Cheney: "Mistake" For GOP To "Moderate," Glad That Detainees Were Waterboarded

[CatWoman]

Former Vice President Dick Cheney defended the Bush administration's use of waterboarding on Thursday, saying that, contrary to arguments made by Barack Obama, the techniques were a necessary last-resort measure to get information from detainees.

"I don't believe that's true," Cheney said, when asked to respond to Obama's statement that interrogators may not have needed to resort to torture. "That assumes that we didn't try other ways, and in fact we did. We resorted, for example, to waterboarding, which is the source of much of the controversy, with only three individuals. In those cases, it was only after we'd gone through all the other steps of the process. The way the whole program was set up was very careful, to use other methods and only to resort to the enhanced techniques in those special circumstances."

The remarks, delivered during an interview with Scott Hennen, a conservative North Dakota radio host, glossed over the 266 instances in which the United States reportedly used waterboarding on two terrorist suspects -- a figure that would suggest the technique was either not effective or not really used as a last-resort option.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/05/07/cheney-mistake-for-gop-to_n_199330.html

[tridim]

1. Nobody lies more than The Dick

He knows he's guilty. :evilgrin:

[Xipe Totec]

2. Last resort...

last resort n. : The last possible course of action open to a person.

By definition, a last resort is something you do once, and only once.

You can't waterboard somebody 87 times as a last resort.

[mix]

3. a cancer on the republic n/t

[opihimoimoi]

4. Yup....of the Malignant kind.....he should run 200 yards with President Obama...soon..

[Canuckistanian]

5. He's GLOATING, the sociopathic bastard

He KNOWS he's going to get away with it and he's rubbing it in everyone's faces.

:grr:

[Orsino]

9. "Fuck you, Democratic 'leaders'. Come and get me."

He's neutering the Obama Administration on this issue.

[TheCowsCameHome]

6. It's a wonder his pacemaker doesn't corrode from all his venom

I can only wish..........

[Vinnie From Indy]

7. Cheney is a demented piece of shit

He deserves every bit of scorn and ridicule that is directed his way,

[Arugula Latte]

8. I used to think Cheney was just evil, but now I'm leaning towards evil/insane.

Seriously, I think this guy has something wrong with his brain.

[Peacetrain]

10. The face of the republican party.. pretty evil if you ask me