by James Glaser
November 8, 2005

I don't know if George meant he and Dick Cheney don't torture, or through misinformation, maybe another case of bad intelligence, the President doesn't know about all the people our government has tortured to death. Maybe George is just out of the loop again. It has been reported time and time again that President Bush does not watch the news or read papers, so it could be that his staff has forgotten to tell him about the CIA's secret prisons, or the sex/torture scandal in our Iraqi prisons, and how about Gitmo? Do you think George even knows we have been keeping people in wire cages for years, down in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba?

There is no doubt that we torture, heck we have been doing that since WWII started. Yes, I know we have signed treaties to stop that practice, but it continues. I remember reading how our government experimented with LSD back in early 60's, hoping that would work to get answers out of people. Who knows, maybe Washington started the Summer of Love, during the Vietnam War.

The reason that Bush is in a tizzy about torture is that the United States Senate voted something like 90-9 to pass a bill that would stop George Bush and his administration from kicking people to death.

The Associated Press came up with this line on Monday, November 07, 2005. "President Bush vigorously defended U.S. interrogation practices in the war on terror and lobbied against a congressional drive to outlaw torture."

So, George Bush is running around the world telling anyone who will listen, "We do not torture," and at the same time he is threatening to veto any bill coming from Congress that outlaws torture. Also this week it has been disclosed that the United States, under George Bush, now maintains a "network of prisons in eastern Europe and Asia, where it holds terrorist suspects."

Senator John McCain, talked about Bush's secret prisons and said in the Los Angeles Times, "The prisoners can apparently, be treated inhumanely. This means that America is the only country in the world that asserts a legal right to engage in cruel and inhumane treatment."

At first President Bush threatened to veto any bill that stopped torture, but now all he wants is to exempt the CIA, so they can torture, but the rest of the United States couldn't. John McCain called that proposal "totally unacceptable."

Many people were shocked at the protests of George Bush in South America this week. Many were outraged over the pictures of President Bush with swastikas and a Hitler mustache.... I think they looked good on him. If Bush is going to talk that talk, he should also look that look.