On Friday the sitting president of the United States admitted on national television that he was involved in approving the systematic use of torture as a policy of the government.
Where was The Herald and the rest of the mainstream press? Giving pages of headline news to debating whether Obama’s use of the word “bitter” was a put-down of the economically depressed.
“Waterboarding” is only “simulated drowning” because a victim can’t purposely inhale enough water to kill himself. The lungs are blocked and all of the body’s reactions that happen when denied air in the presence of water, happen. Tell me, if it’s not torture, why can’t we use it to determine whether someone like Scooter Libby was lying or not? Why not Alberto Gonzales? It’s a form of torture that is illegal in any international conflict, and Cheney, Bush, Yoo, Gonzales and anyone who took part should be tried in the international courts. If we let these criminals get away with this, there is nothing to stop Hillary or Obama from enagaging in the same behavior.
Decades from now historians will point to this decade as the time when freedom was taken from America, but it’s not being taken from us, we’re abandoning it. America has left the building, welcome to the USA.
Christopher Bingham
Snohomish
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