Did Bush just admit to torture?
While telling the nation that he's getting a colonoscopy---did Bush just admit that the US has been torturing?
President Bush signed an executive order Friday prohibiting cruel and inhuman treatment, including humiliation or denigration of religious beliefs, in the detention and interrogation of terrorism suspects..
The White House declined to say whether the CIA currently has a detention and interrogation program, but said that if it did it must adhere to the guidelines outlined in the executive order. The order targets captured al-Qaida terrorists who have information on attack plans or the whereabouts of the group's senior leaders.
CIA Director Michael Hayden said on Friday it provides clarity for CIA interrogators and other agency officials worried about the legal liabilities of their involvement in secret detention operations.
Why the clarification if there was never a problem to begin with?
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Its a good thing they clarified it before I got elected to office.
I would have used torture the likes of which the Dark Ages had never imagined to get to the real story behind the Iraq war and the Patriot Act, and I would have put it on Pay-per-view too.
Frist!
What is our country coming too? When Reagan administration Republicans are worried about the constituionality of this administration, you know you have a right to be worried.
Bush's colonoscopy is torture for the medical staff performing it. He's chock full of the most putrid kind of s&!t!!
I wonder if they'll flip a coin to decide which end to put the scope in.
They are so busted.Mark Green was on Hardball and he had a great line. Bush took it literally when he executed the law. He really executed it. Funeral plans pending.
PNAAC Minister @ 4:
I'm telling ya...the prep is the worst. I hope he had fun with the 'Golytly' and the anti-emetic that goes with it last night.
"..officials worried about the legal liabilities.."
So another cat is about to get out of the bag or Bush is going to ratchet up the torture another notch and this order just provides cover. The last thing he's concerned about is the humane treatement of suspects!
>> Why the clarification if there was never a problem to begin with?
Why, because this administration has been nothing if not proactive, of course.
(I'll set 'em up, you can knock 'em down :-)
E Pleb Neesta
GODISNOWHERE
Blessed are the cheese makers.
If HPV vaccination, contraception and sex-ed promote promiscuity,
then surely confession promotes sin.
miss_kitty @ 7:
I can just seel Laura with that stoned look in her eyes standing outside the bathroom laughing at the keening wails coming from within.
"Why the clarification if there was never a problem to begin with?"
Trying to slip one past the judges at the Hague?
FYI....
David Shuster sitting in for Tucker right now~
hope MSNBC management is seriously considering giving this time slot to David Shuster permanently~
PNAAC Minister @ 10:
I'd say "no shit!' here, but actually, it's quite the opposite.
:mrgreen:
As long as there isn't organ failure or death, there is no torture. You can burn someone all over their body with a cigarette -- it's just encouraged communication. Why do the anti-torture complainers hate freedom? Smirk. Bottom line: If there is a God in the sky, George Bush will someday be waterboarded 24/7/365 and well deserved.
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Ahhhh, single payer health? Medicare for all?
Al Gore spends a chapter on Bush and torture in his new book. See a short video book report at:
the Eastern Europe "black sites" will probably stay open
AKAMALE @ 15:
You're kidding, right? Does annihilation of the environment ring a bell? What about education, health care, etc. etc. ad nauseum?
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Did he admit to torture? No. Why the clarification? Easy to explain: well, we had this quite reasonable and necessary-to-protect-our-country policy, but all these whiners went yammering about something or another about it, so here's our clarification.
Akamale: uh, yeah, I guess Bush is in the free and clear, because after all, what's the President really have control over, huh. That's a novel new angle I hadn't thought of.
Al Gore spends a chapter on Bush and torture in his new book. See a short video book report at:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=P6nTAR2MVYQ
Maybe we'll finally find those WMDs
spinn,
It's always entertaining when one of the increasingly rare Bush-apologists sticks their head out of their shells and pretends to adopt a philosophical view of the issues.
It won't be the first time he has signed a bill for the public and then just ignored it.
I promise you the torture won't stop.
Remember when Rumsfield (? spelling) said it was a lie that torture was going on?
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Same day, opposite message: Bush reinstates cruel and unusual interrogation techniques
[So honesty/shadow Your calls for a strike and revolution were all a ruse? An empty gesture?
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If that ain't an admittance I don't know what is . . . ..
Do you know what time it is kiddies ??????
say , maby theyll find chenys watch when they get up in his arseole
Big deal. Bush has shown he will do or say one thing in public, while doing its opposite in private. Remember his comments in 2005 about wiretaps requiring a court order, which came after he authorized the secret survelliance program in 2001. He is an unabashed liar with no respect for law or the seperation of powers.
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TDoff @ 5:
ROTFLMAO!!!! Thanks! I needed that...
As for Bush, I hope the equipment gets stuck!
While Bush goes public with his "anal retention" headaches, the subject of torture I find quite amusing. You mean a US government official actually tortures? Holy smokes!! Now that would be news, wouldn't it? The entire globe knows the US privately has tortured for decades. I sure hope nobody is surprised. It's nice to see it getting headlines, but where the heck was all this torture attention for, oh say, the last 50 or so years? US governments have assassinated leaders on various occasions, were going to blow up a planeload of their own people and blame Cuba, arrested a leader through invasion and threw him in jail never to be seen from again, etc, etc, and yet it takes a complete buffoon administration like the Bushites before Americans actually think about their government not being the "good guys"? Wow. If ANYBODY is surprised at all, they deserve the government they have. That's all I can say.
Plug @ 22:
Coming out of Bush's ass? (zing!)
Lucy @ 26:
From the article (dated July 20):
So, are those the same Justice Dept. lawyers who read FISA (i.e. the sole means of obtaining surveillance warrants on domestic suspects for intelligence purposes) as optional? I love how Bush/Cheney keep saying, "we had lawyers advise us on how to do this legally..." Yeah, I wish that worked for me with my parking tickets.
I never thought that the image of the chimp could actually overpower my gag reflex, but he has to take stuff that will make him repeatedly "run" to the bathroom in a monumental crapfest marathon to enable the doctor to get a clear picture of McLame and Lieberloser's heads tomorrow.
Pass the Jet Blue bag, please.
it's a win-win, bush likes it up the ass, and cheney gets to be president.
If mental images of bush on the crapper last for more than 4 hours, call a doctor.
I hope he gets a crappy doctor... who confuses colonoscopy with lobotomy.
http://www.judietallman.com/lobotomy.guy.jpg
Hahaha!!!
Bush signed that order because even he is afraid of what Cheney might do during the few hours he assumes the role as prez.
miss_kitty @ 7:
PNAAC Minister @ 10:
Yes indeedy...A long night on the bowl...:-)
I guess the geneva conventions don't provide enough "clarity?"
What kinds of signing statement did Bush assign to this one?
Chimp constantly scares the more gullible citizens of this country into supporting his asinine actions by claiming al Qaeda is ‘everywhere’. This probe may have been scheduled because he truly believes his own paranoid babblings and is having the Doctor check to see that none snuck in his back door.
Every thing we do to stop these war criminals will be respected by future generations of Americans. We know our duty.
Every time we make the repuglithugs back away from their fantasy of Jack Bauer, we save heartbreak for our troops, who never wanted to commit atrocities.
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Bush signs an executive order banning cruel and inhuman treatment.......
.....Oh, Okay......NOW it is prohibited by executive order.....
Well that makes it all better! ;-)
Torture in the name of the free, more misery for you and me
They ship ‘em out so we can’t see the way they bring ‘em to their knees
Judgement day is coming
They might not like what it’s gonna say
Judgement day is coming
The holy hypocrites are gonna pay
-Wackiavelli
He's using this to cover his executive his other executive order...
Link:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/07/20070717-3.html
As I said... He’s using this to cover his other executive order…
Link:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/07/20070717-3.html
Bush Sees The Light?
Why? Because all you jackass dumbocrats were hollering for rules banning torture. Well here are your rules so shut up.
During the colonoscopy, Darth Cheney was running the country. I am surprised that he didn't declare martial law and shut down the Internet. Where does it say that we Americans have freedom of speech?
Watch how "detention and interrogation of terrorism suspects" becomes
"order targets captured al-Qaida terrorists"
could apply to both, though usually there are no suspects, they're all terrists cuz they look different.
Doctors predict Bush's colonoscopy will go smoothly because patient is the world's biggest asshole.
Will waterboarding continue to be a republican family value?
Whitehouse @ 39:
If he gets an enema before the procedure, that *will* be the same as a lobotomy.
There always hasbeen/is/will be torture by the hands of the USA. It's very existence is built on it.
We will be party to a modern-day Crusades.
Bush's Dr., shortly before the scheduled exam, received a letter from white house lawyer Fred Fielding. It informed him of President Bush's decision to assert Executive Privilege and offer to orally answer the Dr.'s questions privately not under oath and without a transcript. Developing...
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