Who could have foreseen?

For the last few weeks as Dick Cheney has given his numerous "You WANT me on that wall, you NEED me on that wall...when you put your fingers into a pile of GOO that used to be your best friend's face....forget it America, it's Chinatown" speeches he has maintained that not only was this government sanctioned torture vigorous tub time splashing effective, but it saved lives. What lives did it save? Those menaced by the sinister Iraq/al-Qaeda connection.

Finding a "smoking gun" linking Iraq and al Qaeda became the main purpose of the abusive interrogation program the Bush administration authorized in 2002, a former State Department official told CNN on Thursday.

The allegation was included in an online broadside aimed at former Vice President Dick Cheney by Lawrence Wilkerson, chief of staff for then-Secretary of State Colin Powell. In it, Wilkerson wrote that the interrogation program began in April and May of 2002, and then-Vice President Cheney's office kept close tabs on the questioning.

"Its principal priority for intelligence was not aimed at preempting another terrorist attack on the U.S. but discovering a smoking gun linking Iraq and al Qaeda," Wilkerson wrote in The Washington Note, an online political journal.

My God, you're telling me that they used techniques developed and perfected by the Spanish Inquisition and Khmer Rouge to elicit false confessions....was used to elicit false confessions? Oh me oh my, a plot twist so complex and labyrinthine as to boggle the mind. Who could have foreseen this revelation? Who could have foreseen that Dick Cheney, rascal in chief, was talking utter shit? Someone has told Dick that he wasn't the only person involved with this and that when he starts telling bald faced lies there are other people that exist with different information and little pieces of paper with ink that says the opposite, right?

But there we are. We didn't even get anything good for the complete violation of our laws, international standing, principles, and integrity. Bush and Cheney couldn't even do torture right.