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Home Front: WoT
Bush: U.S. Doesn't Torture Prisoners
2006-10-28
President Bush said Friday the United States does not torture prisoners, commenting after Vice President Dick Cheney embraced the suggestion that a dunk in water might be useful to get terrorist suspects to talk.
Hopefully we're just shooting them up with enough drugs to make them into garrulous zombies.
Human rights groups complained that Cheney's words amounted to an endorsement of a torture technique known as "water boarding."
Human rights groups complained that Cheney's words amounted to an endorsement of a torture technique known as "water boarding," in which the victim believes he is about to drown. The White House insisted Cheney was not talking about water boarding, but would not explain what he meant.
Personally, I don't care. If they decide to work the bastards over with Brillo and barbecue forks, I'm willing to help.
Less than two weeks before midterm congressional elections, the White House was put on the defensive as news of Cheney's remark spread. Bush was asked about it at a White House photo opportunity with NATO Secretary-General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer. Presidential spokesman Tony Snow was pelted with questions at two briefings with reporters.
Posted by:Fred

#12  What's his Domain?
Posted by: Shaviting Phinens9082   2006-10-28 23:08  

#11  Yup.
Posted by: lotp   2006-10-28 22:01  

#10  Crustie the clown from Toronto, Ontario. No wonder the nose is off-center. All the good ones come south.

Methinks it is the same clown that's posted a couple of times before. Only the name has changed.
Posted by: Pappy   2006-10-28 21:57  

#9  Give them a bath with lye soap and GI scrub brushes. Did that once with a guy who wouldn't bathe. There wasn't much skin left. It's not torture, it's hygiene.
Posted by: Old Patriot   2006-10-28 19:35  

#8  Lol. Easy, bubba, it's only a clown. ;-)

What appears to be a lament or critique, at least on first blush, is actually a celebration of being speshul, superior, a Chosen One. If only we were all so gifted 'n stuff. Sigh.

Lol.

Crusty, baby, your big red nose is off-center. Hie thee to make-up, toot suite! How can you play the role seriously if you look funny? It's CogDis of the First Order, lol.

Lol. Thanks for playing.
Posted by: .com   2006-10-28 14:31  

#7  Damn why do we get the idiotic trolls, I swear I hear one more time about the American Ideal about how wholesome we are. Look you stupid git people through are whole history had to do bad things to keep this country whole and if you don't like it Crustie F*cking leave.
Posted by: djohn66   2006-10-28 14:19  

#6  Presidential spokesman Tony Snow was pelted with questions at two briefings with reporters.

Did anybody else see that? You could literally SEE the drool coming off the reporters mouths when they were talking. And Snow just looked at them like they were idiotic most the time. It was great to watch.
Posted by: Charles   2006-10-28 12:08  

#5  Crusty, as in "the Clown"?
Posted by: Frank G   2006-10-28 11:56  

#4  When America so openly celebrates torture, it's hard to believe that its demise (in the sense of relative influence in world affairs) is not soon to follow. Watching Bush backtrack or correct is rare indeed. And commendable even. I mean, we all know the torture is torture whatever the denials (or in Cheney's case, the celebrations) but such a naked assertion of it, such a open celebration ... . When the conversatives who admire such men do not nonetheless find something extremely objectionable in their violations of America ... the decline has already begun, pushed and pulled along by its voracious adherents.
Posted by: Crustie   2006-10-28 10:47  

#3  pelted with questions from reporters

I could never be WH press secretary. Too many cameras recording my bare-handed beating of the reporters
Posted by: Frank G   2006-10-28 09:58  

#2  He should have said - US doesn't TAKE prisoners...
Posted by: M. Murcek   2006-10-28 09:30  

#1  They could torture the bastards till their guts come out for all I care.
Posted by: bigjim-ky   2006-10-28 07:36  

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