Vice President Cheney Should Resign
"How can it be that the person who is only a heartbeat away from the Presidency actually advocates the use of torture? Cheney reportedly would authorize any level of mistreatment “short of organ failure.” Under that definition, not even rape would be excluded.
The Abu Ghraib photographs of the mistreatment (read torture) of our prisoners served as recruiting posters for would be terrorists around the world. The Vice President has now made himself a poster child for torture. Cheney is making it clear that the United States has no compunctions about mistreating its detainees, the vast majority of whom are of the Islamic faith. The Vice President is thereby facilitating the Arab street’s believe that the United States is truly at war with Islam.
President Bush and Vice President Cheney could care less. They both believe that those who oppose the plan to exempt the CIA from strictures against torture are “aiding and abetting” the enemy. In effect, American citizens with a moral conscience are deemed to be traitors."
- posted by geoff @ #