For just one example of the disgusting exploitation of Capt. Scott Speicher by pro-war officials and pundits, I give you this from Jed Babbin on March 23, 2003, three days after the invasion of Iraq began:
He [Speicher] may still be alive in Iraq, rumored to have been kept as a personal torture toy for Saddam’s [...]
Radio host “Mancow” has apparently been defending the water torture. Perhaps those days are now over.
Rachel Maddow, on the other hand, appears to be a keeper. In the clip below, she explains how President Obama, principled opponent of prosecuting or even investigating past crimes, plans to lock people up for future crimes. Forever.
To be fair, that is literally progressive.
Check out this great Esquire article about the torture occupation of Iraq and new Afghan boss McChrystal’s role. How’d I miss this in ‘06?
It was a point of pride that the Red Cross would never be allowed in the door, Jeff says. This is important because it defied the Geneva Conventions, which require that the [...]
But why bring up lawbreaking by the Democrats who preceded them? We don’t want to criminalize policy differences do we?
The sooner we stop pretending there is a “rule of law” which binds the power of our government, the better off we’ll all be.
Pravda reports that Federal Judge Jay Bybee, who “interpreted” the law to mean that it was perfectly okay for George W. Bush to slam people against the wall 30 times in a row after keeping them awake for a month chained to the ceiling and forced to evacuate on themselves when they weren’t being locked [...]
by Mario Rizzo
As an economist who has specialized in the economic analysis of law, I am quite frustrated by the statements of some commentators that the Obama Administration and the Congress should not look backwards in trying to uncover and/or prosecute member of the Bush Administration who may have been guilty of illegal actions, war [...]
For all of their gasbaggery about the virtue and necessity of the Fourth Estate, the glittering mainstream media elite (big names, big money, very little gumshoe) is simply allergic to breaking news, and intelligently reporting about anything that implicates the power structure beyond the isolated criminal doings of one man or woman, i.e, senators and [...]
“I think it would be very unwise, from my perspective, to start having [torture] commissions, boards, tribunals, until we find out what the facts are.” -Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid
So, I guess the question is whether the leader of the Great Imperial Senate himself is as stupid as he thinks we all are?
Update: Harry Reid [...]
This society is ruled only by the will of men. Don’t you ever lie to your younger kin and tell them otherwise.
Update: Robert “Obama’s Ari Fleischer” Gibbs is forced by a CNN reporter to demonstrate the abject hollowness of the administration’s absurd substitute for a legitimate argument why the law shouldn’t count in this case:
Via [...]
Obama proudly declared yesterday that ours is a “nation of laws” at the same time he announced that CIA torturers would not be prosecuted for their crimes.
Life in Washington is one damn paradox after another.
Kudos to the American Civil Liberties Union for their lawsuit that compelled the disclosure of the torture memos yesterday. But [...]
A few weeks ago, Mark Danner at the New York Review of Books published an article about a classified International Committee of the Red Cross report written for the CIA’s eyes only. It described in detail the tortures committed against those held in the CIA’s “Ghost Prison” “Black Sites,” including pretty much everything the Soviet [...]
