Not his exaxt words, but he is basically saying this while supporting his chosen replacement for former Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez (by the way, anyone know why "Abu" Gonzalez has hired an attorney recently?).
Bush: ""He doesn't know whether we use that technique or not," the president told a group of reporters invited into the Oval Office.
Further, Bush said, "It doesn't make any sense to tell an enemy what we're doing."
Now, if you have been following things for the last few years, you'll know that to Bush, "the enemy" is anyone living in America. This is why he illegally taps any American's phone, why he stops any American from bringing shampoo onto an airplane, and why he gives him self the right to designate any American "an enemy combatant", look them up without charges, indefinately, and even send you off to be tortured, without anyone being the wiser. He has given himself the right to do this to American citizens, this is the way it is now.
2007-11-01 05:57:50 · 14 answers · asked by dontknow772002 3 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071101/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush_mukasey
"Haebus Corpus, Schmaebus Corpus," Bush seems to say. The Constitution? "It's just a goddamn piece of paper!"
With the support of 24% of Americans ("true believers" like the followers of Jim Jones), BushCo. is now using the same tactics on Iran that they used for Iraq, even though they should be even more worried about Saudi Arabia (again):
http://www.thefirstpost.co.uk/index.php?menuID=1&subID=1147
Will they get away with it again?
"There's an old saying in Tennessee — I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee — that says, fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can't get fooled again."
- George W. Bush
He fooled you once with Afghanistan, twice with Iraq... how many people will allow themselves to be fooled a third time, with Iran?
2007-11-01 06:04:03 · update #1
I think its safe to say serial drowning is torture. If the Spanish Inquisition used it, yep I'd say its torture.
You would want the enemy to know that we use torture, the psychological edge would set them up and soften them without us having to lay a hand on them.
He has abused the rights and privileges of the presidency.We need to have a man of high responsibility to have so much power, and we don't, we have a charlatan.
I don't know who hes tapping and neither do you, its just possible he does order listening in on normal Americans, we don't know and we can't find out. Suppose he wants to listen in on Democrats, or Conservatives, or Church leaders, or he takes it into his head that party clowns are the enemy.
Look at all the people Hoover had dossiers on, not because they did anything, but just because he wanted to have power over them, or blackmail them.
2007-11-01 06:08:18 · answer #1 · answered by justa 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
First of all, Bush doesn't tap "any American's phone". The NSA taps the phones of Americans who are suspected of having terrorist ties etc.... Frankly, if the NSA is tapping my phone, I don't care, but I hope they bought a lot of No-Doze. They'll need it once my Mom and I start dishing the family....
Secondly, Bush doesn't ask that "any American" not bring shampoo on airplanes. He does not make that decision. The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) does that.
Thirdly, your idea that Bush has a super secret squirrel warehouse of "any Americans" locked up without charges and being tortured for jollies is ludicrous. If "no one is the wiser", how do YOU know about it? Get real.
2007-11-01 13:12:18 · answer #2 · answered by cornbread_oracle 6 · 2⤊ 3⤋
If it isn't his exact words why did you use them then? And how is an Attorny General not yet in office suppose to know top secrets until he is in office???? Why is it that people with your kind of thinking don't have any qualms about sharing top secrets with those we consider enemies? And on the list of complaints you are against security in the airports? And what is this about picking up Americans and have them sent off to be tortured? I think you are very paranoid!!!!
2007-11-01 13:05:11 · answer #3 · answered by Brianne 7 · 1⤊ 4⤋
Torture is immoral. Only depsotic and decadent regimes suscribe to it., Under Bush, and probably for years in the past, we no longer have a moral compas.
2007-11-01 13:08:08 · answer #4 · answered by planksheer 7 · 4⤊ 2⤋
Show me how Americans phone lines have been tapped. The government is not interested in normal peoples lives. What objections do you have to having your phone line tapped anyway? Those that do must have something to hide.
Shampoo on an airplane? One word. 9/11.
Where are there ordinary Americans that have been designated as combatants? I haven't seen or read anything about this. Show some links.
All of this is being done in the name of keeping our country safe? What patriotic citizen would oppose this?
2007-11-01 13:04:01 · answer #5 · answered by mustagme 7 · 2⤊ 6⤋
There's nothing secret about Bush's tortorous mouth or tortured brain.
2007-11-01 13:09:44 · answer #6 · answered by golfer7 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Torture by the US is not anything new. It has happened under every single president since WWII, if not before that. It's just public now.
2007-11-01 13:07:48 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋
liberals and the ACLU -would not torture a terrorist-but rather have many Americans kill on there beliefs- look we did not extract any information-ever if we have to sacrifice americans on principle
2007-11-01 13:21:22 · answer #8 · answered by seawolf 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Ah, the Kool-Aid is flowing thinck and fast at your house again, is it? Why not go hide in a cave? It's only a little over a year to the next election. Bush won! Get over it! Go campaign for Hillary and quit wasting our time with this anti-Bush bulls**t! It is really so old!
2007-11-01 13:04:09 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 5⤋
I normally do not agree with George but in this case I do. Have you had your phone tapped? Me either. Of course I am not a radical. Are you?
2007-11-01 13:06:19 · answer #10 · answered by grumpyoldman 7 · 0⤊ 3⤋