Cheney Waterboards Obama's Speech

Obama Blasts Bush Security Policies - On May 21, 2009, in a long winded major address at the National Archives President Obama continued to blame the Bush administration for employing "harsh interrogation" policies in the "War on terror." "Water boarding and other harsh interrogation methods did not advance our war and counter-terrorism efforts- they undermined them," he said.

Obama then called the US military prison at Guantanamo Bay an inherited "mess" that has weakened American national security by providing a rallying cry for enemies. Really now Mr. President that's a big stretch. The terrorists have been determined to kill as many Americans as they can and proved it on 911. Besides these scumbags are growing fat and lazy in GITMO. They're living better there than at any other time in their lives. Special food, Korans, prayer times, excellent medical care, and planning future terrorists attacks when they're released on the streets of US cities and towns.

And who, besides liberal, socialist Democrats and the ACLU, says water boarding and other interrogation policies haven't worked. Obama released our secret interrogation memos to the media and the rest of the world including terrorists. And would have released photos of so-called abuse of terrorist prisoners if not for the outcry from the military and others in his administration, including CIA Director Leon Panetta. Even his own party in Congress refused to approve funds to close GITMO. They don't want these terrorist scumbags running around in their districts either.

If the Obama/Pelosi/Reid gang of losers and traitors wanted to come up with an example of torture why not show the video of terrorists beheading Nicolas Berg. I'll bet Nicolas Berg would have chosen water boarding over beheading with a dull knife while his torturers were crying Allah Akbar!

I believe the best thing we can do with GITMO is to turn it into a real WWII type POW compound. No fancy food, let them eat MREs same as our troops, no Korans or prayer rugs, housed in tents, wearing POW uniforms, outside latrines and showers same as our troops and basic medical support. Barbed wire compounds with machine gun towers. Military tribunals complete with firing squads. Those that aren't shot should be dropped off in the middle of an Iraqi desert with a canteen of water and some rations. Let the Iraqis handle them. If caught again by US troops as terrorists they should be summarily executed by a firing squad.

Terrorists aren't covered by the Geneva Convention in the first place. They are a bunch of cowards who wear no military uniforms or identifiable rank as leaders. They torture and murder indescriminately and recognize no rules of warfare. They should be shot outright when captured while attacking US troops or murdering innocent civilians.

The one thing that Obama hadn't counted on in giving his Muhammad Ali "I Am The Greatest" speech was former VP Dick Cheney. Cheney gave his speech across town at the American Enterprise Institute moments after Obama spoke. He said he supported the controversial policies "when they were made, and without hesitation would do so again in the same circumstances." Way to go former Vice President Dick Cheney!" All real Americans agree with you.

Cheney went on, "The point is not to look backward. A lot rides on our President's understanding of the security policies that preceded him. And whatever choices he makes concerning the defense of this country, those choices should not be based on slogans and campaign rhetoric, but on a truthful telling of history."

Obama said he rejected calls for a "truth commission" about the Bush administrations handling of the war on terror because he has "no interest in spending our time re-litigating the policies of the last eight years." That's odd as he bashes Bush every time he gives a speech. I believe that Nancy Pelosi's lies about the CIA interrogation briefings had more to do with changing Obama's mind than investigating Bush's policies ever did.

Obama claimed that GITMO "has weakened American national security" by providing a rallying cry for enemies. What has weakened America's national security has been the defeatist policies of the Obama/Pelosi/Reid gang. If anything they have encouraged our enemies by portraying America as weak and undecided.

Obama says the paramount responsibility of any president is to keep the American people safe. If he feels that way why in the hell is he bent on closing GITMO and refusing to call the fight against terrorists a war on terror. He even refuses to call them enemy combatants. I wouldn't be surprised if they start calling them "Freedom Fighters."

If Obama were serious he would call for hunting down the terrorists and their cowardly leaders, who have tortured and murdered thousands of innocent men, women and children and beheaded American citizens and our US troops, and put them before a military firing squad. Justice demand no less. Instead he wants to blame the Bush administration and tell the rest of the world what a rotten country America is. Instead of cleaning up a mess Obama is making one. A really big one. He may be a gifted speaker but so far he has been a lousy president.

Cheney clearly "water boarded" Obama's speech in a way that only he could do. "Though, I'm not here to speak for George W. Bush, I am certain that no one wishes the current administration more success in defending the country than we do. What I want to do today is set forth the strategic thinking that drove our policies.," he said.

Cheney went on to say, "Watching a coordinated, devastating attack on our country from an underground bunker at the White House can effect how you view your responsibilities. To make certain our nation country never again faced such a day of horror, we developed a comprehensive strategy." Can't be any plainer than that and it kept America safe from another attack for eight years.

Despite the best efforts of the socialist Democrats to demonize and ridicule him, with his speech Cheney became the spokesman for all real Americans who still believe in their country and taking the fight to the enemy in the "War on Terror." Where are the rest of the Republican Party members in all of this? Who among them will take up the cause that Dick Cheney has so ably articulated to the American people?

Samuel Adams said it well, "The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil Constitution, are worth defending at all hazards; and it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have received them as a fair inheritance from our worthy ancestors: they purchased them for us with toil and danger and expense of treasure and blood, and transmitted them to us with care and diligence. It will bring an everlasting mark of infamy on the present generation, enlightened as it is, if we should suffer to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle, or to be cheated out of them by the artifices of false and designing men." The Obama/Pelosi/Reid gang would do well to heed his warnings.