Torture, Mass Murder, and the American President

Recently I read that Obama and Clinton what our current idiot-in-chief to boycott the Olympic Opening Ceremonies in China. Now, on the whole, I think having bush stay home is a good idea. He has some sick and dangerous ideas in his head, and letting him represent our country is always a poor idea. But apparently, Obama and Clinton think he should boycott the Opening Ceremonies because China is a human rights abuser!! What planet have they been living on these last seven years?

This is either the height of hypocrisy, or the height of idiocy. Or maybe both, although my take is that it is the height of idiocy. Our torture president, who started up TWO wars of aggression, one which has likely killed over a million and definitely displaced over four million, who orders extrajudicial killings and kidnappings (he calls the later “extraordinary rendition”), who sign off on torture, should boycott the Olympics because CHINA HAS COMMITTED HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES?

Here’s what a commenter on Antiwar.com blog said:

The Tibet march poster I saw yesterday mentioned the “atrocities” perpetrated by the Chinese government. How about the atrocities carried out, abetted, enabled, and inspired by the US Government in Iraq? The death toll in Iraq beats last month’s entire cluster of clashes in Tibet practically every hour. Why, outside of a few stickers on newspaper boxes around town, is no significant mention made of what’s going on non-stop in Iraq? Are mainstream liberals just so cowed by the see-through rhetoric of the now completely debunked War Party that they still refuse to criticize a war their military is currently prosecuting? ~ Jeremy Sapienza, on Antiwar.com blog

Well, just to make this even more ironic, just last week, ABC News reported on the complicity with torture that our current resident in the White House has demonstrated:

President Bush says he knew his top national security advisers discussed and approved specific details about how high-value al Qaeda suspects would be interrogated by the Central Intelligence Agency, according to an exclusive interview with ABC News Friday. "Well, we started to connect the dots in order to protect the American people." Bush told ABC News White House correspondent Martha Raddatz. "And yes, I'm aware our national security team met on this issue. And I approved."

In the title of the piece, they call it “interrogation talks”. What a cute name for water boarding, which is TORTURE. Of course, we knew all along that cheney and rumsfeld would be behind this, but it was surprising that bush was cheerleading them on, and powell, rice, goss, ashcroft, and tenet. Scumbags all. Is this man who approves of torture and approves of wars of aggression supposed to teach other countries to respect human rights? HUH??? There was a piece on this today on Democracy Now! also.

Now, I would like to hear what good, helpful, and useful information they actually got from using torture. My educated guess is “nothing”. Didn’t an Iraqi exile tell about mobile chemical labs in Iraq after being tortured? That was the information that powell put into his idiotic UN speech. I know that, if I was tortured, I would confess to anything I thought the torturer wanted to hear, just to make it stop. Maybe terrorists or criminals are tougher than me, but it seems we would all have a breaking point.

And why are we seeing “Free Tibet” signs on the Golden Gate Bridge, but no “Free Iraq” or “Free Palestine” signs? This makes no sense to me.

Photo: Three people protesting China’s human rights record and the impending arrival of the Olympic torch climbed up the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, Monday, April 7, 2008, and tied Tibetan flags and two banners to its cables. Photo came from The San Francisco Sentinel.