Dick Cheney praised the killing of Anwar al-Awlaki but said Obama owes an apology. Chris Usher/CBS; Mark Wilson/GettyCheney: After Yemen Strike, Obama Owes Apology To Bush -- Washington Post
Former vice president Dick Cheney on Sunday called last week’s CIA drone strike against al-Qaeda operative Anwar Awlaki a validation of the George W. Bush administration’s terrorist-fighting strategy, and said that President Obama should apologize for his past criticism of those policies.
Cheney endorsed the killing of Awlaki as “justified,” despite Awlaki’s U.S. citizenship, and suggested that the Obama White House was being hypocritical when it approved a deadly strike against the New Mexico-born Awlaki while condemning Bush’s use of so-called enhanced interrogation methods of al-Qaeda prisoners.
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Update: Cheney says Obama should apologize for slams on Bush administration -- New York Daily News
My Comment: To apologize to a political opponent like former Presdient Bush is not President Obama's nature .... nor Cheney's for that matter. But former VP Cheney has a point .... how can you criticize past policies of using enhanced interrogation techniques on a few known Al Qaeda terror leaders .... but sanction targeted assassinations?
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