As the principal
architect behind the policies of the Bush administration, from the
global war on terror, to illegal detention and torture,
Vice-President Dick Cheney is an unwelcome guest in Rome
today.
Add to this his role in privatizing war resulting in
huge personal profits, his role in unlawful wiretapping, and his
notion that the executive branch of government is neither bound by
any limits nor subject to accountability, just to mention a
few examples of his basically criminal behavior these past
eight years.
Cheney's
the guy who described the detainees of Guantánamo as
“living in the tropics”, who thinks the acceptability
of waterboarding is “a no brainer,”and who,
during an interview with ABC's Martha Raddatz, made the notorious
reply pictured here. This man deserves an indictment, not a
welcome!
Cheney is in Rome to discuss the crisis in
Georgia, the situation in the Middle East, Iraq, Afghanistan and
Iran, looking for additional support from the Italian government.
The issue of the new U.S. base in Vicenza is certainly on the
agenda as well: on Saturday the police charged a peaceful
demonstration against the base held just outside the terrain. One
of our members got brutalized in the process.
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