Cheney: "The important thing is to continue the policies that kept us safe for the last years"

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Disclaimer: The last eight years, not counting 2001. I'm sure that was just an oversight on the former vice president's part.

:eyes:

Cheney: I hope CIA chief was misquoted

http://rawstory.com/blog/2009/06/cheney-i-hope-cia-chief-was-misquoted/



Former Vice President Dick Cheney on Monday hit back at CIA Director Leon Panetta online in a DC newspaper Monday after comments by Obama's CIA chief saying that he thinks Cheney almost wishes the US will be attacked.

"I hope my old friend Leon was misquoted," said Cheney in a statement provided to The Hill. "The important thing is whether or not the Obama administration will continue the policies that have kept us safe for the last eight years."

Panetta, a veteran politician who served as Bill Clinton's chief of staff, had criticized Cheney for "gallows politics" and said the former vice president hoped the country were subject to another terrorist attack.

"I think he smells some blood in the water on the national-security issue," Panetta told The New Yorker's Jane Mayer. "It’s almost, a little bit, gallows politics. When you read behind it, it’s almost as if he’s wishing that this country would be attacked again, in order to make his point. I think that’s dangerous politics."

In an interview published in the latest issue of the New Yorker, the head of the CIA expresses frustration at Cheney’s speech last month, on the same day that President Obama outlined his national security strategy in a separate speech.

-John Byrne with Daniel Tencer

[Merryweather]

1. Dick, STFU already

Anyone with a brain and a fucking calendar knows that you did NOT keep America safe for 8 years.

Amazing. This guy was nowhere to be seen during the train wreck that was Bush's presidency, but now he's never out the damn news.