As America’s aristocracy rushes to heap nauseating eulogy on the late Dick Cheney, here’s how I’ll remember the man. Sometimes a picture really is worth a thousand words …
This last twenty-four hours I’ve watched three interviews by Judge Napolitano. Though the focus of all three is on other matters, each begins with him asking: “was Dick Cheney a war criminal?'”
Only one, Scott Ritter, equivocates – in deference to his interlocutor being a judge, and to the presumption of innocence until guilt is proven – by saying he “would not be uncomfortable with Cheney’s indictment on numerous war crimes”.
While Jeffrey Sachs gives a measured but unequivocal yes, it’s former US Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Karen Kwiatkowski, a voice too little heard on this site, who in the first seven minutes gives the fullest and clearest reasoning for why the only truthful response to the question has to be a resounding yes.
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