Dan Froomkin – Pack of Liars – washingtonpost.com

Posted on 17. Dec, 2008 by Cameron Reilly in US politics

Trevor Cook pointed me to this excellent post about how Bush & co. lied their asses off about who knew what and who gave the order regarding the use of torture at Guantanamo.

Here are the key points:

• The (just-released Senate) report notes that in early 2002… Bush signed a memo exempting war-on-terror detainees from the Geneva Conventions.
• Bush, on May 24, 2004, described what happened at Abu Ghraib as “disgraceful conduct by a few American troops who dishonored our country and disregarded our values.”
• And by April 6, 2006, after seven soldiers had been convicted, Bush made it clear that his quest was over: “I’m proud to report that the people who made that decision are being brought to justice, and there was a full investigation over why something like that could have happened.”

The post also covers the death throes of the Bush administration, including rushing through laws that make it legal for mining companies to dump into rivers and streams the waste generated during mountaintop mining and limiting the protections that could be invoked to protect polar bears:

Columnist Patt Morrison blogs for the Los Angeles Times: “So, is George Bush Russian? Because the last time I remember hearing of scorched-earth on this scale, it was 1812, and the Russians did it to beggar and starve the invading French Army.

So, my American friends, I have two questions for you:

1. If you’re a Republican – what do you think of all this?
2. If you’re a Democrat – what are you going to do to make sure Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld are brought to justice?