Apologise for Torture? 'That's Not Appropriate'

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Cheney meanwhile described a complete ban on certain interrogation techniques as 'recklessness cloaked in righteousness. . . staying on that path will only lead our government further away from its duty to protect the American people'. [...] when you think about Saddam Hussein and the slaughter that he committed against his own people and his continued sponsorship of terror, for example, I think the cost would have been far greater than it was if we had not acted.' [...] if Cheney is unrepentant about the past, he has taken a similarly uncompromising attitude towards the future of the Republican party. Whether it be Anglo-American relations, national security policy or the Republican party, he is poised to defend the record of the Bush administration and argue for more of the same.

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Apologise for Torture? 'That's Not Appropriate'

In an exclusive interview, Dick Cheney tells Daniel Collings that Obama is wrong to say sorry for waterboarding and enhanced interrogation techniques. The former Vice-President turned critic-in-chief has no regrets: if he upset Blair, he was 'just doing his job'

Richard B. Cheney, the 46th Vice-President of the United States, is back. Though he left the White House wheelchairbound in January, looking for all the world like he just wanted to see out his days fishing in Wyoming, his retirement didn't last long. Unwilling to settle into the traditional role of e...

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