Sunday, March 15, 2009

Vile, Just Vile!

From CNN:

Former Vice President Dick Cheney told CNN's John King Sunday that he believed President Obama's decision to eliminate the use of many of the most controversial interrogation practices used under the former administration had put the country at risk.

Asked whether he thought those moves had made the United States less safe, Cheney said he did. "I think those programs were absolutely essential to the success we enjoy, of being able to collect the intelligence that let us defeat all further attempts to launch attacks against the United States since 9/11," he said on State of the Union. "I think it's a great success story. It was done legally, it was done in accordance with our constitutional practices and principles…"


Why doesn't Dick Cheney shut up and slink back into his undisclosed location?

H/T to TPM.

UPDATE: Ann in the comments suggests this article in the Harvard Magazine as a better and more principled manner of doing counterterrorism than the Cheney method.

19 comments:

  1. Dick Cheney had his time. From my perspective, it didn't work out to well for him or us. He needs to go home and shut up!!

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  2. Dick has had more than his fair share of time. He can crawl back under his rock now.

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  3. Mimi, you're about to do what Dick Cheney dare not do anymore. --Travel outside the continental U.S. --without fear of being arrested for international crimes! Take solace that justice is catching up with the Dickster. And you, dear mentor, will be enjoying a carefree sojourn en Angleterre! (whilst he seems somewhat oblivious to his impending indictment).

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  4. He doesn't go away because old venomous snakes like he is tend to like the sportlight.

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  5. Can you imagine the cries of "TREASON!" if Al Gore had made these sort of comments 55 days into the (Dubya) Bush Administration?

    Some how, those sort of manners NEVER seem to apply to ReThuglicans now, do they?

    [Well said, We' Po'! ;-)]

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  6. I am about to do what I didn't do for the 8 years of the Bush maladministration, take a trip out of the US. I was too ashamed and embarrassed to go, and I didn't want to wander the world saying, "I don't like them either."

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  7. oh please don't send him back to his undisclosed location- that is only 160 miles from me. btw all his friends here say that he has become really mean in these later years -- was not like that growing up and in school with them.

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  8. ReThuglicans"

    Wow, that's about it. As it turns out, I watched Cheney looking all freshly sanitized into looking like he is not a vile human being today on TV...I agree, he'd best stay close to home, locked away, or he'll end up being arrested for internationally committed common thuggery.

    I wonder how he learned how to act like he knows things?

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  9. The title of your post says it all.

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  10. I assumed by "undisclosed location" you meant the nether regions of hell.

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  11. You might find this article a better argument against Cheney-ism.

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  12. When GWB was president, my husband said that anyone who said anything bad about him was treasonous, including former president Carter.

    I've noted that he is strangely silent on this Cheney stuff. So it is treasonous to criticize the president only if you like his policies?

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  13. Lauralew, that "till death us do part" part is a b*tch, isn't it? (You have my sympathies)

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  14. Laurelew, my sympathy, too. I've never known a former vice-president to speak such despicable words publicly, and so soon after leaving office.

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  15. Andrew Sullivan of the daily dish, compares the Bush Cheney torture technique to that of the Gestapo... the Gestapo is less brutal. Of course those old tortures were tried, yet we still wait for the trials of Dick and George.

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  16. http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2009/03/compare-and-con.html

    (I forgot the link)

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  17. Steph, I stopped reading Sullivan several years ago, when he still supported the Bush maladministration. I suppose I should give him another chance.

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