What if Cheney's Right?

WASHINGTON POST, 5/12/2009 by Richard Cohen - Blogger Alert: I have written a column in defense of Dick Cheney. I know how upsetting this will be to some Cheney critics, and I count myself as one, who think -- in respectful paraphrase of what Mary McCarthy said about Lillian Hellman -- that everything he says is a lie, including the ands and the thes. Yet I have to wonder whether what he is saying now is the truth -- i.e., torture works. Read more at the Washington Post...

Hat tip: John H. Detweiler
John says, "Reality is always tough. Cheney, et al, was on the line and had to deal with reality. I wonder if Obama, et al, will be able to deal with reality."