Cheeney defiant: Emerging as 2012 candidate? Or as, uh, jailbird?
The radio
host's drowning torture video shows us graphically what we really got ourselves
into. Holy smokes!
And just one day after Cheeney's swaggering moment
defending, dismissing, and giving courage to some Republicans while momentarily
puffing himself up! Is he finally going
to get his old boss's job? At
approximately the same time as the drowning torture was being broadcast in
Chicago, Cheeney's daughter was on morning TV lecturing Lawrence O'Donnell that
it was no biggie and how her glowering Dad was a right peach. That
radio stunt ("Absolutely torture!") was bad timing for the resurgent Republican
juggernaut all around; talk about point-counterpoint!
Janis
Karpinski says don't listen to the malevolent curmudgeon - Abu Ghraib was no
series of stray incidents but linked right to the Cheney torture memos. That can probably be proven easily, by
looking at who trained the Abu Ghraib soldiers and where did the trainers get
their perspective (Karpinski says they were right there in the camp with her,
BTW). Cheeney's heroes, the CIA
contractors who inflicted his "good" drowning torture will do a lot of
finger-pointing if they are put in legal jeopardy, Karpinski adds. No wonder he wants them protected!
By poking a
sharp stick in the Dems' eyes, is Cheeney alienating people who'd normally be reluctant
see a Veep investigated/prosecuted? Could
this start unraveling for him? It sure was a cocky move demoting Karpinski, with those damning DoD memos floating around
If Cheney could round up a few wacked out generals he'd be doing "7 Days in May". The guy is power crazed.
May 23, 2009 10:21 AM | Reply | Permalink
I literally thought (this was years ago) that they would do this rather than put the country at risk by holding 2008 elections that could be influenced by people not sympathetic to the all-important party line.
I thus questioned whether they would peaceably tranfer power -- why take a chance on something like that. Glad I have been wrong to date.
May 23, 2009 10:29 AM | Reply | Permalink
No, what he's doing is reminding people that when Obama is finally starting to take responsibility for national security on his own watch, he's sticking with the "lawless" Bush policies.
In sharp contrast to every single one of his speeches.
May 23, 2009 12:55 PM | Reply | Permalink