Comments on: Obama’s Torture Coverup http://jimbovard.com/blog/2009/05/29/obamas-torture-coverup/ Author James Bovard Mon, 21 May 2012 17:33:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Victor Milán http://jimbovard.com/blog/2009/05/29/obamas-torture-coverup/#comment-120709 Victor Milán Sun, 31 May 2009 17:37:47 +0000 http://jimbovard.com/blog/?p=946#comment-120709 Isn't the core fact that the Democrats were complicit, and usually enthusiastic, in all the most hideous crimes of the last Bush administration, whether its foreign aggression or its outright war on America and American liberties? For that matter what reason have we to believe that the US no longer tortures? For one thing, it seems historically likely it always has. More pertinent, Obama only "forbade" certain US officials from engaging in torture in US facilities - not torture renditions to states ruled by barbarians. Anyway, why would anybody believe what Obama or any officeholder said? Isn’t the core fact that the Democrats were complicit, and usually enthusiastic, in all the most hideous crimes of the last Bush administration, whether its foreign aggression or its outright war on America and American liberties?

For that matter what reason have we to believe that the US no longer tortures? For one thing, it seems historically likely it always has. More pertinent, Obama only “forbade” certain US officials from engaging in torture in US facilities - not torture renditions to states ruled by barbarians.

Anyway, why would anybody believe what Obama or any officeholder said?

]]> By: Dirk W. Sabin http://jimbovard.com/blog/2009/05/29/obamas-torture-coverup/#comment-120707 Dirk W. Sabin Sat, 30 May 2009 21:02:32 +0000 http://jimbovard.com/blog/?p=946#comment-120707 The sick irony of the photos lie in the fact that the war in Iraq...and now the widening of Drone Remote Control attacks in Pakistan constitute a fine recruitment tool for the terrorists and the photos represent a home run recruitment tool. these crackpot utopians think they can actually succeed by following a sordidly brutal and immoral path in "defense of democracy". Pres. Obama' administration is slouching into the well trod path toward Gomorrah blazed by the screwballs that he took over from . With the cockeyed policies of this nation, he really has no choice. Obviously his declarations of "change" were simply "politics"...that thing which elevates public rituals of lying to new heights. The sick irony of the photos lie in the fact that the war in Iraq…and now the widening of Drone Remote Control attacks in Pakistan constitute a fine recruitment tool for the terrorists and the photos represent a home run recruitment tool. these crackpot utopians think they can actually succeed by following a sordidly brutal and immoral path in “defense of democracy”.

Pres. Obama’ administration is slouching into the well trod path toward Gomorrah blazed by the screwballs that he took over from . With the cockeyed policies of this nation, he really has no choice. Obviously his declarations of “change”
were simply “politics”…that thing which elevates public rituals of lying to new heights.

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