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DICK CHENEY: Obama Has Figured Out That We Were Right: President Obama has ?learned from exper?

By Glenn Reynolds

DICK CHENEY: Obama Has Figured Out That We Were Right:

President Obama has ?learned from experience? that some of the Bush administration?s decisions on terrorism issues were necessary, according to former Vice President Dick Cheney.

In his first interview since undergoing major heart surgery last July, Cheney said he thinks Obama has been forced to rethink some of his national security positions now that he sits in the Oval Office.

“I think he’s learned that what we did was far more appropriate than he ever gave us credit for while he was a candidate. So I think he’s learned from experience. And part of that experience was the Democrats having a terrible showing last election.”

Cheney also asserted that Obama has learned that the prison at Guantanamo Bay simply cannot be closed, despite the promises he made while campaigning for the White House.

“I think he’s learned that he’s not going to be able to close Guantanamo,” Cheney said. “That it’s ? if you didn’t have it, you’d have to create one like that. You’ve got to have some place to put terrorists who are combatants who are bound and determined to try to kill Americans.”

They told me if I voted for John McCain, we’d wind up with a President following Cheney-approved policies in the War On Terror. And they were right!

Full post as published by Instapundit.com on January 18, 2011 (boomark / email).