According to conservative fanatic Michelle Malkin, it’s “left-wing extremism” to “wail about torture and indulge in Cheney Derangement Syndrome.” Yes, calling for accountability against torture is “extremism”:
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A nation run by fools or deceivers?
Sometimes parody is all we have left. How’s this for a headline? Rove claims prosecuting torture memo authors will turn Obama admin “into the moral equivalent of a Latin American country run by colonels in mirrored sunglasses“ That would be the Latin American nations run by US-backed thugs under Reagan in the 1980s, would it…
Laws were broken, haul their arse in
The Bush administration kept America safe since 9/11…by using torture? The ability of conservative, Republican fanatics to continually defend torture because terror suspects looked, er, suspect, is absurd. And people wonder why America’s reputation has taken such a dive:
How many balls did we crush?
As more information appears about the Bush administration’s use of torture, there is still much to learn about the role of Australia in this sordid process: The Senate Armed Services Committee has just released an exhaustive review of torture under the Bush administration that, among other revelations, torpedoes the notion that the administration only chose…
Perversion dressed up as values
The Republican hack blog Powerline writes: Many liberals don’t just want to defeat conservatives at the polls, they want to send them to jail. Yes, that’s right. Even considering prosecuting individuals in the Bush administration who advocated and supported torture is a witch-hunt against “conservatives”. By the way, these are the kind of fanatics who…
What kind of Jew stays mum over this?
Following the release of US torture memos by President Obama, a reader writes to blogger Andrew Sullivan: This is an eye opening event for me.… It’s easier for a liberal like me, who voted against Bush twice, to feel I’m off the hook.… But, clearly, I kept my eyes closed and my mouth shut.… When…
Crushing people like insects
During the Bush years, America was a nation that proudly tortured prisoners. The Obama administration has released a handful of key documents that proves this beyond doubt (though the decision to not prosecute those behind the crimes is highly regrettable and should be reversed to ensure true accountability.) Then again, a key Zionist neo-con sees…
We are good because we’re Jews
Yitzhak Laor writes in Haaretz that the Israeli establishment isn’t too good at acknowledging the country’s profound failings towards the Palestinians. The signs of an immature nation: On June 19, 1977, the Sunday Times marked the 10-year anniversary of the occupation with a wide-ranging expose on the torture of Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails. The…
Where are their loud voices now?
Andrew Sullivan challenges those who remain silent over the American use of torture. Indeed, the vast majority of neo-cons, including in Australia, have raised no complaints about the deliberate US policy of often killing innocent prisoners. The moral bankruptcy is clear: There is, I think, a great difficulty for some in accepting that the torture…
A constantly shaken sleep
Senior Bush administration officials will have to watch their legal back. They will be pursued for sanctioning torture. The New Yorker’s Jane Mayer on campaigning British lawyer Philippe Sands: It is hard to predict what will happen next, but, if arrest warrants are issued, the Obama Administration may be forced either to extradite the former…