En la web “Crooks and Liars” (Sinvergüenzas y mentirosos) recogen una entrevista a Bush en la que se le pregunta por las cárceles secretas y las torturas. Recomiendo ver la entrevista o el siguiente extracto.
Matt Lauer: And yet you admitted that there were these CIA secret facilities. OK?
President Bush: So what? Why is that not within the law?
Matt Lauer: The head of Amnesty International says secret sites are against international law.
President Bush: Well, we just disagree with him. Plus, my job is to protect you. And most American people, if I said [to them] that we had who we think is the mastermind of the 9/11, they would say, “Why don’t you see if you can’t get information without torturing him,” which is what we did.
Matt Lauer: I don’t want to let this “within the law issue” slip though. I mean, if, in fact, there was water boarding used with Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, and for the viewers, that’s basically when you strap someone to a board and you make them feel as if they’re going to drown by putting them underwater, if that was legal and within the law, why couldn’t you do it at Guantanamo? Why did you have to go to a secret location around the world?
President Bush: I’m not going to talk about techniques. And, I’m not going explain to the enemy what we’re doing. All I’m telling you is that you’ve asked me whether or not we’re doing things to protect the American people, and I want the American people to know we are doing so.
Me encanta la insistencia sobre que todo lo hace por protegerlos, angelico él... Reconoce que existen cárceles secretas con un “Y qué?”. Y después que lo de la tortura vale porque si no no se pueden obtener confesiones (clavadito a la inquisición, que todo el mundo recuerda por su absoluta e inegable justicia y efectivos interrogatorios).
Alguno puede pensar que el pobre está arrepentido, que duerme mal por las noches. Sigan leyendo otra noticia del día:
The president simultaneously sent to Capitol Hill a bill that would legalise the military tribunals the Supreme Court had found unconstitutional in June, allow an elite squad of the CIA to continue Geneva-banned coercive interrogations, and grant retroactive legal impunity to all civilian officials who had authorised torture and war crimes since 9/11.
Y esta declaración suya:
“We’re now approaching the five-year anniversary of the 9/11 attacks — and the families of those murdered that day have waited patiently for justice. They should have to wait no longer. So I’m announcing today that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Abu Zubaydah, Ramzi bin al-Shibh, and 11 other terrorists in CIA custody have been transferred to Guantanamo Bay . . . As soon as Congress acts to authorise the military commissions I have proposed, the men our intelligence officials believe orchestrated the deaths of nearly 3,000 Americans can face justice.”
Eso es justicia, si señor... Como no podemos probar nada en un juicio con garantías... ¡¡¡Nos inventamos uno sin garantías!!! Genial, realmente genial.
Otra perla de declaración, que en estos días abundan:
UC Berkeley law Professor John Yoo, who as a Justice Department lawyer was one of the Bush administration’s chief legal theorists, summarized its view in his forthcoming book, “War by Other Means”:
“We are used to a peacetime system in which Congress enacts the laws, the president enforces them, and the courts interpret them. In wartime, the gravity shifts to the executive branch.'’
Aham... o sea, que ahora el congreso dicta las leyes, el presidente se las pasa por el forro de los cojones y los jueces se callan.
Muy interesante leer la respuesta de un americano con cabeza, que le recuerda que el modelo que describe es el que dicta la constitución, que sigue en vigor y que no es sólamente una constitución para tiempos de paz.
En este blog se resumen las lecciones aprendidas del 11-S:
- The Constitution only applies when the going gets easy.
- War is the answer, even when you forget the question.
- The truth is for sissies.
- America has never faced an enemy as dangerous and as intent on killing us as
King George, the Civil War, World War I, the Germans, the Japanese, a nuclear Soviet Union Al Qaeda.
- The real September 11 story was badly in need of editing.
- Just because they say it makes it so.
- We have always been at war with Oceania.
- A fool is born every election day.
- Due process is for the innocent.
- Patriotism means never having to say you’re sorry.
- It’s all Sandy Berger’s fault.
A estas alturas Bin Laden me parece un angelito al lado de Bush. Qué tristeza, qué rabia, qué impotencia, qué cabrón.
Unos 
Usuarios:
Subscripciones RSS: