Mr. Tough Guy

Editor,

When Dick Cheney finally is in jail where he belongs, will the interviews with him stop?

All he has to say are lies: Saddam has WMD, Saddam bought yellowcake from Niger, Saddam bought aluminum tubes for centrifuges; torture "works", the worst of the worst are in Guantanamo, torture saved American lives; investigating his torture policies makes the U.S. weaker, investigating his torture policies will harm morale at the CIA.

Shut up already!

9/11 was YOUR fault. The most catastrophic attack on American soil was due entirely to YOUR negligence, YOUR arrogance, YOUR ignoring the intelligence, YOUR preoccupation with looting the American economy to line the pockets of your already filthy-rich friends.

Investigating YOUR torture policy will restore morale to the CIA, where career operatives, appalled by YOUR political meddling and hare-brained ideas about torture will have the opportunity to exorcise YOU and your stupid ideas about intelligence gathering and national security once and for all.

Torture "works" in your dreams, Dick Cheney, because you like feeling like a tough guy and you think acting like a tough guy is going to make your political adversaries run away and hide. You're going to go to jail, Mr. Tough Guy. You broke one law too many when you violated the Convention against Torture.

re: "Cheney Calls Interrogation Inquiry a ‘Political Move’" (8/31/2009)