Comments on: Former Powell Aide Lawrence B. Wilkerson: “The Truth About Dick Cheney”

By: GoPiano

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By: truthammer

truthammer — Mon, 18 May 2009 11:01:22 +0000

Dick Cheney needs to be investigated for his role in giving permission to torture and war-profiteering from the wars we are fighting. He has lied to us along with Bush for the past eight years and they both need to stand before a judge !

By: jwest

jwest — Sat, 16 May 2009 15:31:47 +0000

What a sad, vacuous life liberals must lead if their definition of success is a high poll number, gleaned from a dim populous force fed half-truths by a sycophantic media.

Courage is doing what you know is right, even if it is not the popular thing at the moment.

Obama and Pelosi will take a firm stand (for the moment) as soon as they ascertain which way the wind is blowing.

By: D. E.Rodriguez

D. E.Rodriguez — Sat, 16 May 2009 14:15:18 +0000

From today's (May 16) NYT:

"My theory: Cheney isn’t simply going out in a blaze of vainglory. He felt the stiff winds of change and accountability blow across his coffin. It roused and enraged him. Now, he’s on a political suicide mission. And if his own party is collateral damage, so be it. He would rather break it than see it bend anyway.

Mission almost accomplished. According to an NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll released last month, Cheney’s positive rating has reached another low: a measly 18 percent.

His incessant ramblings are further weakening an already hobbled party as well. That’s bad for them and the country. We need a strong opposition party to ensure a healthy democracy. And while politics are cyclical, the Republicans are now in danger of flat-lining.

One-party rule doesn’t appeal to me. Lord Acton had it right: “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men.” Amen.

So, the Republicans need to dump this crotchety recalcitrant and develop a new vision that embraces moderation and inclusiveness, for all our sakes.

Look at it this way: Cheney’s positive rating is even lower than George W. Bush’s. And he shouldn’t speak for the Republicans either. "

By: D. E.Rodriguez

D. E.Rodriguez — Fri, 15 May 2009 22:53:44 +0000

“Likewise, what I have learned is that as the administration authorized harsh interrogation in April and May of 2002–well before the Justice Department had rendered any legal opinion–its principal priority for intelligence was not aimed at pre-empting another terrorist attack on the U.S. but discovering a smoking gun linking Iraq and al-Qa’ida”

Let's all try to conflate torture to get intelligence on potential terrorist attacks on the U.S., with torture to try to justify the invasion of another country…

By: RevDave

RevDave — Fri, 15 May 2009 13:51:42 +0000

We won't know until there is a full public investigation. The old argument that we can't let the terrorists know what we are doing is out the window as information comes out everyday.

By: jwest

jwest — Fri, 15 May 2009 13:35:42 +0000

Let’s all try to conflate prisoner abuse by a few National Guard troops at Abu Ghraib with enhanced interrogation techniques performed at Gitmo by the CIA.

Ya, that’s the ticket.

Perhaps one of us will be able to make something like that believable, because Larry Wilkerson sure doesn’t. If this is some secret contest the liberals are having, Nancy Pelosi is still in winning.

Is that toast I smell burning?

By: DaGoat

DaGoat — Fri, 15 May 2009 04:14:19 +0000

I read this earlier and frankly Wilkerson's repeated referral to Cheney as “Lord Sith” makes me question his credibility. Maybe he has a point but he comes across as sort of a kook, at least in reading his comments (I have not watched the video).

By: elrod

elrod — Fri, 15 May 2009 04:09:48 +0000

If it turns out that we tortured these suspects for the sole purpose of concocting a Saddam-Al Qaeda link then I believe it is time to prosecute Dick Cheney for war crimes. All along he has insisted that enhanced interrogation was necessary to protect the nation and prevent terrorist attacks.

The notion that torture was used to produce a false confession of an Iraq-Osama connection is almost too appalling to consider.