THE DARK HEART OF DICK CHENEY by Geyer, rate it up on yahoo

[roseBudd]

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THE DARK HEART OF DICK CHENEY

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The Washington Post titled its devastating editorial "Vice President for Torture." I would say that the deceptive man from sunny Wyoming has become the Marquis de Sade of America. Think about it -- he is insistent upon making torturers of many of our young soldiers -- your children.

In both the Afghan and the Iraq war, the U.S. has been involved -- as never before in ANY war -- with carefully conceived methods of torture -- "waterboarding" or simulated drowning, mock execution, beatings until death, the deliberate withholding of pain medication, the burning and desecration of enemy bodies, and every possible form of sexual perversion.

These acts were the direct outcome of the president's, Cheney's and Donald Rumsfeld's errant dismissal of the Geneva Accords, to which we are a signatory, of an international treaty against torture negotiated and ratified by the Reagan administration and, not least, of the Eighth Amendment to the Constitution, which forbids "cruel and unusual punishment."

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But now the grand inquisitor Cheney, who took five deferments in the Vietnam War rather than experience it for himself, wants more. Sen. John McCain (news, bio, voting record), who DOES know what war is all about, put forward an amendment to the $440 billion military spending bill banning the military and all government agencies from engaging in torture. Ninety senators voted for the new law, including 46 Republicans. So Cheney stepped in with a further amendment to the McCain amendment, which transfers torture to the CIA to use against the many foreign prisoners it is secretly holding abroad. These men have "disappeared," just like they do in the old banana republics and the gulags of the totalitarians

"America has lost its capacity for being indignant," Dr. Bassiouni summed up. "Where has our capacity for indignation gone? When a nation loses its respect for the Constitution and its treaties, what is next? And leaving even that aside, the next American serviceman who is being tortured -- and we can't go to his rescue -- will show us exactly what we have done."

[Greeby]

1. His heart is government issue

Wonder when they'll come demanding it back :evilgrin:

[ClintonTyree]

2. He has a heart?

I've seen no evidence of that but I'll take your word for it. :shrug:

Yes, this should be RATED UP! It's rare to see so much truth on a non-political web-site.

[meow2u3]

15. It's made of stone

and his doctor had some backups made out of asphalt to match his black soul :evilgrin:

[opihimoimoi]

3. PureEVIL, he has no HEART.....

[1620rock]

4. ...and no soul!

[opihimoimoi]

6. Pure Greed and Assinine Arrogance...."Go Fuck Yourself" in the Senate

Chambers no less.... he is not Human....

[I Have A Dream]

5. Thanks for posting this! Recommended. n/t

[Mojorabbit]

7. Chilling eom

[dand]

8. Brilliant!

Cheney is a Fascist bastard. Recommended.

[Nothing Without Hope]

9. This is an important article. Recommended.

Anybody got a link handy for the related Wash Post article?

[EuroObserver]

10. Link:

That would be here: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/25/AR2005102501388.html

(Also reproduced here: http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article10774.htm )

See also this DemocracyNow transcript: Lawyer Scott Horton: “Vice President Cheney is the Man Who Unleashed Torture and Promoted it Within Our Military and Our Intelligence Service”: http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/10/27/1451229

[Nothing Without Hope]

12. Thank you! Now I've got them safely bookmarked in my

"torture and kidmapping" file along with lots of files on prisoner abuse, extraordinary rendition, and the like. It's a subfile under "GOP Scandals and horrors," which makes all too much sense.

[bloom]

11. kick...

:kick:

[indepat]

13. That polls suggest 40% of Americans support this cabal and all this is

most telling of the mindset and values of a frightening number of people.

[WhiteTara]

14. I hope Fitzgerald nails him

and he goes out in chains. My heart is broken from the actions of our leaders.

[LibertyorDeath]

16. Done ...

[Ellen Forradalom]

17. Georgie Ann Geyer is no flaming lefty

She's as veteran a DC journalist as they get.

[annabanana]

18. kickety. . . . . . . n/t