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Bush/Cheney Worse Terrorists Than Bin Laden

May 13, 2009

Why Bush/Cheney chose to torture…..
The military agency that provided advice on harsh interrogation techniques for use against terrorism suspects referred to the application of extreme duress as "torture" in a July 2002 document sent to the Pentagon's chief lawyer and warned that it would produce "unreliable information."
What "unreliable information" did Bush/Cheney want produced?
"While we [...]

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The Dick Report

May 9, 2009

Updated below
While Mr. Cheney held the office of the vice presidency, about the only time I can recall him being on the teevee was during the fraud-up leading to the U.S. act of aggression against the formerly sovereign nation of Iraq. Mr. Cheney appeared several times on American teevee telling obvious lies about the awful, [...]

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How Many Americans Must Die For Bush?

May 6, 2009

Philip Gourevitch of The New Yorker writes…
"When one of the prisoners resisted, (Corporal Charles) Graner later told Army investigators, “I bashed him against the wall.” Running hooded prisoners into walls was also standard practice at Abu Ghraib, but this prisoner fell to the floor, and blood ran out from under his hood, and a medic [...]

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Torturing Detainees Cost American Lives

April 29, 2009

Conservatives, arguing that Bush era torture crimes should not be investigated or prosecuted, have chosen to resort to a slogan in defending their position. Torture, "saved American lives". Therefore, the slogan implies, torture should not be prosecuted as a crime.
Not only is the slogan not factual, the truth is just the opposite of the slogan. [...]

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Why The Bush Administration Ordered Torture

April 27, 2009

We now know that the Bush/Cheney administration ordered the torturing of detainees being held in U.S. secret prisons, in direct and repeated violation of national and international law. That is no longer in dispute. We also know now that the Bush administration ordered torture to be done BEFORE any Justice Department "legal" memos defending [...]

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The Reckoning

April 23, 2009

Today's Akron Beacon Journal editorial has it wrong. That comes as no surprise to me. Those who write the editorials for the Beacon have been way behind the Bush curve for years. There would be no reason to expect a change now.
The editorial calls the Bush-Cheney torture regime "a failure of imagination". Sorry…. [...]

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GOP: Still A Criminal Enterprise

April 7, 2009

Nothing really new in the New York Times article today entitled, "Report Outlines Medical Workers' Role in Torture"…..
Medical personnel were deeply involved in the abusive interrogation of terrorist suspects held overseas by the Central Intelligence Agency, including torture, and their participation was a “gross breach of medical ethics,” a long-secret report by the International Committee [...]

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Hostage Nation

March 16, 2009

As I see it, America, the nation of 300 million, is being held hostage.
It is as if specific and powerful interests have kidnapped the population, placed knives against our collective throats, and then have continually sent ranson notes warning that the kidnappers will slit those throats if the proper authorities do not do exactly as [...]

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Fleischer & Gaffney's 2009 Whitewash Tour

March 13, 2009

*Crude language warning
The propagandist and former Bush II press secretary, Ari Fleischer, still having his way with "liberal" news show hosts, goes on Hardball the night before last and simply makes sh*t up…..

Fleischer…."After 9-11, having been hit once, how could we take a chance that Saddam might not strike again?"
Read that sentence again, you know, [...]

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Fire General Petraeus

February 3, 2009

At a meeting with President Obama on January 21, General David Petraeus, "tried to convince President Barack Obama that he had to back down from his campaign pledge to withdraw all U.S. combat troops from Iraq within 16 months.." says Gareth Porter, an IPS reporter.
But Obama informed Gates, Petraeus and Joint Chiefs Chairman Adm. Mike [...]

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