John you who who was the former I Department of Justice office have legal
counsel deputy
who wrote many memories arguing George W Bush is used
a torture he was on Fox News with host Brian Kilmeade on Monday
and yet to meet you think interesting things to say about the use of torture
and President Obama will start
first with his stuff on the war on terror his in the legacy of your
leadership
and that a president bush in part responsible for the route reality
today your response to David Gregory's question would assumes
that the West a hear your eight years were responsible for this
has a terrible mistake it's like saying firefighters are responsible for fire
or during the Cold War it was our fault or not to serve its fall
if you go back and look at 9:11 the worst thing that could have happened for
us in the best thing for Islamic extremism was a
islam's control the whole country Afghanistan where they could fall their
policies in support terrorism with impunity
in the bush administration we put an end to that we overthrew the Taliban regime
and then we started on a campaign to destroy the al Qaeda terrorist network
I worry that this administration has let's put off the gas pedal
in the war on terrorism and actually allowing out cater to bring down
okay to the first got there obviously was David Gregory on Meet the Press and
after they were referencing in the box news clip
Anna take it away yeah I mean does he not understand that
though Obama administration has done nothing but
extend the same foreign policy disasters that the Bush administration had started
I mean if you been complex living under a rock you wouldn't know that I guess
but the reality is Obama has done
almost everything the torture tactics have stopped as far as I'm concerned but
everything else I mean wow how long are we going to remain in Afghanistan
I mean it's ridiculous what I was still open exactly can another example
2008 and I mean we have kill lists we have the NSA violating our privacy we
were doing all this in the name of national security
and clamping down on terror I mean what what more do you want to Iraq Obama
again we bowled for a liberal Democrat we get more republican policies when we
get to have a liberal
policies implemented so Barack Obama again
they're gonna say your week your unmanly that you're a wimp
that you're not doing it progress important no matter what you do
so when I do good foreign policy why not n guantanamo
when that end the war in Afghanistan why not do those things that way everybody
knows he ought to be doing
instead of going along with the military-industrial complex I forgot
your fuckin to love them are both dead before a little bit so that basically
was the next question that Brian Kilmeade ask dad John you
that he is their manhood problem is David Brooks brought up in the middle at
as the purse at this present is perceived in the Middle East
hello it's me in here now but this president is turning out to pursue a
very passive foreign policy and what worries me in the case I make my book
is an American withdrawal from the world is going to have terrible costs on the
world and on the United States
and that this after took pole deny States back from its role in securing
regional and international security is going to harm
the world that the United States was built for the last 60 years
because nobody is talking about withdrawing from the eagle with the
world you know it did he is bringing up a straw man to start working on ease of
course ignoring his own
I'm participation in torture you know John you is the one who wrote the
torture memos that essentially
made it legal for the CIA to use torture against detainees
that were in Iraq which he conveniently fails to mention he only talks about
Afghanistan there he doesn't talk about the whole
I don't know the whole war we had the RUC remember yeah is part in this do you
think
is mainstream media's fault because if he can blame the Omaha Obama
administration as if they're being soft because the mainstream media doesn't
focus on all the things that you were just talking about yeah
they don't focus on guantanamo studio but they don't focus on the drone
strikes
so because people don't know that are watching mainstream media you can always
throw it out there
that Obama is somehow pussy so at the end of each year Media Matters is a
great job love
collecting the total amount of time
each network is spent on foreign policy and its
just the tiniest amounts of the majority of Americans
unfortunately are not informed on what's happening in terms of foreign policy
because there isn't enough attention on it
so you know Bush starts a preemptive war
what ball so I information about weapons of mass destruction you're gonna sit
there
and you're going to defend his foreign policy when also
little it's also note that cool caught Osama bin lot and
mike was it bush because his policy definitely didn't lead to him finding
Osama bin Laden like it's actually ridiculous to say
Obama has been passive and the bush administration was great when it came to
fighting terrorism yeah I'm right about this is this sudden mean that's going
around it's not really certain but it does seem like it came to a for this
weekend you know as a
Obama has been in Asia on this site diplomatic tour that he's been on
and I saw the video above and henry i think is air CNN now
and Henry basically spot his box no landed yeah
big if that's what they're mean is going to be now you know he actually asked
Obama something to that effect over hey do you think that
now you're being perceived as weak now and what do you think about that no
bomber I think at a very good and measured answer considering it was
a fairly I think I'm going to be asked that you know here you are in a in a
foreign country in oh you're on a major diplomatic
II event and one of the American press says hey do you think you're being too
weak
guide you know my dad that pisses me off but you know he had a measured response
to it saying essentially
that for all these other people that are are saying this that he's weak
that you know their first answer to everything is war and that obviously
hasn't worked out so well
so why are they still suggesting more have they learned nothing look at all
the opportunities that Barack Obama's past up to go to war right there and
clear Syria
now Ukraine it's embarrassing when do you start going to war i mean
it was not a good morning to go to Syria anyone in the series so we can give them
a bath on how are you going to let me in
though he may have the we did an x-box connect their military action in Syria I
think that's what they do and then we'll be adding that he got
but he didn't want to go to war in Syria so let me is now it's all great now
writes all democracy and everybody loves everybody and their armies in
ended up being run by the petrochemicals I
anyway the thing about you brought it up by bro sounds a lot it's like
what you were gonna take 'em advice from the guys hey who let 9/11 happened the
war domestic terrorist attack in israel our country
that was you you do that you know you need a bad they're gonna pass for that
one
right although everybody give them pass for that one they get a pass that one
and you know listening to john woo hoo tell us about foreign policy
a to criticize up the wagons finger at Barack Obama
it you know what's next: chris Christie's gonna give us our you don't
get it criticizes far workout schedule it's probably
seconds and then we get a good night Kris Kringle yeah
but what did David Gregory treat him like he's not a complete non-criminal
complete war criminal
hooted yes exactly but he was rector is not going to have my daughter takes
recovered out more credit we always say thanks for coming out and we're going to
go I thank you very much
I appreciate your break in the Iraq talk about you and torture
I tried to commit our country to go along with it European ship that book
about David Gregory St at the party
yeah good morning to you genius %uh republicans why they're better
politicians in a way to democrat
they could read that so far this way that the only thing Obama could honestly
say is guys
I'm doing what you want I'm doing drone strike like I'm doing all that stuff
but you know he can come and say that cuz that would make a look like a fraud
well %uh I think the reality is it regardless of what a politician
genuinely feels about going to war
at think about what it'll do to our economy if we're not been a constant war
I mean think about the number of companies that makes so much money off a
bus in beating other countries
so I I don't even know what the genuine feelings are
love Obama I don't know the genuine feelings are the democratic party when
it comes to this issue
because their corporate interests at play it always goes back to the same
issue and almost
has become a cliche on the show but it's money in politics
it corrupts every single aspect of society
every single decision politicians make whether its domestic policy or foreign
policy