Posted on 05/14/2009 9:35:27 AM PDT by steve-b
Lawrence Wilkerson has a must-read on what he now believes is the real reason Cheney was so insistent on torturing prisoners - he needed proof of an al Qaeda-Saddam connection to justify the war he had already decided to wage. This really is the explosive charge, because it reveals the real danger of torture in the hands of big government: it means our leaders can manufacture facts to justify anything. It gives them the crucial weapon they need to, as Ron Suskind's famous source explained, "create reality"....
(Excerpt) Read more at andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com ...
boy, these people are really reaching for something huh...never mind the fact that America was safe for 8 yrs after 9/11, i guess that doesn’t count for anything...they would have prefered war in our own streets.......
agreed
They are scared to death of Dick Chaney!!
The war is and has been already justified. Saddam Hussein was a sworn enemy of the United States and did operate a terror sponsoring regime that trained and financed terrorists including Al Quida. Saddam Hussein was a threat to our National Security.
This article is another example of the extreme stupidity that inflicts this nation due to the spread of liberal fascism.
You're welcome.
I liked Andrew Sullivan much better back when he was writing musicals... ;-P
I guess Andy’s T cells must be in the dumper again.
Baloney Salami Pastrami
We don’t need the Video on this one posted here.
MoveOn, nothing to see here.
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