No one expected the Republican Communist Torture Spanish Inquisition!

But now that America has been warned of just how degenerate the Republican Torture Party is, hopefully they won’t be reelected.

Torture Bad, mmkay?

Especially because the Communist torture techniques that the Republicans employed were specifically designed to force false confessions.

Hell, they’re proud of it. “It’s worked for 500 years, bitchez!” they say.

Monsters. They are monsters.

A person who can look at documented systematic waterboarding, bashing of peoples heads into walls, piling naked men on top of eachother, leaving naked men in extreme temperatures for weeks, month long sleep deprivation, anal rape with sticks, torturing people while families watch, mock execution, mock burying alive, attacking with dogs, beating, whipping, chaining to the cieling, breaking of limbs, denial of medical attention, among other horrors, and then tell me that I am unAmerican for not supporting such bullshit, is the absolute definition of unAmerican, and needs to move to some shithole like North Korea where they are alright with that sort of thing.

Mutatis mutandis, could be Stalin, Mao, any petty modern dictator. So much for American Exceptionalism. Our blessings are only so lasting as our vigilance.

Highly doubt that. That would almost be a noble act. Almost.

If we don’t push for justice and accountability, if we don’t hold those who broke the law accountable, not only are we setting a precedent for future abuses of Executive power, but we are setting ourselves up for another terrorist attack. Only this time we would deserve it.

George Bush, Jr. couldn’t find his asshole with a funnel. The buck always stopped at Cheney (and occasionally Rove). Pretending otherwise is jackassery. Junior was technically Prez, so he should go down too, but he wasn’t in any real way in charge. He was playing computer golf.

Exactly right. There’s a real possibility that all these Cheney appearances of late mean that Cheney, he of the bum ticker and no (we hope) further political ambitions, has appointed himself the designated spear-taker for the whole insane corp of chickenhawk torture lovers that was the Bush admin. If we let Cheney suck all the blame onto himself we’ll be letting a boatload of criminal assholes off the hook.

What the trainers did not say, and may not have known, was that their chart had been copied verbatim from a 1957 Air Force study of Chinese Communist techniques used during the Korean War to obtain confessions, many of them false, from American prisoners.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/02/us/02detain.html

The Republicans were using Communist Chinese torture methods at Guantánamo.

The war crimes committed at Abu Ghraib were only a small part of what the Republican Principals authorized.

And remember, the Abu Ghraib perpetrators were convicted.

The Army investigator for the Abu Ghraib clearly stated that Bush officials committed war crimes.

The Abu Ghraib investigator has backed, at a minimum, a torture commission, saying that “You can’t sweep unlawful activities under the table and just forget about it.”

Just this month the Army investigator of the sadism at Abu Ghraib has repeated his calls for investigation of the Bush Administration for the torture committed at Abu Ghraib, asking, “What about those soldiers punished, court-martialed, and reduced in rank?”

American troops took the hit for Republicans Bush and Cheney’s war crimes.

Republicans Bush and Cheney are NOT above the law.

? third attempt. sorry.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/12/11/AR2008121101969.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/02/us/02detain.html

“Communist Attempts to Elicit False Confessions From the Air Force Prisoners of War (pdf)”

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/national/20080702_1957.pdf

Initially the CIA lied and said that after being torture-waterboarded ONCE they got all kinds of actionable intelligence.

Well, the “actionable intelligence” they claimed to have gotten appears to have been as reliable as the claim they only torture-waterboarded people once (one of Republican Bush’s torture victims was reportedly torture-waterboarded 183 times.

Torture-waterboarded 183 times isn’t for “actionable intelligence” it’s either for sadistic kicks or to force a false confession out of a person.

Torture-waterboarded 183 times also repudiates the fictional “ticking-time-bomb” emergency scenario.

These are war crimes that the Republicans are defending.

It’s the Republican War Crimes Party.

Republican Torture Party.

Republican Sadism Party.

And Republicans will use torture war crimes in the future if there aren’t prosecutions.

And Republicans assert the right to torture American Citizen’s without Court oversight.

It’s sick.

It’s Anti-American.

And those torture war crimes need to be prosecuted for our country to remain a Republic in the future.