国产热热热精品,亚洲视频久久】日韩,三级婷婷在线久久,99人妻精品视频,精品九热人人肉肉在线,AV东京热一区二区,91po在线视频观看,久久激情宗合,青青草黄色手机视频

WORLD> America
Cheney: Obama detainee policies make US less safe
(Agencies)
Updated: 2009-03-16 10:20

WASHINGTON -- Former Vice President Dick Cheney said Sunday that Americans are less safe now that President Barack Obama has overturned Bush terrorism-fighting policies and that nearly all the Republican administration's goals in Iraq have been achieved.

"There is no prospect" that Iraq will return to producing weapons of mass destruction or supporting terrorists, Cheney asserted, "as long as it's a democratically governed country, as long as they have got the security forces they do now and a relationship with the United States."


Former Vice President Dick Cheney appears on CNN's 'State of the Union' Sunday, March 15, 2009, in Washington. [Agencies] 
Fulfilling campaign pledges, Obama has suspended military trials for suspected terrorists and announced he will close the US detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, as well as overseas sites where the CIA has held some detainees. The president also ordered CIA interrogators to abide by the US Army Field Manual's regulations for treatment of detainees and denounced waterboarding, part of the Bush program of enhanced interrogation, as torture.

Asked on CNN's "State of the Union" if he thought Obama has made Americans less safe with those actions, Cheney replied, "I do."

"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," Cheney said.

"I think that's a great success story. It was done legally. It was done in accordance with our constitutional practices and principles," he said. "President Obama campaigned against it all across the country. And now he is making some choices that, in my mind, will, in fact, raise the risk to the American people of another attack."

Related readings:
 Guantanamo detainees say they planned 9/11: report
 UK lawyer: Guantanamo inmate release due Monday
 Shutting Guantanamo far from easy
 Australia unlikely to accept Guantanamo detainees

Some Democratic lawmakers and other administration critics have denounced those and other Bush programs, such as warrantless surveillance, as counterproductive and illegal. In defending these policies established by President George W. Bush following the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, Cheney said he had seen a report itemizing specific attacks that had been stopped because of the intelligence gathered through those programs.

"It's still classified. I can't give you the details of it without violating classification, but I can say there were a great many of them," he said.

Cheney said the US-led invasion on March 19, 2003 (March 20, Iraq time) has led to democratic elections, a constitution and the defeat of al-Qaida in Iraq, and undermined Iran's efforts to influence events in Iraq.

"We have succeeded in creating in the heart of the Middle East a democratically governed Iraq, and that is a big deal, and it is, in fact, what we set out to do," he said.

   Previous page 1 2 Next Page  

苏尼特右旗| 崇明县| 景洪市| 孟村| 通渭县| 湄潭县| 南昌县| 新民市| 巴青县| 都昌县| 正定县| 会东县| 依兰县| 申扎县| 宜黄县| 霍城县| 中牟县| 达尔| 临沂市| 佛教| 清流县| 马关县| 太仆寺旗| 犍为县| 四子王旗| 大竹县| 邢台市| 韶关市| 蓝田县| 孙吴县| 丹江口市| 贵南县| 开鲁县| 巩义市| 青川县| 中西区| 朔州市| 明光市| 临沂市| 靖西县| 德江县|