In his latest interview promoting his new book, former Vice President Dick Cheney championed the Iraq War as the “right policy,” insisting the 2003 occupation was a “sound policy.”
Incredibly, with a nearly endless list of faulty excuses for the war already at hand, Cheney invented an entirely new one to defend the conflict, claiming that if the US hadn’t attacked Iraq on the basis of non-existent nuclear weapons, Moammar Gadhafi, whom the US is attacking now, would have nuclear weapons.
He then went on to term himself a “big advocate” of waterboarding, the practice of simulated drowning roundly condemned internationally as a form of torture. Cheney insisted that the waterboarding of suspects had “kept the country safe” for more than seven years.
Cheney has enjoyed something of a renaissance in the media with his book release, transitioning from a reviled warmonger and torturer into a respected elder statesman regaling reporters with his history of warmongering and torture. In spite of this, human rights groups continue to call for the Justice Department to investigate Cheney over the war crimes he committed, particularly those he admits to in the book.
Of course waterboarding is right! Just as it was right for us to put the Japanese officrs to death for practicing waterboarding in WW2:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/arti…
Because whatever WE do is right. In fact that must be the definition of right-whatever the US government does.
We are going to learn.
That we will not only reap what we have sown,
but upto 2,800% more than wehave sown. – Leviticus 26
Document: God Is Not Mocked Updated August 2011 http://www.peterjamesx.com/docs/God%20Is%20Not%20…
I agree!
Remember what a terrible job he did as a WalMart greeter?:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FxFc1RMbko4&fe…
What else would you expect from that creature. Remorse? Reason? Humanity? The responsible-for-9/11 generation: Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Blair, Neocons are among the most despicable entities ever born, right along the other mass killers that politics has offered this earth.
I opened Chaney's book and blood poured out on my lap.
Just another American war criminal, like Harry Truman et al.
Such an awful human being.
In so many other countries the change of regime leads to the round condemnation of the previous regime's policies. In the US, apparently, one looks forward, not backward. Essentially, the Democrats are hypocritical quislings who, deep in their hearts, deep in their hearts, believe that they rule at the pleasure and indeed the whim of a populace whose fears are easily manipulated by the shrill howls of neo-con fascists. They have had so many opportunities to stand up to their political rivals and ram through legislation (as the Republicans did with similar majorities) but they cave in time after time out of, of all things, fear of the very people who sent them to Washington because they'd had enough of Bush et al. No wonder the American people believe President Gore would have done the same things as Bush.