Being a war criminal isn't easy, but Dick Cheney had no problem throwing his support behind torture and denouncing the Geneva Conventions. He did this at the well-publicized graduation ceremony at West Point Military Academy this weekend. According to Dick, the War on TerrorTM isn't exactly a war where you can apply any rules.
From RawStory:
Vice President Dick Cheney criticized the notion of applying the Geneva Conventions to individuals captured in the course of the war on terrorism in a Saturday commencement address at the United States Military Academy in West Point, New York."Capture one of these killers, and he'll be quick to demand the protections of the Geneva Convention and the Constitution of the United States," the Vice President said in the Saturday morning speech. "Yet when they wage attacks or take captives, their delicate sensibilities seem to fall away."
Cheney delivered the remarks in the context of moral and ethical lessons that the graduating cadets at West Point had learned in the course of their study.
"You have lived by a code of honor, and internalized that code as West Point men and women always do," he said. "As Army officers on duty in the war on terror, you will now face enemies who oppose and despise everything you know to be right, every notion of upright conduct and character, and every belief you consider worth fighting for and living for."
So despite officers who train cadets to have morals and try to be better than their enemies, Cheney is telling them to disobey those orders and sink to the level of their opposition. America is supposed to be looked up to in the world, but Dick would rather get down and dirty in the mud. Now that may sound cool for a wrestling match, but in real life that isn't what a civilized nation should be engaging in. It is because of animals like our Vice-President that we continue to lose standing and credibility in the world every single god-damned day.
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