# Have you no sense of decency, Mr. Cheney?

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**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [December 14, 2014, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-no-sense-of-decency-mr-cheney/707242 "2014-12-14T22:21:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\
**Post date:** [December 30, 2014, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-no-sense-of-decency-mr-cheney/707242/101 "2014-12-30T02:13:41Z")

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> [@bobot](#):
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> He denied that we tortured anyone, and he denied that waterboarding was torture. Of course he has no sense of decency, as he never has. Just be grateful that he is no longer our President, and that he took his veep, GWB, with him.

He denied all that, while giving the orders and trying to gin up legal “loopholes” to do it. Now he defends it, saying that if there is even a 1 percent chance it was a bad guy, torture is OK. And justifies it with national security.

He did more damage to our security than any terrorist ever did, and created far more enemies. I don’t think he gives or ever did give a damn about security, it was all about starting “wars of hegemony” to make himself and his buddies richer than they already were.

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**Author:** ![SteveG1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@SteveG1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SteveG1)\
**Post date:** [December 30, 2014, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-you-no-sense-of-decency-mr-cheney/707242/102 "2014-12-30T02:25:02Z")

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> [@septimus](#):
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> Note that many of the innocents tortured were known to be, or knowably, innocent. I’m not sure if the thinking was (a) he’ll be anti-American when we’re through him so let’s torture him for that now, (b) even innocents know _something_, or (c) torture them just for practice.
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> Reading Cheney’s resume makes you want to cry that such a man became Leader of the Free World(\*). He flunked out of college twice, and dropped out once (though eventually getting an M.A. in PoliSci). The highlights of his college experience were his repeated draft deferments and his multiple arrests for DUI. His early career was just political hack work, though he did graduate to CEO of Halliburton – ha ha ha.
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> - I call him “Leader of the Free World” since the grossly under-qualified GWB followed his lead for several years. (Eventually even the Great Witless Blockhead woke up and started favoring other advisors.)

He spent enough time in school, to AVOID serving in the same military he would later use as his personal plaything.

He said something about “other priorities”. Fvckng chickenhawk bastard.

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