Will a Lefty explain to me how Dick Cheney is "evil"?

Question

What would happen if he became president?

Answer 1

Well, Righty, anyone who approves torture is certainly evil. Anyone who hunts and kills animals is evil, too. Anyone who tells a senior Senator to go f*** himself is a mean nasty SOB, evil or not. Anyone who has a constant sneer on his face, and looks like he's perpetually morally constipated, has a touch of evil. Anyone who helps create secret prisons is certainly evil. Anyone who approves of human rights abuses at Gitmo is evil. Anyone who abrogates Constitutional rights in areas like warrantless wiretaps has contempt for the law and is evil. HOW'M I DOING SO FAR???

Answer 2

As with all things, it depends on what you mean by "evil".

Good and bad are largely a matter of morality -- what you think is acceptable and what you think is unacceptbale for someone to do. "Evil" is when you do something bad, knowing it is bad, and you do it anyway.

Cheney likes control and secrecy and the ability to do whatever he thinks is best. That's pretty much an objective fact to anyone who's paid attention.

Now, some people think those things are good, and some people think those actions are bad. Mainly liberals think that govt secrecy and excessive control are bad. And because Cheney does they intentionally, that makes him evil in their book. It's purely a subjective determination, based on what they think is good versus bad.

But if you want an more neutral assessment -- Cheney shot a guy in the face, and then got the VICTIM TO APOLOGIZE for the stress that Cheney's family was put under because of the incident.

Answer 3

Im not a lefty. I just know that I would never go hunting with the guy. Hes a terrible shot.

Answer 4

It's a complicated question and "evil" is a loaded term (no pun intended).

Suffice it to say he is a proven liar and thus unfit for office on those grounds. Whether he is "evil" or not I can't say, but I think he is capable of causing great suffering in the world.

Answer 5

he isn't "evil" but at least CREEPY.
plus the whole halliburton thing is pretty shady.
he isn't becoming president anytime soon, plus bush has only one more year. i am not a democrat not republican, i am a libertarian.
so i would vote for ron paul because even though he is repunlican, and usually they are greedy assholes only in it for people like him, he takes a stance that both dems and republicans can like.

Answer 6

He's a shape shifter like that thing from the X-Men.

Answer 7

They can't.

But it's sure fun to watch 'em fulminate, isn't it?

I'm REALLY, REALLY gonna miss My Boy Dick and My Boy George. I just hope the level of apoplexy on the part of the far-left fringe elements isn't reduced too much - with normal blood pressure and heartrates they could recover their humanity and I'm afraid of what it would look like!

Answer 8

One good example is that he pushed all out for war against Iraq even though he knew it would be a disaster.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BEsZMvrq-I

Answer 9

1. Authorized the torture policy for the CIA and officials at guantanamo

"A former member of a C.I.A. transport team has described the 'takeout' of prisoners as a carefully choreographed twenty-minute routine, during which a suspect was hog-tied, stripped naked, photographed, hooded, sedated with anal suppositories, placed in diapers, and transported by plane to a secret location. A person involved in the Council of Europe inquiry, referring to cavity searches and the frequent use of suppositories during the takeout of detainees, likened the treatment to 'sodomy.' He said, 'It was used to absolutely strip the detainee of any dignity. It breaks down someone’s sense of impenetrability. The interrogation became a process not just of getting information but of utterly subordinating the detainee through humiliation.' The former C.I.A. officer confirmed that the agency frequently photographed the prisoners naked, 'because it’s demoralizing."


"Ramzi Kassem, who teaches at Yale Law School, said that a Yemeni client of his, Sanad al-Kazimi, who is now in Guantánamo, alleged that he had received similar treatment in the Dark Prison, the facility near Kabul. Kazimi claimed to have been suspended by his arms for long periods, causing his legs to swell painfully. “It’s so traumatic, he can barely speak of it,” Kassem said. “He breaks down in tears.” Kazimi also claimed that, while hanging, he was beaten with electric cables."

"Under President Bush’s new executive order, C.I.A. detainees must receive the “basic necessities of life, including adequate food and water, shelter from the elements, necessary clothing, protection from extremes of heat and cold, and essential medical care.” Sleep, according to the order, is not among the basic necessities."

"In addition to keeping a prisoner awake, the simple act of remaining upright can over time cause significant pain. McCoy, the historian, noted that “longtime standing” was a common K.G.B. interrogation technique. In his 2006 book, “A Question of Torture,” he writes that the Soviets found that making a victim stand for eighteen to twenty-four hours can produce “excruciating pain, as ankles double in size, skin becomes tense and intensely painful, blisters erupt oozing watery serum, heart rates soar, kidneys shut down, and delusions deepen.”

2. He helps head some of the largest, greediest cartels in the world like Haliburton.

3. He keeps a life-size safe in his office; he made his own stamp and category of "secret" for his white house documents; he shot his hunting partner in the face lol (couldn't resist); he apparently feels he is so superior to all of us plebians that he had his private residencey blurred on google maps

4. He presided over several rounds of job cuts, including of about 11,000 workers in 1999, a year that Halliburton showed a $438 million profit. Since those layoffs, Halliburton's profits rose, to $501 million in 2000 and $809 million in 2001.

5. From 1997 through 2000, Cheney's Halliburton sold $73 million worth of oil equipment and services to Iraq through subsidiaries Dresser-Rand and Ingersoll Dresser Pump Co. to help rebuild Iraq's Gulf War-damaged infrastructure. That was more business than any other U.S. company, and Cheney later lied about his Iraqi connection to media types like Sam Donaldson. Talk about corporate hypocrisy - companies like Halliburton could make big profits on such oil deals, but human rights groups could not ship life-saving medicine to Iraqi children because of UN sanctions.


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