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Ärende: Good riddance!
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Goodbye, you corrupt bastard.



In the end, the shame of Vice President Dick Cheney was total: unmitigated
by any notion of a graceful departure, let alone the slightest obligation
of honest accounting. Although firmly ensconced, even in the popular
imagination, as an example of evil incarnate--nearly a quarter of those
polled in this week's CNN poll rated him the worst vice president in US
history, and 41 percent as "poor"--Cheney exudes the confidence of one
fully convinced that he will get away with it all.

And why not? Nothing, not his suspect role in the Enron debacle, which
foretold the economic meltdown, or his office's fabrication of the false
reasons for invading Iraq, has ever been seriously investigated, because of
White House stonewalling. Nor will the new president, committed as he is to
nonpartisanship, be likely to open up Cheney's can of worms.

Cheney has even had a pass on torture, the "enhanced interrogation" policy
that he initiated in his first months in office. "Was it torture? I don't
believe it was torture," he told The Washington Times on Monday, a week
after the release of a unanimous Senate report concluding that the policies
Cheney initiated indeed were responsible for torture. In fact, the Senate
committee concluded that the model for the Cheney-Bush interrogation policy
was the torture practices of the Chinese communists during the Korean War.
But it's not torture when the US president does it, according to the legal
judgments that Cheney's chief counsel, David Addington, pushed through the
administration.

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