"Take, for example, waterboarding...In waterboarding -- unlike World War II, where the Japanese attempted to drown people by basically pouring water in their mouths -- here the feet were elevated so there's little or not chance of any fluid getting into the lungs. And very careful standards set in place so these would help break the the resistance of the detainee without placing their life in danger."

As Jesse Ventura said:

"You give me a water board, Dick Cheney and one hour, and I'll have him confess to the Sharon Tate murders."

deserves a thousand times over.

And to Mr. Pierce i offer a sincere

before stopping. Gotta make sure it's on the record as being torture.

"twice-elected vice-president of the United States" --

I don't think Cheney is a coward, he's just in it for #1, and there was too little payback for him to go to war. Hell, he planned 9/11 and was in charge that day of making sure no American plans short-circuited him, shrubs and poppie's plans for their Saudi friends to start something they could use to fundamentally change America to their liking and personal great profit.

Do agree that Cheney is pure evil and I'd enjoy knowing he was getting his full karma, torturewise.

He's meanness incarnate, and wrong about everything, absolutely! He's too evil to be afraid, that would take facing facts and that he doesn't control the world.

and sending others to die doing his dirty work only proves it further.

He's a coward through and through.

HE IS THE VERY DEFINITION OF A COWARD

He should taste what he foisted upon others. Taste of his own medicine. See how he likes it.

This description alone - is a Thing of Great Beauty:

"Cheney's cowardice and evil are implacable forces of nature. This is a guy who had other priorities, and took five deferments rather than go to an actual war. This is a guy who shot his best friend in the face, and who went for the Scotch bottle before he went for the cops. This is a guy who projected his own cowardice onto the country he served, assuming it was as big a coward as he has been his entire public life, and sent his country down the road into serious war crimes because he got scared witless on September 11, 2001. I have more respect for a janitor who went back to work in the Empire State Building on September 12 of that year than I do for the entire sorry public career of this obvious beast of human, running now on a borrowed heart without the inconvenient presence of a soul."

And I doubly agree with Charles Pierce on another bit from here. "...without the inconvenient presence of a soul." Indeed. I am not convinced that cheney has a soul. Seriously, I'm not convinced. If he really had one, I would expect him to try to make sure his behavior toward others would keep it from being damned to Hell. And what clinches this, for me, is that he's proud of it. Proud of it!!! Not one bit regretful! And VERY willing to do it again.

"This is a guy who projected his own cowardice onto the country he served, assuming it was as big a coward as he has been his entire public life, and sent his country down the road into serious war crimes because he got scared witless on September 11, 2001. I have more respect for a janitor who went back to work in the Empire State Building on September 12 of that year than I do for the entire sorry public career of this obvious beast of human, running now on a borrowed heart without the inconvenient presence of a soul. "

was what most infuriated me. The 9/11 widows have by now obviously gone on with their lives, just as they should have. The treatment that they were given by the right wing spokespeople, when they became activists, rather than victims, should be never forgotten. September 11 was totally on the Cheney/ Bush watch, including willful disregard of any warnings from the Clinton administration. Of all the outrageous ways Cheney,& Co. chose to back away and throw blame elsewhere, the phone calls made on those doomed on that day is the most outrageous for Dick to refer as an excuse for his own depravities.