And like her dad, she insisted on controlling who interviewed her. Lawrence O’Donnell had also been tapped to question her too but she refused. MSNBC should have rescinded the offer to give her a platform for her propagandizing right away.

She is polished, smarmy really, like the old man, but what rang through loud and clear in the interview was desperation. The takeaway I got was that they’re officially worried now that Dick will face trial.

What’s also interesting here is the hypocrisy of both of these Cheneys using the troops as a shield for Cheney’s crimes  when neither of them served in the military. Dick, of course, got five deferments during the Vietnam War.

Deborah, I said it was a tense day for ME because I had family in NY and Washington…but you just keep thinking liberals are heartless and you, as a conservative have a heart, even though you’d torture people.

I did not say I was not concerned about terrorism, I said I was not afraid of it, I do not live my life in fear of anyone, I think that is a sad way to live.

I will continue to think we as a Country are better then that and should continue the tradition of taking the higher road.

One of the residual ideas from the Bush era is that the American justice system is too weak to handle terrorists — that execution or life in solitary confinement was too good for them.

What is forgotten is that we currently hold many terrorists in supermax prisons like the United States Penitentiary Administrative Maximum Facility (ADX), prison in Florence, Col. Among the terrorists there are right-wing Americans including Oklahoma City bomber Terry Nichols, Christian Identity bomber Eric Alan Rudolph and Aryan Brotherhood leader Barry Mills, as well as right-wing Mulism terrorists, including Ramzi Yousef and “blind sheik,” Omar Abdel-Rahman and Mahmud Abouhalima, who were involved in the World Trade Center bombing in 1993, and “Shoe Bomber” Richard Reid.

Other inmates include the Republican Party’s own Enron fraudster Andrew Fastow (who’s keeping a bunk warm for the CEOs and other execs of  banks who defrauded the government with Bush’s TARP bailout money, no doubt), “Unabomber” Theodore Kaczynski and right-wing American traitor Robert Hanssen, the former FBI agent who sold US secrets to the Soviet Union.

Known as the “Alcatraz of the Rockies,” the right-wing terrorists there the Florence supermax are hardly coddled:   

This penal construction and operation theory dictates that inmates remain in solitary confinement for 22–23 hours each day. They do not allow communal dining, exercising, or religious services. These practices are used as administrative measures to keep prisoners under control.

Why is that too good for bin Laden, who could stay there, as right wing terrorist Timothy McVeigh did until he was executed.

Before Bush was appointed president, the American way was to follow our Constitution and charge suspects, prove the case against them and punish them appropriately. The justice system worked fine.

I guess it was the  9/11 attacks — and Bush/Rove’s subsequent campaign of using terror to manipulate their base — that caused the American right to become addicted to fear, lose its moral compass, turn this great country into a torture state and to continue to defend this evil that was used in all our names to this day. 

If that is true, then I’m sad to report that al Qaeda won – or at least they won among the American right. Our fear is what they want. Giving into it means they win. I, for one, am not afraid of terrorists.