There is really no point in Congress passing laws restricting the Regime's use of torture

[kpete]

Plain and Simple: Nothing But Ouster Will Stop Bush-Cheney Torture Regime
Written by Chris Floyd
Thursday, 04 October 2007


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There is really no point in Congress passing laws restricting the Regime's use of torture (assuming that these slavish sad sacks were actually interested in doing so); nor is there any point in the courts ruling against it (assuming that the Bushist apparatchiks, arrogant partisans and lying dimbulbs on the Supreme Court would uphold any lower court rulings outlawing the Regime's filthy practices). It is obvious beyond all dispute by now that the Bush Regime will simply ignore any and all attempts to put fetters on its atrocities. They will not stop torturing people. They will not stop kidnapping people and holding them without charges. They will not stop launching mass-murdering wars of aggression. They will not stop perverting the electoral system to keep their extremist fringe views ensconced in power.

The only possible way to stop these criminal depradations is to remove Bush and Cheney from office. Nothing else will do it. And any national political figure or presidential candidate who does not have this removal at the top of their agenda, who is not beating this drum day after day and using all their power and influence and position to help bring it about is, as we have noted here before, nothing but an accomplice to torture and murder.

It's that simple

more at:
http://www.chris-floyd.com/Articles/Articles/Plain_and_Simple%3A_Nothing_But_Ouster_Will_Stop_Bush-Cheney_Torture_Regime/

The Bush Administration has opined that torture is not torture. So what tricks remain? To say that murder is not murder? That rape is not rape? That there isn’t any extortion or kidnapping, either? Ah, but I neglected the hearings down the hall concerning the contractors in Iraq. Of course, it’s given those opinions already, too.

http://harpers.org/archive/2007/10/hbc-90001357

[Solly Mack]

1. Laws existed when Bush-Cheney took office...those laws could have been used

used against Bush and Cheney

but they weren't

it isn't a matter of creating new laws ...it was always a matter of enforcing the laws already in place

the deliberately manufactured confusion that torture somehow isn't torture (because Bush Inc redefined torture) is nothing more than an excuse to get away with it

[Golden Raisin]

2. You got it. The torture/rendition

will stop about the same time Condi answers that Congressional subpoena she's been ignoring/spitting on since the day it was issued.