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Biden Rejects Cheney's Criticism Regarding War on Terror

   VOA News 14 February 2010

   U.S.  Vice  President Joe Biden says former Vice President Dick Cheney
   is  either  "misinformed"  or  is  "misinforming"  the  public  in his
   criticism of the Obama administration's commitment to fight terrorism.

   In  an  interview Sunday on NBC's Meet the Press, Vice President Biden
   said Cheney is trying to rewrite history.
   Former  Vice  President Cheney has been a leading Republican critic of
   the  Obama administration's handling of national security.  Cheney has
   said  President Barack Obama is pretending the U.S. is not at war with
   terrorists, and he says as a result Americans are less safe.
   But  Vice  President  Biden  says  the  United  States  has  been more
   successful at killing al-Qaida leaders during the Obama administration
   than  it was during the years President George W. Bush and Cheney were
   in  the  White  House.   Biden  said U.S. forces have eliminated 12 of
   al-Qaida's top 20 leaders.
   The  vice  president also criticized the war in Iraq saying it has not
   been  worth its price and it cost the United States support from other
   nations around the world.
   Former  Vice President Cheney fired back at Biden in a later televised
   interview   on   ABC's   This   Week.    Cheney  said  for  the  Obama
   administration  to  take  credit for success in Iraq is strange and he
   said "it ought to go with a healthy dose of thanks to George Bush."

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