The Unrepentant Politician

Stephanopoulos this morning commented that our Vice President Cheney was "unrepentant" about water boarding Khalid Sheikh Mohammad and the Iraq invasion. You're darned right he's unrepentant about liberating twenty-five million Iraqis and removing a tyrant in a league with Pal Pot and just a gradient less dangerous than Stalin but who had already attacked Iran, conquered however briefly Kuwait, and gassed the Kurds. This Saddam was commissioning suicide terror against Israel, harboring terrorists who had murdered an American on the Achille Lauro, and his minions were firing ground to air missiles (SAMS) at US planes in the no fly zones. Not to mention that Hussein had slaughtered the Shia swamp Arabs and was posturing that he was still developing WMD as a hedge against Iran. Any of these casus belli would have been adequate justification to remove Saddam Hussein. On the torture of enemy combatant front, Cheney has to be commended as there has been no major terrorist attack carried out on US soil since 9/11 due to the information garnered by these techniques. I don't recall Stephanopoulos being concerned if perjurer-in-chief Clinton was repentant about his under the desk antics with Monica or more importantly, the slaughters at Waco and Ruby Ridge, and the failure to provide adequate air and armoured cover to his nation building exercise in Somalia that portrayed America as weak, defeated, and retreating, and invited 9/11. Brave men deserve better.