Crikey!
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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Our favorite pinup girls shines again.
Barbaric tactics, Helen, is having to look at your ugly puss when the White House has a Press Conference.
Boy, that isn’t what you’d call a flattering photo, is it?
Oh, man, talk about shock!! Check the pic at post #8.
Just asking.
Thanks for the ping! I feel pretty.
Crikey!
i think for our pinup girl, it’s one of her best
Let's talk about REAL torture:
Get a load of the morons on that site calling for Bush’s head (never mind his family and associates). What total incoherent absurd assholes.
Probably the same things. MIL probably just had to re-submit with every new admin.
Helen, don’t take that blind hate and vile bias to the grave. You will be judged in the same light as will all Liberal hypocrites.
And looking at you, the grave is very near!
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