Obama: Interrogation prosecution possible – msnbc.com — Does anyone but me think this may be some sort of payback for Cheney’s recent mouthing off? Will anything come of it? I doubt it.
President Barack Obama left the door open Tuesday to prosecuting Bush administration officials who devised the legal authority for gruesome terrorism-suspect interrogations, saying the United States lost “our moral bearings” with use of the tactics.
The question of whether to bring charges against those who devised justification for the methods “is going to be more of a decision for the attorney general within the parameters of various laws and I don’t want to prejudge that,” Obama said.
“irrational insistence we model our life as you see fit…”
As opposed to *your* irrational insistence that we live our lives as you see fit.
I’m perfectly happy letting you and yours live however they want. I don’t believe the reverse is true as your hate filled tirades keep showing.
Torture re-defines America.
It makes us one of the bad countries.
I know conservatives don’t give a damn about this — but for me, it’s very disillusioning.
#80 Alfred1
What would Jesus have said about the use of torture?
The Senate Report points out one prisoner that was waterboarded at least 89 times over several months. That doesn’t include the other torture he received. Apparently he didn’t know anything afterall.
The most galling aspect is that the Bush government threw the Abu Graib soldiers under the bus by denying they had been ordered to torture prisoners. The higher ups though were exonerated and hailed as heros by Bush and Cheney. Do the right wing nut torture deniers no see how Bush prosecuted his own soldiers for doing what they were ordered to do, in a war zone, by the same administration that had prepared documents saying this was legal?
Damn do I want to see these guys prosecuted!!!
# 84 Mr. Fusion said, “Damn do I want to see these guys prosecuted!!!”
But why doesn’t Obama want to prosecute the guys who did it and, those who ordered it? Why doesn’t Obama think the law applies to all equally?
#85, Cow-Patty,
Why are you asking me to answer for someone else? When and where did Obama say that he doesn’t want to prosecute war criminals? When and where did Obama say he doesn’t think everyone should be treated equally?
Why does your mother still let you live in the basement? Does she ever read the garbage you write or insist on putting NetNanny on your computer?
So many questions for such a simpleton.
You posted your beliefs on #38. I thought that since you voted for O’Mama you might have insight into why he doesn’t believe the laws apply equally to all. My mistake.
Like most Obamabots, you are clueless as to what what he actually believes in or, represents…
Could the conservatives at least concede that the MURDER of prisoners is worth investigating?
Or will they argue that dead prisoners are an essential source of intelligence?
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