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January 19, 2006
Michael Scheuer to Bill O'Reilly: "We have to kill more of the enemy."
Michael Scheuer was on Bill O'Reilly this evening and Johnny Dollar has the transcript:
O'REILLY: [talking about Dick Cheny's interview with Neil Cavuto] OK. Now he comes in, and he's very cool and confident, as he usually is. He doesn't do a lot of media, but when you see him he's cool and confident. And he basically says, look. We could get attacked, but we have done a tremendous amount of damage to Al-Qaeda. This is Dick Cheney saying this to Neil Cavuto. Do you believe that?Scheuer also believes that the recent "truce" offer from bin Laden does not imply weakness, but is part of the ancient Muslim code of warning an enemy prior to an attack.SCHEUER: No, sir. He's whistling past the graveyard, sir. They have a body count of how many people we've killed in Al-Qaeda, but they never have had an idea of how big Al-Qaeda was, or is. So when Mr Cheney says that, it's simply to me a sign of panic. Because if Al-Qaeda attacks us again in the United States, the United States has absolutely nothing to respond against. Unless we're willing to take out a city like Riyad or Cairo. The President and the Vice-President and Mr Clinton before them play a very dangerous game here. Because if we are attacked again, what do we respond against? And to think that somehow we're winning this war is really to fly in the face of reality, sir.
O'REILLY: Is there anything we can do to win it?
SCHEUER: Yes, sir. We certainly have to kill more of the enemy. That's the first step.
O'REILLY: Any way we can?
SCHEUER: Anywhere we can, whenever we can, without a great deal of concern for civilian casualties. As I said, war is war. The people who got killed when they were hosting Zawahiri to dinner were not the friends of the United States.
O'REILLY: All right, Mr Scheuer, always a pleasure to talk with you. Thank you very much for taking the time.
I was surprised to see Scheuer speak in such frank terms about warfare, because of his previous statements about Jewish conspiracies. Given that those were in front of a liberal audience of the policy elite, but that his more bellicose comments today were on Fox, the favored cable news source of redstaters, perhaps . . . he's just trying to please everyone to sell more books.
Either way, his theory of an impending attack is certainly interesting.
SCHEUER: It's always my pleasure, sir. Thank you.
Posted by Chester at January 19, 2006 10:31 PM
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Greetings,
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Now, this thing about Iran and nukes...
I can't imagine anyone who would feel comfortable with Iran having nuclear weapons capability. So how is it stopped?
The issue of Iran and others throughout the world wielding nuclear weapons, hint toward the western world becoming police officers of regimes that appear dangerous to not only world powers as they now stand but the world population as a whole.
Can we participate in the policing of the world without having a military draft? Sorry, I don’t have an answer. I’m reading your blog, and other writings in order to educate myself.
Posted by: Helen at January 31, 2006 9:09 AM