Cheney had to torture

Dick Cheney had to order the torture of others in his war of terror. People like him always torture. And by 'people like him,' I mean small ruthless people who put the needs of the few before the needs of the many time after time. I mean people who sat out going to war when he was young but had no compunction about sending other people's kids, mostly poor and black and Hispanic people's, off to a far off land to die for their country in a useless unwinnable war. I mean people who have enriched themselves at the government teat while denying others, mostly poor people, basic human services from the same government that he got rich off of. I mean people who willingly demonize and scapegoat gays for the political benefit while sheltering his own gay daughter, her partner, and their child from the same ridicule they've subjected others to. I mean people who tell others to go fuck themselves on the floor of the US Senate while they stand helplessly and laugh nervously when others tell them to do the same thing while they engage in political grandstanding in the rubble of the aftermath of hurricane Katrina.


Dick Cheney ordered torture knowing his hands would remain clean. His kind of folk always jump at the chance to show once again how above us little people they are. They take some perverse pleasure in flouting the rule of law and rubbing our noses in it.


He had to order torture to make himself look big and unafraid after 9/11 happened on his watch and because he did order torture he'll go down in history as a world leader who was no better than other tin pot dictators who used torture and mayhem to cling to power. He'll share a seat at the torture table with people like Pol Pot, Saddam Hussein, Augusto Pinochet, Alfredo Stroessner, and Robert Mugabe.


And because he willingly, almost gleefully, ordered the torture of others, he should be held accountable for his crimes against humanity. That, my friends, would be a fitting Memorial Day tribute to the hundreds of thousands of people who have lost their lives in the fiasco we call the war of terror on Iraq.