CHENEY ESTIMATES THAT TWENTY-FIVE 9/11's STOPPED BY TORTURE, INC.
If you thought people were ga-ga about Obama, it is Cheney who has a Savior-complex:
CHENEY: No regrets. I think it was absolutely the right thing to do. I'm convinced, absolutely convinced, that we saved thousands, perhaps hundreds of thousands of lives.
ALL THE SELF-LAUDATORY FOCUS ON SECRET TORTURE TOOK OUR EYES OFF OF PREPAREDNESS
What will save hundreds of thousands of lives, rather than vainly hoping to catch a terrorist ticking-bomb scenario, is to have a national readiness.
I know numbers are hard, but hundreds of thousands?This narrow definition of "safety" as "savings lives" is deeply politicized and problematic.
We are never 100% safe; therefore, we cannot be "kept safe". Period.
What will save hundreds of thousands of lives, rather than vainly hoping to catch a terrorist ticking-bomb scenario, is to have a national readiness.I'll take the gay translators, expelled by Bush-Cheney.
I'll take a hospital system that is flexible to high capacity; a response-force that is tested and trained; a policing force that has true communications interoperability and mobile central command. The list goes on.
All these things, long before a cheap torture program.
