House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D) CA. has gotten herself into a battle with Bush Administration C.I.A. officials with regards to who knew what and when. She has even gone so far as to claim the C.I.A. misled Congress by giving bogus briefings as pertained to the use of advanced interrogation techniques i.e. (Torture), specifically the water boarding of terror suspects back in 2002.
All this while revelations that Vice President Dick Cheney pushed for harsher methods used during the interrogation of Iraqi suspects, namely torture. To gather information during the nations shell shocked days following 9/11. Cheney stating current methods "to gentle" and pressing the use of enhanced interrogation namely to find a link between Al Queda and Iraq. A link becoming more and more necessary as the search for WMD in Iraq was continually coming up empty handed. C.I.A. officials replying those techniques had been approved for terror suspects only.
Turns out, during the initial briefing to Speaker Pelosi which mentioned the dynamics involved in the "prospective" use of advanced terror techniques, recent intelligence tells us terror suspect Abu Zabeda had already been water boarded 83 times! Then Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee until his retirement in 2005, Bob Nelson (D) FL. claimed the C.I.A.'s records had him at 4 separate briefings in 2003 of which 3 Senator Nelson could prove otherwise. Having been called on the dates, the C.I.A. later recanted Senator Nelson's possible attendance. So could they possibly be wrong regarding Pelosi as well?
Now here comes the real killer. House Minority Leader John Boehner (R) Ohio found it hard to believe that the C.I.A. of the Bush Administration would possibly mislead Congress. "What would be their motivation..." Boehner said. WHERE DO I BEGIN? He went on to claim the Speaker had to many stories, but also added he didn't thing it should involve any kind of truth commission, that would not be in the nation's best interest.
This morning Senator Kit Bond (R) MO. ranking Republican on the current Senate Intelligence Committee, claimed it was a tragedy to attack our intelligence community, and claimed any efforts to mislead Congress "Unbelievable". UNBELIEVABLE!!!, this from one of the 40 angry white guys huddled in the corner of the Capital called the Republican Party who did nothing but lie to this country for 8 years. About the Iraq War, WMD, Al Queda, torture, spreading democracy, being viewed as liberators, The War will pay for itself, sweetheart contracts for the V.P.'s cronies at Halliburton & KBR that build facilities that electrocute our troops in the shower. The Republicans! Really??
The fact of the matter is this. The Bush Legacy has given the Republican Party no credibility. As they turned up their noses at the American people, especially in the last 3 years of the Bush Administration. When they carried a 28% approval rating and the V.P. says "So". To have blatantly shut out the voice of the people for so long and cling to failed ideals that were self deluded at best, and carried the price of over 4000 dead and 30,000 maimed and wounded, that my Republican friends is now your cross to bare. In time this burden my lessen, but right now it's all yours.
Friday, May 15, 2009
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
Should the Obama Administration and Congressional Democrats Prosecute the Enhanced Interogation Techniques, "Torture" used by the Bush Administration?
First I would like to welcome readers to the very first post on BLUEFIELDSTARS. I hope you find my commentary both thought provoking and useful. It is a whopper of a first subject, so lets get to it.
I'm sure many of you have noticed of late that former V.P. Dick Cheney has crawled out of his bunker and happily taken to the airways of Fixed News to justify the torture techniques of the Bush Administration. How safe it made all of us for the last 7 years, and how the Obama Administration is systematically dismantling that to the peril of the free world. The release of Justice Department memos has proven without a doubt the United States of America engaged in torture during the Bush Administration. It is a fact, and while Bush, and particularly Cheney, have taken to their open mics at Fixed News to defend the merits of these techniques, it provides a very scary window into what remains of the Republican Party. I'll come to that presently,... these abuses are well documented, the DOJ hacks that tried to justify these practices are under investigation, and the new Administration and Attorney General have a very uncompromising decision to make? Should all those involved from the Congressional coat check girl to the President be prosecuted?
Richard Nixon the poster boy for abuse of power in the White House, engaged in all manner of malfeasance of office. However, he was shrewd, highly intelligent, and a very astute politician. Sadly none of these qualities can be applied to George W. Bush. and none of these qualities, in the end, saved Nixon. Yet with the stroke of Gerald Ford's pen Nixon was absolved. The Country wasn't happy about it, and ultimately it cost Ford the Presidency, and led us to another national disaster in Jimmy Carter. The national nightmare that was Watergate lasted roughly 3 years. The national nightmare that was George W. Bush lasted 8. None of Nixon's abuses survive, and he wasn't prosecuted. Obama is correcting the abuses of the Bush Administration and he shouldn't be prosecuted either.
The George W. Bush's of American History are remembered for their poor judgement, their failures, their abuses. He now joins the undistinguished class of poor Presidents who lay at the bottom of a list all cut from the same cloth. The American Ship of State always navigates her course corrections just as it should. George Bush & Dick Cheney were thrown out of office last November. They are still so deluded that they can't even put forth a cry for Mea Culpa, and as a result the Republican Party is in shambles.
The only issue I see sucking the air out of President Obama's agenda for Health Care Reform, Tax Reform, Economic Recovery, and Education is a long drawn out crusade to punish the Bush Administration for it's experiment in torture. The wrong has been righted, the king is dead, look to the future, our course is now true.
Why breath life into an imploding Republican Party by giving it an issue it can rally around. Only 20% of Americans now identify themselves as Republicans. Which brings me to a quote by Napoleon Bonaparte who once said "... never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake."
I'm sure many of you have noticed of late that former V.P. Dick Cheney has crawled out of his bunker and happily taken to the airways of Fixed News to justify the torture techniques of the Bush Administration. How safe it made all of us for the last 7 years, and how the Obama Administration is systematically dismantling that to the peril of the free world. The release of Justice Department memos has proven without a doubt the United States of America engaged in torture during the Bush Administration. It is a fact, and while Bush, and particularly Cheney, have taken to their open mics at Fixed News to defend the merits of these techniques, it provides a very scary window into what remains of the Republican Party. I'll come to that presently,... these abuses are well documented, the DOJ hacks that tried to justify these practices are under investigation, and the new Administration and Attorney General have a very uncompromising decision to make? Should all those involved from the Congressional coat check girl to the President be prosecuted?
Richard Nixon the poster boy for abuse of power in the White House, engaged in all manner of malfeasance of office. However, he was shrewd, highly intelligent, and a very astute politician. Sadly none of these qualities can be applied to George W. Bush. and none of these qualities, in the end, saved Nixon. Yet with the stroke of Gerald Ford's pen Nixon was absolved. The Country wasn't happy about it, and ultimately it cost Ford the Presidency, and led us to another national disaster in Jimmy Carter. The national nightmare that was Watergate lasted roughly 3 years. The national nightmare that was George W. Bush lasted 8. None of Nixon's abuses survive, and he wasn't prosecuted. Obama is correcting the abuses of the Bush Administration and he shouldn't be prosecuted either.
The George W. Bush's of American History are remembered for their poor judgement, their failures, their abuses. He now joins the undistinguished class of poor Presidents who lay at the bottom of a list all cut from the same cloth. The American Ship of State always navigates her course corrections just as it should. George Bush & Dick Cheney were thrown out of office last November. They are still so deluded that they can't even put forth a cry for Mea Culpa, and as a result the Republican Party is in shambles.
The only issue I see sucking the air out of President Obama's agenda for Health Care Reform, Tax Reform, Economic Recovery, and Education is a long drawn out crusade to punish the Bush Administration for it's experiment in torture. The wrong has been righted, the king is dead, look to the future, our course is now true.
Why breath life into an imploding Republican Party by giving it an issue it can rally around. Only 20% of Americans now identify themselves as Republicans. Which brings me to a quote by Napoleon Bonaparte who once said "... never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake."
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