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Republican Torture-Pigs and Perverts
We beat the Nazis without torturing prisoners, but Bush/Cheney decided that a few raggedy Taliban in caves were more terrible than the enormous German Army, and they disgraced the United States with crimes against humanity that Eisenhower and Roosevelt and Patton and Abraham Lincoln and Washington and Grant and even William Tecumseh Sherman would have condemned as contemptible sub-human perversions.
Palin and McCain want to continue these perverted crimes against humanity.
Sarah Palin is just another Republican torture-pig and pervert.
John McCain is just another Republican torture-pig and pervert.
A vote for Palin/McCain is a vote to disgrace the United States and the all the generations of our brave soldiers who rejected torture as a perversion unworthy of even the lowest human garbage.
(The language in my post may seem inappropriately violent for TPMCafe, and it was actually posted first on Newsbusters, if they haven't deleted it yet, and I plan to paste it all over every Republican blog and MSM website where I can possibly register.)
Comments (5)
I think it's easy for civilians (like me) to look at war and let everything merge into a very dark gray. With so much killing going on, what's so abominable about a little torture?
But for most of the military for most of our history, killing and being killed were just part of the job. As long as the other side is shooting at you, killing them any way you can is totally okay.
This obviously isn't a code that applies off the battlefield, but it defined war in a way that preserved a remnant of humanity for combatants.
But when the shooting stops, when somebody surrenders, you're in an entirely different situation, and there is nothing, absolutely nothing lower than abusing prisoners, without even thinking about torture.
The psychology of professional soldiers has always been that war is something like a sport, and as crazy as that sounds to everybody else, it still imposed some definite rules about treatment of civilians and prisoners.
For a soldier in a war-zone, there's no dishonor in killing other soldiers. But torture is entirely different, and it leaves our soldiers with nothing to hope for except survival. No sort of honor is possible when the last vestige of human consideration has been lost: when our enemy is nothing but a thing that can be brutalized without limit, then we have also ceased to be human.
God damn George W. Bush and Dick Cheney and all who travel with them.
September 5, 2008 6:23 PM | Reply | Permalink
Gotta rec this for the anti-torture sentiment.
September 5, 2008 11:02 PM | Reply | Permalink
Indeed, for these crimes, I believe
Bush/Cheney should long ago have been impeached. I believe our somnolent Congress in giving us torture-loving AG Mukasey- who is even worse than Gonzales- should itself be prosecuted for aiding and abetting war crimes. I believe Nancy Pelosi and other members of the Intelligence committees have been a party to crimes, with which they are now being blackmailed. Once things get this bad, they never get back to the way they were.
September 5, 2008 11:09 PM | Reply | Permalink
jacob freeze ,
Do you believe that Obama 44 , will persecute the torturers from gwb 43 ?
My take on this - if we do not have accountabilty for all the torture then we have lost our Country , and our Collective Soul.
This is a very good post ,.
September 6, 2008 10:51 AM | Reply | Permalink
Recommended to the max!
Nothing has sickened me more than their flying in the face of everything that stands between humanity and and its own ability to do unspeakable things to its own species.
It's a thin damn line and we worked hard for it - the line we try to draw between ourselves and our own worst impulses.
And these are the people who try to tell US what morality and patriotism are.
Jesus wept.
September 6, 2008 6:15 PM | Reply | Permalink
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