Posted on 04/22/2009 4:47:36 PM PDT by SmithL
Shock and shame is the only way to react to the latest revelations of the Bush administration's brutal interrogation of suspected terrorists.
As the world now knows, torture techniques -- approved by President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld -- were exposed in four memos released by the Justice Department under a court order obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union.
Much as President Obama wants to move on and to forget the unsavory history of the preceding administration, he has to face up to its ugly reality.
The Bush administration's legal memos revealed that almost anything went when it came to dealing with the captives in U.S. hands, including water boarding -- a mode of simulated drowning, slamming prisoners against walls and placing a prisoner fearful of insects in a box crawling with caterpillars.
What sadist in our government thought of such barbaric tactics and in our name? Who are these people?
Interrogators apparently could do anything to humiliate the captives, who had never been charged, tried, or convicted. The interrogators were CIA agents and one wonders whether they all put their consciences in a blind trust.
For all that, Obama's first inclination was to let bygones be bygones and not be burdened by the Bush administration's questionable past.
But bowing to pressure from Democrats and many outraged Americans, Obama has begun to cave. Earlier this week, he raised the possibility of an investigation of the former administration's actions in the aftermath of the 9-11 terrorist catastrophe. Obama now says it should be up to Attorney General Eric Holder to decide whether those Bush administration lawyers who formulated the legal guidance on torture should be prosecuted. But the president does not think those who followed the legal guidance should be held accountable.
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Grotesque little trogladyte go suck on some more lemons, maybe you’ll shivel up and die.
Is that HT’s knuckle or her chin?
She really is not bright.
And as for President Bush, how can we all thank him for KEEPING US SAFE without REALLY using REAL torture ....like bamboo shoots rammed up under fingernails or CUTTING OFF HEADS ( something our enemy does ) etc?
Lets take this topic from the liberals. THEY DO NOT OWN IT! OUR interrogation methods SAVED thousands of American lives....
THANK YOU PRESIDENT BUSH AND YOUR DEPT OF JUSTICE AND YOUR WONDROUS MILITARY LEADERS. You kept us safe and showed our enemies that WE WILL NEVER SIT STILL AND DO NOTHING WHEN ATTACKED!
WHY DOES ANYONE AND I MEAN ANYONE TAKE THIS WOMEN SERIOUSLY!!!!!
Yea right like Bush had a chance with you leftist aholes dammed if he does dammed if he don’t.Go screw!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Helen I blame you for torturing us with your face.
I am still having a tough time believing it was torture myself.
HELEN THOMAS: Bush shares blame for torture tactics
DOUG RAGAN: Bush shares blame for stopping the terrorist cell that was planning a 9-11 style attack on Los Angeles as that attack was prevented by these tactics condemned by the left.
Well, Helen- President Bush made America safer for eight years so he shares credit for you living to be 2008 yrs old.
You know what? For the first time in her long, hateful, ugly, lizardly life, this queen commie hag is right.
Bush deserves ALL the blame.
For not issuing a BLANKET PARDON when he had the chance, the lousy stinking bipartisan LOSER.
How very JOHN MCCAIN of him to leave our fighting men and women TWISTING IN THE WIND and totally at the mercy of lousy leftist scum like Obama and Thomas.
What LiberalLoving George Bush did, by NOT pardoning all those involved in the war on terror is UNPARDONABLE.
He did not issue a pardon because there were no charges against them by anyone. What would he have pardoned them for?
What species is that?
Congressman Billybob
Who shares the blame for the torture of seeing Helen Thomas?
See the problem with the braindead liberals is that if the country gets attacked they blame Bush and Cheney. If they keep it safe, they blame Bush and Cheney.
Liberals are more dangerous than Al Qaeda.
> WHY DOES ANYONE AND I MEAN ANYONE TAKE THIS WOMEN SERIOUSLY!!!
She’s not a woman. Calling this hideous, ugly hag a woman is like calling Obama ‘the best president we’ve ever had’.
Who cares what that old hag has to say.
MAY THE HOME, OF WHO EVER POSTS A PICTURE OF THAT WHALE
BE VISITED BY D I A R R H E A.
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