College Students Stage Mass Walkout On Dick Cheney, Call Him “War Criminal”

College Students Stage Mass Walkout On Dick Cheney, Call Him “War Criminal” – Video

by Will Kohler

Video footage shows students walking out on Dick Cheney while he was speaking at American University. The students were protesting his foreign policy, and calling him a “War criminal” as they left the arena.

As reported by American University’s The Eagle, the former vice-president denied allegations that he was a war criminal saying that “the accusation are not true.”

Cheney told the crowd that during his vice-presidency three people had been waterboarded.

According to Cheney, the enhanced interrogation tactics used do not fall under the scope of the 1949 United Nations Geneva Convention, which outlaws cruel, inhuman or any degrading treatment or punishment because the Geneva Convention does not apply to unlawful combatants.

The Bush administration considered terrorists as unlawful combatants and considered those undergoing enhanced interrogation tactics as terrorists.

“If I would have to do it all over again, I would,” Cheney said. “The results speak for themselves.”

You can watch the video below, contributed by Alejandro Alvarez.

Will Kohler