Obama’s CIA Director: It’s Almost Like Cheney Wants The Country Attacked Again

But I’m sure the Obama administration isn’t questioning Cheney’s patriotism or anything.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – CIA director Leon Panetta says it’s almost as if former vice president Dick Cheney would like to see another attack on the United States to prove he is right in criticizing President Barack Obama for abandoning the “harsh interrogation” of terrorism suspects.
“I think he smells some blood in the water on the national security issue,” Panetta said in an interview published in The New Yorker magazine’s June 22 issue.
“It’s almost, a little bit, gallows politics. When you read behind it, it’s almost as if he’s wishing that this country would be attacked again, in order to make his point.”

I don’t doubt that Cheney smells “blood in the water” on the national security issue. That’s because Obama is weak on the issue. He’s clueless. Limp-wristed. Naive. I think you could argue that Cheney is seeking to score his political movement some points by going after Obama on this issue, and we can all think what we want to about that but I’m also firmly convinced that Cheney feels he’s right too.
And I doubt very much if the former Vice President wants America attacked again to prove his point. He wants America to be safe. That’s the whole point of his criticism.
At this point in his career, with no further political ambitions and at an age and (unfortunately) health situation that will keep it that way, Cheney has nothing to gain from his continued criticism of Obama other than more headaches and more controversy. But he does it anyway, because even as a past Vice President and renowned public figure he also remains an American citizen endowed with the same free speech rights as any other citizen.
Whether you agree or disagree with him, he certainly deserves better than to have his motivations questioned by the likes of Leon Panetta and the Obama administration.

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  • http://Array Lioncourt

    Nice ignorance, though. War requires deficit spending to win, spending that doesn’t initially go to productive investment.

    Dumbass, the government does not have to make a profit. Only specific segments. Companies that have been created for the specific purpose of supporting an engaged military make a profit. That is what Haliburton does. Especially when the government gives them illegal unbid contracts.

  • pparets

    I have no doubt whatsoever that those on the right secretly wish for another attack…

    There is little doubt that another attack on our people would raise grave doubts regarding the effectiveness of the current administration’s strategy for dealing with terrorism.

    Yet I have never spoken to anyone on the right – publicly or privately – who expressed, in any way, a desire to see that happen.

    On the other hand, I did – on more than one occasion during the fall election period – hear democrats and leftists express the greatest happiness and excitement that our economy had tanked, even though it meant suffering and loss – mainly for those who could least afford it – simply because it could win the election for the left.

    Were you happy, Dino, when thousands lost their homes and millions lost their jobs because it meant the dems would win?

    You people are corrupt on a scale that defies comprehension.

    selfish asshole STD

  • robert108

    Cheney and his bunch of war profiteers…

    Two more lies the insane lefties still cling to. War isn’t “profitable”; that’s a Marxist lie. The increased productive capacity for the winning side ultimately results in greater potential for prosperity, especially in free market countries. Even in stagnant socialist economies, the forced investment in industrial capacity tends to produce economic expansion.
    VP Cheney was a great leader, which really chaps the lefties’ hide.

  • http://sayanythingblog.com/entry/america_is_back/#c397018 DINO

    Conservatives have shown that there’s no limit to how low they’ll go due to bitterness over losing an election. Were you all born after the 90s?

    I have no doubt whatsoever that those on the right secretly wish for another attack that they believe will improve their chances of regaining power. No doubt at all.

  • http://sayanythingblog.com/ likwidshoe

    You’re motivated by very dark, negative impulses-greed, envy, resentment and bitterness.

    Sorry, but we’re not “progressives” and “liberals”.

    We don’t base an entire economic understanding around the motive of envy. That’s you!

    We don’t resent “the rich” and the successful. That’s you!

    We’re not bitter towards those who have taken a different path in life and are now reaping the benefits of that path. That’s you!

    And every single one of your endorsed economic policies are designed to punish the successful and “level the playing field” (AKA, drag people down to the lowest common denominator).

    You can pretend that the conservatives aren’t hoping for an attack but they are. Look at how they kill and commit terrorist acts when they get frustrated.

    Boy, you’re just an asshole with nothing intelligent to say, aren’t you? Heh. Typical of Obama supporters, they can’t explain or defend their policies but rather instead would care to spend all of their time making juvenile insults and projecting their own inadequacies upon others.

  • 2Hotel9

    “Obama’s CIA Director: It’s Almost Like Cheney Wants The Country Attacked Again”

    Thats pretty funny, seeing as Leon is one of the primary architects of the 9/11/01 attacks, and is the leading actor in bringing more Muslim terrorist attacks to cities in America.

  • http://sayanythingblog.com/entry/america_is_back/#c397018 DINO

    Seems I struck a nerve.

    You people don’t fool me. You’re motivated by very dark, negative impulses-greed, envy, resentment and bitterness. You can pretend that the conservatives aren’t hoping for an attack but they are. Look at how they kill and commit terrorist acts when they get frustrated.

    Face it, conservatives are a subspecies of human. Less developed or evolved.

  • carrick

    Lioncourt:

    Do you think Haliburton makes more money during war or peace?

    About the same from what I understand. Probably this is a bad example.

    Their operating costs are very high in times of war, doubtlessly there are people who roll in a real profit. You know people like Saddam oops-I’m-dead Hussein.

    Of course you have no idea what you are talking about because no doubt you rely on short-bus-special media sources like Huffinpuff for your information.

    The blissful peace of arrogant ignorance. Nothing like it.

  • 2Hotel9

    Do you mean the General Patraeus who has repeatedly said the exact opposite of what you claim he has said? That General Patraeus?

  • 2Hotel9

    Oh, lyingcourt? Haliburton makes a massively HIGHER profit in peace time. Suck on that shitty dick, bitch.

  • http://proof-proofpositive.blogspot.com/ proof_positive

    It’s a slimy debating tactic, that’s all. Dino uses it all the time! Whenever a conservative tries to warn of the consequences of something, some craven liberal comes along and accuses him of wanting the thing being warned against.

    That’s the reason for the warnings: we don’t want bad things to happen. Cowardly types like Panetta and Dino would rather smear their opponents than engage in honest debate.

  • pparets

    Face it, conservatives are a subspecies of human. Less developed or evolved.

    … unlike leftists who cannot imagine life and freedom without government control, regulation and financial support for endless groups of victims.

    Last time I looked, a subspecies was one which could not reproduce itself or procreate.

    spineless STD’s. All of you.

  • http://SayAnythingBlog.com The_Whistler_ofnd

    Cheney sees the country heading into dangerous waters. He’s out there to point out the folly before it’s too late.

    I hardly see Cheney benefiting from this. It’s patriotism that’s making Cheney speak up before it’s too late.

  • Lioncourt

    War isn’t “profitable”; that’s a Marxist lie.

    YOu are a fucking moron. War is profitable for a small segment of society. Like people who want to privatize the military. It is very profitable.

    That is what Haliburton does.

  • http://www.rabidamerican.net/ Rabid American

    Obama’s CIA Director: It’s Almost Like Cheney Wants The Country Attacked Again

    An Da’ Preziment positively does………
    This person is a very hateful, deep-seated narcissistic, Marxist. His overt hatred for the democratic system established by our founders is palpable!

    The indicators are:
    - Destruction of the free market
    - Forced bailout payments
    - Refusal of repayment of bailout monies
    - Government takeovers of private businesses
    - Appeasement of our enemies
    - Willful ignorance of the realities of foreign aggression against this country

  • http://sayanythingblog.com/ likwidshoe

    pparets – it is all projection with that character you’re talking to. He wishes for an attack and he wishes for this nation to fall and then he turns around and claims that it is you who wishes for what only he wishes for.

  • e4bannan

    Laying the groundwork. When we are attacked again the headlines will be how about Cheney was lusting after it. Not Obama being asleep at the switch.

  • robert108

    War is profitable for a small segment of society. Like people who want to privatize the military. It is very profitable.

    Like most Marxist loons, you have no idea what profit is.
    Nice ignorance, though. War requires deficit spending to win, spending that doesn’t initially go to productive investment. Therefore, there is no “profit” until or unless the private sector uses that investment to make sustained economic growth. Despite your ignorance, war does not create economic growth.
    I already ‘splained this to you, btw.
    Keep clinging to your pathetic lies, leftie.

  • Lioncourt

    Cheney and his bunch of war profiteers wanted the first attack. They wrote about it in the late 90s.

  • docdave

    Whether you agree or disagree with him, he certainly deserves better than to have his motivations questioned by the likes of Leon Panetta and the Obama administration.

    Looks to be that the Obama admin are already preparing to deflect the blame for the next terrorist attack that is sure to come considering their lackadaisical attitude toward national defense.

  • Lioncourt

    Dumbass, do you realize that certain segments of a population can make a profit when the overall population doesn’t.

    That is known as profiteering.

    When it is done because a war it is known as war profiteering.

    Do you think Haliburton makes more money during war or peace?

  • robert108

    Dumbass, the government does not have to make a profit.

    Speak to yourself, ignoramus; I was referring to the private sector economy, the source of all wealth. Govt cannot make a “profit”, and if you don’t know that, you are ignorant of what profit is, as I said before. And yet, you cling to your arrogant ignorance, just like the leftie you are.
    Again, profit comes from putting capital at risk to produce more than was there before. Taxpayer-subsidized enterprise(like defense contractors) don’t make a real profit. Their job is to produce military hardware and give logistical support to the military. We do that to win, not to make anything resembling profit.
    You really don’t know accounting, bookkeeping or economics, obviously.
    You’re stuck on Marxist stupid.

  • Hannitized

    Cheney did little to make us safer, but a lot more to put us in more risk and in harms way.

  • robert108

    Cheney did little to make us safer…

    Seven years without an attack on our soil makes you an obvious liar, little H. Keep clinging to your bullshit, though; it’s all you’ve got.

  • Hannitized

    What standard are you using to measure than that? Other than your own partisan dislike of Cheney?

    General Patreaus.

  • http://insanereindeer.blogspot.com/ Kenny

    Dumbass, do you realize that certain segments of a population can make a profit when the overall population doesn’t.
    That is known as profiteering.

    When the populous isn’t making money, business isn’t either. If the citizenry cannot pay it’s car note…then their demand for gas plummets as their car is repossessed. The gas company loses money as homes are foreclosed and the citizenry moves into cheap and poorly heated apartments. Thus, even the most “unassailable companies” suffer when the populous suffers.

    When it is done because a war it is known as war profiteering.
    Do you think Haliburton makes more money during war or peace?

    The answer? Both.

    Oh, and for the record tool…Halliburton stands to make a great deal of money on the cap and trade scam. YOU support Halliburton. Asshat.

  • robert108

    LC: You remain stuck on Marxist stupid. You have been thoroughly schooled on this, and yet you cling to your flawed ideology.

  • brain trust

    Lets see, how many times were we attached during the Clinton years with Pinhead on his staff verses the years Bush/Cheney years? What did Clinton & Pinhead do about it? NOTHING!

  • http://sayanythingblog.com robport

    Cheney and his bunch of war profiteers wanted the first attack. They wrote about it in the late 90s.

    And this was after they plotted to stage the moon landing, right?

  • sayanything-2483

    If nothing else, for seven years Bush/Cheney kept the country safe from another attack. You would think that Panetta with his “limited” knowledge would welcome an opportunity to get any information from Cheney that would continue the “no attack” policies instead of bad mouthing him.

  • http://sayanythingblog.com robport

    Cheney did little to make us safer, but a lot more to put us in more risk and in harms way.

    What standard are you using to measure than that? Other than your own partisan dislike of Cheney?

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