David

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May 25, 2009

Cheney Takes Obama Behind the Woodshed

Former Vice President Dick Cheney gave a speech on national security last week in response to President Obama's speech on the same topic. And he methodically took apart every argument Obama made, piece by piece. Every bit of naïve peacenikism was shot down, every bit of disingenuous outrage – as Obama mostly continues the same policies he decries – was exposed, and every false premise was disproved.

It's only too bad that a biased media will ensure that either no one sees this or that they see a total misrepresentation of it. Their unhinged outrage only serves to underscore just how deeply into Obama's soft underbelly Cheney's rhetorical sword was driven – and to show how hypocritical they are, in hammering Cheney for speaking when Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton haven't shut up since leaving office, long-standing protocol be damned.

Here are a few choice bits, though the whole thing is so good it's hard to choose just a couple:

“That attack (9/11) itself was, of course, the most devastating strike in a series of terrorist plots carried out against Americans at home and abroad. In 1993, terrorists bombed the World Trade Center, hoping to bring down the towers with a blast from below. The attacks continued in 1995, with the bombing of U.S. facilities in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; the killing of servicemen at Khobar Towers in 1996; the attack on our embassies in East Africa in 1998; the murder of American sailors on the USS Cole in 2000; and then the hijackings of 9/11, and all the grief and loss we suffered on that day.

Nine-Eleven caused everyone to take a serious second look at threats that had been gathering for a while, and enemies whose plans were getting bolder and more sophisticated. Throughout the 90s, America had responded to these attacks, if at all, on an ad hoc basis. The first attack on the World Trade Center was treated as a law enforcement problem, with everything handled after the fact – crime scene, arrests, indictments, convictions, prison sentences, case closed.”

The Clintons have never been held accountable for all the innocent American blood spilled due to their unconscionable dereliction of duty and incompetence in failing to appreciate the true nature of the threat we faced. Co-presidents Bill and Hillary stand on a tall mountain of body bags for their eight years of malfeasance, of which stuffing an intern under the Oval Office desk was the least offense.

In an America that still had a clue, Hillary would never have been able to become a senator, much less try to re-establish this lethal co-presidency. And the Clintons would have been forced from the public stage in shame and disgrace for all perpetuity.

Nor would an even more naïve and misguided fool like Obama have been able to inhabit the Oval Office.

“So we're left to draw one of two conclusions – and here is the great dividing line in our current debate over national security. You can look at the facts and conclude that the comprehensive strategy has worked, and therefore needs to be continued as vigilantly as ever. Or you can look at the same set of facts and conclude that 9/11 was a one-off event – coordinated, devastating, but also unique and not sufficient to justify a sustained wartime effort. Whichever conclusion you arrive at, it will shape your entire view of the last seven years, and of the policies necessary to protect America for years to come.”

Would that one could say, “Eight years, no more attacks, 'nuff said.” Especially after the eight years of non-stop attacks that preceded it. But sadly, success in the war on terror only leads to ignorant Americans taking that utterly for granted. And for the hard left, to believing that the cure is in fact the disease.

The idea that radical Islamic terrorists would be pacified by anything short of our removal from planet Earth is simply ludicrous. No amount of making nice and reasoning with the monsters who envisioned, planned and executed 9/11 is going to get through it them. All they see it as is a sign of weakness which further deepens their contempt.

Then there is the offensive comparison of the 9/11 victims to troop casualties in Afghanistan and Iraq. If you cannot see the difference between unknowing, unarmed civilians being blindsided (one planeful of which still had the wherewithal to fight back and save lives) by terrorist monsters, and armed, trained, voluntarily serving American troops making the ultimate sacrifice while taking out the same scum on the battlefield, all I can say is: Get help.

The price of these mistaken beliefs has been and will continue to be unnecessary, innocent bloodshed. If we're lucky – very lucky – perhaps we can get past Obama before he can dismantle everything Bush and Cheney built and add to the Clinton body bag count.

To make matters worse, Obama released details on interrogations in order to smear the Bush Administration, but blocked out what terrorist plots were discovered and stopped because of them. This is dishonest and disgusting beyond words, and arguably outright treason. Obviously, people would think differently about waterboarding if they knew that without it, the Sears Tower would be gone or that millions would be dead from the radiation poisoning of a dirty nuke. Obama can't have that, so he purposely leaves out critical information in order to create a false impression.

All the above is just the tip of the iceberg. I urge all of you to read Cheney's speech, as it's vitally important to what we face today. I also ask you to consider the following question:

Which is more survivable – Obama's presidency or having 67,000,000+ countrymen who voted for him thinking he's right? For all the talk about terrorists, that may be the greater danger.

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