This guy is bad news

[clevermanka]

Another political post.

Bush vetoes bill banning waterboarding
CIA needs this kind of 'valuable' tool to prevent attacks, Bush says

Thanks to kalimeg for her heads-up (with exceptional rant) about this.

Absolutely sickening. As she points out, this puts people besides himself (and his cabinet) at risk of being accused and tried for war crimes. Oh, wait, though. The Geneva Conventions don't apply to the good old U.S. of A., do they? That's right, I forgot.

Can we last until next January? I'm not so sure.

Comments

[royal-spice.livejournal.com]

His unashamed faulty logic is astounding...how does waterboarding "prevent attacks"? Does the American public think upon hearing a sentence like that?

[theslice.livejournal.com]

Here's what sickens me even more. On CNN.com (arguably, a somewhat "liberal" news outlet), their daily question was something like "should we continue to use waterboarding on terror suspects?" The yes answers were either 54 or 56 percent, can't totally recall. But GAH.

[amjhawk.livejournal.com]

It is really ridiculous. Even the Congressional hearings are some sort of demented circus that might be funny if it weren't so serious.

I forget who it was, perhaps a CIA head honcho being asked about it by Ted Kennedy:

TK: "Is waterboarding torture?"
Guy: (Roundabout answer in the negative)
TK: "What if it was done to you?"
Guy: "...I would feel that it was."