THE BLAME GAME - Torture=100% BUSHCO Production

[kpete]

THE BLAME GAME

This whole dispute about whether some Dem leaders were secretly briefed on the Bush gang’s torture techniques is starting to bore me. So what if they were? I’m happy to share the blame, and anyone who knew what was going on and okayed it is culpable as far as I am concerned, but in what way is it an excuse for what was going on? The torture regime was 100% a production of the Bush gang, led by Cheney and Addington, and they wouldn’t have listened to Democratic objections even if there were any.

links:
http://theplumline.whorunsgov.com/torture/the-key-waterboarding-question/

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/5/8/729204/-CIA-and-Pelosi:-Still-No-Proof-She-Was-Briefed-on-Waterboarding

http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2009/05/08/breaking-news-cia-manipulating-briefing-process/

http://politics.theatlantic.com/2009/05/pelosi_torture_and_the_wilderness_of_mirrors.php

http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/05/record_suggests_pelosi_did_little_in_response_to_tort.php

[opihimoimoi]

1. The Trail of Despair is leading to Bush and Co.....They not gonna be Happy Campers soon.

[Occam Bandage]

2. I agree. It's sad how many DUers are happy to help the CIA's media psyops campaign. nt

[Demeter]

3. Enablers Are Guilty, Too

"In Germany, they came first for the Communists, And I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Communist;

And then they came for the trade unionists, And I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a trade unionist;

And then they came for the Jews, And I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Jew;

And then . . . they came for me . . . And by that time there was no one left to speak up."


---attributed to Pastor Martin Niemöller (1892–1984) about the inactivity of German intellectuals following the Nazi rise to power and the purging of their chosen targets, group after group.

[GeorgeGist]

4. Perhaps the Dems are sadists?

Afterall, unspoken objections are a rather lame defense against torture.