TPMMuckraker: Bush admits to approving waterboarding

[originalpckelly]

http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/11/bush_i_gave_the_order_to_waterboard.php

If any of us did this, we'd be in jail right now. When the president does it, that means that it is not illegal.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejvyDn1TPr8

[Skinner]

1. Not surprising.

But maybe a little surprising that he admits it outright.

Gave you a rec.

[originalpckelly]

3. I doubt anything will happen to him.

He knows that he's a president, and we can't have former presidents hanging around a jail. That's for the rest of us to do. They can do anything and get away with it.

[joeybee12]

2. And MSM yawns, and he mentions this because he knows nothing will ever happen to him because of it..

he's got lifetime immunity from Holder.

[originalpckelly]

5. Well, only third world countries put their former presidents in jail.

We're Americans, when our presidents do something wrong, they just get away with it.

[kentuck]

4. How could the Democrats simply sweep that under the rug?

and not even talk about it?

[originalpckelly]

7. Well, maybe it's time to make them talk about it.

[HopeHoops]

6. Why isn't the fucker in prison?

[originalpckelly]

8. We're moving forward.

We're moving forward and ignoring torture.

[HopeHoops]

9. Yeah, good point. He'd get the living shit beat out of him in prison.