Remember when a reporter suggested to Vice President Dick Cheney that the majority of Americans viewed the Iraqi War unfavorably and wanted troop withdrawal? Cheney’s response was, “So?”
That arrogance has been a staple of the hawkish draft deferment politician.
Now, in what is being dubbed as an “exit interview”, Cheney’s arrogance is once again emerging from that infamous “undisclosed location” as the VP talked to ABC NEWS.

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While denying that the Bush Administration engages in torture, ABC’s Jonathan Karl elicited what some are calling a war crimes confessional from Cheney.
KARL:Did you authorize the tactics that were used against Khalid Sheikh Mohammed?
CHENEY: I was aware of the program, certainly, and involved in helping get the process cleared, as the agency in effect came in and wanted to know what they could and couldn’t do. And they talked to me, as well as others, to explain what they wanted to do. And I supported it.
KARL:In hindsight, do you think any of those tactics that were used against Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and others went too far?
CHENEY: I don’t.
The water-boarding techniques used on Mohammed and others at Abu Ghraib Prison has been condemned by both President-Elect Obama and his former Republican opponent John McCain as well as many others as torture. Cheney’s non-chalant admission to supporting it, helping push for it and in essence authorizing it should be cause for criminal indictment.
Cheney’s interview also surprisingly admitted what most anti-war thinkers knew from day one. That the Bush Administration was on a course to engage Iraq and Saddam Hussein regardless of intelligence, regardless of WMD’s or lack thereof and regardless to any possible ties to 9/11.
KARL: You probably saw Karl Rove last week said that if the intelligence had been correct we probably would not have gone to war.
CHENEY: I disagree with that. I think – as I look at the intelligence with respect to Iraq, what they got wrong was that there weren’t any stockpiles. What we found in the after action reports, after the intelligence report was done and then various special groups went and looked at the intelligence and what its validity was. What they found was that Saddam Hussein still had the capability to produce weapons of mass destruction. He had the technology, he had the people, he had the basic feed stocks.
Still marketing BS Mr. Vice President? You may still have the capability to emote a compassionate thought, but most of us don’t see that as anything imminent!
Cheney inists now that the “So?” was to the reporter looking for a question instead of a comment on the will and opinion of the American public.
Revisionism is a common trait with this evil man. Good Riddance. Now go crawl into some undisclosed location for good.
