Cheney says Obama should keep terror policies

[Terri]

By AP STAFF
Associated Press
January 8, 2009

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Vice President Dick Cheney said Wednesday it would be a mistake for President-elect Barack Obama to scrap the Bush administration's terrorist-fighting policies designed to prevent future attacks on the U.S.

"It would be a tragedy if they threw over those policies simply because they had campaigned against them," Cheney said in an interview with CBS Radio's Mark Knoller. "I think they need to proceed very cautiously before they begin to change the policies that are in place. They need to know what they're doing."

Obama has criticized practices that he says amount to torturing detainees during interrogations and has promised to close the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

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[utexas]

This is the old adage ‘if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.’ Regardless of what anyone can say about Bush, everyone would have to admit he, and his policies, kept us safe from terror for the last 8 years, and it wasn’t easy with the mad dog liberal Dimocraps he had to deal with.

But I have the feeling, Hussein will dismantle everything Bush did, whether it works or not, just because Bush did it.