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Former Vice President Dick Cheney focuses on 'international issues' :Takes aim at Obama's policies.
Cheney encouraged the president to heed the advice of Gen. Stanley McChrystal, commander of the war in Afghanistan, who has recommended a troop surge there. "If President Obama really believes what he campaigned on, that Afghanistan is a necessary war ... then I don't see how he can do anything other than move aggressively to achieve victory." In Iraq, meanwhile, the former vice president cautioned that a hasty withdrawal of troops could undercut political and military achievements in the country made since the Bush administration's "bold" decision in 2007 to increase troop levels there. Full Article at South Bend TribuneIf President Obama really believes what he campaigned on, that Afghanistan is a necessary war ... then I don't see how he can do anything other than move aggressively to achieve victory.
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Former Vice President Dick Cheney focuses on 'international issues' :Takes aim at Obama's policies.
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There has been a great temptation on the part of many people to say, 'They're guilty of torture,' ... That's not true. That is fundamentally not true.
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searches for options ... he appears to be looking for a way to do less than what has been recommended by military advisers, and all that will do is increase the risk of failure.
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It's important not to make quick judgments ... but I simply want to say that I think all of us want our hearts and prayers to go out to the families of those directly affected.
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act of war ... and accordingly, it was important to us that we respond as though it were an act of war. That meant we had to take on a whole new approach to deal with the global war on terror. It was not enough to catch and prosecute the guilty parties, we had to have a strategy to go forward and preven...
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In Iraq, it's vitally important that Obama, in his rush to withdraw troops, does not undermine the progress made there in the past several years
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I'm often accused by my critics of having changed somehow — and I will to some extent plead guilty to that, based on the fact of having observed the events of that morning, and seeing the impact a handful of terrorists with box cutters can have on all American citizens and two American cities.
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