"Critics of our policies are given to lecturing on the theme of being consistent with American values. But no moral value held dear by the American people obliges public servants ever to sacrifice innocent lives to spare a captured terrorist from unpleasant things. And when an entire population is targeted by a terror network, nothing is more consistent with American values than to stop them."—Dick Cheney
Former Vice President Dick Cheney—so demonized in the mainstream media for the last 8 years—has delivered the most cogent defense yet of the Bush strategies on national security.
The contrast with the President's politically-loaded speech the same day is stunning.