Cheney admits authorizing detainee’s torture
Raw Story- David Edwards and Stephen C. Webster
Published: Monday December 15, 2008
Outgoing VP says Guantanamo prison should stay open until end of terror war, but has no idea when that might be.
Monday, outgoing Vice President Dick Cheney made a startling statement on a nation-wide, televised broadcast.
When asked by ABC News reporter Jonathan Karl whether he approved of interrogation tactics used against a so-called “high value prisoner” at the controversial Guantanamo Bay prison, Mr. Cheney, in a break from his history of being press-shy, admitted to giving official sanctioning of torture.
“I supported it,” he said regarding the practice known as “water-boarding,” a form of simulated drowning. After World War II, Japanese soldiers were tried and convicted of war crimes in US courts for water-boarding, a practice which the outgoing Bush administration attempted to enshrine in policy.
“I was aware of the program, certainly, and involved in helping get the process cleared, as the agency in effect came in and wanted to know what they could and couldn’t do,” Cheney said. “And they talked to me, as well as others, to explain what they wanted to do. And I supported it.”
He added: “It’s been a remarkably successful effort, and I think the results speak for themselves.”
ABC asked him if in hindsight he thought the tactics went too far. “I don’t,” he said.
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Posted in Commentary, US President George W. Bush, tagged bush, Economy, failure, iraq, katrina on December 15, 2008| 1 Comment »
Man, you just have to admire the deep humanity of those “compassionate conservatives.” The moronic monkey is the perfect example of the “compassionate conservative” in action, as he devotes all of two words to answer a question about the hell he unleashed upon a people who had done nothing to him, or to any of us.
Tens of thousands of lives at least, and maybe hundreds of thousands of lives, were ended when Chimpy decided to one-up his daddy by going after Saddam. In the ensuing years, we’ve lost more of our own people there than Osama managed to take out on September 11. Our economy, in the meantime, has become a shambles, and a lot of THAT can also be traced back to the moronic monkey’s war of choice. Kabul in Afghanistan is well on the way to becoming a modern-day Dien Bien Phu, pirates rule the seas near the Arabian Peninsula, and starvation is a distinct reality for millions of people worldwide. ALL OF THIS can be traced right back to the moronic monkey’s Oedipal disaster.
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