US President's Latest Scandals of Leaks and Torture are Turning him into a Modern McCarthy
"Bush and Cheney now face a Republican and Pentagon revolt over their disgraceful defence of torture.
'We do not torture,' Bush insisted from Panama,. Of course not, Mr. President. You call it 'forceful interrogation.' Meaning: Being kidnapped, drugged, stripped, thrown into a refrigerated, lightless underground cell, starved, deprived of sleep and sensory contact, covered with urine and excrement, severely beaten, anally raped, subjected to mock executions, given hideously painful electrical shocks, and strapped onto a special board and immersed in water until confessing or drowning.
This is what suspects have reportedly endured in America's secret, outsourced prisons around the world.
... Bush is actually threatening to veto McCain's bill. Cheney keeps defending torture. Americans will one day look back on this period with the same revulsion and shame as they do on Joe McCarthy's era."
Many already do!
- posted by geoff @ #