Torturing Syntax, Meaning, and People
Shorter Bush: "We don't torture people, and we need every available means necessary to extract information from evil-doers, so if you put limits on what we can do, we won't be able to torture, which we don't do anyway, but if we did, it would be for a good reason. So let us torture people, because we promise we won't."
The fact that this is even on the table is simply appalling. The Senate got it right, when they voted 90-9 to include the McCain amendment in the defense budget (big thumbs down to the 9 who voted against it), but the Dick Cheney as Edgar Bergen administration threatens to veto the budget if it passes with the amendment intact. Today, Preznit Someone Else's Hand Up His Ass spoke at a news conference with Panamanian President Martin Torrijos and tried to make the case -- again -- that the rules no longer apply when it comes to the War on Terror. They're doing such a bang-up job of fighting that war that, as of today, when the Pentagon announced that five additional suspects at Guantanamo will face charges, they have charged a total of nine people -- out of some 500 detainees -- with criminal offenses.
Nine.
Out of 500.
Maybe they need to have the handcuffs taken off their interrogators, so that they can use "whatever means necessary" to extract some real information and charge more people. Oh wait -- that already hasn't worked.
Why can't we get these evil bastards out of office NOW? What they are asking for, and what they have already done, runs so counter to the ideals of the United States and the guarantees of our Constitution as to be no less than treason. They are liars and scoundrels and criminals, traitors to America, the whole lot of them, no ifs ands or buts about it.
It's enough to make a reasonable person scream, throw up his hands, then go curl up in a dark corner and rock, rock, rock until numb.
The fact that this is even on the table is simply appalling. The Senate got it right, when they voted 90-9 to include the McCain amendment in the defense budget (big thumbs down to the 9 who voted against it), but the Dick Cheney as Edgar Bergen administration threatens to veto the budget if it passes with the amendment intact. Today, Preznit Someone Else's Hand Up His Ass spoke at a news conference with Panamanian President Martin Torrijos and tried to make the case -- again -- that the rules no longer apply when it comes to the War on Terror. They're doing such a bang-up job of fighting that war that, as of today, when the Pentagon announced that five additional suspects at Guantanamo will face charges, they have charged a total of nine people -- out of some 500 detainees -- with criminal offenses.
Nine.
Out of 500.
Maybe they need to have the handcuffs taken off their interrogators, so that they can use "whatever means necessary" to extract some real information and charge more people. Oh wait -- that already hasn't worked.
Why can't we get these evil bastards out of office NOW? What they are asking for, and what they have already done, runs so counter to the ideals of the United States and the guarantees of our Constitution as to be no less than treason. They are liars and scoundrels and criminals, traitors to America, the whole lot of them, no ifs ands or buts about it.
It's enough to make a reasonable person scream, throw up his hands, then go curl up in a dark corner and rock, rock, rock until numb.
posted by Generik at 4:27 PM
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