It's long overdue, we finally have a President that understands how to communicate to people. Not only does he have great communication skills, he has the right message and tone.
We know the road to peace will be long and bumpy but our President has started our journey.
They're trying as hard as possible to shift blame for their torture of POW's to Palosi.
Nancy Palosi received Top Secret briefings given by the CIA, had she publicly outed the Bush Administrations plans to torture prisoners she would have been destroyed. Anyone that revealed classified information would have been destroyed.
There was one person that could have stopped the torture madness before it started, George W. Bush.
Cheney is claiming that tortured al Queada prisoners gave up information that provided a link to Iraq. Next he'll be trying to say Sadaam Hussein gave al Queada all his WMD's. This guy has been so terrorized that he's become delusional and paranoid.
George Bush put us in Iraq with no clear exit strategy or time table. Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld had no plan at all for securing Iraq. Some of our troops have seen three, four even five years in a combat zone. It was ill conceived to think a human could withstand that much combat without breaking down mentally.
We cannot allow our troops to be put in this situation again by inncompetent civilians. If Bush wanted a never ending war then he should have had enough courage to come to the American people and tell them there needs to be a draft. President Obama is faced with the same problem. I hope he has a strict timetable with benchmarks for Afghanistan. If not, he better come up with one.
In my opinion, what Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld did to our troops should qualify as a war crime.
I heard Mike Huckabee talking to Sean Hannity and he said, and I quote "we are losing elections because we moved too far to the middle, the squishy middle".
They're too damn stupid to realize that they screwed up by moving so far to the right they drove themselves over a cliff and damn near took the world with them. We booted their dumb asses out just in time.
During the waning days of WWll, thousands of German soldiers marched hundreds of miles to surrender to American forces, why, because they knew they would be treated humanely. Had they surrendered to Russian forces they may have faced a different fate. This was also true during the Gulf War with Iraq, sixty thousand Iraqi soldiers surrendered for the very same reason. How many more lives would have been lost if these soldiers thought they would be tortured or humiliated after capture? How many would have rather fought to the death instead of surrender? How many jehadists did Bush create by his ignorant unlawful actions?
Even a fourth grader knows how to define torture. You can't fool children, they can be painfully honest.
It's important that our children understand that torture is not acceptable.
When will justice be served?
I've heard several Republicans defend their torture techniques and some make me laugh. I wonder if a tribunal would find their statements funny?
Well, we got some good intelligence so that means it's ok. Yes, that really makes it fine, case dismissed.
We did it under doctors supervision, you know, just in case the prisoner stopped breathing.
My favorite from Condi Rice. The President wouldn't do anything illegal, thus the phony baloney memos from the so called lawyers.
It's like trying to find a road that doesn't exist.
The GOP has so many wrongs to answer for and they lack the backbone to take the first step of admitting their mistakes.
Quite simply, they may as well look to another generation, they've lost this one forever.
They'll be in church tommorrow confessing their belief that Jesus Christ is their savior. Then they'll go back to work and argue that waterboarding, slapping, extended confined body positions, cramming someone in a confined box and God knows what else is not torture. Do they think lashing with leather and nails and crucifixion are the only actions that qualify as torture?
I don't think Jesus would agree with their views on this matter.
Suddenly they're all pointing their fingers at Nancy Palosi, she knew, we told her we were going to torture people. What do they think the House Minority Leader could do when the House and the Senate were controlled by the Republicans? President Bush and Vice President Cheney were on their "Drain the Swamp" mission. Could Palosi publicly call them out for wanting to torture prisoners? They would have run her out of Congress for divulging Top Secret information to the nation.
Republicans shouldn't be confused, George W. Bush was the only man alive that could have stopped the madness before it got started and his recent silence shows he knows it.
How many sleepless nights did the POW's spend wondering what their next torture treatment would be?
As Bush and friends begin to feel a little more uneasy about their future and lack of freedom, I'm sure their sleepless nights are beginning to kick in as well.
To seek justice for violations of the Geneva Conventions, there should be a tribunal made up of countries that have signed on to follow the convention laws.
This should be an international judgement not an American case decided by politics.
