Cheney: "I was a big supporter of waterboarding"

What do you say to a man who just, as Sully noted, admitted to a war crime? From an ABC News interview:

"KARL: ... waterboarding, clearly, what was your...

CHENEY: I was a big supporter of waterboarding. I was a big supporter of the enhanced interrogation techniques that...

KARL: And you opposed the administration's actions of doing away with waterboarding?

CHENEY: Yes."

Not that is new for most of us. But a stark reminder of how much this man supported torture. The sadists among us still defend this and claim to not support torture--but they are deluding themselves and us. This is what they did in the Inquisition to suspected heretics. This is what they did to captured US servicemen in Japan, and this is what they did in KGB rooms in the former Soviet Union.

This, the former Vice President proudly supports. Why is he not on trial for war crimes? And why is he interviewed as some reasonable and rational person in polite society? And why is one of his flacks now writing a column in the WaPo?

And just a reminder. I have Republican friends who tell me that the party is not a supporter of torture. I don't see much evidence of that, and Cheney going proudly on ABC to brag about torturing people reinforces that.