Glub

It's possible that Cheney didn't support water-boarding. Or that he did, under the belief that it was acceptable, and not torture. Or that he did, under the belief that it is torture, but is acceptable under the 'ends justify the means' concept.

The first is unlikely.
The second is possible.
The third sounds like the Dick.

Its slowly beginning to sink into this skull of mine what we've let the George and Dick show do to the character of this country. What we've come to condone. And what it should mean to say that we don't do that kind of thing, even to the reprehensible scum we seek.

Geez, this kind of moralistic thought was a lot easier to handle when it was abstract and in the history books.