Cheney: It clearly "wasn't enough to catch" the perpetrators of 9/11

[sabra]

http://www.heraldpalladium.com/articles/2009/11/06/loca...

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"What happened on 9/11 was clearly a strategic strike against the United States," Cheney said. "It was an act of war, and it was appropriate for us to respond as though it were an act of war."

It clearly "wasn't enough to catch" the perpetrators, Cheney said.

"We needed to head off more attacks," he told the audience at the Lake Michigan College Mendel Center. "...We needed to go on offense. We had to go after the state sponsors of terror. We'd never done that before."

Seeing terrorism as an act of war allows a much more effective response, including using the military, Cheney said.

"I'd feel a lot more comfortable if I felt that President Obama and his people understood the fact that we're at war," Cheney said.

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Another audience member asked Cheney about the decision to invade Iraq. Cheney said all the available intelligence said Saddam Hussein was trying to develop weapons of mass destruction, and he was also a "state sponsor of terror" and was giving money to the families of suicide bombers, he added.

"This was a bad guy," Cheney said.

[Captain Hilts]

1. How would he know? They didn't catch them. nt

[Johonny]

10. I agree

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. Yeah, Hussein was a bad guy. So what?

The world is full of bad guys...

Wonder why we always go after the ones who are sitting on a batch of oil...

Fuck Cheney.

[mediaman007]

3. "This was a bad guy," Cheney said. (Takes one to know one!)

[spanone]

4. how would a draft dodger know an act of war

mr cheney is out there pissing in the jury pool...i firmly believe he will be indicted some day...if not by our government, others.

[rfranklin]

5. All the available intelligence....

did not indicater WMDs. Who does he think he is fooling?

[TheCowsCameHome]

6. Who is this "we" that the draft-dodging coward refers to?

It's surely not him.

[aquart]

7. An act of war is committed by a nation, not a disgruntled group.

Bush and Cheney elevated al qaeda to the status of a nation state. We couldn't have done more for them if we'd been hired to do their PR.

[tanyev]

8. Uh, maybe if you hadn't been so busy carving up Iraq for the oil companies

at your super secret energy task force meetings you would have had time to convene some principals meetings about the terrorist threats that were making Richard Clarke very worried. Why, you might have been able to head off the 9/11 attacks, Dick.

[jimshoes]

9. Well shit dick,

it would have been a darn good start. What you did was use a 1,000 pound bomb to kill a gnat. Nice job. Oh, and you fucking missed the gnat.