President Zero is taking this country down the road to destruction, sucking up to our enemies, dismantling our national defense, cutting military funding, eliminating valuable interrogation techniques. I wait each day to see what stupid move he will make next.
That renowned, (in his own mind), CHRIS MATTHEWS expert on torture, IE: Waterboarding, sleep depravation, fear of dogs, wants President Bush and VP Cheney prosecuted, From NewsBusters
Matthews Demands: How Do We Prosecute Bush and Cheney?
CHRIS MATTHEWS: Well if it turns out that those who drew the lines and said it was okay to use waterboarding and other coercive techniques, violated the law, and those people who did so include the Vice President and the President what do we do? You say we might consider prosecuting them. But how do we do it? Under what law do we go after them? Under international law? Under U.S. law what do we hit ‘em for? If we do it?
REP. DEBBIE WASSERMAN SCHULTZ: Well I think we need not to get ahead of ourselves Chris. I think we need to make sure that we are examining where, certainly the buck tops with the President and the Vice President. But did they, the question is did they specifically issue those orders or were they more general? I mean I think we’re, we’re, we’re getting a little ahead of ourselves before we start talking about prosecuting the President and the Vice President. But we certainly need to examine who, and how and why the individuals in the Department of Justice ordered CIA interrogators to torture detainees that, that were detained after, after, after 9/11.
MATTHEWS: But in principle you have no problem with us looking at the whole potential criminality of the behavior of anyone here, in this regard?
SCHULTZ: There is no one that is above the law in the United States of America.
MATTHEWS: Okay thank you very much, U.S. Congresswoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz of Florida.
Better be careful what you wish for Chrissie. If this goes forward and Republicans are paying attention, next time the balance of power swings back to the Pubbies, there may not be the free passes the Clinton administration received. prosecutions can go both directions. How about a picture of 0bama, Pelosi, Biden, Franks, Dodd and a very long list of Dems in adjoining cells. I can live and. look forward to that. I have an idea, let’s toss in a whole bunch of RINOS to keep them company.
Of course if Matthews really wanted to pursue all of those who approved of waterboarding that list would also have to include House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. According to a December 9, 2007 Washington Post story Pelosi along with other Democrats, in September 2002, were given "a virtual tour" of the "CIA’s overseas detention sites," shown interrogation techniques, including waterboarding, "But on that day, no objections were raised."
So Pelosi and the other Dems made no objection. For good reason also Chrissie, It’s not Fuckin’ torture.
Mr. Matthews I invite you to join me at one of my other blogs, Stinger’s Cave, I will be glad to educate you on what constitutes torture. Ask Jack Bauru about torture, if it takes a nine mil through a knee cap to prevent a bomb from going off or an assignation attempt being carried out, so be it.
If it does not end up in the death of the person being interrogated, I have a real problem calling it abusive torture when you are trying to protect lives.
Compare waterboarding to what the Islamists consider proper interrogation techniques, I don’t consider sawing someone’s head off for fun to be proper techniques.
Back to you Chrissie, with a pair of pliers, a blow torch, a ten inch piece of wire and a small flat bladed screw driver, within fifteen minutes I will know every thing you have ever known. Every dirty little thing you have ever done, wanted to do or thought about doing.
When we are finished with our conversation, you will be able to walk out of the cave on your own power, and I will have things to write about for years, and guess what, I wont use even one of those terrible things, waterboarding, sleep depravation or fear of dogs, that you are so sure are illegal.