Cheney Is Running Scared !

During the eight years of the Bush administration, the American public heard very little from Vice-President Dick Cheney. He gave few press conferences and few interviews. More often than not, he was not only silent but out of sight, in one of his famous "undisclosed locations".

But now that he's out-of-office, it seems like Cheney is giving another interview every day. He going on every TV and radio program that will have him, and the other day, he even had dueling speeches with President Obama. What has happened? Why is he so high-profile and public these days?

It's certainly not because the Republican Party wants him out front. They know he is one of the most disliked politicians in America, and most Republicans just wish he would go away. They'd like for Americans to forget that he is a Republican, but they won't do that as long as he's pushing himself on every show he can.

Finally, we have an answer. It seems that Cheney is running scared. He's afraid he's going to be charged and tried for his war crimes, especially since the White House memos were released that showed he ordered the torturing of prisoners. How do we know this? His daughter says it's true.

Liz Cheney went on CNN the other day. She said, "I don’t think he planned to be doing this, you know, when they left office in January. But I think, as it became clear that President Obama was not only going to be stopping some of these policies, that he was going to be doing things like releasing the — the techniques themselves, so that the terrorists could now train to them, that he was suggesting that perhaps we would even be prosecuting former members of the Bush administration."

He should be scared. He has violated both American and International laws, and if he weren't an American, he would probably already have been charged as a war criminal. So he's pedaling as fast as he can right now, hoping to convince enough Americans that waterboarding is not torture, so it will be harder to bring charges against him.

I doubt if he has anything to worry about from the Obama administration. President Obama has already decided that it is in his political interest to ignore the war crimes of the Bush administration. But there are still those few brave souls in Congress who still want to do the right thing. I hope they are able to do so.

Cheney should already be serving a prison sentence, along with several others in the Bush administration.