From a side email discussion...
Friday, April 4, 2008
The now-infamous John Yoo torture memo, which states that torture isn’t really torture unless it kills the suspect, and that President Bush’s wartime authority trumps torture law, is creating quite a firestorm. Constitutional professor Jonathan Turley joined Keith Olbermann on Thursday’s Countdown where he once again repeats his claim that President Bush broke the law and that the Democrats were afraid to pursue charges because they know it would trigger impeachment hearings and that scares them to death.
Turley:”…It’s really amazing, Congress, including the Democrats, have avoided any type of investigation into torture because they do not want to deal with the fact that the president ordered war crimes. But, evidence keeps on coming out. The only thing we don’t have is a group picture with a detainee attached to electrical wires.”
Personally, I'm offended by the fact that we can impeach a president for a blowie on the side, yet the top two politicians in our country are guilty of virtually every war crime in the book and stay in office and out of prison. It’s probably the single most embarrassing thing about being American in 2008. And I choose the word "embarrassing" very much on purpose, because while I'm proud to be an American, I am not proud of the last seven and a half years of governing and foreign relations. Not in the slightest.
Thoughts?
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Currently listening to Alice In Chains - Angry Chair
posted by Dustin @ 8:44 AM,
