Cheney needs to shut up!

I'm sure that Mr. Cheney would call me naive, but torture is torture and not appropriate for America. You can call it "enhanced interrogation methods" all you want, that doesn't stop making it torture. I grabbed the following bit from his speech to show some of the hypocracy in his words. He starts by praise what makes us a force for good and includes human rights, but then uses this to justify torturing of prisoners. Not only that Bush did more to destroy our liberty than just about any President in history, so was he helping the terrorists by taking away what they hated about us? Thank god these people no longer speaks for us!

The United States of America was a good country before 9/11, just as we are today. List all the things that make us a force for good in the world - for liberty, for human rights, for the rational, peaceful resolution of differences - and what you end up with is a list of the reasons why the terrorists hate America. If fine speech-making, appeals to reason, or pleas for compassion had the power to move them, the terrorists would long ago have abandoned the field. And when they see the American government caught up in arguments about interrogations, or whether foreign terrorists have constitutional rights, they don't stand back in awe of our legal system and wonder whether they had misjudged us all along. Instead the terrorists see just what they were hoping for - our unity gone, our resolve shaken, our leaders distracted. In short, they see weakness and opportunity.

Bush/Cheney have ordered the deaths of over 30,000 Americans by fighting the war in Iraq, so how many lifes have they saved with this sacrifice? Does sacrificing our soldiers in some godforsaken land that we have no right being in really make us safer? How many more soldiers need to die to keep us safe? This is just in Iraq, where we have killed over 1,000,000 people! How many of them were terrorists? Why does anyone let him continue to speak without answering these serious questions? Dick Cheney lives in a dream world.