gcadams wrote:
Sep 2nd 2011 12:34 GMT
Lexington's use of the word "controversial" for Bu--sh-- administration policies is muddle-headed journalism. Waterboarding, for example, had been clearly a war crime since the Japanese did it in WWII. Getting a captive shyster to say it is not torture, does not remove its stigma. Many of these policies were simply illegal (wiretapping of citizens without FISA authorization, e.g.).
After dodging the draft for Vietnam (4 deferments + 1 baby conceived to order), Cheney insisted on a war that was abysmally managed by the civilians under his control. Cheney had been CEO of Halliburton before he and Rumsfeld let billions of dollars flow their way in Iraq. If Cheney himself didn't profit, his buddies did, at the cost of tax money and the lives of many soldiers.
Much to the discredit, but unfortunately not to his own feeling of shame (if any), of Antonin Scalia, he went duckhunting with Cheney while a case involving him was before the Supreme Court. If only he had shot him, as he did another lawyer pal a few years later on another "hunting" vacation.
Criminals who are caught red-handed often maintain their innocence, even after they are convicted. That does not make their crimes "controversial".
If there's not a hell, God will have to create one when Cheney dies.
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