Jun 042010
 

That GW Bush is a war criminal is not news.  Now he’s even bragging about it.

Bush-waterboarding George W. Bush did a lot of terrible, criminal things during his presidency, but arguably the single most immoral thing he did was sanction and normalize the use of torture. Guess what? That’s not how he sees it.

Speaking to the Economics Club of Grand Rapids, Michigan, the former president admitted to a criminal act and evinced no guilt:

“Yeah, we waterboarded Khalid Sheikh Mohammed,” Bush said. “I’d do it again to save lives.

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was waterboarded 183 times. Thanks to our nation’s proud embrace of torture, we learned of al-Qaeda’s completely imaginary plot to assassinate the pope. So, hell, if it’ll keep Americans safe, Bush will personally strip, diaper, shackle, and almost-drown KSM 183 more times, until the bastard finally admits to killing Natalee Holloway and blowing that call on first base last night…

Inserted from <Salon>

If you you don’t understand the title of this piece, Torquemada was the Inquisitor General of the Spanish Inquisition, infamous for using torture to obtain false confessions.

Keith Olbermann had an excellent take on this.

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I agree with Keith.  Barack Obama’s greatest failure as President has been his refusal to hold Bush, Cheney and dozens of their GOP cronies accountable for crimes too numerous to list.

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  4 Responses to “Texas Torquemada Admits War Crime”

  1. I agree, Obama should have indicted Bush, Cheney, Rice and a whole bunch of other people to show that we wouldn’t torture again. Can’t the Hague prosecute them for us since we’re too wimpy to do it? I’ll go down to Texas and haul his as over there for free if I have to. 🙂

  2. The decision not to prosecute ostensibly was based on a push for bipartisanship. Now that we know that’s not going to happen, and in light of this (as usual) idiotic blurb, we might think about holding our own leaders to the same accountability we insist on for other hooligans. Ain’t gonna happen, of course. But, as my grandmother always said, “Payday’s coming after a while!” (And, as I told a friend recently, I just hope I’m not next in line behind W on Judgment Day, ’cause it’s going to take half of eternity just to read the charges.)

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