ACZoom  ·  Archive-2016

What everyone already knew is now official - Cheney and Bush, along with help from John Yoo @ dick-i-pedia and others have turned the US Constitution on its head, and have dragged the US into the company of tyrannical regimes.

Cartoons say it well:
World is watching you
Cheney is the mastermind, Bush was "just following orders"

Articles:
The Banality of Bush White House Evil states the core truth - "Torture was a tool in the campaign to exploit 9/11 so that fearful Americans would support a war that had nothing to do with Al Qaeda."
Torture was useless - Ali Soufan, a former F.B.I. agent who questioned Abu Zubaydah in 2002, points out that the terrorist operative provided important intelligence under traditional interrogation methods. This is a point on which the Cheney strategy right now is to raise a lot of confusion.

It is sad, shameful, and even pitiable to see some radio and tv talking heads try to defend this Cheney/Bush policy - torture is something the US should never do, and it is never necessary to do. It was downright cowardly for Cheney (who took five draft deferments himself) and Rumsfeld types who allowed the rank-and-file in the army to stand trial and lose jobs over the Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib incidents when all along Cheney created such policies in the first place. The army did what they were told - policy set from the White House itself and the White House should be the one condemned and not the people in the army.