From HP:
Former President George W. Bush says if he had it to do over, he would still waterboard the self-professed mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks.
Waterboarding is a simulated drowning technique that the Obama administration considers torture. Bush acknowledged Wednesday that the U.S. used the harsh interrogation technique on Khalid Sheik Mohammed and said he would "do it again to save lives."
Bush made the comment while speaking to the Economic Club of Grand Rapids, Mich.
Mohammed was captured in Pakistan in 2003 and is the most senior al-Qaida operative in U.S. custody.
In his speech, Bush defended the decision to go to war with Iraq in 2003. He said ousting Saddam Hussein "was the right thing to do and the world is a better place without him."
Pardon me. But wasn't this the same asshole who said, "We don't torture"?
How does he reconcile those two throughts? Oh, that's right. He's part of the GOP. Truth and logic have no place there. Lies are convenient truths to them.
It's funny how George Bush has remained quite until there's a need to defend a criminal act that he may have been an accomplice in. Doubtful that he will ever be brought to court on this. Nobody in our current government has the balls to actually bring a case like this - a case where a criminal act was committed by the President of the United States and he's even admitted to it.
No. That would be too hard to prosecute, they'd figure, and the American people, who are so sensitive, wouldn't be able to handle it.
Well, I'd love to see this dickhead have to explain his decision, and I'd like it to be something other than, "I was so scared and couldn't think straight, so everything in the world became black and white. I had to torture because I just wasn't courageous enough to not torture."
Would we have gotten the same info out of Muhammad? Guaranteed. Put a man in solitary long enough he'd talk about anything you'd want to talk about just to pass the time.
But what do I know. And what do I know about lying. It can't be that important, right?