TYT: Lawrence Wilkerson denounces Bush administration

[Wetzelbill]

Run time: 17:22 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rpbag-KSoYI   Posted on YouTube: May 21, 2009 By YouTube Member: Views on YouTube: 0   Posted on DU: May 21, 2009 By DU Member: Wetzelbill Views on DU: 1750

 

[Metta]

1. He would know.

Thanks for posting.

[Seldona]

2. K&R

Great interview from an insiders viewpoint.

"You don't know the half of it."

:argh:

[tomm2thumbs]

3. MUST LISTEN - Spare the 17 minutes - It is TYT's Best Interview & Reveals Much!

I was literally shocked at the candid conversation - he believes fervently Cheney easily could have not informed Bush of much of what was going on, that despite numbers released officially by DoD, it is probably more likely that we've killed a quarter of a million Iraqis, the list goes on.

Must listen... must listen...

Thanks for posting Wetzelbill

[Hyper_Eye]

4. Agreed. K&R. n/t

[Flabbergasted]

5. Wow! Everything we suspected in detail from an insider. nt

[florida08]

6. amazing

best interview yet from Col. Wilkerson. We must hold hearings. Most catastrophic presidency of our lifetime.

[cooolandrew]

7. I think the film 'W' calls it exactly Bush wanted 2 terms and get Saddam after that he had little>

intrest. Other than that Cheney had free reign of anarchy over virtually the whole world. Whatever issues with President Obama we can all breath easier we've moved passed that era.

[Wetzelbill]

10. no kidding

Man I have some questions about The Big O from time to time, but it's such a relief to wake up and not have to think that your president is such a destructive imbecile that this could be the day when he does something that will destroy our country for decades if not for good. I know that today, Obama isn't going to go off half-crocked and bomb Iran, for example. With Bush, you never knew.

[cooolandrew]

12. Yep I know I sleep easier considering President Obama is new to DC he's finding his feet amazingly>

well and I think we'll see great things happen as his standing grows and jig saw pieces fall into place. The persecution thing is in question but everything else has enormous potential for success. Barack has vision that stretches many years into the future. This is part of the long now.

[NOW tense]

8. Lawrence Wilkerson really wants to talk

If I were a reporter, I would be setting up a long meeting with him.

[spiritual_gunfighter]

9. This is the best and most important interview Cenk has done

Lawrence Wilkerson is so key to eventual torture prosecutions, he is a guy on the inside who didn't like what was going on and is unafraid to be honest with whomever is listening. I love seeing him out there saying this stuff. Great interview Cenk big time K&R!

[sattahipdeep]

11. President Bush championed torture.

Vice President Cheney gave such explicit interviews about his role in directing the policy of torture that in legal terms, were there a prosecution, they amount to a confession. Did the Congress that is now so piously calling for the investigation of rank-and-file agents and military express their horror and outrage then? With a very few exceptions, they did not. These leaders "had no idea"? Please.

Since 2003 it has been fully documented by rights organizations, and accessible to anyone listening, that direct US policy for prisoners in our custody included electrodes to genitals, suffocation, hanging prisoners from bars by the wrists, beatings, concealed murders, sexual assault threats, sexual humiliation and forced nudity, which is considered a sex crime in warfare international and domestic law. Many voices from Jane Mayer's to Michael Ratner's to Jameel Jaffer's to Amnesty and Human Rights Watch made similar documented charges. Did our leaders call for investigations? They barely even called for a moment's consideration of it. Tolerating torture ("tough tactics" or "enhanced interrogations") polled well; supporting it made them look tough in close elections. It was, overwhelmingly, okay with them.

And may we ourselves please look in the mirror, for the sake of our own moral health? How many Americans spoke up when it was chic to thrill to the sadistic soundbite of "take the gloves off"? How many watched 24 without a murmur when the mass consensus was that it was okay -- no, patriotic -- to waterboard a bit? How many of us -- as in civilized societies everywhere when a wind of barbarism is set free -- actually thrilled to the sadistic (and sometimes sexually sadistic) soundbites that came out of the Bush communications office of the "special sauce," the "belly slap," and the phrase "we have our methods"?

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/naomi-wolf/dont-prosecute----and-sca_b_190177.html

Thank you Naomi Wolf

[Tx4obama]

13. Kick n/t