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.
President Barack Obama
“[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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Dear Mr Cheny, all due respect sir, but when you severed under the “Bush’s” administration-you were not brougth upon war crimes. I’d say, given the scoop of the term war,I’m willing to betcha the current president knows all to well that we are for sure inheritors of war, inevitably. Sleepins dogs continue to napp. Please. Mr Obama has wars on all fronts! it came with his presidential agenda. Please sir let him stay focused.