Posts Tagged ‘waterboarding’

Nancy Pelosi’s one trick

May 15th, 2009 | No Comments

I have bemoaned over the last few years that Nancy Pelosi had one trick, and one trick only. “Bush lied”. Insert anything else you want, it just had to be preceded with “Bush lied”. A tsunami occurs, it’s because Bush lied. Pick anything you want. Eventually it morphed into the “Republican Culture of Corruption“. It [...]

Congress fails to over-ride waterboarding ban veto

March 12th, 2008 | No Comments

Here’s the news: House Democrats on Tuesday failed to overturn President Bush’s veto of a bill that would have prohibited the CIA from using waterboarding and other harsh interrogation techniques on terrorist suspects. Good. First of all, I don’t like the idea of locally politically motivated people determining national defense issues.  War is not a [...]

Who gets to define torture?

October 31st, 2007 | No Comments

There’s a lot being said over waterboarding.  Michael Mukasey’s nomination is said to be “drowning” over this one single issue.  Joe Biden and Patrick Leahy, who are prone to oppose just about anything for the sake of politics, are “concerned” that Mukasey, rather than completely cowering and denouncing PC-torture-procedure-of-the-day, stated he’d rather look at each [...]