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Dick Cheney said in an interview today that President Obama’s policies on intention and interrogation have made the country less safe.  The former Vice President told CNN’s “State of the Union” that “He [The President] is making some choices that, in my mind, will, in fact, raise the risk to the American people of another attack.”  Cheney asserted that the Guantanamo Bay detention camp and the interrogation techniques employed by the Bush administration, including the waterboarding outlawed by the Geneva Convention were necessary for maintaining American security saying, “I think those programs were absolutely essential to the success we enjoyed of being able to collect the intelligence that let us defeat all further attempts to launch attacks against the United States since 9/11.”

Remember that guy (it was always a guy) who hung around high school for months, even years after they graduated or dropped out?  That guy is Dick Cheney. But instead of just wanting to hang out with the fellas or hit on high school girls, Dick Cheney wants to undermine US security and further damage our standing around the globe beyond the eight elected years allotted to his disastrous administration.

It’s time to go away, Dick Cheney. Don’t go away mad. Just go away. Not only is it bad form for a former VP to criticize the sitting President’s policies, as Cheney well knows having worked in Washington for over 30 years. The policies of the Cheney/Bush administration were also thoroughly rejected in the 2006 and 2008 elections, in a democracy.  The reason is people don’t want the turds of wisdom this man and his cronies are selling anymore. It’s time to pack them up and take them wherever Cheney is retiring to.

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LINKS:

LA Times: Cheney: Obama terrorism policies make US vulnerable

Xinhua: Cheney: Obama policy hurts anti-terror efforts

Radio Netherlands: Cheney: US less safe under Obama