Yeah, throw some undies around Rummy's neck as punishment. An eye for an eye.
Is it to late for Bush to award him the Medal of Freedom?
McC makes me ill.
I’m telling you, four years from now we’ll be glad McCain lost this election. Because next time we’ll be able to run an actual republican.
It’s these bullsh!t “bipartisan” reports that cause the military to have to fight wars for eight years when they could have finished it in six months. The U.S. Congress is responsible for the deaths of more American military people than all of our enemies combined. The buffoons on Capitol Hill need to stick to their scandals and moneygrabbing and leave the fighting of our wars to the adults. These buffoons can take this “report” and shove it where the sun don’t shine.
Yeah right.
I hope Bush is ready to give a blanket pardon to Rumsfeld. The left is going to be asking for his head as soon as Hussein is sworn in.
Above all else, I hope those border patrol agents get a pardon.
Poor old Mac. He just couldn’t get a break. *%@#* him.
What a stupid pile of crap, I notice the papers are full of outrageous “reports” from democrats and I guess idiot RINOs in Congress.
I guess our soldiers in the field contributed to all this too, because they SHOT the stinking terrorists. Oy.
Holy diversions, Batman!
In some ways, better the Obamao then the Rino.
And this is the crux of the matter:
“The report found that the military derived the techniques from a Survival Evasion Resistance and Escape program, or SERE, which trains U.S. soldiers to resist enemy interrogation...”
We use those techniques on our own men in mere training.
McCain could use a large cup of STFU.
For hardened thugs this sounds like a walk in the park.
Consider the source.
I already can’t stand McCain. Is he trying to make me outright hate him?
More much ado about nothing.
What is frightening about all of this is that if we had today’s politicians during WWII, we would all be wishing each other either “Ohio gozaimusu” or “Guten morgen” in the morning instead of saying “Good morning”.
Our government remains badly, throroughly and totally broken and corrupt. How much longer do we tolerate the corruption and the disconnect between politicians and ethics, honor and morality?
“...said Rumsfeld contributed to the abuse by authorizing aggressive interrogation techniques at Guantanamo Bay on Dec. 2, 2002.”
Thank you Secretary Rumfsfeld (and whomever else contributed to the other days when it was applied)
The army found out about the abuse and everyone involved is doing hard time.
So Rumsfeld can’t be accused of not taking it seriously.
So my question is this: should someone seriously be doing hard time for putting panties on some guy’s head?
Really?
Fired, maybe. A few weeks in the brig, maybe. Lose a stripe, maybe, or in some cases even discharged. Hard time? No.
Isn’t the Senate’s fault? After all, they authorized and funded the war in Iraq.
The problem here is that I don't want our military having to second-guess who they round up in a war zone. By rounding up many, many innocents to catch a bad guy (one of our tactics), we have an obligation to treat the detainees as if they are innocents, else who are we to tell them how great a constitutional democratic republic is?
And when we're passing out money for people to turn in "terrorists" and find out that they are simply turning in people they don't like, such as rivals, how do you win hearts and minds if you treat those detainees like terrorists before you've even investigated things?
I think that most FReepers forget that we release tens of thousands as "oops, you aren't the guy we're looking for. Even in Gitmo, we've had innocents held for a long period of time (not just Ahmed Errachidi).
I don't want our military to have to stop and be sure they have the right person up front, but that means being responsible after the detention.
Rumsfeld Accepts Responsibility for Abu Ghraib May 7, 2004
They can shove their "report" where the sun don't shine.