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| Darth Cheney is the horrible face of American torture |
| 2014-12-17 |
| According to Joan Walsh. The left wasn't allowed to have another one way "conversation" on an agenda item cuz of that monster Dick Cheney, so they're throwing a fit. Former Vice President Dick Cheney’s time is about up, in many senses. For a Republican Party trying to look forward, he shouldn’t be a go-to voice for the media on national security policy. His sneering attacks on President Obama aren’t news anymore. The man who famously said, “It’s my new heart, not someone else’s old heart,” about the donor to his taxpayer-funded heart transplant should have lost the power to shock us by now. Unless he has a sudden attack of conscience, and apologizes for his career, he has nothing to say worth hearing. Except on the Senate Intelligence Committee’s torture report. There’s been some anger on the left that Cheney took his seat yet again on NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday, but I think he belonged there, one last time. Let the American people hear from the man who claims that interrogation methods we prosecuted after World War II, as well as others even more depraved, aren’t actually torture. It wasn't an official report. It was a democratic political report. Cheney is such a monster that he couldn’t even keep himself from defending “rectal feeding.” While he acknowledged that it “was not one of the techniques that was approved,” he sanctioned it nonetheless. “I believe it was done for medical reasons. … It wasn’t torture in terms of it wasn’t part of the program.” That would seem to imply that anything that was “part of the program” was torture, which of course Cheney denies. Ironically, earlier on Fox News Cheney said, “I don’t know anything about” rectal feeding or rectal rehydration (he may well have been lying). But by the time he got to “MTP,” he wasn’t willing to let any torture method go undefended. And even host Chuck Todd noting that “the medical community has said there is no medical reason to do this” didn’t shame him. That's it! F. Chuck Todd, a commie, didn't shame Cheney. He's in on it, Joan! Todd asked Cheney some tough questions about U.S. prosecution of Japanese officials who waterboarded Americans, about the fact that at least a quarter of the detainees were innocent and, of course, about rectal feeding. Unfortunately, Cheney either dodged or lied. More goofiness at the link... |
| Posted by:badanov |
| #9 It doesn't matter if the techniques or torture or not. It doesn't matter if folks repeat torture doesn't work until they turn blue. Torture does work and most Americans support it against Jihadists in way we would not have supported it in a war against a nation-state. As long as the guys doing the interrogations are doing so willingly I'm content to trust they know their job better than journalists and celebrities. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2014-12-17 14:44 |
| #8 It's not important that they love us, only that they fear us. Hey, when ISIS and al Qaeda sign the Geneva Convention we can abide by it ourselves. Until then we should treat them like the barbarians they are. Me, I wanted bin Laden's head on a pike at Ground Zero but Obama wouldn't even let us see the pictures out of concern for Muslim "sensibilities". Screw that. And if I did any rectal feeding with KSM I would have made sure to add plenty of hot sauce. I would have filmed the event and put it on YouTube, especially the part where he ratted out his fellow cockroaches because he couldn't take any more pain. |
| Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 2014-12-17 12:14 |
| #7 So I guess Joanie Girl is the demented face of American liberalism? Who's the not demented face? |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2014-12-17 12:12 |
| #6 Joan Walsh is Salon's editor at large and the author of "What's the Matter With White People: Finding Our Way in the Next America." So I guess Joanie Girl is the demented face of American liberalism? |
| Posted by: tu3031 2014-12-17 12:09 |
| #5 It’s the same mentality that leads to police shooting unarmed black men in the name of public safety. Walsh may be a twit but you have to give her credit for consistency. Regardless of the subject at hand she never misses an opportunity to imply all republicans are racists. |
| Posted by: DepotGuy 2014-12-17 11:41 |
| #4 As a person that had been shot at when a baby and ho despite my age would have probably faced horrible death had I been caught alive by that terrorist movement that routinely mudered, sadistically murdered whole villages I already told what I thgought about torture As I said: envision yourself telling to a father "Your daughter has been raped and cut to pieces, her baby impaed. I could have prevented it but I didn't want to dirty my precious little hands". Let's remins it is the terrorists not us who chooseed to up the stakes of evil. |
| Posted by: JFM 2014-12-17 07:31 |
| #3 The only "rectal feeding" I've detected continues to come from the left. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2014-12-17 02:08 |
| #2 The liberals are still blindly following the notion that the Islamic terrorists are attacking us because they don't like us. Not |
| Posted by: Mystic 2014-12-17 00:39 |
| #1 Attacks under Bush in the US after 9/11 = Zero. Attacks under Obama = at least FIVE. |
| Posted by: Whaimp Oppressor of the Nebraskans3750 2014-12-17 00:13 |