DICK CHENEY NEEDS A TASTE OF HIS OWN MEDICINE

 

Cheney on Meet the Press was a chilling example of someone that believes in torture.

 

I have been trying to ignore Richard Bruce (Dick) Cheney ever since he left office as the least truthful and worst ever US vice president. 

Unfortunately, Mr. Cheney continues to insert himself into the news by continuing to tell his untruths and of course, promoting his ridiculous attitude in support of torture. 

As soon as the Senate Intelligence Committee released the CIA Torture Report that took years to complete, Mr. Cheney of course, went on Fox News and called it “a crock” of you-know-what.

Then, when he went on Meet the Press and was pressed hard by the show’s new host, Chuck Todd, Cheney then showed the typical examples of his past cowardice.  (It continues to become very obvious why Dick Cheney had 5 student college deferments so that he would not have to fight in Vietnam.)

In the MtP interview, Cheney showed that he was not only NOT against using torture, he was in total support of using it if it achieved its stated goals.

When Mr. Todd would give Cheney an example of what was obvious torture that was used against suspected terrorists, Mr. Cheney would just say “”We worked hard to stop short of that definition of torture.”  In other words, if the Justice Department said that they wouldn’t call that particular action “torture”, then it was OK to go ahead and do it.  Forget that it was the Bush administration that had worked with their own justice department to make certain their harsh interrogation techniques were not called “torture”.  (Most of these harsh techniques were in fact called torture since World War II by the Geneva Convention.)

When Mr. Todd described the event of a Mr. Gul Rahman being held by the CIA while he was, “chained to the wall of his cell, doused with water”, and that he was then found hanging there frozen to death, and it all turned out to be a case of mistaken identity.  Cheney just said that it didn’t bother him as long as they achieved their objective.  “Oops, sorry you were not properly identified and were tortured to death.”

When Mr. Todd said that of the 119 suspected terrorists held by the CIA, the Senate panel found that 26 were wrongly detained, Todd asked Cheney, “Are you OK with that margin of error?”  Again Cheney just said, “I have no problem as long as we achieved our objective of getting those that did 9/11 and if we avoided another attack on the US homeland.”  Cheney did not show one iota of regret that someone innocent might have been tortured or harshly interrogated.

Apparently, Mr. Cheney must believe the opposite of the democratic idea that it is better for 10 guilty men to go free, than for one innocent man to suffer.  To Cheney, if you are suspected of being a terrorist, it’s perfectly OK for you to be tortured regardless of whether you are guilty or not.  He probably also feels that if you even know a terrorist, you might as well be tortured just for being in the same company of one.

At the end of the MtP interview it was clear that Dick Cheney had no problem with torturing the innocent, and in doing it with total indifference.

After a number of examples of obvious torture and of those where innocent individuals were harshly interrogated, Cheney’s total lack of regret was not only telling, it was totally bone chilling…brrrrr.

Mr. Cheney has more than once made it clear that he is proud that some people refer to him as “Darth Vader”.  He loves being from the “dark side”.  I remember when George W. Bush once said, “If this were a dictatorship it would be a heck of a lot easier... as long as I'm the dictator. ...”  I would suspect that Mr. Cheney has seriously wished that he had become the American president so he could have acted like a dictator.  In fact, some people feel he did act that way during Bush’s 2^nd term, and he did it in the name of President George W. Bush.

After Cheney appeared on Meet the Press, the comedian John Stewart showed a picture of George W. Bush on his nightly news program and he made the following statement to the president’s picture:  “President Bush, thank you for not dying while you were in office.”

Based on what we have learned about Dick Cheney, while he was serving as the nation’s vice president, and since he left that position, I think there are many Americans that totally agree with John Stewart’s comment…..and I am definitely one of them.

Copyright G.Ater  2014