cheney can suck it

Can you believe the cahones on this guy? Under the administration he served (or ran) the US suffered its first attack on domestic soil since Pearl Harbor, two wars that have still not been won or achieved their most basic objectives, income discrepancy between Americans became astronomical, and the economy was gutted to the point of near collapse. And still he criticizes Obama for reversing the torture memos.

This, coming from the guy who directly authorized this: “I was taken out of my cell and one of the interrogators wrapped a towel around my neck; they then used it to swing me around and smash me repeatedly against the hard walls of the room.”

As Mark Danner elucidates in an excellent New York Times Op-Ed drawn from first person accounts of the CIA black sites (Thailand? Poland? Almost the most remarkable thing is that these guys could be taken prisoner and then taken to places anywhere in the world...) the upshot of torturing perpetrators of crimes is that any real trial or persecution is rendered moot, because they have been tortured, let alone the damage done to the United States' image as a world leader. What educated and liberal... Pakistani person, say, could unequivocally support the US after it came out that we abduct anyone in the world on hearsay, then torture them, then lie about it?