U.S. Vice President Dick CheneyCheney "Clearly Would Love" To Catch Osama -- CBS News
Defends War On Terror, Says FDR, Lincoln Expanded Executive Power More Than Bush Has
(CBS/AP) Vice President Dick Cheney says he's guessing that al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden is still alive, and that capturing him is something the Bush administration "clearly would love to do" in their last few weeks in office.
Bin Laden has escaped capture by the Bush administration since the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks on New York and Washington.
Cheney said he and President George W. Bush would have preferred to have gotten bin Laden right after the attacks more than seven years ago. But Cheney says the U.S. has made progress in undermining the al Qaeda network.
Speaking in an interview broadcast on "Fox News Sunday," the vice president also blamed Congress for failing to bail out the auto industry, saying the White House was forced to step in to save U.S. car companies.
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My Comment: Typically very blunt and to the point. Historians (in my opinion) will regard him as an adequate vice president.
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