Why did Cheney confess on television?? Warning, Vomit Inducing....

[leftchick]

http://therealnews.com/t/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=31&Itemid=74&jumival=2999

Why did Cheney confess on national television?

Michael Ratner: Cheney's admission of guilt is a plea for a presidential pardon



Last week, outgoing US Vice-President Dick Cheney made a series of remarkable comments in his exclusive interview with ABC. Cheney admitted to playing a role in the authorization of the use of waterboarding and other 'aggressive interrogation techniques', defended the decision to listen-in on domestic phone calls, and essentially provided broad approval for all the actions taken by his government over his tenure. In the first part of our interview with Michael Ratner, Michael gives his analysis of both the significance of the interview, and what he believes are Cheney's motivations for such an uncharacteristic offering of information from the notoriously secretive VP.

[Sarah Ibarruri]

1. Because he wants to have a reason for Bush to pardon him, so he doesn't have to spend his

sorry, evil, Nazi ass behind bars for treason, eating gruel.

[aquart]

5. You have been gifted with frightening clarity.

I thought maybe he'd been told he had six months so he didn't give a damn, hell-bound spawn of Satan that he is.

But the deal he made, he'll probably live to 100, and wants to make sure he doesn't spend any time on trial or in jail.

[Sarah Ibarruri]

6. Oh he's not dying. He probably had an extra heart implanted in his chest, his original one....

by now looking like a patched and re-patched quilted potholder. A son-of-a-bitch like him doesn't die anyway. He just rots into a state of zombiehood and continues stinking his way through the planet, pushing his own crash-cart onto infinity.

[DS1]

2. I can't imagine a Prez pardoning his own Veep

but it'll happen. Corrupt scumbags

[zonmoy]

3. Probably because short of a national uprising nobody is ever going to hold him to account.

[Bjorn Against]

4. In some ways it might be good if Bush pardons them...

Now many of you are probably shaking your head at how I could say such a thing, but hear me out. I want these people to be held accountable, and I don't trust the US "justice" system to hold them accountable. If Bush pardons all of his people it probably won't make much of a difference as far as the US legal system is concerned as I don't see the "Justice" Department pursuing them anyways.

A pardon however comes pretty damn close to an admission of guilt, and it will also show the rest of the world that if they want these people brought to justice they have to act. Bush can pardon he is people from prosecution under US law, but he can not pardon under international law. A pardon would give the international community more of a reason to prosecute the case themselves and not wait for us to do it. In other words pardons could actually increase the likelihood of these people facing trial.

[tsuki]

7. Thumbing his nose at the spineless Democrats. nt

[BeFree]

8. He has a secret desire to...

...prove Kucinich was right to bring impeachment charges?

Oh well, history will show that Cheney was the w-puppet master and that
both of them were the worst pair to ever squat on our capitol.

I would so love it if Obama was to tell us, on national TV, that he's gonna
get those bush bastards. Love It!!

[earth mom]

9. I'm sure Cheney did it to get a pardon. May he burn in hell.

(and I say that as an agnostic)

:grr:

[Jazzgirl]

10. Cheney has no intention of eating Spam.

n/t

[deacon]

11. He's not coming clean. He is using this as his defense, to Implicate everyone

...we all did it so just don't look at me for all that went wrong, is the message. And the M.O. is he uses fox and limbaugh every time he wants to get his propaganda machine in gear.

Too, like bush and he did all along, they do this stuff to dare you to do anything about it. These people are sick with power. They couldn't handle it and frankly i think both of them are extremely unstable.

[Solly Mack]

12. I tend to agree with that

if almost everyone is guilty then...who will hold whom accountable?

Also, he frames the narrative as "they told me it was legal" so...blame them if you're going to blame anyone...using Bush's "I got bad intel" framing...

But since "mistakes were made" by so many..let's just promise never to do it again and move on

Cheney wouldn't sneeze at a pardon, of course...but I think the narrative goes a little deeper than just that