Cheney's camp says the United States does not torture captives, but believes the president needs nearly unfettered power to deal with terrorists to protect Americans. To preserve the president's flexibility, any measure that might impose constraints should be resisted. That is why the administration has recoiled from embracing the language of treaties such as the U.N. Convention Against Torture, which Cheney's aides find vague and open-ended.Did you catch the incredible contradiction in Cheney's thinking? On the one hand, he finds the UN treaty against torture "vague and open-ended" while simultaneously wanting to give the president "nearly unfettered power to deal with terrorists," which is also vague and open-ended. What the fuck?
Of course, you can't expect the WaPo to point out the hypocrisy that is so obvious within a single paragraph, because I'm sure that it will be readily apparent to all those news screaming heads on MSNBC, CNN, ABC, NBC, CBS, and--of course--FOX. Since that's where America gets its debating points, I'm sure they'll be fully informed of this dark, bloody stain on our national reputation abroad.
Dick Cheney is a fascist and a criminal. My God, I hope we have our own version of the Nuremburg trials. Who wants to pull the lever that makes this crooked motherfucker's neck snap? We'll have to have a lottery for that privilege.
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Um, how much for one of them lottery tickets?
Um, once again I must play the cynical foil to your cockeyd optimism. War criminals only seem to go on trial if they have the bad luck to be on the side which loses the war. Thinking back, I don't seem to remember many from the Roosevelt, Truman, Churchill, Stalin, or DeGaulle administrations in the dock at Nuremberg. Much as I'd like to believe such a thing could be possible today, you'll have to show me the historical parallels I'm overlooking, or a new mechanism that leads in that direction.
But which side do you think is winning the war if the public turns on the Chimpettes and votes in a Democratic Senate and House next year? I think the knives will be out and there will be impeachment hearings, more indictments, a signature on the International War Crimes Court treaty, and some unprecedented prosecutions of officials in the administration. They made a massive power grab which is failing, and as they say, if you intend to kill the king, you'd damn well better kill him. They are going to reap the bitterest harvest imaginable because they are losing their war on the American people.
God, I HOPE you're right!
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