Bush to VETO bill banning waterboarding.

It's too bad to keep harping on one person's behaviour, but the president is such an easy target. He keeps doing stupid things that most normal Americans would completely disagree with. For instance the most recent and stupid is his statement that he will veto the bill banning waterboarding. According to Mr. Bush this bill will eliminate a valuable tool. Uh, What? The bill would limit interrogation methods to those listed in the Army field manual. I can't see the problem with that. Our president would rather we torture our prisoners. How can you justify that? Any justification is going to be an ends justify the means type of argument. Once you agree that that is okay, then you have entered the slippery slope where almost anything is okay if the ends are what you think they should be. This is the justification for eugenics! Torture of any kind by our government and it's operatives is not justifiable. We are supposed to be the good guys and this is among the worst thing this president could do. What a schmuck.

I have never so actively disliked a political individual in my life. He needs to be removed from office. It will take decades to recover from the damage that he and his administration have done. He is a total failure. Try typing that into a google search. Once we get the democrats back in office and in control of all the branches of government maybe we can have some that are progressive enough to repair all the damage done since Reagan and 1980. Put back the safety nets, repeal the patriot act and the tax cuts for the rich. Gawd who knows.


But the administration has said it is okay to torture. They have said it is okay to disappear someone, just ask Jose Padilla. They have said it is okay to listen to your conversations. They are willing to exchange YOUR liberties for a perceived safety. This safety is not real. We deserve our liberties and we will never be totally safe. But this administration will scare the bejeesus out of you so they can take your liberties and pretend to give you safety by allowing tortures. This is wrong. Torture is never okay. And this president calls himself a Christian. He should be ashamed.

3/11/08 addendum. A sad day. The house failed to override the Bush veto. Amazingly to me 188 representatives feel that torture is apparently okay. People are stupid.