Dick Cheney should be waterboarded. And I will explain why.

I used to be an executive at a company. As an executive, you make executive decisions. Many of these decisions are secret and confidential.

You could walk out of a meeting and you see someone whose job has been eliminated but you cannot say a thing.

In making executive decisions, you are guided by the law and your moral base. There are cases where the law may be right but your moral base questions the strict application of the law in a particular instance. In such cases, you make an emotional appeal for leniency.

I have had cause to resign because I disagreed with actions that were being taken by a particular company. It was painful but it protected my conscience.

Dick Cheney, as the Vice President of the United States took a lot of executive decisions that involved the wellbeing and life of many Americans. He was supposed to be guided by the law and by his moral base.

Mr. Cheney’s history tells us that his moral base is shaky. As the CEO of Halliburton, Cheney authorized the bribing of government officials in Nigeria and other third world countries so that contracts would be awarded to Halliburton without contest. There is an investigation going on now that is not within the radar of the American media.

So as Vice President, following the 9/11 attack, Cheney went to the CIA and demanded that they link Iraq to the mostly Saudi Arabian men in Al Qaeda who attacked America. The loyal CIA operatives delivered what Cheney needed. It soon became Dick Cheney’s mode of operation. He starts with the end and finds the means to justify it.

When it was time to find out what captured Al Qaeda men knew, Cheney had no problem prescribing torture. But it was against the law. So Cheney does what he does best. He got some lawyers to interpret the law to suit his end.

That is now at the center of the recently released memo of harsh interrogation techniques approved by the Bush administration to be used on detainees.

Cheney is now saying that it worked. It kept America safe since 2001. Even though Al Qaeda may not be in a hurry to return to America, Cheney believes that it was torture that revealed their plans. And because it worked, all should be well, Cheney says. In essence he is saying that the end justified the means.

What Cheney has not done is provide proof as to how it worked. Cheney wants the Obama administration to declassify documents that proved that it worked.

The question is not whether it worked or not. It is illegal and immoral. It is against the Geneva Convention. It is against all that America stands for. It is against all that we are fighting for. Not that Dick Cheney will understand that.

But since Cheney is insisting that it worked and cannot tell us why because of official secret act, why don’t we grab him and waterboard him? That will make him talk. After all, according to Cheney, it made the Al Qaeda boys talk.