Unfortunately for the President, and for America, the
President’s domestic political enemies aren’t reasonable
people.
The President: We Do Not Torture
By Rob on Domestic Issues
Say Anything
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PANAMA CITY, Panama - President Bush vigorously defended U.S. interrogation practices in the war on terror Monday and lobbied against a congressional drive to outlaw torture.
“There’s an enemy that lurks and plots and plans and
wants to hurt America again,” Bush said. “So you bet we
will aggressively pursue them but we will do so under the
law.”
He declared, “We do not torture.”
Over White House opposition, the Senate has passed legislation banning torture. With Vice President Dick Cheney as the point man, the administration is seeking an exemption for the CIA. It was recently reported that the spy agency maintains a network of prisons in eastern Europe and Asia, where it holds terrorist suspects.
The European Union is investigating the reports, which have not been confirmed by the White House. The story was first reported by The Washington Post.
“Our country is at war and our government has the
obligation to protect the American people,” Bush
said. “Any activity we conduct is within the law. We do
not torture.”
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The President is right. We don’t torture. Or, at least, what we do to terror detainees wouldn’t meet a reasonable person’s definition of torture. Unfortunately for the President, and for America, the President’s domestic political enemies aren’t reasonable people.
See, when Senator Dick Durbin stood on the floor of the Senate and compared our detention centers in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba to Stalin-era Russian gulags he wasn’t thinking about what effect such a pronouncement would have on our enemies and our nation’s standing in the world. He was just thinking about what subsequent headlines would do to the President’s approval rating.
The same goes for every other left-wing demagogue who has stretched the truth (or just fabricated outright lies) to make our nation look bad in the eyes of the world. These people are so busy trying to score political points, so blinded by their total hatred of the man currently in the White House, that they don’t even realize the effect their invective is having on our standing in the world.
Or maybe they do and just don’t care.
Regardless, the fact of the matter is that torturing prisoners is not something our government sanctions. In instances where prisoners in our care have been abused the perpetrators of the abuse have been investigated, tried and punished.
Our military and intelligence communities are the strongest forces for liberty and freedom in the world. America and it’s allies in the war on terror have done more to advance the causes of freedom and democracy on earth than any other force in the last several decades. Yet because people like Dick Durbin are unhappy about being out of power and feel the need to smear our fighting men and women with innuendo about abuse and torture and because we have a media establishment that is content to hype the gory details of the accusations rather than search out the truth the President must stand and defend himself and his country from international accusations.
It’s a sad, sad situation.
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