Cheney: Death only option for some detainees if Gitmo closed

[Octafish]

Source: Washington Times

Former Vice President Dick Cheney said Monday that the only alternative to holding some suspected terrorists indefinitely would be to execute them, saying that was an argument against the Obama administration's plans to close the Guantanamo detainee prison.

"If you're going to be engaged in a world conflict such as we are, such as the global war on terrorism, if you don't have a place where you can hold these people, your only other option is to kill them," Mr. Cheney said.

"And we don't operate that way."

SNIP...

The former vice president said that the Guantanamo Bay prison is "a fine facility" and that the White House will have a "very difficult" time closing it, because of the legal, political and diplomatic challenges associated with indefinite detention.



Read more: http://washingtontimes.com/news/2009/jun/01/cheney-death-option-detainees-guantanamo-closed/

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I'd laugh if it weren't for the uncounted million-plus dead from Cheney and Bush's illegal and immoral wars.

[no limit]

1. We don't operate that way? What an asshole.

[Octafish]

39. Sneer's resume shows he doesn't really seem to care what happens to anybody - including Americans.

Know your BFEE: Cheney, Rumsfeld, Ford Covered Up CIA Murder of American Scientist

[Duer 157099]

2. Jesus Fucking Christ

That's all I have to say.

[saigon68]

42. Cowardly Draft Dodger Frothing at the Mouth

That's what I say about the Mother-Fucker.

[Tempest]

3. No trial, no judicial protection, just kill them

Cheney continues to do damage to the GOP and I'm happy as hell about it.

[movonne]

11. Make sure we torture them first....he is one sick and very bad man..

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

4. M-O-O-N spells Moon.

[LuvNewcastle]

10. Maybe we should put Moon in Gitmo

the next time he's convicted of tax fraud.

[Octafish]

40. Robert B. Boettcher was a genuine American Hero when it came to Rev Moon...

Know your BFEE: 1984 Death of Outstanding Congressional Staffer Buried Poppy-Moon Relationship

[onehandle]

5. This man is hurting America. Deport him to Saudi Arabia. nt

[Octafish]

41. Too late. Dubai awaits Sneering Dick Deferment.

Halliburton Moves Its Headquarters Abroad

Taxes aren't the only thing being sheltered.

[hlthe2b]

6. Hmm... perhaps we don't have a secure enough jail for Cheney?

Now, THAT'S a thought.....

[Bragi]

7. Do they get trials after we kill them? /nt

[El Supremo]

8. We don't operate by killing...

but torture is just fine.

Go back to your mansion in Wyoming and shut up!

[scarface2004]

9. there are some old gas chambers and crematoriums in poland..

we could probably refurbish and put to good use too!!

[yellowcanine]

12. a la Nixon on paying hush money to Watergate burglers,"We could raise a million dollars but it would

be wrong."

[Wizard777]

13. Says the accessory to Capital Murder.

The deaths resulting from the torture he authorized are Capital Murder. So he's eligible for the death penalty. My God these were contract killings with actual contracts involved.

[Abq_Sarah]

14. BS

Gitmo vs execution are not the only options.

How absurd.

[winyanstaz]

15. He just wants the ones that can tell on him and Bush dead.

The idea that american prisons cant hold these people is bullshit.
The idea that American courts cannot do the trials for these people is bullshit.
And the idea of the Military doing trials for their own crimes is also bullshit.
Excuse me while I call bullshit on all of this.

[balantz]

18. Bingo! They'd murder the ones who would spill beans. n/t

[madamesilverspurs]

33. Which is precisely why

Saddam was executed. Rummy and Cheney and all the Bushes probably slept a whole lot easier once his tongue was silenced.

[Michigan-Arizona]

31. I was thinking the very same thing!

[Baby Snooks]

16. Dr. Mengele....

He really is evil. He and his Boy from Brazil. Mission accomplished indeed.

And who, pray tell is Hitler? A question no one dares ask. Maybe because everyone already knows the answer.

[santamargarita]

17. Him and his whole Goddamn Republican Party is nothing but a culture of death

:nuke:

[judesedit]

19. Will somebody please tell this effing idiot to get lost once and for all

[judesedit]

20. He wants the memos released now because he already had the originals destroyed

[hamsterjill]

26. And that he's not in charge anymore!

Tell the media that, too.

[Doug.Goodall]

37. Will somebody put this idiot Cheney in jail once and for all

 
 

Are you listening Eric Holder?

 
 

[Hassin Bin Sober]

21. If Obama doesn't prosecute these people I don't think we will ever recover.

The next bunch will be even worse and I think we will pass a point of no return.

[felinetta]

22. What else would you expect to spew out of a demon?

[tanyev]

23. Dear Dick,

We had a thing in this country a few months ago called an election, and the results of that election mean that your opinions aren't worth jack squat. So, please, go crawl back into your bunker and stew in your own misery and paranoia. We don't care what you think.

[Dakota Flint]

24. We are so lucky

Dick Cheney will now be known throughout history as the USA's very own homegrown psychopathic monster in the same league as Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot.....

:puke:

[tclambert]

25. He means they would have to be executed to prevent them testifying against the Bush adiministration.

"Yes, your honor, after they tortured us, we told them all kinds of lies about Iraq and imaginary Weapons of Mass Destruction and ties to Al Qaeda. Sometimes they made us memorize the lines we were to say for the recorder. And then Dick Cheney sent me a thank you note in which he said he loved watching the videotapes of our torture. He said they gave him a lot of pleasure, which I thought was kind of creepy."

[tclambert]

27. "We may have to shoot them in the face, heh, heh. HEY, BITCH, WHERE'S MY SHOTGUN?"

See, that's supposed to be what Cheney is really saying. It's funny 'cause he shot that guy in the face once and never even had to pay a fine for it. And he's yelling to his wife, whom he affectionately calls "Bitch," because he's a hip-hop gangsta kinda guy. Really, who scares ya more, 50 Cent or Richard "Dick" Cheney?

[Hepburn]

28. What a fucking asshat....

...dictator POS.

And...those are his better qualities.

[MilesColtrane]

29. Some guys become WalMart greeters in their retirement years.

Sounds like Cheney's hoping for something a little more fun for himself.

disgusting

[liberal N proud]

30. What a fucking DICK

[L0oniX]

32. Ah ...well ...Let's just call Cheney ....Mr. Death

[Third Doctor]

34. cheney thinks the law

is just a mild inconvenience. I mean he can openly admot to breaking local and international laes and can get away with it right?

[Downwinder]

35. Well, if we are going to keep Gitmo open, Lets make a reservation for Dick. n/t

[Prophet 451]

36. This man is a psychopath

And I mean that in it's full clinical sense. Dear Lord...

[Rosa Luxemburg]

38. America didn't kill it's POWs?

Nazis did

[rug]

43. Summary execution is the logical end of these policies.

[Solly Mack]

44. Gee, if only America sent its war criminals to prison instead

of allowing them to parade around town defending their war crimes


Oh well...live and learn and all that (snort)