Defiant Cheney: Yeah, I'm Still Down With Waterboarding

You have to give Dick Cheney credit. Despite the endless character assaults on him the past eight years he's never buckled or apologized to his enemies.

You've got to love it: Defending waterboarding and keeping open Club Gitmo.

The Guantanamo 'war on terror' detention center should remain open indefinitely, Vice President Richard Cheney told ABC News in an interview Monday, while also defending the harsh interrogation method known as waterboarding.

Whatever happened to economizing words? Why does it always have to be the harsh interrogation method known as waterboarding when simply waterboarding will suffice? Do people go around calling AFP the biased dipshits known as the AFP?

Cheney was asked when the detention camp at the US naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba can be "responsibly" be shut down. "Well, I think that that would come with the end of the war on terror," he told ABC.

And when is that? "Well, nobody knows," Cheney said. "Nobody can specify that."

He should have said we'll occupy Club Gitmo for a thousand years, just to see them freak out.

In previous wars the United States has "always exercised the right to capture the enemy and then hold them till the end of the conflict. That's what we did in World War II with, you know, thousands, hundreds of thousands of German prisoners," Cheney said.

"The same basic principle ought to apply here in terms of our right to capture the enemy and hold them.

The other option, Cheney said, "is to turn them over to somebody else. A lot of them, nobody wants. I mean, there's a great resistance sometimes in the home countries to taking these people back into their own territory."

According to Cheney, some 30 detainees who were released from Guantanamo "ended up back on the battlefield again, and we've encountered them a second time around. But they've either been killed or captured in further conflicts with our forces."

A nice poke in the eye for the ACLU and other domestic enemies: Despite your best efforts, the terrorists you defended still wound up dead.

Heh.