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John Brennan: Dick Cheney Comment Misleading or Ignorant (VIDEO)
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by Scott Wu | January 3, 2010 at 12:04 pm
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John Brennan said Dick Cheney is either "willfully mischaracterizing" President Obama's position, or "he's ignorant of the fact".
President Obama's counter-terrorism adviser John Brennan criticized former vice-president Dick Cheney, for the comments he made about the attempted Christmas Day bombing. John Brennan appeared on NBC's Meet the Press on Sunday morning. Brennan said he's "very disappointed in the vice president's comments."
The comments John Brennan was referring to was the one Dick Cheney made to Politico last week:
"As I've watched the events of the last few days it is clear once again that President Obama is trying to pretend we are not at war. He seems to think if he has a low-key response to an attempt to blow up an airliner and kill hundreds of people, we won't be at war. ... He seems to think if we bring the mastermind of September 11 to New York, give him a lawyer and trial in civilian court, we won't be at war. He seems to think if he closes Guantanamo and releases the hard-core al-Qaeda-trained terrorists still there, we won't be at war. He seems to think if he gets rid of the words, `war on terror,' we won't be at war. But we are at war and when President Obama pretends we aren't, it makes us less safe."
In response, John Brennan said "the clear evidence is that this president has been very, very strong" in his position on counterterrorism. He noted that he's neither Republican nor Democrat, and has worked for the past 5 administrations. Brennan said "the vice president is willfully mischaracterizing this president's position, both in terms of the language he uses and the actions he's taken, or he's ignorant of the facts. And in either case, it doesn't speak well of what the vice president's doing."
Link: Full transcript of Meet the Press on Jan. 3, 2010
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at 15:35 on January 3rd, 2010
The war of words between both sides is not helpful toward protecting Americans while Al Qaeda remains focus on targeting the US and its citizens. The White House doesn't have to be so defensive had it responded a tad earlier than many days afterwards.
at 17:32 on January 3rd, 2010
It is what it is! Brennan is just another career politician that's covering his and his boss's butt. There was no excuse for the flight 253 terrorist bomber not to be put on a no-fly list.
It's obvious that the Obama Administration is soft on terrorism and terrorists. It took him months and months of focus sessions before he even came up with an Afghanistan policy. In the meantime, Obama wouldn't even use the word "terrorist" in describing terrorists because he didn't want to offend the sensibilities of a certain ethnic and religious group.
Obama refused to call the Ft. Hood massacre, by an avowed jihadist, an act of terrorism.And in the wake of the Ft. Hood massacre, Army Chief of Staff, George Casey makes the following absurd PC statement:
"And what happened at Fort Hood was a tragedy, but I believe it would be an even greater tragedy if our diversity becomes a casualty here."
No doubt that Casey is an Obama Administration puppet.
Meanwhile we've got Navy SEALs facing criminal charges because they allegedly punched a terrorist that was responsible for burning, mutilating, and hanging American contractors in Iraq.
Our military is constrained by rules of engagement that won't allow them to fire upon known enemy combatants in many cases.
And the Obama Administration wants to try terrorists and enemy combatants in civilian courts.
This is not a picture of a president that's strong on defending Americans from terrorists.
Source: rasmussenreports.com
at 21:27 on January 3rd, 2010
Pot calling the kettle black? Brennan's National Counterterrorism Center blew this one big time.
at 22:51 on March 12th, 2010
The Bull-Frog at the Bottom of the Well: *Deek Tisheenee* --- Note to viewers: When written in Arabic, the name "Dick Cheney" reads as if it were to be pronounced as "Deek Tisheenee," which Arabic-non-English speakers do anyway. The Irony is that his first name retains the connotations/denotations of its English original: "Dick." For "Deek" in Arabic is a pronounciation of a word that refers to the animal/bird known in English as the *Rooster* ~ ~ As for the phrase "The Bull-Frog at the Bottom of the Well," I owe that to a friend of mine who coined it after it became a well known fact that *Dick/Deek* is the guy behind "executive decissions" ~ ~ in the White House. Enjoy the thread, ~ Schnacht Schlachtwww.aliraqi.org/forums/showthread.php?t=71502