From Dubya's Memoir
''Three people were waterboarded and I believe that decision saved lives,” he wrote. “Their interrogations helped break up plots to attack American diplomatic facilities abroad, Heathrow airport and Canary Wharf, and multiple targets in the United States.”
Mr Bush provided no further details of the alleged intended attacks, and it was not clear whether their supposed ringleaders were ever brought to justice. Neither did he address the fact that waterboarding did nothing to prevent the bombings in London on 7 July 2005.
Almost two years since he left the White House as one of the least-loved presidents of modern times, the book he is promoting promises to be |America’s publishing event of 2010. In an interview to publicise the memoir, Decision Points, Mr Bush reasserted his belief that waterboarding did not amount to torture. Asked if it was ever used on the captured al-Qa’ida leader Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, he told The Times: “Damn right!”
Condemnations of this lunacy are already ringing all over the world. More here.
They tortured in order to get FALSE confessions out of some one to say that Sadam was connected to A/Q and 9/11.
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We could go on for hours and hours about W.
It would only raise our blood pressures to the boiling point.
They got away with it.
This is the biggest crime of all.
All that death and suffering.
All Because he said so.
Makes me sick to my stomach.
Amen to that, RZ. Part of my quest, if I have one, is to keep the memory of the criminality alive as long as there is no expiation of it. Maybe forever.
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