I appreciate Sen. Diane Feinstein (D-CA) for being courageous enough to stand up for America against those who would destroy America’s reputation by torturing prisoners.
Former Vice President Dick Cheney has got a lot of nerve going on news stations defending his part in approving methods of torture. As far as I am concerned, he is an evil little man who should have never been allowed to assign himself to the office of the vice presidency of this nation, which is exactly what he did. He has helped bring a scourge on this country that will take eons to live down.
As expected, the political party that claims the moral high ground has shown itself to be the party of no moral values. Instead of placing the blame where it should be, on Dick Cheney and other Bush administration cohorts, and demanding punishment for those who would escape justice because of their one-time high positions in our government, they attack the very person who was willing to stand up and call out the atrocities that took place behind our backs by the CIA, Diane Feinstein.
I am proud of Sen. Feinstein for not bending to political pressure to drop the investigation and then the revelations concerning torture, approved by and ordered by members of the Bush administration, especially Dick Cheney. Some of those from the right would like to point fingers at her for doing what she was doing when she should instead be commended.
Americans have a right to know what our government is doing and has done, especially when it is as damaging as the so-called “Enhanced Interrogation Techniques”, which amounted to nothing but torture. Just because you put a nice name to something, does not change what it really is.
Personally, I have never been so ashamed of our nation, and yes, I have been ashamed before, such as when we went bull rushing into Iraq, because of false claims of weapons of mass destruction. The last administration, including former President George W. Bush, his evil sidekick Dick Cheney, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, and all the other little henchman of that administration, did nothing but lie to us, time and time again, just to have their little war against the regime of Saddam Hussein. Now look what Iraq looks like; does it in any way look like the free and democratic country the Bush administration said it would be?
This evil little man – Dick Cheney – should know better than to show his face in public, let alone showing up on news shows, telling his sick and demented version of what he thinks torture is and is not. We need to have protest in the streets demanding his arrest and extradition to The Hague, so that the world can see that America does not hold ourselves to a lower standard that what we have demanded from the rest of the world.
How can we sit by and allow those very leaders to go free whom ordered torture done in the name of our nation, when we have executed war criminals of other nations in the past, for doing that very same thing to our troops? It is despicable! If we stand by and do nothing, then we are no longer an exceptional country, just full of false pride in a nation that has fallen far from its righteous past.
If we are to pick ourselves up from the deep muck and the deceptive belief that somehow the torture done in our name was justified, we must start with doing the very same thing that we once demanded of other nations. We can only do that by turning over our war criminals, and the first one that should be turned over is Dick Cheney, then work our way down from there. Who else in the Bush administration gave the okay to torture human beings, even innocent people who never was guilty of a crime, and even died because of that torture?
If we are to be a great nation in the eyes of the world, and if we want the world to follow our example, then we must rise above the actions of our enemies, even if that means it endangers our national security. There are some things more important than our security and safety. Men and women have died for this country, and not only for our security, but for what we stand for, and torture, no matter what some lawyers in the Justice Department called it, is not part of what we stand for.
One message I have for Dick Cheney is that as far as I am concerned, you no longer belong to this country anymore because you marred its name with your evil and sadistic tactics done in the name of national security, which by the way, served no real purpose but to lower our moral standings in the world. I for one demand your arrest. I doubt that I will see that actually happen because when it comes to powerful and corrupt people like you, the only real punishment we can count on for you is when you finally stand before God and give an account for the evil you have done. I wonder then, if you will again say to the ultimate judge of your heart, “I would do it again in a minute”.
This is a republish from my website: Fidlerten Place