Now that his Chief of Staff Scooter Libby has resigned and faces the very real possibility of some serious jail time, what about Dick Cheney? Has he been chastened? Libby in all likelihood took the fall for his boss. You'd think the VP would be humbled.
Well, think again. He has not only swiftly replaced the Scooter, he's also revealed, according to Georgie Anne Geyer, his true identity -- the Marquis de Sade:
"I would say that the deceptive man from sunny Wyoming has become the Marquis de Sade of America. Think about it -- he is insistent upon making torturers of many of our young soldiers -- your children.
"In both the Afghan and the Iraq war, the U.S. has been involved -- as never before in ANY war -- with carefully conceived methods of torture -- 'waterboarding' or simulated drowning, mock execution, beatings until death, the deliberate withholding of pain medication, the burning and desecration of enemy bodies, and every possible form of sexual perversion."
In all fairness, the news that Cheney wants more U.S. torture broke the day before the Libby indictment, but you gotta figure that Cheney knew well in advance what was coming down. So here's my interpretation of Cheney's coming out as torturer-in-chief:
Since the curtains have been thrown open on the secretive Bush Administration, why bother with the charade? This group of neocon warmongers plays for keeps, and if you, the American people, want to observe the outdated Geneva Conventions and play by the rules in the face of the "terrorist threat", well, tough! Try to do something about it!
In an earlier column, Geyer describes the dismay of Bush the Elder and Brent Scowcroft at the reckless militarism central to the foreign policy of George W.'s administration.
George H.W. and Scowcroft are
"... part of the realist school of foreign policy that believes in the prudent use of force for American interests. George W. and his neocons and Cheney are part of a new utopian Republicanism, which believes in spreading democracy through force."
It seems that Cheney has thrown down the gauntlet. It's time to choose sides, for or against the no-holds barred war in Iraq.
Me, I choose the anti-war side.
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