John Kerry on Cheney’s “N0-Brainer” Torture Statement

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John Kerry on Cheney’s “N0-Brainer” Torture Statement
October 27th, 2006 @ 1:37 pm

It’s a “No-Brainer“, Dick Cheney has always been for torture although the White House said they were against torture, Cheney let the cat out of the bag and took a dunk into the deep dark water of moral depravity yesterday when “Cheney agreed with Hennen’s assertion that “a dunk in water” may yield valuable intelligence from terrorism suspects.”

John Kerry responded to Cheney’s admission of moral depravity with the following statement:

“Is the White House that was for torture before it was against it, now for torture again?

First Senator McCain says that “waterboarding and other extreme measures” are off limits. Senator Graham said we “let the world know we are no longer engaging in” waterboarding. I guess no one let the Vice President know. He said waterboarding—or simulated drowning— is “a no-brainer.”

Who can we believe? The Vice President? The White House spin team? Or Senate Republicans who have no say in how this policy is enforced? It is clearer by the day that an Administration that lobbied for the right to torture got exactly what it wanted. If that’s not the case, Senate Republicans who defended the Administration’s intentions and defended the Administration compromise need to demand answers and accountability from their White House.

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