The bizarre irony of Cheney's "Torture Tour." He clearly needs to be tortured.

[Atman]

He is, on one hand, saying that we HAD TO torture, because the people we were illegally torturing had valuable information about impending attacks on America.

Then, in the next breath, he claims to have valuable information about impending attacks on America. Attacks the details of which he won't disclose to the Obama administration, yet feels free to discuss on any bullshit talk show willing to give him a warm seat.

What's wrong with this picture?

Does Cheney know something about an impending attack? And he's not talking to the government about it?! Instead he's out on a "Drum Up The Fear" tour. He is either a prime candidate for the very torture he advocates, or he's a traitorous, lying, anti-American war profiteer who is BETTING that the attacks about which he claims to know will happen before the Obama administration discovers what he -- oops, I mean THEY -- are up to.

Either way...sounds like pure criminality to me. I don't understand why this man is still free to walk the streets. I really, really don't.

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[doc03]

1. I believe the Republicons put him out as

a point man, in the event there is a terrorist attack they will all claim Cheney was right. Dick Cheney is very unpopular anyway so he has nothing to loose, if they win the gamble they will use that for the next election.

[malaise]

2. Whitehouse was excellent earlier

he said he's behaving like a defendant who is all over the media trying to influence the jurors.

[Cha]

4. Thanks for that news, malaise.

That's exactly what it's like and he's "embolding the enemy".

[malaise]

6. You can find the clip at Ed Shultz' website

later this evening. It was very good.

[Cha]

7. Thanks! n/t

[spanone]

9. sen. sheldon whitehouse is holding hearings tomorrow on the torture memos

[Creena]

5. Indeed.

Do you remember Col. Lawrence Wilkerson on Rachel Maddow commenting that Cheney is a man who frightens easily? His blabbering reeks of somebody who is scared of potentially being tried for war crimes. He's trying to rewrite or soften history to look kindly upon him and those who approved torture. While it may work with the average Faux News viewer, I can't imagine it doing a thing for the average, informed American.

[Cha]

3. What's up with his embolding the enemy?

It's like he's begging for it.

[Atman]

8. "Bring it on!"

It only helps Cheney. No one else. Just Cheney. And that's all Cheney cares about...his prison sentence and his place in history.

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