Arrest Bush

[Joanne98]

Bush Confesses to Waterboarding. Call D.C. Cops!

by Ted Rall
“Why are we talking about this in the White House?” John Ashcroft nervously asked his fellow members of the National Security Council’s Principals Committee. (The Principals were Vice President Dick Cheney, National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and Secretary of State Colin Powell, CIA Director George Tenet and Attorney General Ashcroft.)

“History will not judge this kindly,” Ashcroft predicted.

“This” is torture. Against innocent people. Conducted by CIA agents and American soldiers and marines. Sanctioned by legal opinions issued by Ashcroft’s Justice Department. Directly ordered by George W. Bush.

An April 11th report by ABC News describes how CIA agents, asked by previous presidents to carry out illegal “black ops” actions (torture and killings), had become tired of getting hung out to dry whenever their dirty deeds were revealed by the press. When the Bush Administration asked the CIA to work over prisoners captured in Afghanistan, Pakistan and elsewhere, Director George Tenet demanded legal cover. The Justice Department complied by issuing a classified 2002 memo, the so-called “Golden Shield,” authored by Office of Legal Counsel Jay Bybee. “Enhanced interrogation techniques” — i.e., torture — were legal, Bybee assured the CIA.

Tenet was a good boss, a CYA type. He wanted to protect his agents. So he got the Principals to personally sign off on each act of torture.

“According to a former CIA official involved in the process,” ABC reported, “CIA headquarters would receive cables from operatives in the field asking for authorization for specific techniques.” Can we beat up this guy? Can we waterboard him?

The Bushies weren’t otherwise known for dwelling on details. Osama was in Pakistan; they invaded Afghanistan instead. Two years later, he was still in Pakistan. They invaded Iraq. Bush and his top officials still found time to walk through every step of torment a detainee would suffer in some CIA dungeon halfway around the world.

“The high-level discussions about these ‘enhanced interrogation techniques’ were so detailed, sources said, some of the interrogation sessions were almost choreographed — down to the number of times CIA agents could use a specific tactic. These top advisers signed off on how the CIA would interrogate top Al Qaeda suspects — whether they would be slapped, pushed, deprived of sleep or subjected to simulated drowning, called waterboarding, sources told ABC news.”

Bush knew.

Not only did he know, he personally approved it. He likes torture.
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/04/30/8611/

Bush is a sicko. Everybody should have known that before they voted for him. It was all in that report about putting Karla Faye Tucker to death. He was in a good mood. He was mimicking her. "Please don't kill me". He roared with laughter. It shocked even his friends. I bet he jacks off at night watching torture videos.

[sharesunited]

1. Jesus changed his heart? Nah, that was just B.S. like everything else.

[Doctor_J]

2. Bush is mentally ill. He is a sociopath - one with no conscience, no soul

He is one of the most despicable, irredeemably evil men you are likely to find outside of a supermax prison. The fact that he was allowed to serve two terms in the white house indicates without a doubt that the US is riddled with terminal cancer.

[Cleita]

3. I think he should be charged, read his Miranda rights and arrested, however,

there is that small problem of the secret service who must defend him, even from our own law enforcement, and that he is commander-and-chief of a rather formidable military. It would have to be done after he leaves office, but I don't know who would do it unless a new Attorney General is put in office that has the patriotism and balls to deal with it.