Digby: Presidential Approval Of Torture Worse Than We Thought

[marmar]

from AlterNet's PEEK:



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?



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.

http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/82304/

[NightWatcher]

1. "worse than we thought" WE know he is an evil little* who lied us into a war....

nothing he does surprises me

[bullimiami]

2. not worse than a lot of us thought.

[HockeyMom]

3. If he blew up frogs for kicks

as a kid, torture must turn him on.

[jtrockville]

4. Not worse than the images.

[Blackhatjack]

5. Bush has damaged this country in ways that will not be remedied in my lifetime...

... Never again will we have the abililty to call out other countries for their torture and human rights abuses, now that we are added to that list of countries that have engaged in it.

IT is unbelievable that this has gone on during our watch, and Bush & Co continue to prance around thumbing their noses at anyone who even suggests they should be held accountable.

[Disturbed]

7. US Govts have outsourced Torture for many years.

While the Busholini Regime also outsourced Torture via Rendition they also decided
to take on the task via the CIA & other orgs. Tenet, having learned from History that
the CIA would be blamed, forced the Busholini Regime to sign off on every case of Torture that the CIA performed.

[horseshoecrab]

8. No, never again.

What can we do now? How can we get them out?

If we impeach him, or both he and Cheney, won't they have to have their show trial in the Senate before any sort of actual criminal charges and trial can be brought? Or will they? Will a Special Prosecutor help?

We need to get them out of there. This is so, so awful.

:puke:

horseshoecrab

[T Monk]

6. if crimes against humanity called for it, facial pulverazation

would be a good start for this president.

[Rex]

9. George has legal opinions?

SCOTUS lookout! Fucking Judge Stupid loose on the population! Ack!

[sicksicksick_N_tired]

10. The right-wing poo-poo'd it, the left was shocked, the middle held hearings,...

,...and absolutely no fucking thing was done to those who implemented it ---> NOTHING NOTHING NOTHING!

Where is the so-called "political will" to uphold basic human rights and prosecute war crimes?
HUH? :shrug: HUH?
This country is dysfunctional, the political system a death trap, the people powerless.

Geez,...I am just so angry, today!

I'm sorry. :-(

[edhopper]

11. How can you even talk about this?

Don't you know a candidate used the word "bitter"?

:sarcasm:

[alittlelark]

12. I know what I'm BITTER about....

The fact that these War Criminals have not yet been sent to THE HAGUE.

[liberalla]

13. bookmarked

and recommended