Cheney: Obama Doesn’t Recognize Terrorism Threat
April 22, 2009 by national
Filed under Homeland Security News
Former Vice President Dick Cheney says the Obama administration no longer believes that America is threatened by terrorists and is making dangerous mistakes in lowering U.S. defenses.
The threat is there. It’s very real and it’s continuing, Cheney told Fox News Sean Hannity in the second part of a two-part interview Tuesday night. And what the Obama people are doing, in effect, is saying, well, we don’t need those tough policies that we had.
That says either they didn’t work, which we know is not the case — they did work, they kept us safe for seven years — or that now somehow the threat’s gone away. There’s no longer a threat out there, we don’t have to be as tough and aggressive as the Bush administration was.
It,s that post-9/11 mindset that most concerns him, Cheney said.
Barack Obama and his administration are no longer going to ask our guys tough questions when they are captured. Now, maybe we won’t behead their people when they capture them. I mean, it’s just — it says something about a mindset that I worry about very much, Cheney said.
And I think there’s a problem out there nationally in the sense that we are 7.5 years, almost 8 years now, away from 9/11, Cheney continued. And a lot of people would like to forget it and believe that the threat is gone, it’s diminished, it’s disappeared.
Unfortunately, that’s not the case. And one of the worst things we could do is start to act now as though the attack of 9/11 is a thing of the past and will never be repeated. That’s just not true.
