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December 13, 2011
Former VP Dick Cheney: Why didn't Obama destroy the drone when he had the chance?
Topics: Political News and commentariesAccording to former VP Dick Cheney's contacts, Barack Obama had several options to keep the top secret RQ-170 stealth drone from falling into the Iranian military's hands. In an interview with CNN's Erin Burnett, Cheney notes that Obama had three plans presented to him to destroy it and wonders why Obama didn't order an air strike on the downed aircraft while he still had the chance:
"The right response to that would have been to go in immediately after it had gone down and destroy it," he said on CNN's "Out Front with Erin Burnett."Simply put, our nation's Commander in Chief has essentially given away a significant strategic and tactical advantage to Islamic terrorists that have sworn to destroy the U.S. and Israel, because he refused to take the necessary action that would safeguard its secrets, apparently because he is naive enough to believe he can ask an Islamic terrorist nation to return it and they'll send it back intact special delivery.Instead, Cheney said, "he asked nicely for them to return it. They aren't gonna do that. ... Or, they'll send it back to us in pieces after they've gotten all the intelligence out of it they can" ...
Cheney, who served with former President George W. Bush from 2001 to 2009, said he "was told the president had three options on his desk and he rejected all of them." The options all involved destroying the drone on the ground.
"You can do that from the air," he said."And, in effect, make it impossible for them to benefit from having captured that drone."
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