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JDPriestly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-15-10 02:01 PM
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197. RandomThoughts, are you talking about people who believe
that the ends justify the means? Back when I was in high school, we were taught that the thing that made our system better than the Soviet or NAZI systems was our belief that the ends do not justify the means, that means must themselves be morally correct.

Cheney moved our country into the camp that relied on a philosophy that the ends justify the means. They do not. That is the rationalization of criminals. Criminals tell themselves that the wrongs they do, the crimes they commit are OK because, in the end, they are for a good cause.

Was Cheney a criminal? We should try him and find out how he would fare in front of a jury. And I bet we don't know the half of the evil acts that he authorized and carried out. Evil incarnate, that is what he is.
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