Cheney Camp Rejoices That Majority Wants To Torture Bombing Suspect

[babylonsister]

Sick bastids, all of them.

http://theplumline.whorunsgov.com/torture/cheney-camp-rejoices-that-majority-wants-to-torture-bombing-suspect/

Cheney Camp Rejoices That Majority Wants To Torture Bombing Suspect


Michael Goldfarb, presumably speaking for the Cheney camp, is really, really psyched about a new Rasmussen poll finding that a majority wants to torture the plane bombing suspect.

Goldfarb notes that it’s “startling” that just 30 percent oppose using “enhanced interrogation techniques” on the suspect, adding that “among those 30 percent is the President of the United States.” He also points to the fact that minorities view this as a law enforcement problem, and exults:

This isn’t even an argument anymore, the Cheney view is now the dominant view among the American public.

The fact that the Cheney camp is grabbing onto this one poll as vindication says more about the degree to which Cheney has lost the overall national security argument than it does about anything else.

After all, if memory serves, Obama won the election decisively after promising a reversal of the Bush-Cheney approach to national security (though the economy did trump all in the end). Since then, majorities have continued to endorse Obama’s overall handling of foreign policy. Majorities continue to approve of Obama’s performance as commander in chief.

Majorities said Obama didn’t take too long to reach a decision on Afghanistan, even though Cheney was quoted far and wide deriding him for “dithering.” Majorities back his Afghan “surge” and his drawdown in Iraq. And while chunks of the public sometimes support torture under certain circumstances, majorities continue to support key tenets of Obama’s foreign policy approach that Cheney and his family have attacked for months, such as the continued engagement of hostile foreign leaders.

But hey, a majority supports the waterboarding of this particular suspect in a Rasmussen poll taken with the news of the thwarted attack fresh in everyone’s minds. So Cheney’s “views” are now mainstream! Yeah, okay. Merry Christmas, Dick.

[jtrockville]

1. These people are SICK.

If torture can be justified, ANYTHING can be justified. I guess that's how evil works, eh?

[notadmblnd]

2. the majority of what? fundy nutbags?

[timeforpeace]

3. This is why trying KSM in NYC isn't going to produce the desired anti-torture sentiments.

[sabrina 1]

4. Cheney is frightened that some day he will be held accountable

for his torture crimes. That's why he needs Americans to help him justify what he did.

Maybe he's watching what is happening in S.America to those who also goat away with torture and other war crimes and finally are being brought to justice.

This is the price a country pays when it refuses to apply the law to criminals like Cheney. They come back to bite you and the population gets the idea that there is nothing wrong with war crimes so long as it is their government doing it.

But when a country enforces its laws, it reminds the population of what is and is not acceptable. There is simply no reason for Americans NOT to condone torture and war crimes, as this country never holds its war criminals accountable.