The Noose Tightens

THE TERRORIST DON'T CARE ABOUT RIGHTS THEY TORTURE MORE HORRIFIC THAN WE HAVE BEEN TOLD FOR THE SAKE OF ISLAM. BUT IF WE DO OR SAY ANYTHING WE ARE THE CRUSADERS ALL I CAN SAY IS I GET SICK OF HEARING IGNORANT PEOPLE, PEOPLE YOU JUST THINK OF THEMSELVES.

Excuse me, but the Bush administration lied in order to further the war effort in the Middle East; the lies continued from then on. Continual attacks upon our Constitution have rendered it nearly unrecogizable--acts which could not have proceeded without the impetus of an event such as 911.
MIndful and deliberate decisions were made which jeopardized the American way of life, acts which I believe were acts of terrorism and treason against the American people, yet we the people allowed it all to happen.
Perhaps we deserve what we're getting.
Personally, as criminals on a number of levels, Bush and Cheney should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law as traitors, war criminals, and purpetrators of crimes against humanity.

It's a matter of record that Bush himself referred to the Constitution of the United States of America as
"a g*d da***d piece of paper."

Thank you for the opportunity to express my displeasure.

Your analogy might not be that representative of reality. For instance, the two kidnappers have already been under close scrutiny by government intelligence operatives before and during the kidnapping and there is suspicion that one of three kidnappers is actually a national security agent who is relaying national security issues deemed to be more important to the national interest than kidnapping crimes. Your mission: how do you get the information that will return these children safely to their parents? By waiting for the freedom of information law to kick in, so that you can look into government files twenty some years later? - or allowing the government to coerce information of questionable veracity which predictably results as useless in attempts to find the children? I wish our world was less complicated, but many suspects roam freely back and forth with great impunity.

Let's look at an example...let's say you are in the park with your two children and three people grab them and start running to a car. You chase them and two of the people get your children into a car and speed off. You have one of the people in your custody. You know that if your children are gone for more than 48 hours, then most hope is gone. The person in your custody is defiant and silent. You have 48 hours to find your children and must consider the following: How do you get information from the one person in your custody to save your children? What methods do you use to obtain the information? Now it's PERSONAL. Whose HUMAN RIGHTS are more important?

There is a right way of achieving information and a wrong way. Recent studies and history has shown that interrorgation techniques, like waterboarding, do not work. They are just forms of torture, not an effective way of interrorgation. That is a fact. When I was in special forces we were trained to withstand giving up ANY information while being tortured by even worse technques. Now you have men like John McCain, who have served, protected our country, have dealt with top secret info, and have detailed knowledge of the happenings at these prisons and they are saying its wrong and that we need to do something about it. I agree. These kind of actions don't make us safer, they make the enemies numbers increase and fuels anti-american sediment of the middle east and the world.

isn't it interesting how Mr. Ratner and Mr. Roth are so against our efforts to defend the American people. They seem to have lost perspective completely. It's not the men or organizations who murdered thousands of people on 9/11 that are wicked. It's the men who dared to waterboard the master mind of the terror attack. Unlike him we didn't murder thousands, But Ratner and Roth seem to think we are more wicked. Of course, how dare we make him uncomfortable. . .that is awful. Perhaps if we just sit down over milk and cookies he would have told the truth and given up all that he knows. It's not not the terrorists that send young children to blow themselves up and kill many innocent men, women and children that are bad. . .it's Bush and Cheney, because they've dared to imprison some. How awful. Let them go free. Unfortunately, it will be other families that will pay the awful price if these men walk free. I wonder, if Mr. Roth's or Mr. Ratner's children or spouses were killed or maimed, would they still act and speak in such a vulgar fashion concerning those that protect them? Would that they were as concerned for the women, children and men who have been needlessly and brutally slaughtered or maimed as they are for those who continue to murder and maim.

The sooner they can be brought before international tribunals, the sooner we can put paid to the debt we owe the worl for our criminal behavior!

Bill Clinton's administration will be remembered most for its corruption, and of course the impeachment.

Obama's own political background is murky at best, and he's already tracking soiled footprints into the oval office with his Chicago Democrat pedigree - the most notoriously corrupt political machine in America for decades - and his connection to Blago.(Not to mention Rezko, et al.)

And the media is searching for something to pin on the Bush administration, however vague, silly or abstract.

And they wonder why their readership is in such bad shape, and no one trusts the media in general.

Send the entire Bush Crime Family to jail where they belong!

I'm no constitutional scholar, but I don't think the President can pardon himself. Also I don't think Bush cares that he can't travel abroad. he never did before he was president so why should he now?

Thank you for a well-written piece. I see by a couple of comments already made here that you have hit a tender nerve. For those of us who truly love this country, a full accounting of the allegedly criminal and morally reprehensible actions of the Bush administration would be welcome.