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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You liberals who are so excited are being made fools.....
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Love those elections
OK, now it's just not even worth talking about.
It's Washington DC. Us stupid plebeians shouldn't dare be angry with the rulers.
Man, enough of the Democrats, enough of the Republicans. Just enough.
"Waterboarding is torture. It causes severe physical suffering in the form of reflexive choking, gagging, and the feeling of suffocation. It may cause severe pain in some cases. If uninterrupted, waterboarding will cause death by suffocation. It is also foreseeable that waterboarding, by producing an experience of drowning, will cause severe mental pain and suffering. The technique is a form of mock execution by suffocation with water. The process incapacitates the victim from drawing breath, and causes panic, distress, and terror of imminent death. Many victims of waterboarding suffer prolonged mental harm for years and even decades afterward.
Waterboarding, when used against people captured in the context of war, may also amount to a war crime as defined under the federal war crimes statute 18 U.S.C. § 2441, which criminalizes grave breaches of the Geneva Conventions (in international armed conflicts), and violations of Article 3 common to the four Geneva Conventions (in non-international armed conflicts). Waterboarding is also an assault, and thus violates the federal assault statute, 18 U.S.C. § 113, when it occurs in the “special maritime and territorial jurisdiction of the United States,” a jurisdictional area which includes government installations overseas. In cases involving the U.S. armed forces, waterboarding also amounts to assault, and cruelty and maltreatment under the Uniform Code of Military Justice."
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From " Open Letter to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales" - signed by over one hundred prominent Law professors around the country.
http://hrw
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It is a black day for America.
Democrats had this chance to demonstrate that the despicable behavior of our country that the world has witnessed over the past six years has been the work of an utterly depraved group in the White House, that this is not what true America is all about.
Instead, Feinstein and Schumer have helped confirm that this is exactly what America has now become - a nation of mass murderers and torturers.
Today, I feel nothing but shame for my country.
America has lost its way.
Once again, just enough DINOs (Democrats in Name Only) to give Bush his way.
Didn't we vote a year ago to stop "more of the same"????
Sigh.... f'ing wimp democrat congress..
How do you spell CAVE? D.E.F.E.A.
The confirmation had to take place in the middle of the night. As if they were sneaking it in. Guess they wanted to get out of DC for a few days afterward until the stench goes away.
Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
Meanwhile, I wish the thank the MSM for absolutely ingoring the story on Kucinich's H Res 333. They are just as guilty as thsi WH. Rot in hell.
"Do you hear me NOW?"
"Oops! I did it again!"
In the dead of night (because all rats love the night), YOUR CONGRESS ... yes, including the YOUR_FAVORITE_PARTY folks, and not just because the THE_OTHER_PARTY overwhelmed them ... voted to approve a leader who "does not understand" what torture is.
It's coming.
"Ike was right."
What country spends a trillion dollars on war but loses to a place like Afganistan, rewards the country that committed mass murder upon its shores and leaves millions of its citizens homeless and sick so the rich can get richer?
America the beautiful.
George Carlin has provided the most coherent, truthful explanation of what this is all about.
http://www
What country tortures people, murders a million innocent iraqis for oil, leaves it's cities underwater and won't take care of it's own sick children?
America the beautiful.
"...his refusal to say whether the waterboarding interrogation technique is torture."
Why doesn't someone waterboard him, and then he can decide whether it is torture or not?
Me thinks his mind will change pretty quickly...
I look forward to being shackled and tortured under Mukasey's leadership for being a true American. One who believes in America, not the Fubar Third Reich rules which are inevitably are collective future.
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First Posted: 11- 8-07 11:39 PM | Updated: 03-28-08 02:44 AM