Comments on: Cheney Defends U.S. Use Of Waterboarding

But CIA Chief Says Legality Of Controversial Interrogation Technique Is Now Doubtful

[ubrew12]

Cheney seems in a world of hurt since Larry Craig got arrested. I wonder if they were, you know, kissin'' cousins...

[notbuynit]

Nevermind, he probably does not breath air anyway.

[notbuynit]

Lets water board HIM and let him sink.

[Krazcarl]

MOREGUNZ.... Your wromg I''ve been reading gunownerdans post for several months he''s seams cool and level headed and wants a GUN for personal protection of him and his family I see 0 harm in that not only because I believe it''s his right but I also believe he would help out any of us in a bad situation there are times I wish a man like gunownerdan had been around. Read his post get to know a little about him he''s cool just wants to be able to protect himself his family and friends. There was a time that I WISH gunownerdan was there I was shot in the chest and a lady was shot in the head and shoulder if Dan was there he would of offered protection as you would not. Think before you speak and the world won''t know your stupid.

[Krazcarl]

You kmow the good thing about this everyone knows he''s a sack of manure even the folks he''s making a buck off of. He''s dispicable hunan and thinks he''s cute, lucifer has a place for that coward 5 deferments how does he hold his head up in public he should be dragged away in chains he has enbarrassed everything this country has stood for I''ll volentear for the firing squad and feel no guilt he gave us ALL a black eye. Thinks his money and connectios make him better than common folk he should be destoyed for what him and shrub have done to this country,,,,

[iceman_1960]

"Iceman-1960,.....The Secret Service will not allow it. He is the Vice President. Good rule."
- Posted by cfin5 at 08:29 PM : Feb 09, 2008

I agree with you.

No matter how much we dislike our politicians, democracy requires an orderly society.

Japan marched to ruin in the 1930s with political violence.

[moregunz]

"Cheney joined 55 senators and 250 House members in asking the court to find that the Second Amendment protects an individual''s right to possess firearms"

... and despite this overwhelming support for their "gun rights", the paranoid gun nuts (gunownerdan, et. al.) are STILL worried that the big bad government is going to take all their little steel phalluses away from them, any day now!

It''s my constitutional right! I''ve gotta have guns! I need to kill somebody! I''ve got rights! I''ve got to be safe! Mo'' guns! Mo'' guns! Mo'' guns! Mo'' guns! Mo'' guns! Mo'' guns! Mo'' guns!

blah.. blah... blah....

[fairandbal]

"Keep ''''em on the waterboard subject!!"
BIG UNPREDICTABLE CONCEPT, RIGHT?
Waterboarding is not cool-- it should be one of many things (like in the Geneva Convention) that we have the good sense and class not to use like a garnish on our fellow human beings.
Cheny and his ilk are pretending this is a "new" arguement.
It was already solved in the Geneva Convention.

Posted by goldesprit at 07:21 PM : Feb 09, 2008


You are correct. there''s also a simple answer to Cheney putting this issue out there. He belongs in jail tried for war crimes. Should only take 10 minutes, there is precedence in other situation where waterboarding was used, those who used it were brought up on war crime charges. So, it really shouldn''t take much time or effort to discuss this.

[cfin5]

Iceman-1960,.....The Secret Service will not allow it. He is the Vice President. Good rule.

[iceman_1960]

"Cheney joined 55 senators and 250 House members in asking the court to find that the Second Amendment protects an individual"s right to possess firearms"
- Posted by cfin5 at 07:31 PM : Feb 09, 2008

I bet D*ick Cheney does not allow any strangers to possess firearms in his immediate presence.

They might use them.

[edtroha1]

This is laughable. Answer me this? How does a guy who, along with King George, Condi, and Rummy, lied 900 times to justify attacking Iraq, have any credibility? Why hasn''t the chickenhawk been held accountable?

[cfin5]

February 09, 2008
Cheney breaks with Bush on 2nd Amendment
Clarice Feldman
Acting in his role of President of the United States Senate, not as Vice President, *** Cheney his signed an amicus brief from Congress urging the Supreme Court to strike down Washington, DC''s firearms ban as an unconstitutional breach of the Second Amendment. Robert Barnes reports in the Washington Post:

Cheney joined 55 senators and 250 House members in asking the court to find that the Second Amendment protects an individual''s right to possess firearms and to uphold a lower court''s ruling that the D.C. ban violates that right. That position is at odds with the one put forward by the administration, which angered gun rights advocates when it suggested that the justices return the case to lower courts for further review. [....]


Lawyers said it may be unprecedented for a vice president to take a position in a case before the high court that is at odds with one the Justice Department puts forward as the administration''s official position.********THANK YOU MR. VICE PRESIDENT!!!******

[iceman_1960]

If the terrorists managed to capture D*ick Cheney, I wonder how long he"d hold out under torture before he was appearing in their propaganda videos denouncing America...

5 seconds, or only 3 ?

[goldesprit]

Here is why Cheny likes waterboarding. THEY WANT US TO ARGUE ABOUT WATER. KEEP YOUR EYE ON THE BALL.
Waterboarding is INEXPENSIVE, and sometimes they get information.
The other dirty little thing to remember is that if the UNITED STATES wants information from an individual-- we absolutely positively, without any doubt, have the technology to cause an individual in captivity, over time, to fall in deepest love with the idea of telling whatever that person was ever privy to, they''ll even be thrilled and happy about it forever and evermore, and that is well known, it just costs more money.
So...its a Republican thing about money (again!), dumbing down the masses on this subject, and controll.
"Keep ''em on the waterboard subject!!"
BIG UNPREDICTABLE CONCEPT, RIGHT?
Waterboarding is not cool-- it should be one of many things (like in the Geneva Convention) that we have the good sense and class not to use like a garnish on our fellow human beings.
Cheny and his ilk are pretending this is a "new" arguement.
It was already solved in the Geneva Convention.

[iceman_1960]

"For the record, VP Cheney, is a five time draft dodger. That said, he might exhibit a bit of class by not commenting about this subject or any military matter, period!"
- Posted by edtroha1 at 07:13 PM : Feb 09, 2008

His wife, Lynne Cheney, gave birth to their first child exactly nine months after the Selective Service made childless husbands eligible to be drafted into the Vietnam War.

That"s true.

Perhaps he was afraid that the Vietcong wouldn"t greet him as a liberator.

In any event, Lynne Cheney should get a purple heart for taking that bullet for him.

Is that funny, or what ?

[cdfoxtrot]

Shouldn''t the headline be "Cheney Defends US Use of Torture"?

[edtroha1]

For the record, VP Cheney, is a five time draft dodger. That said, he might exhibit a bit of class by not commenting about this subject or any military matter, period!

[iceman_1960]

RE: "Benjamin Franklin had cowardly punks like D*ick Cheney in mind when he said that those who trade liberty for freedom deserve neither liberty nor freedom."

I sc*rewed that quote up royally. I"m surprised speakinup didn"t call me on that one.

Trading liberty for freedom ? Where, on the Synonym Stock Exchange ?

Make that:

"Benjamin Franklin had cowardly punks like D*ick Cheney in mind when he said that those who trade liberty for SAFETY deserve neither liberty nor SAFETY."

[iceman_1960]

"I long for the day I can tell Cheney this to his face."
- Posted by Iceman_1960 at 07:01 PM : Feb 09, 2008

That was not meant as a threat against our wonderful VEEP, although blunt talk to his face might trigger a massive coronary before the Secret Service could tackle me to the ground.

D*ick Cheney, coward and murderer, only speaks to ultra-friendly audiences.

He should be tried in a court of law, and imprisoned in a predominantly minority prison. That would be justice.

[iceman_1960]

"Yeah - trust iceman - he was there!"
- Posted by speakinup at 07:02 PM : Feb 09, 2008

Cheney definitely wasn"t there.