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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It?
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To: Ann Corrigan who wrote (6184)9/29/2006 11:38:53 AM
From: American Spirit  Read Replies (1) of 224729
 
Bush is merely trying to legalize Abu Graib type perverse torture. The CIA doesn't want to use it. The military doesn't want any part of it. But Bush's White House - especially Cheney it seems - loves the idea of torture. Even though it usually results in bad intelligence and it endangers our soldiers and CIA agents when they get captured. Just yesterday in Iraq, 60 dead bodies were found, all had been tortured. This is going to come back to haunt us. It also gives the (true?) impression that Bush wants to a fascist dictator, not the leader of the free world.

When you have a presdient who can imprison and torture anyone he wants just because he wants to, with no oversight, you have the kernel of a military dictatorship. And it's not as if people support this. Few people even understand what Bush is sneaking past us here. It's a huge assault on the Constitution and McCain and Co. should not have buckled under. Also, the next presdient is likely to be a democrat. So Bush is handing these powers over him DEms of the future. That power, if abused (which it wouldn't be under Dems but let's say it was) could be used to haul in rightwing extremists, imprison them without a trial and torture them.

The only definition change McCain's group made Bush make was that the torture could not do permanment damage. so all kinds of hideous torture methods are now legal for Bush, or any other nut cases working for him.
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