Breslin: Torture gets you nowhere

[kskiska]

The American torture of Iraqi prisoners was not especially helpful to Army Spc. Keith M. Maupin, who was shot dead by "the Sharp Sword against the Enemies of God and his Prophet." Torture is a two-way street. Nor does it seem so helpful today to U.S. Marine Cpl. Wassef Ali Hassoun. He has been missing since June 21 and now he is being shown on Arab television with a sword over his head. Voices say they will cut off his head. This is simultaneously impossible to contemplate and yet so familiar that you flinch at the mention.

I wonder what these dangerous fools in Washington, Bush, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, think about the Marine.

Bush won't be back. He lost the last election to Al Gore by 500,000 votes. He cannot possibly win this election. But in these last months, Bush and his people get others killed and think torture is fine as long as we do it. Anything we do is in the cause of freedom. If the other side does anything to our men, they are heartless thug killers.

The Bush people apparently believe every sick myth about torture. We've been grabbing prisoners for a year and the war goes on. If anybody ever had spent 20 minutes in a Queens precinct on a murder investigation, they might understand. These Washington fools passed out a memo that certain kinds of torture can be used in Iraq and Guantanamo. As that torture already was being used, they tried making it sound legal, and thus comforting to all Americans.

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[Malva Zebrina]

1. the entire regime is sick

Bush is a sadist, with sick tendencies re physical pain and torture to animals and others.

He proved this is his tendency, when governor of Texas, never reviewing a single death penalty case. He knows not how many he executed that were innocent and he cares not alsol The important thing is that he remain the executioner in chief. He loves being in charge over the life and death of others, I suspect. HE is really sick, stupid and a filthy prick and I suspect also that he loves the idea that he is in charge of torturing others--he loves this idea of himself as the powerful mano mano over others. HE loves the idea he is a CIC, although he was never really elected by the people. Along with that love, goes his sadism and his sociopathic, narcissistic sick being.

He is stupid, he is a sociopath, he is ignorant and insane , delusional and a madman who has murdered thousands of innocent people in the name of the United States of America.

I will NEVER forget that and I will NEVER gloss over this fact. He miurdered people on lies. He did this in our name. He does not care in whose name he does this, because he thinks he is entitled.

He cares not at all.

[LibertyorDeath]

2. Thanks excellent