"My Head Exploded When Obama Sanctimoniously Said, 'We Tortured Some Folks'"

[quaker bill]

242. Mine didn't at all

You do not object to torture more than I.

The statement is correct and has been known to be correct for the greater part of a decade now. We tortured some folks (actual people). We violated the Geneva Conventions, the laws of war, the principles of just war, international law, human rights, civil rights, our constitution and laws, the Ten Commandments, and just about everything short of the fundamental principles of thermodynamics, and we would have done that too if it was easy and "against the terrorists".

When the pictures came out, the whole collection including the one in your post, where was the outcry? You know, the general strike, the throngs and masses of people in the streets demanding the immediate resignation of anyone involved? I did not notice it.

So now, many years later, long after all the torture has ended and our participation in the unjust war is over, we are going to get bent over what could most generously be termed poor semantics?

Having been there when the news broke, I am pretty sure you and I were equally appalled. However "we the people" (330 million of us) greeted this news with a shrug, a sigh, and then tuned back into "24". Heck a good sized slice of us still think President Obama is showing "weakness" for having stopped it. We are still a very long way from the trials and tribunals so justly deserved. We are closer to one poor election result starting it again.