Jon Stewart on Monday night parsed Dick Cheney’s “Meet the Press” appearance to determine whether the former vice president was either a “righteous warrior or a psychopath.”
Cheney had told “Meet The Press” host Chuck Todd that he considers the 9/11 attacks, not waterboarding, to be torture.
“Dick Cheney, setting this nation’s moral bar at anything incrementally better than the most despicable thing that’s even been done to us,” Stewart said.
And the more Todd pressed Cheney to pin down a definition of torture, the more the former vice president invoked the details of the 9/11 attacks.
“I see, that’s just what meets the definition of torture in his mind,” Stewart said. “His mind, I assume, being the scariest f**king place in the universe.”
“George W. Bush, thank you for not dying in office,” Stewart concluded.
Watch below via Comedy Central:
Cheney’s mask of evil diverts attention from his devastating failure as a guardian of US interests on the world stage. You’d think that this, in its obviousness, would have resonance across the political spectrum. Let us learn from the fact that it doesn’t.
For me the whole argument about torture always overlooks the question whether 9/11 would have even happened if The Bush Administration was not singularly obsessed with invading Iraq to the neglect of every other national security issue.
People like Richard Clark, who worked for the NSA where trying to warn them about Al Qaeda, but where ignored. He eventually got fired because he would not keep quite about it. It turned out he was right.
The Bush administration was never, ever really focused on national security. Those people were solely and only interested in enriching themselves and abusing power–the power of office and the power to kill, maim and torture. Those were meat and drink to the Bushies.
Now I wonder what THE DICK would say if terrorists kidnapped his daughter and tortured her the same way THE DICK tortured innocent people?
By proxy making Lynne Cheney’s womb a portico extension of the Ninth Circle Of Hell (Treachery).
Which explains Liz.
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