If waterboarding works, why doesn't someone waterboard Cheney to force him de confess all the illegal activities he conducted as Vice-President ? Since it will be under torture, his confession will be reliable as Jerry being the cat in Tom & Jerry. I'm stunned to see Mister "Torture works" and his spawn going set TV to set TV to bash Obama's policies (note that some of them are similar to Bush's own policies).
Again, I'm against torturing people in all case, even today, if Hitler was alive, I would be against his torture. Because, torture makes us as barbarian as people we are fighting against.
Don't be fooled, Dick and Liz aren't fighting for the GOP nor for the Bush administration, they are fighting to keep Dick out of jail. Liz Cheney even, herself, admited on CNN Anderson Cooper 360 that her father's recent Media Tour was motivated by the fear to be prosecuted. Since Dubya is mum, I won't be surprised that he threw Cheney under the bus long time ago with the help of his Poppy.
According to Cheney, waterboarding people kept us safe, so I guess that when Bush stopped this practice in 2005, we were also less safe. But in his last TV showdown, he unintentionally admited that the Bush administration, under his leadership, didn't learn from the past attack and ignored the warning from the intelligence comminutiy.
That attack itself was, of course, the most devastating strike in a series of terrorist plots carried out against Americans at home and abroad. In 1993, terrorists bombed the World Trade Center, hoping to bring down the towers with a blast from below. The attacks continued in 1995, with the bombing of U.S. facilities in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; the killing of servicemen at Khobar Towers in 1996; the attack on our embassies in East Africa in 1998; the murder of American sailors on the USS Cole in 2000; and then the hijackings of 9/11, and all the grief and loss we suffered on that day.
I'm so tired of hearing the neocons screaming "Bush and Cheney kept us safe after 9/11", what about BEFORE 9/11 ? Clinton kept us safe after 1993 WTC attack in NYC as well. Not to mention the Clinton administration left a memo to then President Bush about an imminent attack from AQ with planes and airports. Soon enough, they will claim that 9/11 happened on Clinton's watch and Bush took the oath on 9/12.
On Thursday again, Dick Cheney lied again about the connection btw Saddam and AQ, btw the existence of WMD, and no one in the media called out.
Everyone expected a follow-on attack, and our job was to stop it. We didn't know what was coming next, but everything we did know in that autumn of 2001 looked bad. This was the world in which al-Qaeda was seeking nuclear technology, and A. Q. Khan was selling nuclear technology on the black market. We had the anthrax attack from an unknown source. We had the training camps of Afghanistan, and dictators like Saddam Hussein with known ties to Mideast terrorists.
He doesn't even have the remorse to have sent more than 4000 young men and woment to death by lying. We all know now that Iraq didn't have WMD, then again Dick Cheney only cares about him.