{"id":4750,"date":"2011-05-04T02:47:37","date_gmt":"2011-05-04T09:47:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=4750"},"modified":"2011-05-04T02:47:37","modified_gmt":"2011-05-04T09:47:37","slug":"republicans-are-touting-war-crimes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/05\/04\/republicans-are-touting-war-crimes\/","title":{"rendered":"Republicans Are Touting War Crimes!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Republicans are becoming desperate.  They can\u2019t afford for America to learn that they lied about strength all these years, and are really pitifully weak on national security.  So they are trying to horn in on the credit and make it seem as though Texas Torquemada had a hand in bin Laden\u2019s end.  Clinton deserves some credit for warning Bush.  Obama deserves more credit for having the courage to lead.  The troops who carried out the mission and the intelligence professionals who made it possible deserve the most credit of all.  Bush and his Republican minions deserve none whatsoever, but I\u2019ll get to why after dealing with the absurd claims that it was their war crimes that made it happen.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"4king\"The Navy SEAL\u2019s successful mission, authorized by President Obama, to get Osama bin Laden sent the right-wing into a tizzy over giving credit where due. While many Republicans praised Obama\u2019s leadership, others contorted bin Laden\u2019s death into praise and justification of the Bush administration methods, most notably waterboarding<\/a>. After learning that information regarding bin Laden\u2019s courier came from detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Bush torture<\/a> apologists [propaganda lies delinked] immediately insisted that waterboarding was a key technique in securing the vital information<\/strong>. Rep. Steve King (R-IA) quipped<\/a>, \u201cWonder what President Obama thinks of water boarding now?\u201d <\/p>\n

On Fox\u2019s O\u2019Reilly Factor yesterday, House Homeland Security Chairman Peter King (R-NY) jumped on the waterboarding bandwagon<\/a>. When host Bill O\u2019Reilly asked for him to \u201ctell us something new,\u201d King immediately that the courier information was obtained through waterboarding, adding that those \u201cwho say it should be stopped and never used again, we got vital information which directly led us to bin Laden\u201d<\/strong>\u2026<\/p>\n

…Watch it:<\/p>\n