DISQUS

Jim Olson · 6 months ago

And, when are the indictments coming? Anyone, anyone in the previous administration who knew about this should be on trial.

Litterbox · 6 months ago

Meanwhile, what has Obama done towards this issue? talk..talk...talk....

cowboyneok · 6 months ago

"You think that's not torture? What's this? What can you call this? Torture or what?" he said, indicating the scars he bears from tight shackles. "I'm an animal? I'm not a human?"

No, Sir, those guards wouldn't treat their dogs that way. You were treated worse than an animal.

DEMAND JUSTICE and remove this stain from this kind of behavior ever happening "in our names" again!

woodroad34 · 6 months ago

People who find glee in this kind of thing (which it sounds like they did) start out doing it to their dogs, their neighbors dogs, cats, birds, etc. The armed services would much rather induct criminals and gang members than gays.

JustAGuy · 6 months ago

And so George W Bush's presidency unfolded like a Greek Tragedy.

A seldom-noted fact about Bush was his propensity for blowing up small animals by putting firecrackers in their mouths.

This was reported in May of 2000.
Imagine how different the world would be if the media had analyzed that detail rather than obsessing over flip-flops and Alpha-males.

-S

woodroad34 · 6 months ago

I had no idea about that, but it fits the profile and adds emphasis to the socio/psycopathic nature of his presidency...one can only imagine about Cheney's childhood, then.

"Greek Tragedy"--would that be his "Gentlemen's 'C'" at Harvard, or his cheerleading career? Whichever, his life and service are both complete tragedies.

PeteWa · 6 months ago

Shameful.
Bush and Cheney are without a doubt the worst, most evil administration in the history of the U.S.

The people who support Bushco practices such as torture, illegal spying on our citizens, propaganda, lying the U.S. into a war of aggression, endless no-bid crony contracts, nepotism, etc. are the minions of evil... easily compared to "good Germans" and the members of every tyrannical regime we've ever heard of, but perhaps reminds me most of a combination of the worst elements of Stalinism mixed with Italian Fascism.

Useful, evil idiots.

Griffon · 6 months ago

I'd recommend the dems begin now to select a suitable candidate to run for 2012. Obama has excused bush's crimes via telecom immunity, continued the state secrets obstruction and is delaying prosecution of unspeakable war crimes for no good reason. He should not be reelected if he continues his present "Look to the future," indifference.

annmarie · 6 months ago

i want the pictures and names of all the "soldiers" who participated in this....i want a megans list of american torturers so i can find out if they are living in my neighborhood. i want to know who they are so i can refuse them jobs and not rent my property to them. these people are animals. OUR SOLDIERS!!!!!! i dont care if they were following orders. plenty of people refused. plenty of german soldiers followed orders and were hanged. I want them identified and outed.

Valentine Frey · 6 months ago

Where's the special prosecutor? It's not raking over the past. We prosecute crimes to make sure that people who think about doing it in the future know that they may pay a price. And prosecute them all. The guys who gave the orders and the guys who followed the orders.

Soundboy_jeff_meanie · 6 months ago

I truely believe every one of the apologists ('we don't torture') should pick one of their favorite non-torture techniques and be subjected to it for a year.

sleep deprivation? waterboarding? restraints? beatings? etc...

just pick one. if you can make it through a year and STILL insist it isn't torture, then we'll listen to you... after the pyschological exam.

Soundboy_jeff_meanie · 6 months ago

however, I should add... after agreeing to this, you'll be taken away with a black hood over your head. put on a plane, or two or three... taken to a prison and surrounded by people who don't speak your language... and THEN you'll have your personal interregation technique carried out.

no safe feeling of 'these guys won't kill me'... it has to be exactly like the people taken to Cuba experienced.

Deacon_Blues · 6 months ago

Make no mistake about it folks; we rarely see evil, so we don't always recognize it, but Bush/Cheney was evil. And I say that in a personal sense. Junior Bush is a classic sociopath, and every new report confirms to me that Cheney enjoyed torturing people. Evil.

woodroad34 · 6 months ago

I normally give people a "go" when I'm not sure about them (even though I may feel put off by them and don't know why). Bush y Co., bless 'em, are so easily discernable as evil and psychotic, I just have to thank them for making my job of hating them so easy.

woodroad34 · 6 months ago

It sounds more like Sadism or is that Sadaamism?

Asterix · 6 months ago

Ever since the Taguba report came out, something has been bothering me. Many of the people who committed torture obviously did so willingly. Many of those same people are out of the military now, roaming our streets. Doesn't that scare anyone?

And where are the now-civilian torturers who have come to their senses and who are publicly asking for forgiveness for their depraved behavior?

Soundboy_jeff_meanie · 6 months ago

or worse... working for blackwater (or whatever it renamed itself to keep getting government contracts). private citizen mercenaries... for sale to the highest bidder.

now THAT'S scary

woodroad34 · 6 months ago

I've been wondering about that. The contracts were made out to Blackwater--now that they've changed their name to Xe are those contracts invalid? Or are we actually that stupid and desperate?

BrianKE · 6 months ago

Of course if you ask someone who's been incarcerated for seven years, they would paint a horrible ordeal they overcame during those years. Sorta like the fish story where the fish gets bigger with each telling. If it painted a negative picture of the enemy, it would be even more incentive to embellish the story.

As for the sympathy, my thoughts go out to the over 3,000 innocent victims of 9/11? There was NO ONE in that building that deserved what they received. The images of people jumping, or falling, out of the windows trying to escape the terror cannot escape the memory. Even more so that those images are not allowed on air. No one can feel the torture they felt.

Let's bring the pictures, let's bring the trials but let's bring back the images of 9/11 that put us in that position. We did not strike first. Osama bin Laden struck because of Saudi and the first Gulf War which involved a dictator, Saddam Hussein, invading Kuwait.

We did not instigate these instances. It was provoked and when your dealing with a bully, you need to pull out the gloves.