Dick Cheney: Barack Obama's "Trying to Pretend We Are Not at War… It Doesn't Fit With His Social Transformation"
Posted by Jim Hoft on Wednesday, December 30, 2009, 10:09 AM
Dick Cheney nails it again.
The Politico reported:
Former Vice President Dick Cheney accused President Barack Obama on Tuesday of “trying to pretend we are not at war” with terrorists, pointing to the White House response to the attempted sky bombing as reflecting a pattern that includes banishing the term “war on terror” and attempting to close the Guantanamo Bay detention center.
“[W]e are at war and when President Obama pretends we aren’t, it makes us less safe,” Cheney said in a statement to POLITICO. “Why doesn’t he want to admit we’re at war? It doesn’t fit with the view of the world he brought with him to the Oval Office.
It doesn’t fit with what seems to be the goal of his presidency — social transformation — the restructuring of American society.”
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Winston commented:
well-said. Americans r naive to think Obama cares about the safety and security of American people. HE DOESN’T
Joel commented:
Thoughtful man…he served President Bush very well.
Texmom commented:
It’s the official George Soros Doctrine:
http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/04/the_soros_doctrine_in_obama_fo.html
Taken For Action commented:
Best. VPOTUS. Ever.
cal rifkin commented:
listen to this man : he has the wisdom and experience to see reality – his observations in 2009 have been important and invaluable; as a patriot and statesman, cheney’s goal is to help keep the american people informed.
Padre Steve commented:
The VP is right. This admin is in denial. We need to sweep them all out and start over:
http://salesianity.blogspot.com/2009/12/replace-not-reform.html
bill-tb commented:
You can always count on Cheney to throw the bean-ball …
Obam’s respect for Islam policy is a huge flopper.
Chisum commented:
The Two Americas
Obama’s is smaller.
It turns out John Edwards had a point: There really are two Americas. There’s the America of the “expert” schemers, planners, and centralizers inside the Beltway, who think they know what’s good for the people, whether the people like it or not. And there’s the America of just about everyone else. They are no doubt the ones Irving Kristol had in mind when he wrote, “The common people in such a democracy are not uncommonly wise, but their experience tends to make them uncommonly sensible.”
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/017/392wacus.asp?pg=1
IOpian commented:
Obama’s narcissism has deluded his view of the Presidency that it is the man that makes the times when in reality it is the times that make the man. He is unprepared for that challenge. If he refuses to realize this he is destined to fail miserably by trying to force his delusion into reality. There are many powerful forces that do not share his delusion. That’s reality.
drjohn commented:
No one paid attention when Barack Obama said he intended to “fundamentally transform” the United States of America.
They were stupid.
olm commented:
I was just reading a bit about AirTran 297. I vaguely remember the story but just reread.
Holy Shite if Barry the snorkeling golfer can not admit we are at war after 2009, he never will. I have been getting increasingly curious how Obama would handle a 9/11. I sure hope I don’t find out but based on his first year in office, my guess is it would shock all except the most die hard lib.
Jean commented:
Rush Limbaugh was right when he said that Osama better hurry up and destroy America before Obama beats him to it.
Hanson commented:
Calling it Islamic Terrorism doesn’t fit with his plan to bring a lot more Muslims into the USA. Yessiree Bob, that’s exactly what we all need, 44,000 more immigrant Muslim Iraqis. Can you spell SUICIDE?? See the Opinion piece in the L.A. Times today on how it is our “duty” to let them immigrate here. Do I smell CAIR and their Muslim “team spirit???” No more Muslims!! No Way! No How!!
Sojourner commented:
Think it’s becoming pretty clear how our Prez would handle a big crisis (God forbid)….
He’d wait at least 72 hours, play some golf, snorkel, play more golf, have Gibbsy and assorted staff give him cover by whipping up some blame it on Bush rhetoric while he ponders a response by asking himself the question,
“How would the Lone Ranger handle this?”
bg commented:
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ht Brenda J Elliot
Dems Finally Get the Memo: Yemen’s a Problem
via The Weekly Standard: The Blog
All of a sudden everyone is matter-of-factly pointing out that Gitmo detainees shouldn’t be sent back to Yemen anytime soon, but nothing has changed in Yemen because of al Qaeda’s Christmas Day attack. The attack has just highlighted what was already obvious to people who knew better but ignored the truth. We don’t typically get to hear people make apologies for supporting policies that events have proven misguided or worse, but this administration’s stubborn and continued determination to send Gitmo detainees to be “rehabilitated” in al Qaeda havens seems particularly shameless. THE WEEKLY STANDARD was pointing out the inherent danger of such a program as early as February of this year. In an article with the not-so-subtle headline “Anywhere But Yemen,” Stephen Hayes and Tom Joscelyn wrote:
One of President Obama’s first official acts was to order Guantánamo closed. The executive order he signed called for his staff to find a way to close the facility in a manner that is “consistent with the national security and foreign policy interests of the United States.” Repatriating large numbers of Yemenis to Saleh’s duplicitous regime, which seems to be the new administration’s position, is not consistent with that goal.
Hayes and Joscelyn provided an overwhelming amount of data in support of that assertion, all of which was culled from publicly available sources. How could the Obama administration possibly have come to a different conclusion, and why, even now, as Democrats like Diane Feinstein come forward to acknowledge the obvious threat posed by transfers to Yemen, does the administration refuse to concede the point?
Posted by Michael Goldfarb on December 30, 2009 03:42 PM
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bg commented:
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Weakening Islamism is Vital to Improve US Image in the Muslim world
12/23/09; By Tawfik Hamid
[In the December 1, 2009 issue of the WSJ Europe, Fouad Ajami - in an Op-Ed entitled "The Arabs Have Stopped Applauding Obama" - argued that President Obama's diplomatic approach to win the hearts and minds of the Muslim world has not been successful. Poll results have shown that unfavorable views of the US are as high as 82%, 69 %, and 70% in the Palestinian territories, Turkey, and Egypt respectively. In fact, the Op-Ed stated that unfavorable views of the US in Pakistan have risen from 63% in 2008 to 68% in 2009 according to a recent Pew survey.
In addition, after President Obama came to office in 2009, the number of home-grown Islamist terror plots inside the US has risen dramatically compared to the previous years. The Year of 2009 represents the highest level of domestic home-grown Islamic radicalism in the US since 2001.
We must question why President Obama's approach with the Muslim world has not succeeded yet in at least having a more positive effect in improving the US image in several Muslim countries or in decreasing the rate of home-grown Islamic radicalism on the home front. One of the main reasons for this lack of success is that US strategic communications with the Muslim world was largely based on the assumption that the problem of Islamic Radicalism and hatred to America is primarily because of the US foreign policy with the Muslim world and thus changing this policy will change the latter. This can only work if the main problem was in the US approach; however, if the main problem was in the Muslim world, such an approach cannot succeed as it will be like trying to change the keys to open a room while the problem is in the rusty lock! In the latter situation, changing the lock - or in other words changing the Muslim world itself - is crucial to solving the problem.
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Trying to satisfy the Muslim world by changing the US will not be effective unless the US is ready to end its values of freedom and liberty and adopt an Islamic Sharia system.
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In this context, it is also important to raise the point that the Muslim world is in far greater need than the US to improve its image in the world as its image has been painted by terrorism and barbarism especially in the last few years.
In brief, no matter what the non-Islamic world does – short of submitting to the Islamic Sharia – the Islamists will never be satisfied completely. The US must either change itself to adopt an Islamic system to satisfy the Muslim world or alternatively assist in changing the latter. Weakening the Islamism phenomenon is vital to ultimately improve the image of the US in the Muslim world as Islamism is currently a – if not the – major obstacle to enhancing the US image among Muslims]
re: “The Arabs Have Stopped Applauding Obama”
11/29/09; By FOUAD AJAMI
[Mr. Obama's election has not drained the swamps of anti-Americanism. That anti-Americanism is endemic to this region, an alibi and a scapegoat for nations, and their rulers, unwilling to break out of the grip of political autocracy and economic failure. It predated the presidency of George W. Bush and rages on during the Obama presidency.
We had once taken to the foreign world that quintessential American difference—the belief in liberty, a needed innocence to play off against the settled and complacent ways of older nations. The Obama approach is different.
Steeped in an overarching idea of American guilt, Mr. Obama and his lieutenants offered nothing less than a doctrine, and a policy, of American penance. No one told Mr. Obama that the Islamic world, where American power is engaged and so dangerously exposed, it is considered bad form, nay a great moral lapse, to speak ill of one's own tribe when in the midst, and in the lands, of others.
The crowd may have applauded the cavalier way the new steward of American power referred to his predecessor, but in the privacy of their own language they doubtless wondered about his character and his fidelity. "My brother and I against my cousin, my cousin and I against
the stranger," goes one of the Arab world's most honored maxims. The stranger who came into their midst and spoke badly of his own was destined to become an object of suspicion.
Mr. Obama could not make up his mind: He was at one with "the people" and with the rulers who held them in subjugation. The people of Iran who took to the streets this past summer were betrayed by this hapless diplomacy—Mr. Obama was out to "engage" the terrible rulers that millions of Iranians were determined to be rid of. ]
DO YOU THINK THERE IS A PRAYER THAT
OBAMA & THE MSM ET AL WILL WAKE UP??
nah, they are the ones they’ve been waiting for, they are the ones making sure an IslaMarxist Jihad hastens America’s demise.. the allied fools that they be are totally focused on their Muhammad & Marx tree.. which will bloom to fruition we shall have to wait & see, but in the end it matters not, as either one kills the forest of liberty..
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bg commented:
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will just repeat what i wrote in a previous thread..
they’re rebuilding Gorelick’s Wall..
Obama is not treating the war against terrorism as a global conflict.. he is treating the extremely serious threat as a local law enforcement problem..
deja vu the Clinton administration, who’s policy (or lack thereof) greatly attributed to the 9/11 attackers slipping through the cracks (more like a grand canyon) so to speak..
the Dems insist on taking US back to
9/10/2001, damn the consequences..
they simply refuse to accept the fact that they can’t go back, gah!!
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Sojourner commented:
In related news.. Wither Sovereignty: Executive Order Amended to Immunize INTERPOL in America- Is The ICC Next?
http://threatswatch.org/analysis/2009/12/print/wither_sovereignty/
bg commented:
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On the Job Training
12/30/09; M. Zuhdi Jasser
[It is sad that President Obama and his team are still going through on-the-job training a year into their administration. Despite the fact that Janet Napolitano, our homeland-security secretary, bizarrely tried to nix the use of the term terrorism and despite the fact that his own White House dubiously dubbed this global conflict “an overseas contingency operation,” the president has finally learned to use the most obvious term – terror- this week. Mr. President, if you are listening, here are a few more thoughts from a concerned Muslim.
You cannot just stay hunkered down at your “beachhead” in Hawaii after another virulent byproduct of global political Islam attacked on our homeland. While no one was really hurt, you don’t exactly look like you are taking the issue seriously when your photo of the day captures a romp on the beach. It was not a coincidence that this was attempted on Christmas day, yet you ignore the religious struggles in this conflict. It is time that our commander-in-chief and the leader of the free world come to terms with the reality that this is the greatest conflict of the century and a battle of ideas between western liberal secular democracies and political Islam.
While you and your colleagues are stymied by the question of whether to even use the term “terror,” the ideology of al-Qaeda (violent political Islam) is spreading exponentially. Your systematic failure to advance American security against ideologies that threaten us may turn catastrophic. In fact the Christmas bomber said so himself, telling an investigator that “there are more just like me who will strike soon.” By all means, Mr. President, fix the holes in our security that we know are there – but terrorists who are suicidal religious zealots and very creative will sadly very likely strike again soon. This year certainly proves that.
Our nation is clearly becoming more and more anxious and concerned over the rash of radicalized Muslims. Is it not time for you to acknowledge that terror is a simply a symptom of a more profound deeper underlying disease? That disease is political Islam.
Hopefully you will realize that we can only defeat an enemy we can name, describe, and understand. As Thomas Friedman and others have recently reminded us, the only answer to jihadists, Salafists, and Islamists is a narrative from within America, and most important from within Islam, that counters the global supremacism of political Islam. Until you say exactly that, we will continue to flail in this conflict.
I hope after Nidal Hasan, after the American jihadis in Pakistan, and now after the Christmas bomber radicalized in London, that you see our need for clear leadership against political Islam and its ubiquitous permeating militant manifestations. We need a leader who recognizes that this conflict is most significantly within Muslim communities as we Muslims struggle with the conflict between theocracy and democracy, sharia and liberty, Islamism and freedom, and salafism and modernity. The longer you squander your leadership and stay silent on this, the more vulnerable we will be.
much more here..
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Sojourner commented:
The truth speaks volumes.. I will pray that the President might open his mind to the possibility that this Muslim woman could be right..and meanwhile, thank God for truthsayer, Dick Cheney.
Sojourner commented:
My apologies, Dr. Jasser.. you are very much a MAN.
bg commented:
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Sojourner @ 4:02 pm #20
[By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including section 1 of the International Organizations Immunities Act (22 U.S.C. 288), and in order to extend the appropriate privileges, exemptions, and immunities to the International Criminal Police Organization (INTERPOL), it is hereby ordered that Executive Order 12425 of June 16, 1983, as amended, is further amended by deleting from the first sentence the words "except those provided by Section 2©, Section 3, Section 4, Section 5, and Section 6 of that Act" and the semicolon that immediately precedes them.]
thanks..
i’m hopeful GP will be opening a post on the issue..
i also believe this is related:
“What’s required is a New Declaration of Independence.. not
just in our nation; but in our own lives.” B Hussein O @ 4:40
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bg commented:
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re: bg @ 11:36 pm #24
i should have stated “somehow” related, as in part of the steps being
taken to overthrow “we the people’s” Sovereignty in their quest to form
a New World Order, which is supposedly a “theory”.. but it is not.. i have posted many a link proving it isn’t.. and i firmly believe the powers that be have a will, and where there’s a will, there’s a way, and they do not give a bats guano about consequences, mainly the deaths they will cause in the transitioning..
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ogee commented:
He is only in it for the perks by his own admission. He couldn’t care less about doing the job. He doesn’t hide it. The world is watching. He thinks he can delegate. It’s not working. Having Kerry go to Iran and Hillary in hiding is not helping. He’s pulling a “Bill Clinton” i.e. ignore it and it might go away. Pretend it doesn’t exist and the terrorists MIGHT go away. NOT! I wish he would grow a pair. Did he forget that he is half white and 3/4 of America is white? Does he think he can live in a bubble forever? Oprah thought so but she found out it’s shallow.
Didn’t someone here just say that you can’t go back to the past?
Sojourner commented:
You’re most welcome, bg.. I could not agree with your comments in #25 more.