Cheney left his statement ambiguous, and only implied, with plausible deniability, that he was condoning waterboarding, because he COULD have been talking about pushing sopmeone into the deep end with their hands tied over and over, or pushing them underwater briefly in a lake, or any number of other of his possible "no-brainer" explanations.
Ambiguity, to a politician of his stripe, is a priceless commodity, no??
I'd love to have a senior politician who figured out what he meant before he opened his mouth, said what he meant, and made it clear what he was saying.