So how is it that water boarding was considered to be torture and illegal in the past,

[AndyA]

but then it wasn't when Bushco did it, but now it is torture again?

Am I following this correctly? I seem to recall that the United States has successfully prosecuted people in the past for water boarding, and it was apparently considered torture and was illegal at the time.

Now we have the Bush Administration admitting that they used this procedure, but that it wasn't torture or illegal when they did it.

Right. :eyes:

But now many in Congress say water boarding is torture. The United Nations says it's torture. The Geneva Conventions say it's torture. So why isn't Congress doing anything about it?

Without legislation passed in Congress, how could water boarding go from torture/illegal to not torture/permissible to torture/illegal again?

This seems to be a rather cut and dry case for impeachment. We have these people on record admitting their crimes. What's the hold up, Congress? :shrug:

[Demeter]

1. He Had His Fingers Crossed, So It Didn't Count

He didn't say "Simon says"

The dog ate his homework

What other juvenile excuse did I forget? My kids are too old now.

[zanne]

2. Today's conservatives rewrite history....

That's the only way they can get away with their crimes against the constitution and U.S. Law.

[L. Coyote]

6. They are busily rewriting laws too. It ALWAYS happens that way. They write laws to conform

to their behavior.

ALWAYS! Always, the laws are rewritten first to make the abuses legal.

In Inquisitional Spain, it was legal to take the lands of Pagans and make slaves of them.
Why? They write laws ALWAYS to conform to what they intend to do!

In the USA, slavery was legal. It was enshrined in laws!
Law is not sacred, it is a toll of politics of the day!

ALWAYS. So, just follow what the new laws say, and you will see your future.

[Fovea]

3. in the past

we were a democracy under the constitution of the US.
Now we are a corporatist dictatorship, under a Deciderer.

[Winterblues]

4. Maybe you just haven't heard "Impeachment is OFF the Table"

The Republican Criminal Enterprise has a Free Pass to do to America any thing they damn well please..

[thereismore]

5. 9/11 changed everything. nt