Thanks to Nation of Laws for providing Gordon's next bumper sticker.Gordon Smith has effectively given George Bush a giant thumbs up to continue torturing people, in spite of both U.S. and international law. Americans are depressingly fed up with George Bush's blatant disregard for the law and Gordon Smith is nothing more than an enabler of the King's giant finger to the Constitution.
Steve Novick could not have put it more simply:
Steve Novick could not have put it more simply:
"If the Senate again confirms an attorney general who refuses to denounce torture, it will be giving a green light to President Bush to continue to use torture around the world," said Novick. "It will disgrace the United States across the globe. And it will not make us safer. As Senator John McCain has said: 'We should not torture or treat inhumanely terrorists we have captured. The abuse of prisoners harms, not helps, our war effort.'"It's that simple. The law is the law, and the Attorney General prosecutes our law. If he refuses to recognize the law, that is a problem. If our elected representatives in government are okay with this, that is a far graver problem.
1 comment:
I think that everyone who was to vote on this confirmation should have had to go through the "procedure" themselves. It might have given them a different "perspective" on the matter.
As it stands, with Mukasey approved by the Senate now, I think he should test out the procedure before he's able to issue statements on its legality.
Watch Mr. Olbermann issue a very timely report on a former Bush Administration official who DID subject himself to waterboarding.
(PS. Good to see you blogging!)
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