War criminal Bush speaks: enhanced interrogation program was legal and garnered valuable information

[ProSense]

May 28, 2009

Bush: 'The information we got saved lives'

From CNN Political Producer Peter Hamby

BENTON HARBOR, Michigan (CNN) – Former President George W. Bush on Thursday repeated Dick Cheney's assertion that their enhanced interrogation program was legal and garnered valuable information that prevented future terrorist attacks.

In his largest domestic speech since leaving the White House in January, Bush told an audience in southwestern Michigan that after the September 11 attacks, "I vowed to take whatever steps that were necessary to protect you."

Although he did not specifically allude to the high-profile debate over President Obama's decision to halt the use harsh interrogation techniques, and without referencing Cheney by name, Bush spoke in broad strokes about how he proceeded after the capture of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in March 2003.

"The first thing you do is ask, what's legal?" he said. "What do the lawyers say is possible? I made the decision, within the law, to get information so I can say to myself, 'I've done what it takes to do my duty to protect the American people.' I can tell you that the information we got saved lives."

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[tekisui]

1. Keep talkin'.

[seafan]

2. War criminal Bush: "I can tell you that the information we got saved lives."

So says the giggling murderer on May 28, 2009.

The use of torture by the US has proved so counter-productive that it may have led to the death of as many US soldiers as civilians killed in 9/11, says the leader of a crack US interrogation team in Iraq.

UK Independent, April 26, 2009

[Clio the Leo]

3. Anybody got any cookies?

I'll do just about anything for some carbs covered in sugar. .... I'd probably give up my own mama if you gave me one after I'd been eating prison food for a week.

It's not that difficult a concept to grasp. Honey = Flies

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1901491,00.html

[jbnow]

4. But there is this

"Nothing I am saying is meant to criticize my successor," Bush said. "There are plenty of people who have weighed in. Trust me, having seen it firsthand. I didn't like it when a former president criticized me, so therefore I am not going to criticize my successor. I wish him all the best."

cheney gets so much press bashing Obama and defending torture...we have to keep seeing him or hearing his points brought up to be debated. If bush did the same attacks we'd be seeing and hearing from him all the time as well. We'll hear some of this but the media likes conflict and angst more so without attacks there will be less coverage

[Rosa Luxemburg]

5. he has just confirmed that he carried out the crime - arrest him!

[LiberalFighter]

6. Did he personally test the non-torture methods himself to ensure it wasn't torture?

I think he should go thru what ManCow did on his radio station to prove waterboarding is not torture.

[ProSense]

7. Bush blames his lawyer

Bush defends harsh interrogation tactics: report

Bush told the crowd of 1,500 that the techniques were cleared by his lawyer, the Detroit Free Press reported.