Bush Appeals for Permission to Torture and Railroad Gitmo Prisoners

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September 16, 2006


President's Radio Address


BUSH: Good morning. On Monday, I visited New York, Pennsylvania, and the Pentagon to attend memorials marking the fifth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks to posture and demagouge against Democrats using the tragedy as a backdrop. Pretty cool, huh?

Next week, I will return to New York, where I will address the United Nations General Assembly after I duck all of their silly questions in the hall about Iraq this, Iran, that.

As we contine to bully the international community to support our terror war, we must also provide our military and intelligence professionals the tools they need to keep my ass out of the fire - Congress is considering two vital pieces of legislation to help us do just that. My Administration is smearing and blackmailing members of both parties to pass these bills.

"This guy we tortured had to be coughed up from CIA custody, after the Supreme Court ruling that military commissions must be explicitly authorized by Congress.

We were going to put him in a roomful of military actors, posing as counsels and advocates for the prosecution and the defense. We tortured him pretty severely after we took him on our CIA's wild rendition tour - definitely illegal - and, we can't risk any of that coming out in discovery. We wanted a closed 'trial' where 'evidence' would be presented in secret, without the guy we tortured (or his 'lawyers') having access to any of it; whatever there is of it.

Now the Supreme Court, the highest court in the land, has ruled that we have to give this guy we tortured, due process rights. Pfttt! As soon as Congress acts to authorize the tortures we've already committed on this guy and dozens of other of our prisoners, we can go on with some sort of open-evidence type 'trial' that won't expose us to any jeopardy for violating the torture provisions of the Geneva Convention.

I know we said we wanted to protect agents in the field from prosecution. Didya like the line from the news conference about "decent, honorable citizens who are on the front line of protecting the American people," wanting clarity so they could continue to torture? Heh, heh . . . that was me I was talking about. I'm the decent, honorable one. I'm protectin' you . . . and your FAMILY, (Matt Lauer).

So, what I want from Congress is a bunch of laws that will make everything I've done so far - every law I've broken, every individual I have ordered abused, every individual I've ordered detained indefinitely without charges, every cover-up and hiding of 'evidence' I've authorized - completely and retroactively legal. That way I'll be able to continue on with my terror war and my spying on Americans.

If you're talking to al-Qaeda, we want to know . . . because we sure aren't getting anything useful from the prisoners we captured years ago and tortured. Their memories are shot from the abuse and isolation. The witnesses we would have used in their trials have all been killed or are 'missing'. What we need from Congress is a law allowing us to use hearsay evidence - like one of our military or government's finest, testifying about something someone else told them - to convict these men we tortured, and possibly have them executed. You'll take our word for it all. . . won't you?

I have one test for this legislation: That it lets me continue to do what I do best . . .


Thank you for listening.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2006/09/20060916.html

[tulsakatz]

1. did he really say that........

visiting the 9/11 locations was cool?

That seems odd to me......

I might call it awesome or inspiring but I doubt I would use the word 'cool' to describe it. It makes it sound like he enjoys it too much!!

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3. *satire*

inner bush

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2. Shouldn't that be "Bush appeals for permission to HAVE tortured prisoners

to avoid being held legally accountable"?

:evilgrin:
rocknation

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4. both

[Disturbed]

5. Busholini puts his foot down.

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6. .