The Chancellor is not going to go down without a fight for one of his favorite pasttimes. If it was good for the Inquisition, the Nazi SS, Japanese war criminals who were executed for using the technique, and the Kmer Rouge, waterboarding is Herr Bush’s perfect answer to keep Americans ‘safe from terrorists’ by torturing any one any way he wants. He is a madman who has lost his moral compass and the imaginary end justifies whatever the horrific means. Please, let us survive until someone sane takes over before this paranoid fool starts a nuclear war.

...all of this eagerness and assertiveness on Bush’s part to make sure that persuasive techniques remain available to interrogators (and by the way, making sure that warantless wiretapping remains an option) strikes me as a way of staying on the offensive against the accusation of criminal activity on his part.  If he can continue to push for these outrageous things, then it puts Congress in the position of simply saying no.  If he doesn’t push on them, then it puts Congress (potentially) in the position of not just saying no, but pursuing criminal conviction.  Won’t someone please have the guts to pursue impeachment, even at the risk of your own future in Washington?  (As if you’d be anything but the biggest hero of the 21st century!)

Waterboard Congress until they pull us out of Iraq and Impeach Bush!

DennisD…

You didn’t miss the vote. The 19 ‘approved’ techniques were incorporated into the new Manual. (it’s about 2 years old now).

I don’t think Congress voted on it.

Now of course BEFORE that, we’ve had these dozen or so OTHER domestic and international laws in place, ALL of which outlaw ALL forms of torture. (that was pre-Dick Bush). And SINCE then, they done a bunch of other new laws, to add to the old laws, like this new law, to prohibit torture.

So, it’s like the Doc said, they keep doing laws to make it illegal, to do something that is already illegal. So by now, it’s become illegal about a hundred times, except that georgie says he’s gonna veto this one too.

(remember, he did a signing statement on the last two or three…I lose track).

When you behave in the same, barbaric manner as those who oppose you, you become the same as them.

I find it absolutely astonishing that these supposedly “Christians” at the helm of the USA can be such boldfaced hypocrites… they don’t even follow their own religious teachings but claim to be followers nonetheless.

The GWB crowd are nothing but liars and cheats dressed up in expensive clothes. Shame on them.

My sentiments exactly!

I don’t understand voting to make something illegal illegal.