trap.
Cheney is claiming that an investigation into past torture practices is political and being done because of pressure from Democrats. He then stated the torture was responsible for saving thousands of US lives. From an administration official, who asked not to be identified in referring to Cheney’s claims:
In response, the official noted that a recently released 2004 report from the CIA’s inspector general concluded that “the effectiveness of the enhanced interrogation techniques are hard to measure.”
The official highlighted a page from the report stating, among other things, that “measuring the effectiveness of EITs, however, is a … subjective process and not without some concern.”
More evidence that Cheney thinks the president should be the sole law of the land is shown in this quote:
“the president is the chief law enforcement officer in the land.”
The administration has responded by reminding Cheney that the Attorney General is the law of the land and is pursuing this subject as provided by the laws he operates under.
This quote truly indicates what he has fought for all during his career since the Gerald Ford days. He doesn’t believe in the checks and balances between the Executive and Legislative branches of this government. he would have had Bush as a dictator with himself as the man behind the curtain if he could have.
Cheney bases what he did as president saved the US from further attacks. I feel this is a lie and his actions had nothing to do with anything. There is no real evidence that OBL had further attacks in the active stage or ready to perform here in the US. America is an open coutnry and is vulnerable to attack simply becuase Chenehy did nothing here to protect us.
Nothing Cheney did kept us safe. Nothing he did was right. No decisions he made were right. Nothing his administration did was right. Gonzalez, Hadley, Wolfowitz, Rumsfeld, Pearle, Rice achieved nothing except the creation of more terrorists in Iraq, Aghanistan and Pakistan. Iraq may be more docile that it was during the last 8 years but in no way does that mean all the people who lost family’s will forever be ingratiated to Cheney.
Cheney forgot Afghanistan. Now we pay the price for that by trying to win wars that cannot be won. If there is no country to submit then you don’t win wars. The Taliban may subside but wont go away no matter how many times you say you won.
Cheney Bush did nothing to win any wars till forced to. He could have won in Afghanistan but he turned that opportunity down.
He failed.
When he was acting president he did everything he could to prove to the American public that under no circumstances will see a conservative or quite frankly a Republican. This is what happens when a person like Colin Powell, who commands respect due to his history and his accomplishments, speaks his mind without taking the party line.
morning radio address, Sen. John McCain said his administration would give every family a $5,000 tax credit to buy their own health insurance or keep their current plan. “And we will open up the national health care market to expand choices and improve quality,” he said. Obama, speaking at a rally in Newport News, Virginia, said it’s not that McCain “doesn’t care” about what people are going through, “I just think he doesn’t know.” “That’s the only reason I can think of that he’d propose a health care plan that is so radical, so out of touch with what you’re facing and so out of line with our basic values.”