The Next Terrorist Attack On US Soil Will Be Dick Cheney’s Fault (Oxdown Gazette)

[chill_wind]

The Next Terrorist Attack On US Soil Will Be Dick Cheney’s Fault
By: Jim White Wednesday June 3, 2009 7:08 am

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Just to review, we have Cheney coming out five days after 9/11 to tell the world that the US would abandon human rights considerations in its fight against terrorism. Cheney takes the lead role in developing torture as a policy and even personally leads the effort to keep torture as a tool when Congress begins to rebel. What has this policy gotten us? Here's former interrogator Matthew Alexander, in an Op-Ed in the Washington Post:

I learned in Iraq that the No. 1 reason foreign fighters flocked there to fight were the abuses carried out at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo. Our policy of torture was directly and swiftly recruiting fighters for al-Qaeda in Iraq. The large majority of suicide bombings in Iraq are still carried out by these foreigners. They are also involved in most of the attacks on U.S. and coalition forces in Iraq. It's no exaggeration to say that at least half of our losses and casualties in that country have come at the hands of foreigners who joined the fray because of our program of detainee abuse. The number of U.S. soldiers who have died because of our torture policy will never be definitively known, but it is fair to say that it is close to the number of lives lost on Sept. 11, 2001. How anyone can say that torture keeps Americans safe is beyond me -- unless you don't count American soldiers as Americans.

Dick Cheney announced that we would ignore human rights in our intelligence gathering. He then instituted and approved a program of torture. He personally led the fight on Capitol Hill to keep torture going. Torture is the primary recruiting tool for al Qaeda.

The next time international terrorists attack the United States, there will be one person who should take the bulk of the blame: Dick Cheney.

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[RC]

1. Makes sense. War is very profitable.

"He personally led the fight on Capitol Hill to keep torture going."

[vanboggie]

2. So was the first one n/t

[Politicalboi]

3. Not only his fault

But he's gonna do it. I truly believe he did 9/11 so why not another one. And if Obama snubs Israel that could cinch it.

[chill_wind]

4. Keep that framing firmly in mind, because Snarl has been trying hard to set up one against Obama

http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Greenwald_Cheney_setting_up_Obama_in_0205.html

We've all been watching him try to do it. Time to preempt the bastard in his own destructive blame game.

[quidam56]

5. What Cheney is doing to Appalachia 24/7 is TOXIC TERRORISM

http://www.wisecountyissues.com/?p=138 We are being bombed, blasted and bulldozed right into 3rd world America and can't stand anymore. I surrender !

[FiveGoodMen]

6. As was the last one.

[Wednesdays]

7. K&R

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