Ticking Time Bomb Scenario, Version 2.0
by sarabeth at 6:01 am on May 15th, 2009 in Bush Man Date, Cheney, Corruption, Dismantling Bushworld, Iraq War, Podium Spin, War on TerrorIt looks like the ticking time bomb scenario is in need of a little revision.
One Monday, Liz Cheney claimed that this is “exactly the situation my daddy these folks were in”:
So, if you knew that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed had information about an imminent threat on the United States. Information that would result in the death of your family members and the death of the people you care about and love, and that if he were waterboarded you would be able to get that information and prevent the attack, you wouldn’t do it? You’d let him go ahead and launch the attack?
History may record instead this slightly emended version:
So, if you knew that the administration had scheduled an imminent war on Iraq, a war that it currently had no persuasive way to sell to Congress and the American people, a war that was already written in stone but in dire need of a plausible rationale. And if you thought there was a slim chance that if the dozens of al-Qaeda number 3s we had in secret CIA prisons were waterboarded enough times (say, 183), one of them might might say something that could be misrepresented (by truthtellers ranging from George Bush to Dick Cheney) as a link between Iraq and al-Qaeda, you wouldn’t do it? You’d force them to abort the Iraq war instead?
George wrote:
America has lost its innocence. America, it’s unfortunate, no longer has the moral authority to tell other countries not to torture our troops and our soldiers. We can’t tell them not to. That would mean we are the biggest hipocrates to ever have lived. No, we must “get used to” it that our soldiers will undoubtedly be tortured in the future. If your kids are serving in the military, they will probably be tortured. We allowed it to happen, and did nothing to stop it. We no longer have any moral authority and our word means squat. We are worse than the viet cong. Most of the people at Abu Ghraib and at Guantanamo Bay Cuba had absolutely nothing to do with Terrorism…and, as proof, we let them go willingly and without filing any charges. That was Obama, that did that, I know you’re thinking…ah, no it was Bush. Bush willingly let all the “Terrorists” go without even attempting to file charges against them. Now, you have to ask yourself for a minute, were they really Terrorists? I think you know the answer to that. We have all been fooled. We were duped, tricked. I know it is hard to admit when a person is wrong. I went for the longest time and didn’t want to admit it either. The fact is we were tricked into fighting two illegal wars and then permitting terrorism/torturing in our good name. American soldiers are left wide open to torture…there is nothing we can do about it…we can’t stop it…we will have to just live with it. Thanks to Michael Hayden and George Bush!
Posted 19 May 2009 at 5:18 pm ¶