Exotix
10-10-2010, 8:46am
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Cheney calls anti-terror policies necessary but controversial.
'We could no longer treat terrorist attacks as a simple law enforcement problem'
Cheney returns to defend anti-terror policies - Politics - msnbc.com (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/39594063/)
Today
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. — Former Vice President Dick Cheney addressed his health and offered another defense of Bush administration of "necessary" but "controversial" anti-terrorism policies Saturday in his first long speech since he suffered what was described as "increasing congestive heart failure" last summer.
Cheney appeared frail but spoke clearly at the Bakersfield Business Conference, where he was "interviewed" by his wife, Lynne.
"She's been my nurse, my negotiator with the medical community, and in return for all of that great help she's given me, today I've agreed to let her interview me," Cheney told a sold-out crowd of about 10,000.
Full-day tickets for the conference were $495 each.
Cheney, who had his fifth heart attack in February, underwent a procedure to implant an LVAD (left ventricular assist device) in his heart in July.
The procedure usually is used as a bridge therapy to a transplant.
In some patients who are not good candidates for a transplant, the device can be a stop-gap "permanent" solution.
Cheney explained why he believes the Bush administration's national security, surveillance and "enhanced interrogation" policies prevented more terrorist attacks after Sept. 11, 2001.
"I'll always remember lifting off in the helicopter (on 9/11) and looking down on the Pentagon, seeing the devastation that had been wrought — that plus the World Trade Center in New York — the devastation that had been wrought by 19 men armed with box cutters and airline tickets.
From that moment on, we were in a situation where we could no longer treat terrorist attacks as a simple law enforcement problem.
They were an act of war."
(Read continues in Link)
Right ... *there were no terrorist attacks under Bush ... I can only go on Faux Noize and now can only be interviewed by my wife ... *
~ *Dick*
:bs:
Cheney calls anti-terror policies necessary but controversial.
'We could no longer treat terrorist attacks as a simple law enforcement problem'
Cheney returns to defend anti-terror policies - Politics - msnbc.com (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/39594063/)
Today
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. — Former Vice President Dick Cheney addressed his health and offered another defense of Bush administration of "necessary" but "controversial" anti-terrorism policies Saturday in his first long speech since he suffered what was described as "increasing congestive heart failure" last summer.
Cheney appeared frail but spoke clearly at the Bakersfield Business Conference, where he was "interviewed" by his wife, Lynne.
"She's been my nurse, my negotiator with the medical community, and in return for all of that great help she's given me, today I've agreed to let her interview me," Cheney told a sold-out crowd of about 10,000.
Full-day tickets for the conference were $495 each.
Cheney, who had his fifth heart attack in February, underwent a procedure to implant an LVAD (left ventricular assist device) in his heart in July.
The procedure usually is used as a bridge therapy to a transplant.
In some patients who are not good candidates for a transplant, the device can be a stop-gap "permanent" solution.
Cheney explained why he believes the Bush administration's national security, surveillance and "enhanced interrogation" policies prevented more terrorist attacks after Sept. 11, 2001.
"I'll always remember lifting off in the helicopter (on 9/11) and looking down on the Pentagon, seeing the devastation that had been wrought — that plus the World Trade Center in New York — the devastation that had been wrought by 19 men armed with box cutters and airline tickets.
From that moment on, we were in a situation where we could no longer treat terrorist attacks as a simple law enforcement problem.
They were an act of war."
(Read continues in Link)
Right ... *there were no terrorist attacks under Bush ... I can only go on Faux Noize and now can only be interviewed by my wife ... *
~ *Dick*
:bs: