Cheney talks tough on torture!

Dick Cheney is an odd cove. He is of the split personality politician tendency. When it came to people having a go at his lesbian daughter for not playing the "game" of Republican politics, as the so-called Christian Right suggested, he quite rightly said it was none of their business. Dick Cheney is not one to mince his words.

However, when it comes to torturing your opponents in the War on Terror, all liberal ethics shoot out the window. Cheney views interrogation techniques such as water-boarding a success. He has no problem with causing someone to go half-way to St.Peter's Gates and back in a violent mock drowning. It's all a great success according to him.

Well, if I was half drowned, water in my lungs, panting for breath, with my brain spinning about, I think I might just summon up enough strength to mutter anything my tormentors wanted to know. Cheney has an odd idea about how to conduct interrogation.

Having spent the dying days of his vice-presidency denying such things happened, he now wants the world to recognise such barbarity as a "success". I'm sure the world will not do so and prefer President Obama's take on it all.

The CIA does a sterling job looking after the interests of the American people, but they need to be better than the people they are after. Obama is right and the CIA will respect his leadership and his support for them.

Dick Cheney and his water-boarding work is consigned to history!