Cheney defends torture on Fox news »
Posted By tehranchik 8 months, 1 week ago in Political News
Cheney's interview at his home in McLean, Va., came just hours before President Obama traveled to nearby Langley, Va., to offer CIA employees his "full support" in their mission.
At the same time, the president defended his administration's decision to release documents that showed how the Department of Justice came to conclude certain methods of interrogation like waterboarding were harsh but legal.
"I acted primarily because of the exceptional circumstances that surrounded these memos," Obama said, adding that he has "fought to protect the integrity of classified information in the past and I will do so in the future."
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Endoscopy8 months, 1 week ago
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There is the liberal assumption that this technique is torture. Torture is defined in out laws as extreme pain or permanent physical damage. But liberals never want to think about the fact that these techniques were APPROVED by congress. There was only one who dissented when the techniques were told to them. My bet is McCain. The rest agreed or asked if harsher techniques should be considered. Your congressmen approved of it. But all liberals can rant about is the horrid Bush administration. Well now we can rant about the failures of the Obama administration. Releasing these documents was very foolish. Our enemies use the armed forces manual to train against and now the release of these papers gives them more to train against, And I thought that Obama was supposed to be smart.
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Of course the liberals would prefer to have had the disaster that was being planed for LA take place instead of getting that from these three people who were waterboarded. They ignore what the opposition does. Behead people they take in fron of cameras. Their heroes. -
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UnusualSuspect8 months, 1 week ago
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It's always been interesting to me that the US steadfastly say it doesn't support torture, and doesn't use torture as a means of getting information. We maintain we always take the high road in that regard, citing the Geneva Convention.
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But we've always blamed our enemies for using torture.
Who's telling the truth here?
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william-sire8 months, 1 week ago
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Thank GOD for George Bush and Dick Cheney. Had Obama been president at the time he would have been sitting down having tea with the terrorist while his buddies were killing more Americans, not on the battlefield, but in their homes, at wok, while shopping and killing children in school.
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Gransater8 months, 1 week ago
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If you truly believe that, and you are an adult, you need specialised help from the guys in white coats.
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If you deep down know that that statement is nothing but pure unadulterated fantasy, and you are an adult, you are in dire need of help from the guys in white coats. -
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djn3nunez38 months, 1 week ago
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Thank GOD for George Bush and Dick Cheney. Had Obama been president at the time he would have been sitting down having tea with the terrorist
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On the contrary, had President Obama been in office at the time of the WTC attacks my thoughts are he would have pursued those groups involved rather than morph the effort into the strategicaly blunderous invasion and occupation of Iraq.
But hey there are still some nut-jobs out there that think our President is a secret Muslim. Hahahahaha. -
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antibrainwasher8 months, 1 week ago
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Cheney is just trying to prevent his prosecution for the mass murder of 5000 american and half a million Iraqis for nothing but Haliburton and Big Oil profits, and to benifit Israel.
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Cheney is a draft dodging coward, and a murdering lying psychopath who believes in nothing but greed, and making the rich richer. That being said, it makes him the perfect Republican, since making the rich richer and destroying everything else, breaking every law, politicizing justice, for the benifit of the rich is the only principle repugs have.
It's no suprise that Goebbels InHanity was the only brown shirt loyalist for the rich that Cheney would be interviewed by, after he gave this coward pretend journalist a list of questions he would answer.
No, Cheney doesn't give a crap about breaking the law, he was trying by this torture he ordered to prove a link bewteen Alkaida and Iraq, which didn't happen.
This BS about good information coming from torturing some murdering Arab is just that, BS. There was no Iraq - Alkida link, and therefore, Cheney murdered 5000 american soldiers for a neocon lie. Cheney and his lockstepping brown shirt supporters are traitors and torturing murders promoting the agenda of the military intustrial war profiteers. -
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Dionys8 months, 1 week ago
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/01/15/holder-wa...
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"Asked just minutes into his confirmation hearings whether waterboarding qualified as torture, Holder was unequivocal in his response.
"If you look at the history of the use of that technique used by the Khmer Rouge, used in the inquisition, used by the Japanese and prosecuted by us as war crimes, we prosecuted our own soldiers in Vietnam, I agree with you, Mr. Chairman, waterboarding is torture," said the former deputy Attorney General."
Seems to me if we prosecuted others for warcrimes saying waterboarding is torture that if we now claim it's not simply because we do it, that's hypocracy.
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