General (ly) Speaking...

Responding to criticism from former Vice President Cheney that President Obama is making the nation more vulnerable to terrorism, the president’s National Security Adviser, Gen. Jim Jones (Ret.), told ABC News that President Obama’s greater success with international relations has meant more terrorists put out of commission.

Jones said. “President Obama has taken the leadership on this subject and is approaching the threat in a slightly different way – actually a radically different way. Truth and reality will no longer play any part in our planning or in how we respond to terrorism, or reporters.”

“You can pretty much take anything we say and the opposite will be true. We can do this because you (the press) don’t actually check to see if we are telling the truth,” Jones claimed. “So if I were to say that we captured Osama Bin Laden last night at a 7-11 in Kandahar, while it is total B.S., you all will report it as fact.”

The former Marine General, choking back laughter, stated “We are killing more people, capturing more people than they (the Bush Administration) did. The good intelligence from both the CIA and intelligence agencies from US allies has made the difference!”

“I take exception to assertions that something that we decided or the president decided will make the country less safe,” Jones said. “I just don’t agree with that. We are about making this country safe. So we make up these stories, like the one about Bin Laden, and everybody feels safer. And I’ll take feeling safer over knowing the truth any day.”

Jones didn’t buy Cheney’s argument that the fact the U.S. didn’t experience any terrorist attacks on U.S. soil after September 11, 2001 proves Bush administration terror fighting techniques were effective. “It’s very easy to leave office and say, ‘Well, no other disaster happened on the size and scope of 9/11, so we did our job well. We (the Obama Administration) do not have to do our job well. As long as we have a media giving only our version of the truth Al Qaida could bomb Disneyworld and you would report it as a new Hanna Montana ride.”