Obama to Take On Torture?

Even Tom & jerry would have done a better job in the Oval Office than by G W Bush miserable eight years as the president of USA. President George W Bush's shock-and-awe in Iraq was not about Saddam Hussein's nuclear ambitions, or the alleged link to the al-Qaeda network which the US blames for the September 11 2001 attacks, it was for the greed and looting of Iraqi oil wells, about defending the dollar, and setting an example that anyone who seeks payment for oil in currencies other than US dollars, which is what Saddam did in 2000, would be likewise punished. History teaches that an empire should go to war for either defending itself or benefiting from war; otherwise, as Paul Kennedy stated in his The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers, "A military overstretch will drain its economic resources and precipitate its collapse." Crime is contagious; if the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt.

President Bush committed war crimes as an institutional necessity to terrorize the world and in consequence propagated law of jungle, where the strongest attempts to kills the weaker. I remember reading that US Colonel Steve Butler was suspended from duty after he wrote to a newspaper calling Bush "a joke" whose presidency was going nowhere before September 11. "He did nothing to warn the American people because he needed this war on terrorism. His daddy has Saddam Hussein and he needed Osama." Mr Bush alleged silence about intelligence failures was "sleazy and contemptible", the colonel added. There is no doubt in the fact that wisdom to G W Bush is as alien as it would be slippers to a snake and, because of this slowness, he has never been in total control of his senses during his inept presidency. President G W Bush has wasted over 2.5 trillion dollars of American taxpayers money fighting an illegal war and occupation of Iraq war and still considers US is wining.

He should be impeached for his and his warmongering administration's crimes against humanity.

I believe that under Mr Bush's leadership, America has become notoriously belligerent and is intimidating the world when its political and economics interests are challenged. It has lost the respect and benign goodness that was once was an essential part of its foreign policy. On the other hand, Obama offers hope, reconciliation, aspiration, and optimism to the American people, which have been dreadfully missing because President Bush has divided America's political divisions into cultural war. America is hated more than ever before in the world now and Obama can restore honour to America's name.

Why stop with Gitmo detainees? Why not torture domestic criminals?

We can start with Alberto Gonzales. I'm sure he'd being singing like a canary within 2-3 minutes, and give up the dirt on the rest of the Bush administration.

It's not true that nobody died from torture and abuse. Just look at the real story of what happened at Abu Ghraib and the torture and abuse that happened secretly in foreign countries after the extraordinary renditions and kidnappings conducted by our CIA. I believe the Bush administration is the most un-American administration in the history of our country. If these things make you proud, then you weren't listening in elementary school when your teacher taught you what it means to be an American.

--"If there was any effort to have war-crimes prosecutions of the Bush administration, you'd instantly destroy whatever hopes you have of bipartisanship," said Robert Litt, a former Justice criminal division chief during the Clinton administration."--

Are you kidding me! You'd lose bipartisanship for calling Bush "a bad guy" or "a bad leader". But these are WAR CRIMES! Only a Fake Democrat like the the Clintonistas would want bipartisanship with people who have (Search MANNING MEMO) committed WAR CRIMES. If I were a law abiding republican, I'd also be insulted. Not all republicans commit WAR CRIMES.

--"A new commission, on the other hand, could emulate the bipartisan tone set by Tom Kean and Lee Hamilton in investigating the 9/11 attacks."--

What's wrong with you Newsweek! The 9/11 commission was a failure. Buildings don't explode and planes don't "atomize". The 9/11 commission was denied documents and was thwarted every step of the way. But don't take my word for it. Ask Tom Kean and Lee Hamilton who said so themselves. By the way, Lee Hamilton is also the guy who deep-sixed the Iran-Contra TREASON investigation. You're leaving out a lot of history your readers already know about Newsweek!

But don't worry Newsweek, if there was any effort to lambast Newsweek on my part, I'd "instantly destroy whatever hopes I'd have of bipartisanship." So don't worry. We're all good buddies here, aren't we.

It is more than a call on torture. It is a comprehensive trade process of enslavement that has lasted over seven years - long past the exposure and embarrassment of Abu Ghraib, long past calls from the legislatures and allies for termination. It has expanded from its sources of kidnapping and bounty, to rendition, thru smuggling routes that violates allies sovereignty and terminating at a dungeon call Camp Justice at Gitmo. It probably has its death squads. It has its illegal courts.

From private to general, seamen to admiral, clerk to department secretary, individual to corporation; it has been sustained by an army of enablers. These are what must be identified, understood and power, positions, careers and commissions terminated. It is only then will we understand where the bottom of our morals, our ethics and our character lies. First step..

How about doing some actual reporting instead of regurgitating a week-old Salon piece by Mark Benjamin? Just asking...

HARLEY maybe "REPUKE" is a better term? LMAO!!!

I would LOVE to see Cheney, Rove, Tenet and a handful of other assorted NEO-CONS in shackles. Its where they belong. Send them to Lewisburg and let some pipe hitt'in ni99a's go med-evil on thier a$$....burn baby BURN!!!!

funny, just hillarious that any discussion of wether we should even discuss the possibility of investigating the current criminal Bush administration, we retreat because we dont want to look backwards or cause unecessary bipartisanship.
your server couldnt handle the documentation of the still growing list of criminal acts exhibited by this administration. the USA, as self appointed moral highwater mark in the world, exemplifies the lack of moral perfomance by NOT prosecuting this adminitration.

our only saving grace is that they will be judged on the final day by there own "good book"!

yeah, right................

Send the legal bills to the DNC.

This is the Bush administration's version of what the word "is" is. If making someone feel like they are drowning isn't torture; if sensory deprivation and sleep deprivation aren't torture; and if degrading people by posing them naked in front of the opposite sex with attack dogs present isn't torture, then there must not be any such thing.

Lest you say, "there goes another democrat", I voted for Mr. Bush twice. The first time I hoped he would be a good president. The second time, I thought he was the better of two bad choices. But knowing what we all know now, Mr. Bush led us into a war on false pretenses, taken away constitutional rights, and finally took away America's standing in the world as the bright, shining city on a hill. It is no wonder that the American people turned Republicans out when we've sold out on values that have made this country great. If another country did these things to our troops, we would call for war crimes tribunals.