Liz Cheney Slams Obama for Terror Attack Quote in Bob Woodward Book
Liz Cheney.
/ AP"We can absorb a terrorist attack," he reportedly told the author and journalist. "We'll do everything we can to prevent it, but even a 9/11, even the biggest attack ever ...we absorbed it and we are stronger."
Cheney, daughter of former vice president Dick Cheney, said the remark "suggests an alarming fatalism on the part of President Obama and his administration."
"Americans expect our President to do everything possible to defend the nation from attack. We expect him to use every tool at his disposal to find, defeat, capture and kill terrorists. We expect him to deter attacks by making clear to our adversaries that an attack on the United States will carry devastating consequences. Instead, President Obama is reported to have said, 'We can absorb a terrorist attack.' This comment suggests an alarming fatalism on the part of President Obama and his administration. Once again the President seems either unwilling or unable to do what it takes to keep this nation safe. The President owes the American people an explanation."
Cheney has been a regular critic of the president over national security issues and his administration's efforts to close the Guantanamo Bay prison facility. In April, she said the president "is putting us on the path to decline."
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billwhit: This always struck me as an odd defense of Bush, and I'm not even one to blame him fully for the attack. But that "one attack" -- 9/11 -- was kind of a big one, don't you think? All the incidents you name pale in comparison.
Overall, I think it's a silly game to play.
Obama's foreign policy and approach to homeland security is hardly distinguishable from Bush's up to and including his recent suggestion to more closely monitor our Internet activity.
PLease give him a message. He seems to have dissapeared.
A bomb went off outside the Islamic Society of Portland, Maine yesterday. In their parking lot. A 13 year old member of the Islamic Society was "experimenting" with home made bombs. One went off and the other one did not. The elders of the Islamic Society have come forward and admitted the "boy" was from their "club".
What is your opinion on this matter?
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Please WAKE UP AMERICA! Some of these Islamic "Society's" and mosques are being used to train young children.
Is that not an implicit invitation and/or challenge to Al Qaeda and the growing number of home-grown terrorists?
I care not of the president's political affiliation. I think any president making that statement is out of line and just adds to the risks. Do you honestly think America can absorb another attack given...
1) a spread-thin and weakened military,
2) a fragile economy,
3) a weak and fragile infrastructure?
The pres was dead wrong for making such a statement.
One of the myriad things Cheney told us we should expect to fear following 9/11 was the imminent poisoning of America's drinking water supplies. Cheney's company, Halliburton, is now under investigation nationwide for doing just that, through what is called 'frakking' for natural gas. This is a process which Cheney himself helped conceive, in which hundreds of toxic chemicals are pumped deep into the ground in order to draw natural gas to the surface. Cheney succeeded in creating a loophole for Halliburton which exempts the company from adhering to the Clean Water Act and a whole host of legislation designed to protect public health and the environment. Halliburton is currently buying up lands in Upstate New York and actively lobbying the State to enable it to begin frakking near the Croton-Harmon watershed, threatening the drinking water of the entire NYC/NJ metro area with massive, irreversible contamination.
The Cheney-Bush War in Iraq, based, as it was on lies - was prosecuted for the control of oil resources that don't belong to our country. This was a war we never should have been drawn into. This un-American, murderous folly has killed 4,421 American soldiers. Close to 100,000 are wounded or permanently disabled. New studies show that upwards of 1,000,000 Iraqis have perished since the beginning of the war. This nightmare Mr. Cheney and his 'girl wonder' have continuously wrapped up in God, Mom and Apple Pie, and tried to resell to us. They have even had the gall to lay the blame for the war at President Obama's feet. The Cheneys unceasingly speak in apocalyptic, Manichean terms of a clash of civilizations.
As I write this, there is now fire coming out of the faucets of people's homes from the south to the west due to Halliburton's frakking activity. Natural gas has seeped into aquifers from Arkansas to Colorado, increasing cancer and neuropahty rates and killing off countless precious wild animals and fish species.
Dick Cheney is considred by well over 50% of Americans to be a war criminal. Inasmuch as his powerful company, Halliburton, is poisoning our drinking water supplies, I suspect many would now also consider him a kind of domestic terrorist as well, working for a rogue regime of his own creation. Mr. Cheney's daughter is a childish, self-hating woman still trying to gain the affection of her sociopathic, narcissistic-personality-disorder-plagued father.
Neither Mr. Cheney nor his daughter, at this point, can be taken seriously. However, they could and should be taken to court and tried for high crimes and misdemeanors, domestic terrorism, and - oh, what the hell - why not sedition as well?