Repeating The Torture Lies

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What part of ‘against the law’ does he still not understand?

Former President George W. Bush says if he had it to do over, he would still waterboard the self-professed mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.

Waterboarding is a simulated drowning technique that the Obama administration considers torture. Bush acknowledged Wednesday that the U.S. used the harsh interrogation technique on Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and said he would “do it again to save lives.”

Bush made the comment while speaking to the Economic Club of Grand Rapids, Mich.

Of course no one would have expected this guy to be saying anything different at this time.  In the early years of his administration, Cheney Bush conveniently got John Yoo and other flunkies in the Justice Department to scribble a memo declaring torture legal and they still hang on to that bit of legal fraud as justification for torture enhanced interrogation.  As for the “it saves lives” argument, evidence and reports from CIA interrogators say otherwise.

Conclusion?  The guy who spoke at the Economic Club of Grand Rapids this week is either ignorant or a liar.  Probably both.  Whichever it is, he and his buddy, Cheney, broke the law.

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