And then there's Dick Cheney. Yesterday on Meet the Press, he told Chuck Todd:

"I’m more concerned with bad guys who got out and released than I am with a few that in fact were innocent,".... Todd pressed Cheney, asking if he was okay with the fact that about 25 percent of the detainees interrogated were actually innocent.

"I have no problem as long as we achieve our objective.

Dick Cheney may have the darkest soul of the last half century. Transplant notwithstanding, he certainly has no heart.

The released men are Adel bin Muhammad El Ouerghi from Tunisia, Ali Husain Shaaban, Abedlhadi Omar Faraj and Ahmed Adnan Ajuri from Syria, and Palestinian Mohammed Abdullah Taha Mattan. Last week, Abedlhadi Omar Faraj wrote a letter to the Uruguayan people:

“Were it not for Uruguay, I would still be in the black hole in Cuba today,” said the letter. “It is difficult for me to express how grateful I am for the immense trust that you, the Uruguayan people, placed in me and the other prisoners when you opened the doors of your country to us.”

Uruguayans have welcomed the former detainees with open arms, cheers, clapping and even hugs. They have job offers through the local trade union, which is providing their housing.

I hope the detainees know how many of us in America are cheering their freedom. I'd also like them to know that Dick Cheney is nothing more than a retired politician who speaks only for himself. He's an embarrassment to our nation. He will probably have his own room in our Hall of Shame.