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CNN - Rice, Cheney OK'd CIA use of waterboarding
What really gets me is Cheney coming out and saying, "It gave us good information."
Y'know what, Dickie-bird?
FUCK you.
Whatever information it produces, torture is torture. It's a relic of our barbarous past, and it's something that we should never engage in. And you think Obama is putting us at risk by releasing these memos? Maybe he is, but only because now the people who might have balked at torturing our people, on the grounds that America was a country that didn't engage in such savagery, are now going to say, "Well, America, if you like torture so much, I suppose you won't mind a little waterboarding yourselves?" The least of the reasons why we don't torture other people is because we don't want them doing it to us! The greatest of those reasons is because it's fucking wrong!
It's called being better than your enemies, Dick. It's called not sinking to their level. It's called integrity, asshole - do you have any?
I doubt it.
Dick.
Mister Attorney General - release the hounds.
EDIT - via jt93: DOJ Prosecuted Texas Sheriff in 1983 For Waterboarding PrisonersIn 1983, the Justice Department prosecuted a Texas sheriff and three of his deputies for waterboarding prisoners to get them to confess to crimes.
The deputies were sentenced to four years in prison and Parker pleaded guilty to extortion and federal civil rights violations and received a 10-year sentence. Parker admitted that he had operated a “marijuana trap” on U.S. Highway 59, arrested suspects, and, according to court documents, subjected “prisoners to a suffocating water torture ordeal in order to coerce confessions.
If only Cheney and Rice,and Yoo and Bybee and Bradbury had been TEXAS GODSDAMNED SHERIFFS....
What really gets me is Cheney coming out and saying, "It gave us good information."
Y'know what, Dickie-bird?
FUCK you.
Whatever information it produces, torture is torture. It's a relic of our barbarous past, and it's something that we should never engage in. And you think Obama is putting us at risk by releasing these memos? Maybe he is, but only because now the people who might have balked at torturing our people, on the grounds that America was a country that didn't engage in such savagery, are now going to say, "Well, America, if you like torture so much, I suppose you won't mind a little waterboarding yourselves?" The least of the reasons why we don't torture other people is because we don't want them doing it to us! The greatest of those reasons is because it's fucking wrong!
It's called being better than your enemies, Dick. It's called not sinking to their level. It's called integrity, asshole - do you have any?
I doubt it.
Dick.
Mister Attorney General - release the hounds.
EDIT - via jt93: DOJ Prosecuted Texas Sheriff in 1983 For Waterboarding PrisonersIn 1983, the Justice Department prosecuted a Texas sheriff and three of his deputies for waterboarding prisoners to get them to confess to crimes.
The deputies were sentenced to four years in prison and Parker pleaded guilty to extortion and federal civil rights violations and received a 10-year sentence. Parker admitted that he had operated a “marijuana trap” on U.S. Highway 59, arrested suspects, and, according to court documents, subjected “prisoners to a suffocating water torture ordeal in order to coerce confessions.
If only Cheney and Rice,and Yoo and Bybee and Bradbury had been TEXAS GODSDAMNED SHERIFFS....