Bush says torture still necessary

Source: Raw Story

Bush says torture still necessary
David Edwards and Andrew McLemore
Published: Sunday January 11, 2009

With days left in office and an abysmal approval rating, President Bush is still defending the use of torture.

In an interview on Fox News, Bush told Brit Hume that he approved enhanced interrogation tactics for suspected terrorists like Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.

"My view is the techniques were necessary and are necessary," Bush said.

The Bush administration has faced scathing criticism from those who say waterboarding and other enhanced interrogation tactics approved by Bush to be torture.

The president disagreed with notion that such tactics amount to torture.

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the prosecution, no?

someone else to do the torturing for him....:sarcasm: He said he never did, now he's changing his tune again....like stay the course

I'd like everyone in his administration and elsewhere who signed off on torture to have their own philosophy thoroughly tested on them. In a just Universe, Bush and his cohorts would be at the Hague, waiting for trial, then execution.

And "the Hague" is a city, not a court, right?

Just asking.

:puke:

:sarcasm:

Torture is something done in Third World Countries, like Cuba.

him and chainy. :sarcasm:

In his own words - I approved torture. Send him and the rest of the cabal to the Hague!

I still think some very bad things will happen this week.

Bush should be jailed for the rest of his miserable life.

Waterboarding is torture. Bush is a war criminal.

The media, and others, are using language like, "scathing criticism from those who say waterboarding and other enhanced interrogation tactics approved by Bush to be torture" to suggest the idea that maybe it isn't torture and it's all a matter of opinion.

It's an established fact - and an established legal fact - that waterboarding is torture. And not just waterboarding.

Anyone pretending otherwise , with word or with deed, is doing nothing more than spreading lies to cloud the truth and giving Bush and Cheney a pass on war crimes.

Language matters.

a position to do so is just wrong..

You all need to read her comments along the way and accept reality and reality is thanks to her there will be no prosecution of anyone. I'm surprised Scooter Libby was prosecuted. Although in a way he really wasn't. He was more or less scapegoated. And then had it all commuted by the president who more than likely will pardon him in the end. To keep him, the one man who was prosecuted, from testifying against anyone else.

This whole matter is so hypocritical. You cannot condemn Bush without condemning Pelosi. And yet few are willing to condemn her.

She lost me the minute she said, "Impeachment is off the table." D@mn collaborator.

and I have read her comments and I have spoken out against them

And I am not the only one on DU that has...evidence abounds of it.

You're right...the entire matter is hypocritical.

is proud of his policy of torture now.

But I guess he can hardly say anything else. That would be a one-way ticket to the Hague.

I read where he made a deal. What kind of deal? Esoteric. The internets were talking about it a year ago.

Bush is fucked.

not complain about being water boarded or stripped nude, shackled to the floor, hooded, subjected to cold conditions, extremely loud music, strobe lights being doused with cold water, and kicked for no apparent reason. Then you should not mind being stripped, hooded, hung by your wrists, then beaten to death.

remember his words and torture the hell out of him. Maybe a few sessions on his favorite waterboard.

since he knows -- and has known, all along -- that the whole lot of them is getting away scot free.

"You don't like it? Waddaya gonna do about it? Who cares what you think. Heh heh heh..." Or, in the Dick Cheney version,
"go fuck yourselves".

See how HE likes it!

worse president than your father would do X," and then he will defend X as being smarter than anything his dad did.

Not legally immune but no one will ever get any official government response to this criminality.
Never.
Count on it.

Bush, Cheney and their minions are totally untouchable no matter how much people cry out.

:eyes:

Too many other things to deal with right now.

and catch OBL?

can you name 1 great civilization that hasn't prospered and lived in peace that didn't torture?

look how swell the Israelis live... people need to be realist here and give bush the credit he is due.

turning the cold war hot, inflaming the middle east, the torture decider and looting the economy.

he hada tough job don't you know.

Water Boarded live on TV pay per view. Ask them about 9/11, the 2.3 Trillion dollars gone missing 09/10/01, and the lies leading up to the invasion of Iraq. Then after the W/B we can send Bush and his whole regime to Iraq for a trial like Saddam got.

Only if we get to see Bushie, Cheney, Rummy, etc get the same treatment.

Arguing over the meaning of words has become a regular past time in DC. I guess on some level just being behind bars is torture. So we have to decide where we draw the line.

All of them and for Crimes Against Peace (Iraq War)!
And Senators, even Democrats, for aiding and abetting!
SAVE THE HONOR AND INTEGRITY OF THE UNITED STATES!

It may still be necessary to waterboard Bush and possibly even shove a red hot poker up his ass a time or two.