authorizing the CIA to torture terrorism suspects.

      He disputes that the "torture" was actually "torture" and disputes that the order was unlawful because of the now discredited John Yoo memorandum claiming that he had authority and defining torture as pain so extreme it was "equivalent in intensity to the pain accompanying serious physical injury, such as organ failure, impairment of bodily function, or even death."

A sad time in our history.

Fuck the Swiss. They are a bunch of pansies.
The fucking terrorists should be tortured to prevent their ongoing war against innocent Americans.

You Muslims amuse me Ben. It's okay if you blow yourselves up screaming at the top of your lungs, but a little water boarding and you whine like stuck pigs.

I am proud of our military and proud of Mr Bush's efforts to stop the flow of terrorism.

It is not a sad time in our history when American lives are saved.

like McCain and the Navy's JAG lawyers, would not have accepted the use of such techniques.

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Bush visit to Geneva canceled after protest threat.

GENEVA – A visit former U.S. President George W. Bush planned to make to Switzerland next week has been canceled because of security concerns, after left-wing groups called for mass protests and rights activists proposed legal action against him for allegedly ordering the torture of terrorism suspects.

and gas is a dollar a gallon again.
You do like to be an idiot.
Why are you calling your Muslim brothers animals?

He is the "Most Wanted" Man in Europe for War Crimes.

You'll have to do better than that if you want to engage on this Board.

Did you forget he did get award in Baghdad!    He was awarded with shoes.    Here is a video that you can watch enjoy your idol getting the award you are talking about!

Normally they make a garland of old smelly shoes and hang it around the guy's neck.   With your KGB, oh sorry Secret Service, he could not do it.

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You idiots complain about prisoners being "water-boarded" but it's ok for those animals to behead innocent people on video tape. Stay on your side of the pond and keep your Eurotrash ideas there as well.

The chicken bailed out.   No guts to face real people.   He carried the blood of 100,000 Iraqi men, women and children he killed.   Come on, face the people here.


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Hey, you invaded the country of animals for oil.   What you want them to do?   They are good at removing useless heads!

These days thats light colateral damage. The US killed damn near 1.5 million in SEA and still lost the war. Nobody in the US was tried for war crimes for that imperialist adventure.

The fact of the matter is that an invading nation has EVERY responsibility to maintain order and peace in a country they have invaded. And a nation that has been invaded and occupied has EVERY right to remove their occupiers by any means they see fit.

If you don't want to get beheaded then STAY THE FUCK IN YOUR OWN COUNTRY.

During the embargo against Iraq, it was estimated by the UN that as many as 600,000 Iraqi CHILDREN died, mostly from dysentery.

Hiro, as an American, YOU and I, and every other American is directly responsible for that. No American is innocent.

The simple reality is that the USA and the UK has been fucking with the Middle East for a LONG time. We have propped up dictators in countless countries, who have killed endless numbers of their own people with our weapons, training, and assisstance.

When you and your family is getting killed then it is only rational that you defend yourself the best way you can. If you don't want terrorists killing Americans, then every American should demand that our government stop killing them.

and your precious UN was complicit, or does the name Koffi Annan hold no meaning to you?

and yes I am innocent of all wrong doing in this matter and so are virtually all Americans. It's like saying that all Americans are responisible for the poverty in Haitii, despite the countless billions that we have sent that nation, only to have it stolen by "their" leaders.

I'm only stating established international law.

There are more choices than isolationism and Empire. Assinine statements, indeed. We've had our "watchdog", or should I say puppet, on duty in Egypt for the last 30 years. It seems that country exploded anyway. Perhaps we'd be better off saving our taxpayer dollars by not propping up dictators, and instead actually work for peace, prosperity, and democracy among our allies. But what the fuck do I know? I'm on drugs.

is going to linger for decades if not centuries.

See what happened to Christians in Iraq because of the war. The article is in NYT so it must be liberal propaganda.

Like it or not, hate Saddam or not, Iraq was the most secular country in the middle east and the so called Islamists including Bin Ladden hated Saddam for it.

Bush who claims to be a devout Christian did a great job against Christians in Iraq by starting an unnecessary war based on lies and deceit. Please don't say he was a tyrant and needed to go. Burma, i.e., Myanmar is ruled by the military and Gen. Ne Win since 1962 coup. He imprisoned Aung San Suu Kyi, remained in house for 15 years. Gen. Ne Win massacred Buddhist Monks put down a peaceful uprising against the regime. Why didn't Bush, neocons and his puppet Tony Blair raise finger?

Let us see who else is methodically suppressing human beings? North Korea comes to mind. Too many to list in the Middle east that breeds tyranny and religious fanaticism.  Why Iraq? Why not take them all?

Saddam has to go because he was tyrant is lame argument against prevailing geopolitics.

So the US wasn't instrumental in making sure chlorine couldn't get into Iraq during the embargo? The US airforce didn't intensionally target water purification systems?

Funny thing about Saddam stealing all that money. He wouldn't be in power to do so if Bush Sr. hadn't given Saddam intelligence to squash the Kurdish uprising after the first Gulf War.

600,000 children can't be killed on the cheap. It costs money to do it. A lot of money. Money supplied by every US taxpayer, who then chose not to do anything to stop that attrocity. We all have blood on our hands.

Willy did you recently get ahold of some bad drugs or perhaps get kicked in the head by a horse? Your statements via your posts over the past few weeks have not only been assinine in nature, but also quite disturbing.
Perhaps we as a nation need to adopt a policy of isolationism, withdraw all of our financial support, depend on our own oil reserves, and then we'll see how long it is before the world explodes because of no "watchdog" on duty. The United States is damned if we do, and damned if we don't!

societies. Imperialism is never about spreading democracy it is about spreading US capitalism.