Senator Kit Bond, ranking Republican on the Senate Intelligence Committee, Said What?

[babylonsister]

http://www.vetvoice.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=2703

Senator Kit Bond Said What?
by: Brandon Friedman
Mon Apr 27, 2009 at 05:06:32 AM EDT


Time for a quiz:

On Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace, Senator Kit Bond (R-MO) said:

A. The torture of detainees was the result of "rogue criminal acts of our soldiers."

B. The Senate Armed Services Committee report on torture policies is "fallacious."

C. Not torturing prisoners has "absolutely destroyed our ability to get further information from terrorists."

D. We should send ground forces into Pakistan to "clear" and "hold" areas.

E. All of the above.

If you answered A. through D., you're giving this guy--the ranking Republican on the Senate Intelligence Committee--way too much credit. In fact, the correct answer is E. All of the above.

Not only does Senator Bond not believe the Senate report--which blames high-level Bush administration officials for U.S. torture policies--but he's vocally laying the blame on a few "rogue" soldiers. Of course, it takes a special kind of politician to sink to the level of blaming the troops for that one. Then, he completely gives away his favorite TV show with his loopy assertion that we can't get information from terrorists without torturing them. And the Pakistan remark? Whatever you say, buddy.

My only regret is that Senator Bond has already announced that he's not running for re-election in 2010. Because that would've been fun with the ammunition this guy regularly provides. Oh well. At least America--and its troops--will be better off with one less torture-supporting senator who can't wait to open up a third front in the war.

[Captain Hilts]

1. Shit for brains. nt

[xchrom]

2. i HATE that ignorant fucker.

really the people who send idiots like that to represent them should hang their heads in shame.

[rateyes]

3. Way to support the troops, Senator Shit Bonds. nt

[potisok]

4. Truely sad

Senator Bond insults the word ignorant.

[Spurt]

5. No wonder the nation is in the shitter...

...when this is what comes from a Senate Intelligence Committee member.
FFS.

[Doctor_J]

6. So what? He said it on Fox News

Only morons watch/believe anything that's said on there, by ANYONE. I can't believe this shit takes up room on DU

[babylonsister]

7. I care that the ranking rethug on the intelligence committee has so little

regard for the soldiers. And the 'moron' who wrote this is a Vet, so I guess he's allowed to weigh in, isn't he? :eyes:

[babylonsister]

8. Kick 'cause...Bond is trying to make his case on Tweety. It's not working. nt