Topher Morrison
PurpleSerf.com
The Obama and Bush administrations aren't so different when it comes to growing government and refusing to acknowledge, in the words of the late Chalmers Johnson, "the sorrows of empire."
Columnist Glenn Greenwald Salon.com and MSNBC's The Last Word with Chris Hayes on Thursday admonished the American public for welcoming back Dick Cheney, vice-president to George W. Bush, into "polite society." Like President Bush months ago, Dick Cheney had no qualms with utilizing the enhanced interrogation method of waterboarding, considered torture by many, to extract information from high value detainees.
The current administration isn't blameless here either. The reason why Barack Obama would rather "look forward, not backward" when it comes to allegations of war crimes and torture is because with two examples of comparable characteristics analogies are easy to draw. Although Obama claimed to have rescinded Bush era interrogation policies, significant loopholes still exist.
PurpleSerf.com
The Obama and Bush administrations aren't so different when it comes to growing government and refusing to acknowledge, in the words of the late Chalmers Johnson, "the sorrows of empire."
Columnist Glenn Greenwald Salon.com and MSNBC's The Last Word with Chris Hayes on Thursday admonished the American public for welcoming back Dick Cheney, vice-president to George W. Bush, into "polite society." Like President Bush months ago, Dick Cheney had no qualms with utilizing the enhanced interrogation method of waterboarding, considered torture by many, to extract information from high value detainees.
The current administration isn't blameless here either. The reason why Barack Obama would rather "look forward, not backward" when it comes to allegations of war crimes and torture is because with two examples of comparable characteristics analogies are easy to draw. Although Obama claimed to have rescinded Bush era interrogation policies, significant loopholes still exist.
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