Presidential Approval Of Torture Worse Than We Thought

Posted by Digby at 10:52 AM on April 14, 2008.

Why did the President go so far as acting out the torture he wanted to see?

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Let me add to the chorus of those expressing their total revulsion in the President's admission that he approved high-level meetings inside the White House to direct what kinds of torture could be used on specific detainees, to the extent of acting out interrogation scenes right there in the room. I've been also spending a lot of my weekend time online reading over my posts from back when the Abu Ghraib scandal broke and we first learned of the beginnings of how torture was employed in our names. I had just started blogging about 10 days before the pictures came out in Sy Hersh's New Yorker article and on CBS. Here was my initial reaction.

I'm really just saddened today. Saddened and sickened by the latest reports that have come from Iraq, tales of torture and humiliation of prisoners at Abu Ghraib (which should now be called My Lai 2.0), of forcing naked Iraqis into simulated sexual positions, of attaching electrical wires to others.

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Impeach The Criminals Bush and Cheney [Report this comment] Posted by: left_libertarian on Apr 14, 2008 6:26 PM Current rating: 5 [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] grow a spine Democrats. Impeach the criminals Bush and Cheney. [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5] » RE: Impeach The Criminals Bush and Cheney Posted by: modeler the authorization of torture is anti-American, a violation of the US Constitution (Article VIII) [Report this comment] Posted by: Suzon on Apr 15, 2008 4:22 AM Current rating: 5 [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] Treason doth never prosper, what's the reason? For if it prosper, none dare call it treason. John Harington, English writer and courtier (1561-1612) Harington was writing when the descendants of William the Conquerer were still murdering each other in pursuit of the Crown, Orb and Scepter. About 300 years ago they decided they could keep their ill-gotten gains and amass even more wealth and power by using the law (explains why lawyers are hated). As in the US Congress and White House today, it was a matter of joint enterprize in order to share the spoils. Article VIII which prohibits cruel and unusual punishment (and this is after a fair trial) is not the only right which has been trashed, but it's certainly not a minor point. George Bush is a traitor. [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5] Lou Branch [Report this comment] Posted by: loubranch on Apr 15, 2008 8:57 AM Current rating: 5 [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] I will say it once again: On January 20, 2009 both President Bush and Vice President Cheney should be arrested as they walk off of the platform and charged with high crimes and misdemeanors. They are criminals. [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5] » RE: Lou Branch Posted by: madmax427 » RE: Lou Branch Posted by: loubranch WHAT DOES IT TAKE? [Report this comment] Posted by: JackieGiles on Apr 15, 2008 9:07 AM Current rating: 5 [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] A "third-rate burglary" of the DNC or Hillary's HQ? Lying the United States of America into an atrociously illegal, immoral war isn't bad enough, the wasted lives of 4,025+Americans, 30,000+ life-altering injuries and 100s of thousands of dead Iraqis clearly isn't bad enough. A crooked "Justice" Dept. helping to steal two presidential elections by purging eligible voters in strategic states? Nah! And now that Cowboy George and Deadeye Dick are caught both literally and figuratively drippingly red-handed, that's probably not enough to make Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid impeach these two world-class criminals. If Bush and Cheney are not impeached, how can a future tyrant , emboldened by the unspoken amnesty these two enjoy ever be held accountable? What is the standard? Must a president order the gunning down of innocent Americans in our streets? IF NOT BUSH AND CHENEY--WHO? [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5] » RE: WHAT DOES IT TAKE? Impeach Pelosi, too Posted by: blackie4aces Not Meaning To Hammer A Dead Horse, But.... [Report this comment] Posted by: blackie4aces on Apr 15, 2008 11:35 AM Current rating: 4 [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] By now I wwould imagine most of us, seventy percent of us at any rate, a figure which demonstrates how really smart we are as a nation, have pretty much come to the conclusion that George Bush is not only a liar, a mean-spirited little would-be tyrant, a not-very-bright spoiled and truculent protege and tool of a vicious, devious, and criminal cabal, but also a demonstrable and abject coward. Amidst all the troop love and the "Support the Troops" rhetoric, this piece of sorry shit was quite willing to let the troops take the rap for what he is now admitting to; or, perhaps, bragging about it, now that he thinks that he has legal cover behind which to hide. When it comes to George, who can know? This despicable human garbage was more than willing to sit back while the troops he so dearly loves, he says, were getting nailed to the wall with maximum sentences when Li'l George thought he could be called to account for criminal liability. No doubt these soldiers deserved some punishment, but if they acted as a result of orders, even if less than official but which were generated from orders that were official, that matriculated down the chain of command, then there are some extenuating circumstances that apply to their cases. And George? Why George just called them rogues and let them all burn. Where was Li'l George? Just as he hid in the National Guard from Vietnam, just as he hid in Alabama from the National Guard, he was hiding behind a wall of bullshit piled up around the White House. George Bush is a criminal, a would-be fascist, a hypocrite and a liar. And now we know beyond a shadow of a doubt, George Bush is a coward. Accusation from Satan's Neutral Corner [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5] » RE: Not Meaning To Hammer A Dead Horse, But.... Posted by: madmax427 » RE: Not Meaning To Hammer A Dead Horse, But.... Posted by: blackie4aces Sick & Twisted! [Report this comment] Posted by: Quannah on Apr 15, 2008 9:37 PM Current rating: Not yet rated [1 = poor; 5 = excellent] How sick and twisted is Bush to have been "...acting out interrogation scenes right there in the room..."?????? But then again... when he was a boy, he liked to blow up frogs with firecrackers. Yeah... figures. He's one sick #@*& [« Reply to this comment] [Post a new comment »] [Rate this comment: 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5]

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