Cheney Admits He Is Closeminded

Posted at 7:50 am on Tuesday, June 14, 2005, in Uncategorized.

The recent calls for the prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to be closed has been met with some expected reluctance, but a lot more approval in Washington. Even from the White House itself. Until this weekend, when Dick Cheney made sure that the prison camp is not going to be shutdown. On Monday, Cheney spoke at the National Press Club.

“Now, does this hurt us from the standpoint of international opinion? I frankly don’t think so. And my own personal view of it is that those who are most urgently advocating that we shut down Guantanamo probably don’t agree with our policies anyway.”

Should it matter? We are not talking about North Korea or China. Or even Russia and France. Senator Chuck Hagel, republican, and Senator Joe Biden, democrat, they are calling for the Gitmo prison to be closed. Are now republicans in Congress on the “other side” in Cheney’s mind.

It is one thing to stand on principal; it is another to admit that the only reason you are doing so is for petty reasons. That is not principal; that is politics.

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