Its very simple, waterboarding is torture.
It is not as some sycophantic Bushie recently described it as, "a private swimming lesson from the CIA." This is the level of discourse aroused by the Coulter ilk. For some reason, this utterly degrading statement is what the main stream media considers to be news.
Dump Mukasey as the Attorney General candidate.
White House Moves to Save Mukasey Nomination
The following words are from Bush from a speech given at the neo-conservative corporate funded ultra right Heritage Foundation. (and would Bush speak at any other type of place?)
“If the Senate Judiciary Committee were to block Judge Mukasey on these grounds (note: the grounds are that he won't admit that waterboarding is torture), they would send a new standard for confirmation that could not be met by any responsible nominee for attorney general,” he said in a speech before the Heritage Foundation. “And that would guarantee that America would have no attorney general during this time of war.”
The salient word here is "responsible", a "responsible" nominee.
What Bush means by responsible is a nominee that will not admit that waterboarding is torture. The reason is simple. If the Attorney General admits that waterboarding is torture then George Bush all of a sudden becomes a war criminal. Also it would be incumbent upon the Attorney General to prosecute war criminals.
So in Bush world, "responsible" means completely subservient to Bush. Once again, its not about America, its about George Bush. The authoritarian personality has no boundary. They are above the rule of law.
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The Rethuglickers think its surfing. Smucks!
Its disgraceful. Republicans moving the debate back to the stone age. Don't know if waterboarding is torture ...yeah right
Think how far we've fallen in these yrs. The mere fact were having such a disgusting discussion in public is a travesty. if these fucktards don't know how bad this makes us look in the eyes of the rest of the planet shame shame shame on all of them.
What exactly is Bush holding that is keeping this congress and senate in line? What the hell is going on here.
He's got a file 2"s thick on every last one of them. Thats why they've been listening and reading all these yrs. Think J.Edgar Hoover and you'll get the picture. "Don't want to vote for torture?" Ok, howabout this picture of your cousin blowing her boss or howabout that job your son wants to keep or hey wait a min. howabout that contract for your district with the military etc... These klowns play rough.
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