About a dozen retired generals and admirals, trying to add momentum to President Barack Obama's effort to close the Guantanamo Bay military prison, are accusing former Vice President Dick Cheney and his daughter Liz of scaremongering about the dangers of closing it.
“It’s up to all of us to say these arguments advanced by Cheney and his acolytes are nonsense and that really what they’re doing is undermining our national security by delaying the date at which Guantanamo is closed," retired Brig. Gen. James Cullen, a former chief judge of the Army’s Court of Criminal Appeals, told POLITICO Tuesday. . . .
Get that damn symbol off the table,” said retired Gen. David Maddox, a former Army commander-in-chief for Europe. “We take a setback every time somebody, whether it’s the vice president or his daughter, comes out and says the things that they say.”
Gen. Maddox went on to dismiss the hyped-up talk of danger, suggesting that the people already in these maximum security prisons are a lot more dangerous than those who would be transferred from Guantanamo. Look at the record. When's the last time anyone ever escaped from one of them?
Cut the fearmongering, Dick and Liz. You're no longer VP, Dick; and Liz, stop trying to carve out a political career for yourself through fear and demogogery. You're starting to sound shrill like your mama, Lynne, who had such extremely high negative polls numbers that they put a muzzle on her.
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