Simbi Ntahorbari, of the Eagle Online, reports, Dick Cheney denies war criminal allegations at KPU event, describing former Vice President Dick Cheney's speech at the AU community hosted by the Kennedy Political Union. In a scene remenicent of Richard Nixon, Cheney denied he was as war criminal.
“The accusations are not true,” Cheney said. ... Some people called it torture. It wasn’t torture,” Cheney said in an interview with ATV.
Cheney believes the Geneva Conventions do not apply to "unlawful combatants," a name we gave to the prisoners so we could do anything we wanted to them.
“If I would have to do it all over again, I would,” Cheney said. “The results speak for themselves.”
“The president indicated that if the Syrians used chemical weapons there would be consequence,” he said. “They used chemical weapons and there were no consequences. That conveyed a sense of weakness; that you don’t have to pay attention to what he [the president] says because he won’t follow through.”
As you might expect, Cheney believes President Obama is being weak in response to the Russians in the Crimea, although the report does not say what he would do instead.
Cheney also said he has no problems with NSA surveillance, and that the U.S needs to "take advantage of advantage of technology in the face of constant threat of cyberwarfare." He called Edward Snowden a traitor.
Some things never change, and some people never learn.