{"id":1742,"date":"2010-06-04T02:47:59","date_gmt":"2010-06-04T09:47:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=1742"},"modified":"2010-06-04T02:47:59","modified_gmt":"2010-06-04T09:47:59","slug":"texas-torquemada-admits-war-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/06\/04\/texas-torquemada-admits-war-crime\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Torquemada Admits War Crime"},"content":{"rendered":"

That GW Bush is a war criminal is not news.  Now he\u2019s even bragging about it.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"Bush-waterboarding\"<\/a> George W. Bush did a lot of terrible, criminal things during his presidency, but arguably the single most immoral thing he did was sanction and normalize the use of torture. Guess what? That’s not how he sees it.<\/p>\n

Speaking to the Economics Club of Grand Rapids, Michigan, the former president <\/span>admitted to a criminal act and evinced no guilt:<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cYeah, we waterboarded Khalid Sheikh Mohammed,\u201d Bush said. \u201cI’d do it again to save lives.<\/p>\n

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was waterboarded 183 times. Thanks to our nation’s proud embrace of torture, <\/span>we learned of al-Qaeda’s completely imaginary plot to assassinate the pope.<\/a> So, hell, if it’ll keep Americans safe, Bush will personally strip, diaper, shackle, and almost-drown KSM 183 more times, until the bastard finally admits to killing Natalee Holloway and blowing that call on first base last night\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Inserted from <Salon<\/a>><\/p>\n

If you you don\u2019t understand the title of this piece, Torquemada was the Inquisitor General of the Spanish Inquisition, infamous for using torture to obtain false confessions.<\/font><\/p>\n

Keith Olbermann had an excellent take on this.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Visit msnbc.com for breaking news<\/a>, world news<\/a>, and news about the economy<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p>\n

I agree with Keith.  Barack Obama\u2019s greatest failure as President has been his refusal to hold Bush, Cheney and dozens of their GOP cronies accountable for crimes too numerous to list.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

That GW Bush is a war criminal is not news.  Now he\u2019s even bragging about it. George W. Bush did a lot of terrible, criminal things during his presidency, but arguably the single most immoral thing he did was sanction and normalize the use of torture. Guess what? That’s not how he sees it. Speaking […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1742\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}