Flashback:
Former Governor Jesse Ventura: You Give Me a Water Board, Dick Cheney and One Hour
Now Jesse Ventura knows that Obama is even worse than elite puppet President Bush.
More info on torture below:
– Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld ‘Knew Guantánamo Prisoners Were Innocent’:
George W. Bush, Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld covered up that hundreds of innocent men were sent to the Guantánamo Bay prison camp because they feared that releasing them would harm the push for war in Iraq and the broader War on Terror, according to a new document obtained by The Times.
– CIA Report: Interrogators Threatened to Kill And Rape Family Members of Detainees
I guess those torture victims hate America for its FREEDOM, right?
– Torture works: Key Bush figures say waterboarding helped in capture of bin Laden … and that Obama should share the credit (Daily Mail):
Senior members of the Bush administration spoke out on Sunday to praise waterboarding and claim their share of the credit for bin Laden’s capture.
Former Vice President Dick Cheney said waterboarding ‘probably’ helped in tracking down Bin Laden.
Mr Cheney told Fox News Sunday: ‘It was a good programme. It was legal programme. It was not torture. ‘I would strongly recommend we continue it.’
Speaking on CBS, former Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld called it ‘a mistake’ to rule out waterboarding, saying: ‘It’s clear that those techniques that the CIA used worked.’
The key to finding Bin Laden was locating his courier.
Captured terrorist Khalid Sheikh Mohammed gave the courier’s nickname in 2003 after being waterboarded 183 times.
Mohammed never gave up the real name, even under so-called ‘enhanced interrogation.’
Opponents of torture believe normal questioning would have been more effective on Mohammed.
Mr Rumsfeld said he thought Mr Obama was right to opt for a SEALs raid, but added: ‘I would have preferred a lot less discussion out of the White House about intelligence.’
President Bush declined an invitation to visit Ground Zero with Mr Obama because he thought he wasn’t sharing credit for the raid, the New York Daily News reports.
Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice re-emphasised on CNN by stressing that the operation, which she described as a ‘victory across presidencies’ took years to set up.
She said: ‘You don’t just stumble upon Osama Bin Laden. It takes a lot of work to get there. These leads developed quite a long time ago.’
Former Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff added on NBC: ‘Both presidents deserve a lot of credit for maturing the apparatus over 10 years.’
The Republicans spoke out as National security adviser Tom Donilon said the cache of intelligence seized at Osama Bin Laden’s squalid Pakistan hideaway is the size of a small college library, the largest amount ever of intelligence gathered from any single terrorist.
He said that Al Qaeda is not strategically defeated yet. But the death of Bin Laden and the information found in his lair are an important milestone in the struggle to take down the terorrist organisation.
He also slammed Bin Laden’s deputy Ayman Al Zawahiri as not anywhere the leader that Bin Laden was.
He also said that the U.S. has not seen any evidence that Pakistan knew Bin Laden was hiding in the compound just 800 yards from the country’s military academy.
On torture:
– President Obama Blocks US Torture Probe
– US Officials: CIA Promised $5 Million In Legal Fees For Psychologists Who Waterboarded Detainees
– UK Military Interrogation Manuals Discovered: Humiliate, Strip, Threaten
– Wikileaks ‘Iraq War Logs’: US Turned Over Captives to Iraqi Torture Squads
– President Obama Wins The Right to Invoke ‘State Secrets’ to Protect Bush Crimes
– US Military Judge: Confessions Obtained By Threatening The Subject With Rape Are Admissible In Court
– Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld ‘Knew Guantánamo Prisoners Were Innocent’
– UK government is told stance on torture has no legal basis
– British Military Intelligence Ran Renegade Torture Unit In Iraq Answerable Only ‘Directly To London’
– Paul Craig Roberts: It Is Now Official: The U.S. Is A Police State
– The Guantánamo ‘Suicides’: A Camp Delta sergeant blows the whistle
– CIA Cable ‘Granting Permission’ to Destroy Torture Videotapes Surfaces (Updated)
– America’s Secret ICE Detention Castles: Jailed Without Justice
– CIA Secret ‘Torture’ Prison Found at Fancy Horseback Riding Academy Outside Vilnius, Lithuania
– Former UK ambassador: CIA sent people to Uzbekistan for extreme torture, to be ‘raped with broken bottles,’ ‘boiled alive’ and ‘having their children tortured in front of them’ (Must-Read!)
– President Obama signs law blocking release of torture photos
– CIA doctors face human experimentation claims
– CIA refuses order to release torture documents
– How a lawyer unearthed US torture documents
– CIA Report: Interrogators Threatened to Kill And Rape Family Members of Detainees
– Obama administration asks the Supreme Court to block detainee photos
– ACLU hits Obama administration hard over torture controversies
– Obama’s Homeland Security Nominee Withdraws Amid Questions About Torture
– Former Senior Interrogator in Iraq Dissects Cheney’s Lies and Distortions
– Conservative radio hosts gets waterboarded, and lasts six seconds before saying its torture
– Here Are a Few of the Torture Photos Obama Doesn’t Want You To See
– Ex-FBI agent: Waterboarding produced no actionable intel
– Spanish Court Weighs Inquiry on Torture for 6 Bush-Era Officials
– Red Cross Described Torture at CIA Jails
– Ron Paul: What if the American people learned the truth?
Bush and Blair knew that there were no WMD’s in Iraq:
More on Tony Blair:
Traitors …
– Tony Blair Summoned Back to Iraq Inquiry to be Quizzed Over New Evidence (Guardian)
– Iraq inquiry: UK Government lied, ‘intentionally and substantially’ exaggerated WMD threat (Telegraph)
– Tony Blair Was Warned By All 27 Senior Government Lawyers That Iraq War Was Illegal (Daily Express)
– Tony Blair ‘knew Iraq did not have WMD before war started’ (Times)
– US and UK knew that Iraq Didn’t Have WMDs
– Dutch Inquiry: Iraq War Was Illegal, Had ‘No Basis In International Law’ (Guardian)
… and war criminals (GENOCIDE):
– Iraq: Fallujah Doctors Report Dramatic Rise In Birth Defects (BBC News)
– What Depleted Uranium Does to Children in Iraq: Japanese Journalist
– Depleted Uranium Shells Worse Than Nuclear Weapons:
Inhaled or ingested DU particles are highly toxic, and DU has been classified as an illegal weapon of mass destruction by the United Nations.
“More than ten times the amount of radiation released during atmospheric testing [of nuclear bombs] has been released from DU weaponry since 1991,” said Leuren Moret, a U.S. nuclear scientist. “The genetic future of the Iraqi people, for the most part, is destroyed. The environment now is completely radioactive.”
“Because DU has a half-life of 4.5 billion years, the Middle East will, for all practical purposes, be radioactive forever.”