So today Dick Cheney is going to continue his rounds of public speeches about torture, Guantanamo bay, and how he loves them both. It is seriously reminiscent of a bad joke, how this man think that torturing people and holding them illegally, forgoing every principal that this nation was founded upon while at the same time violating basic human rights makes us safer. He could not be more wrong on this subject, and it is very sanding to hear that his opnion polls have been on a slight rise since he started talking all this nonsence. This man is a truely corupt politition, who has stolen billions of dollars from the american public, the lives of countless service men and women of this country, and he deserves to be behind bars himself (allbeit not being waterboarded because that is still inhumane.... even for a man of his caliber) The truth of this situation was actually articulated very well by president Obama (something he seems to do very well but then often fail to follow that up with meaningful action) however it is at least refreshing to hear logical, and reason winning out over fear mongoring and tourture.
Presidents quote:
The record is clear: rather than keep us safer, the prison at Guantanamo has weakened American national security," he said during an address on national security at the National Archives in Washington.
"It is a rallying cry for our enemies. It sets back the willingness of our allies to work with us in fighting an enemy that operates in scores of countries. By any measure, the costs of keeping it open far exceed the complications involved in closing it."
He said that the facility resulted in the creation of more terrorists than it detained, and he said that over the last seven years, the system of military commissions at Guantanamo succeeded in convicting "a grand total of three suspected terrorists."
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