{"id":248,"date":"2007-05-27T13:16:07","date_gmt":"2007-05-27T19:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=248"},"modified":"2007-05-27T13:16:07","modified_gmt":"2007-05-27T19:16:07","slug":"impeach-cheney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=248","title":{"rendered":"Impeach Cheney"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How repulsive is Dick Cheney?  Sullivan&#8217;s been documenting his support for reckless <a href=\"http:\/\/andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com\/the_daily_dish\/2007\/05\/bush_vs_cheney_.html\">war on Iran<\/a>.  Now he&#8217;s slamming <a href=\"http:\/\/rawstory.com\/news\/2007\/Cheney_criticizes_Geneva_Convention_in_Military_0526.html\">Geneva<\/a> at West Point.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Capture one of these killers, and he&#8217;ll be quick to demand the protections of the Geneva Convention and the Constitution of the United States,&#8221; the Vice President said in the Saturday morning speech. &#8220;Yet when they wage attacks or take captives, their delicate sensibilities seem to fall away.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I am so fucking sick of this line of reasoning.  &#8220;Al-Quaeda doesn&#8217;t observe Geneva, why should we?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Why? <em>Because we&#8217;re better than they are!<\/em>.  The British and Hessians were brutal in their occupation during the War of Independence; Washington insisted on humane treatment.  The South had Andersonville; Lincoln had reasonable prisons.  The Germans, Japanese, Koreans and Vietnamese tortured our people; we didn&#8217;t.  Douglas MacArthur <em>specifically<\/em> instructed his soldiers to treat POW&#8217;s with honor.  Because he wanted them to know that ciitizens of a Democracy were better, that their leaders were lying to them about how Americans tortured all prisoners.  He defined America by a bright moral standard.<\/p>\n<p>The Right is always railing against moral relativism.  Liberals and Libertarians are supposed to be a threat to the very fiber of the nation because we tolerate gays, question drug prohibition and oppose abortion criminalization. But now they want us to define our morality <em>relative<\/em> to Al-Quaeda.  What kind of broken is your moral compass when gay marriage is a threat to our national integrity but torture is OK?<\/p>\n<p>Dick Cheney can define his moral compass by Al-Quaeda.  I&#8217;ll define mine by George Washington, Abe Lincoln and Douglas MacArthur.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How repulsive is Dick Cheney? Sullivan&#8217;s been documenting his support for reckless war on Iran. Now he&#8217;s slamming Geneva at West Point. &#8220;Capture one of these killers, and he&#8217;ll be quick to demand the protections of the Geneva Convention and the Constitution of the United States,&#8221; the Vice President said in the Saturday morning speech. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/?p=248\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Impeach Cheney<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-terror"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BzKF-40","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=248"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=248"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=248"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelsiegel.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=248"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}