Who is Dick Chaney?
Its embarrassing for people to keep referring to this as torture.
Ahh yes, Cheney*. Thanks.
I'd hate to smear the name of a guy named Dick Chaney who was not the sociopath Cheney is.
Dick Cheney gave an unflinching defense of the CIA's pos-9/11 torture program on "Meet the Press on Sunday, dismissing criticisms of the program's forced rectal feedings, waterboarding and deaths.
"It worked. It absolutely did work," said Cheney, a driving force behind the George W.Bush administrations use of harsh tactics in response to the 9/11 attacks.
Read the article here: Dick Cheney Would Torture Again
Mr Cheney is certainly entitled to his opinion, but a lot of people on this planet, including me, don't agree and would like to see him put on trial for war crimes.
What do you guys think? Will he ever be VP again?
speaking of goose and gander...what sentence did Emperor Hirohito or his executive staff receive?
nevermind, it's a trick question.... they weren't even prosecuted, let alone convicted......( the very people you want to see prosecuted are the ones that won't be)
may I ask why you seem to support the application of Ex Post Facto law which resulting in the execution and imprisonments of thousands?
Think about this for a minute, our tax dollars are helping keep this man alive so he can stir the pot some more. What he might say could piss off people in other countries. He's a fairly dangerous person.
Its embarrassing for people to keep referring to this as torture.
You make an excellent point. It would not surprise me in the least to find that Chickenhawk Dick, "I had other priorities", Cheney's cowboy comments cause more international animosity toward the US than the torture revelations themselves.
This fetish with Cheney is amazing. :lol:
speaking of goose and gander...what sentence did Emperor Hirohito or his executive staff receive?
nevermind, it's a trick question.... they weren't even prosecuted, let alone convicted......( the very people you want to see prosecuted are the ones that won't be)
may I ask why you seem to support the application of Ex Post Facto law which resulting in the execution and imprisonments of thousands?
Dick Cheney gave an unflinching defense of the CIA's pos-9/11 torture program on "Meet the Press on Sunday, dismissing criticisms of the program's forced rectal feedings, waterboarding and deaths.
"It worked. It absolutely did work," said Cheney, a driving force behind the George W.Bush administrations use of harsh tactics in response to the 9/11 attacks.
Read the article here: Dick Cheney Would Torture Again
Mr Cheney is certainly entitled to his opinion, but a lot of people on this planet, including me, don't agree and would like to see him put on trial for war crimes.
What do you guys think? Will he ever be VP again?
What do you guys think? Will he ever be VP again?
You make an excellent point. It would not surprise me in the least to find that Chickenhawk Dick, "I had other priorities", Cheney's cowboy comments cause more international animosity toward the US than the torture revelations themselves.
The best part about Cheney is that every living liberal quivers in their boots at the mere thought of him. And with his new ticker, he's scarier than ever. :lamo
This fetish with Cheney is amazing. :lol:
No, it is not a fact at all. No Japanese were hanged because of water-boarding. It's interesting to see how this BS is spread around the internet though.The USA hanged Japanese soldiers after WWII because they waterboarded American POWs. That's a fact.
And you're complaining about torturing terrorists? Why don't leftists call this for what it is?My response to his interview? This loser got a heart transplant - denying a potentially decent person the chance to life so this a**hole can live a few more pathetic years? I say yank it out of his chest and give it to someone truly deserving (a la Monty Python The Meaning of Life) - if he hasn't ruined it yet.
Leftists don't even appear ashamed of their ignorance. In fact they don't even know how ignorant they are. It's astounding!!:lol:This fetish with Cheney is amazing. :lol:
No, it is not a fact at all. No Japanese were hanged because of water-boarding. It's interesting to see how this BS is spread around the internet though.
History supports McCain's stance on waterboarding
By John Frank on Tuesday, December 18th, 2007 at 12:00 a.m.
The morning after the CNN/YouTube debate in St. Petersburg, John McCain remained firm in his stand against the use of an interrogation technique called "waterboarding." He cited solid history to buttress his position.
"I forgot to mention last night that following World War II war crime trials were convened. The Japanese were tried and convicted and hung for war crimes committed against American POWs. Among those charges for which they were convicted was waterboarding," he told reporters at a campaign event.
"If the United States is in another conflict ... and we have allowed that kind of torture to be inflicted upon people we hold captive, then there is nothing to prevent that enemy from also torturing American prisoners."
McCain is referencing the Tokyo Trials, officially known as the International Military Tribunal for the Far East. After World War II, an international coalition convened to prosecute Japanese soldiers charged with torture. At the top of the list of techniques was water-based interrogation, known variously then as "water cure," "water torture" and "waterboarding," according to the charging documents. It simulates drowning.
R. John Pritchard, a historian and lawyer who is a top scholar on the trials, said the Japanese felt the ends justified the means. "The rapid and effective collection of intelligence then, as now, was seen as vital to a successful struggle, and in addition, those who were engaged in torture often felt that whatever pain and anguish was suffered by the victims of torture was nothing less than the just deserts of the victims or people close to them," he said.
In a recent journal essay, Judge Evan Wallach, a member of the U.S. Court of International Trade and an adjunct professor in the law of war, writes that the testimony from American soldiers about this form of torture was gruesome and convincing. A number of the Japanese soldiers convicted by American judges were hanged, while others received lengthy prison sentences or time in labor camps.
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So is the one the right wing stirs on Mrs. Clinton, I'll just bet conservatives get tingles up their legs talking about her, well, that, and Obama's golf outings.
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