George says he prays before every decision: So does Jesus support torture?
George W. Bush admitted that the US waterboarded 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed. (photo: AP)v
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All his life whatever crimes and misdemeanors he committed were taken care of his father's lawyers. He has come to fully understand that there are no serious consequences no matter what evil he does. It is the way of privilege in this nation.
Most of America's drugs are bought by rich kids who can afford to pay for them. Those rich kids don't serve much time in federal prisons because they have good lawyers and rich parents who the kind of connections that explain that these poor rich kids just need a little treatment in a nice facility to get them back on the straight and narrow. GW Bush was and still is one of those poor misunderstood rich kids who are oblivious to any concepts of right and wrong.
The problem is deeper and broader than your example. Nothing will change until we have real journalists investigating and reporting their findings and that can't happen until the media monopolies are broken up and independent newspaper and broadcast stations make a comeback. This is where reform is more urgent than the financial, health insurance and drug
monopolies being broken up.
None of our problems can be solved as long as we have an uninformed,igno rant voters. In countries where there is no freedom of speech or press at least have an underground means of communication and know propaganda when they see. That recognition is missing in our nation.
As if further proof was needed that Bush is a complete bastard, he speaks up and reestablishes the case.
The world would have been a far better place if Bush and Cheney et al had been removed from it instead of Saddam Hussein. He couldn't possibly have done nearly as much damage to the world and to our country. Even 9/11 itself is a lesser tragedy to the greater one of 8 years of Bush and the legacy of Republican mendacity. And yes, we must not forget the Democratic complicity in all of this horror which continues to this day. When will we ever learn?
You're asking the wrong question. I have learned. So when are YOU ever going to learn? Alot of us understand that you prefer the destruction of our economy, waging wars against countries that can't defend themselves, wars against countries that are no threat to us. We understand that you like the military industrial complex and the corporate rape of America and the rape of people globally. We understand that you like torture even though it can NEVER provide reliable information and the killing of now perhaps approaching 2 million souls all out of hubris, greed and the desire to steal resources that don't belong to us.
Oh yeah, and let us not forget they our fighting to defend our right to free speech and to protect our freedom.
So whose going to protect us and the world...from us?
As for the inability to defend themselves, my apologies. They can and I suppose you are content that if we and our allies can't kill enough of them off, they will succeed at doing that to themselves.
I don't see anyone winning there. Do YOU? I'll revise my statement to say that we attack countries that we can't defeat but countries that can't win as long as we intend to immorally occupy them.
There. Good enough?
As for arguments that torture/other so-called violations of the Rules of War only demean the perpetrator, recall that WWII saw a multitude of "crimes" against POWs, civilians, etc. While not condoning these acts, the soldiers who committed them did so in the heat of battle, when their very lives were at stake. Yet, the majority of them came home, resumed their lives, became law-abiding, productive family men and members of society. They did not become dehumanized or monsters.
They simply did what they felt they had to do, at that time.
You decide... :)
Do you think G.W. was feelin' early on during his tragic, dark Presidency that he might actually be the Messiah and this was HIS Second Coming..?
And so, in his crowded mind.., Instead of looking at his personal ambitions in Iraq as--'War Mongering for an ego stroke'... or 'I wanna be a War Guy like Dad'.., perhaps he was thinking--- 'I'm the Smiter'... as if he actually felt he was doing Biblical 'Wet' Work for his 'Other Father'..?
But then, later on, during a spare moment in between pretzels and smirking, he tilted his head for a limited reality saw that BS piled up in his Presidency and this led him change his self involved Messianic view from 'I'm the smiter' to-- 'I'm the Decider' and then cut loose with it at a press conference as he realized he was not Smiting, but rather, just wrecking everything he came into contact with physically, mentally and spiritually because He DECIDED To..?
As a lifelong Democrat, I cannot begin to express my outrage at Nancy Pelosi for declaring that "impeachment is off the table."
Why? The Repubs impeached a Democrat over sexual misdeeds. And the Democrats won't consider impeachment for a war criminal?
1. For an act that wasn't anyone's business, except Hilary, in the first place, I'm sure glad he had the good sense to lie about it publicly. Oh yeah. That's perjury.
2. Rule number 2: When asked something that's none of your business you are entitled to lie and I don't give a rip who is asking.
3. You dare to suggest that this trivial, that's right, trivial event even remotely compares to the crimes of the Bush Administration?
Pathetic.
Meanwhile, Bill Clinton using his position of power to take advantage of women? Was anyone raped? Really? Actually? Are we talking consensual behavior here? Do you really think that ALL Presidents are NOT preyed upon by women like Monica?
Oh please. Spare me such silliness. I don't condone his behavior...I simply insist that it is trivial in comparison to Bush...so trivial in comparison that to even compare the two is utterly juvenile and ludicrous on the face of it.
Republicans are the hooligans of today and most of uneducated America loves it?
Take a glance of Sarah Palin, Rush Limbaugh, the TEA Party, the KKK, Neo-Nazis, corporate crooks, pedophile Republicans, ex-family values hypocrites, etc.,.
The list goes on.....and they are on the verge of getting elected.
The US has hit scum bottom!
Rightwingnuts wrung their tongues about Obama's calls for empathy; from torture to Katrina, it's all too clear they prefer a President who, like them, has none.
The detective “….deliberately fabricated witness statements and police reports, withheld material, exculpatory evidence from prosecutors and intentionally failed to conduct an adequate investigation,” as well as beat Mr. Gibbs to elicit a false confession.
So here is a big problem with beating or torturing: false confessions. The real murderer(s) was not caught. Perhaps the real murderer went on to commit other crimes.
In the world of terrorism, false confessions or evidence make the world less safe.
Actually he didn't. I was part of an investigation for one of his crimes and studied him closely until the end. The remorse expressed was just another attempt at charm, which, like a true sociopath he was so good at, and you can be sure he never lost a minutes sleep at night over anything he ever did. He wasn't capable of remorse as no true sociopath ever is.
Admit it - Bush should be tried for his high crimes & misdemeanors..
Our military industrial complex has taken over and unless we can change that then the ultra-wealthy will keep making money starting wars. Any excuse is good enough as we saw with 9-11.
Why does anybody think that the government wouldn't allow an independent investigation of 9-11. A whole year went by cleaning up the site to make sure that nothing incriminating was found. And all during that time people who suspected, and there's plenty to suspect, that the US was involved in the planning of the 9-11 debacle, Bushies blocked every attempt to find out what went on. They simply wanted to make sure they had a reason to attack a country that was in their way of gaining access to guess what?
I agree, although your Iraqi death count is a good 900,000 or more off. This would be a low estimate by the way, but your conclusion is correct.
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