The results speak for themselves
by digby
Following up on my earlier post about torture, I think it’s probably worthwhile to mention in passing that one of our little problems with that pesky thing is this:
Former Vice President Dick Cheney refuted accusations that he is a war criminal during his speech to students and members of the AU community in Bender Arena on March 28. The Kennedy Political Union hosted Cheney as part of a stream of speakers coming to campus.
“The accusations are not true,” Cheney said.
During his vice presidency, three people were waterboarded, Cheney said. Waterboarding refers to either pumping a stomach with water or inducing choking by filling a throat with a stream of water, according to a report by NPR.
“Some people called it torture. It wasn’t torture,” Cheney said in an interview with ATV.
Students protested the event due to the accusations of war criminality against Cheney, The Eagle previously reported.
According to Cheney, the enhanced interrogation tactics used do not fall under the scope of the 1949 United Nations Geneva Convention, which outlaws cruel, inhuman or any degrading treatment or punishment because the Geneva Convention does not apply to unlawful combatants.
It wasn’t torture. And that’s that. In fact, the whole sick scheme was a big success and he’s proud of it:
“If I would have to do it all over again, I would,” Cheney said. “The results speak for themselves.”
Indeed they do. Whatever tattered remains still existed of America’s reputation for decency and enlightenment were dissolved when that man did what he did. I honestly don’t know how normal people can stand to even be in his presence.
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