Dick Cheney Defends the Torture of Innocents

[ksen]

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics...-cheney-defends-the-torture-innocents/383741/

Cheney is ok if 25% of the people tortured enhancedly interrogated were innocent.

That exchange leaves no room for mistaking former vice-president Cheney's position: better to chain a man to the wall of a cell, douse him in cold water, and leave him there to freeze to death, even if he later turns out to be innocent, than to release that same man and risk not that he detonates a nuclear bomb in Manhattan, but that he ends up "on the battlefield," where there's a chance he could harm Americans. What if fully one-in-four prisoners tortured by the CIA were innocent?

Cheney is still unmoved:

CHUCK TODD:

Is that too high? You're okay with that margin for error?

DICK CHENEY:

I have no problem as long as we achieve our objective.

When pressed for a definition of torture Cheney could only babble this:

DICK CHENEY:

--in my mind, I've told you what meets the definition of torture. It's what 19 guys armed with airline tickets and box cutters did to 3,000 Americans on 9/11.

So for Cheney the CIA can do anything short of what the 9/11 attackers did and not have committed torture.

Okaaaaaaaaay . . .

 

[Nice Squirrel]

Classic sociopath.

 

[marc]

Times like this I wish there was a Hell, so he can go there. Oh, but it's not 'Eternal Torment', it is 'Continuing, Enhanced Hot-tubing'.

 

[Loren Pechtel]

Torture Dick Chaney.

 

[Valjean]

Classic sociopath.

My sentiments exactly.
Reminds me of another famous evaluation of US foreign policy:

(TV show) 60 Minutes. May 12, '96.

Lesley Stahl on U.S. sanctions against Iraq: We have heard that a half million children have died. I mean, that's more children than died in Hiroshima. And, you know, is the price worth it?
Secretary of State Madeleine Albright: I think this is a very hard choice, but the price--we think the price is worth it.

 

[Valjean]

Torture Dick Chaney.

Now, now - Two wrongs don't make a right.
I'd recomment treating him for his affliction. Cryoablate his right amygdala.

 

[laughing dog]

I don't see how these responses of Cheyney's reveal anything new about his (lack of ) character.

 

[Valjean]

He's got plenty of character. What he lacks is a heart.

 

[Jason Harvestdancer]

Underseer's not going to appreciate you criticizing his favorite politician.

 

[untermensche]

In other news Bill Cosby says all these women are lying.