Generals: Dick Cheney, Liz Cheney are scaremongering

Dick Cheney and Liz Cheney scaremongering? Perish the thought! Yes, I'm being sarcastic. The two wingnuts are exaggerating the dangers of bringing the prisoners from Gitmo to federal facilities here in the state. It's amazing that some of these protesters actually consider "terrorists" any more dangerous than the people already incarcerated in maximum security federal penitentiaries. They may want to check out the records of some of the current inmates. It's good to see these retired Generals speaking out.

“Some of the fear issues that are being raised in this are really unfortunate. It gets people excited about things they shouldn’t be excited about and impedes doing what is critical to this country. 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….We have to get out there again and just keep pounding.”

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