AP:
The Senate confirmed retired judge Michael Mukasey as attorney general Thursday night to replace Alberto Gonzales, who was forced from office in a scandal over his handling of the Justice Department.
Mukasey was confirmed as the nation's 81st attorney general after a sharp debate over his refusal to say whether the waterboarding interrogation technique is torture.
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YES!
Neither Mr. Obama nor Mrs. Clinton voted on this appointment. Why? He was bound to win, this was known going in. Why is it they didn't go on record as opposing this charlatan? Was it because they believe that there is credibility in the Bush line, that "water boarding in the defense of liberty is not terror?"
I remember at one time being hopeful about the upcoming election that any democrat would be better than Mr. Bush. Now I am not so sure. What happened to taking positions that represent the Democratic wing of the Democratic party? I guess that is too much to hope for these days in corporate run politics. Shame on Clinton and Obama for not registering their protest to this panty waste sycophant. Giordy
How does one spell gutless?
D-E-M-O-C-R-A-T-S
Biden, Clinton and Obama did not bother to vote.
I don't think I'll bother either.
This is a very small blimp on the screen of things that really matter, he is a lame duck appointment by a lame duck president who is hanging on the edge of political irrelevance, where a majority of Americans support running him of office and country and shipping him off to The Hague post haste - the abuses of the justice department under Gonzalez and those of Bush/Cheney proper will be reviewed and prosecuted in due time, where it be in the court of law or the court of public opinion, these guys are toast.
"There is no more fundamental right, whether under U.S. law or under human rights principles, than a person's right to be free not only from torture but also from cruel treatment, the lower level of abuse under law. If we were to legitimize cruelty - as those who espouse waterboarding would wish us to do - we would do violence to the concept of inalienable and inviolable personal rights. The protection afforded by law to core human dignity would be shattered, with incalculable damage to our nation's deepest values, founding principles and constitutional order.
And we risk much more yet.
Cruelty diminishes the international standing of the United States and impedes our ability to achieve crucial foreign policy objectives. Opinion polling in Europe and South Asia last year, including surveys by World Opinion.or
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From: The Salt lake Tribune
Torture: America's self-inflicted wounds
By Alberto Mora and John Shattuck
Special to The Washington Post
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Bring back
The Spanish Inquisition.
Oh no, sounds like work for illegal aliens.
Lets call it
The DC Inquisition.
A cast of characters:
The unabashed prostitutes:
Schumer
Feinstein
Evan Bayh
Tom Carper
Mary Landrieu
Ben Nelson
By-proxy prostitutes:
Joe Biden
Hillary Clinton
Chris Dodd
Barack Obama
Eager vouyeristic enablers:
The rest of the impotent Democratic party
Extra heavy-duty vinyl orafice blow-up-dolls:
Joe Lieberman and the rest of the republican party
Ron Paul/ David Duke 08
The moderate GOP ticket.
Giuliani/Kerik 08
The Coporate GOP ticket.
Huchabee/ Brownback 08
The GOP rapture ticket.
We definitely need a new system in Congress. This is getting totally out of hand. We now have an older, balder version of Gonzales. Hopefully, it will only be for another year, but we've seen how much damage the Bush administration can do in one year. We now have another Bushie in the leadership of what is now our Department of Injustice!
The Democrats on this committee have failed to use their power to force Bush to come clean on his nefarious activities or make any leeway on investigating the criminal acts of the Bush administration.
John Dean, former Nixon aid, states;"Before the Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee completely cave-in to Bush, at minimum they should demand that Judge Mukasey appoint a special prosecutor to investigate if war crimes have been committed. If Mukasey refuses he should be rejected. This, indeed, should be a pre-condition to anyone filling the post of Attorney General under Bush."
Lets vote Dennis Kucinich. What better way to take the big money out. George Carlin is right, except there are several politicians who haven't been paid off or blackmailed.
Its up to us to run and elect a congress with political view closer to that of Dennis Kucinich. THROW THE ASSWIPES OUT!
TLV (See profile | I'm a fan of TLV)
Can a president be recalled?
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Sure.
By a bloody revolution. dragged out into the streets, tried by a court and guillotined along with his cohorts.
Oh sorry wrong country.
Um, just change channels.
;)
It is time for a purge of Congressional Leadership in Both houses and in Both parties. Vote against incumbents in 2008; press your representative and senators to vote in NEW blood for all leadership positions in the next Congress; email current Congressional leaders to step aside in the next Congress and let new blood assume the reins.
(1) Do you believe the Geneva Conventions apply to all those captured by U.S. authorities in Afghanistan and Iraq?
(2) Do you support affording the International Committee of the Red Cross access to all detainees in U.S. custody?
(3) What rights under U.S. or international law do suspected members of Al Qaeda, the Taliban, or members of similar organizations have when brought into the care or custody of U.S. military, law enforcement, or intelligence forces?
(4) Do you believe that torture or other forms of cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment – such as dietary manipulation, forced nudity, prolonged solitary confinement, or threats of harm – may lawfully be used by U.S. authorities so long as the detainee is an “unlawful combatant” as you have defined it?
(5) Do you believe that CIA and other government intelligence agencies are bound by the same laws and restrictions that constrain the operations of the U.S. Armed Forces engaged in detention and interrogation operations abroad?
Signed,
Brigadier General David M. Brahms (Ret. USMC)
Brigadier General James Cullen (Ret. USA)
Brigadier General Evelyn P. Foote (Ret. USA)
Lieutenant General Robert Gard (Ret. USA)
Vice Admiral Lee F. Gunn (Ret. USN)
Admiral Don Guter (Ret. USN)
General Joseph Hoar (Ret. USMC)
Rear Admiral John D. Hutson (Ret. USN)
Lieutenant General Claudia Kennedy (Ret. USA)
General Merrill McPeak (Ret. USAF)
Major General Melvyn Montano (Ret. USAF Nat. Guard)
General John Shalikashvili (Ret. USA)
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Mukasey has implied that there is some ambiguity in whether waterboarding constitutes torture.
There is none. It is torture.
And, thanks to Feinstein, Schumer and the Republicans, there is another thing that is perfectly clear now: In America, torture of human beings is now acceptable and legal.
We are no different than the "evil" we supposedly fight.
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First Posted: 11- 8-07 11:39 PM | Updated: 03-28-08 02:44 AM