Yes, Bush can torture. (Repeat twice) His lawyers tell him so.

George W. Bush doesn't need to
Come To Jesus.

He needs to
Come To Runnymede!


In a March 6, 2003 document labeled Draft, Bush administration lawyers concluded that the president had the legal authority to "order interrogators to torture terrorist suspects."

For an administration, which delights in railing against the evils^™ of trial lawyers almost on a daily basis, they sure do find them useful!

Anyone else curious as to who asked these lawyers to abandon the Geneva Conventions and devise a scenario in which a sitting president could torture suspects in the name of the citizens of The United States Of America?

We'll probably never know the answer because these folks don't fess up to anything. Ever.

Why was this Draft leaked to the Wall St Journal and The Associated Press?

There are two possible motives behind leaks: an attack of conscience or a thirst for revenge.

Why did it have to be leaked at all if it's oh so darned legal?

If this were really such a good, legally-sound document, you can bet your whips and chains that Bush would have bragged about it!


Now that the Draft has emerged from the bowels of the Bush administration (as all fecal waste matter, by its very nature, must), the Pentagon has trotted out spokesman Lawrence Di Rita to explain that "the final set of interrogation methods adopted for use at Guantanamo in April 2003 are humane, legal and useful - and more restrictive than the methods some had proposed."

Oh! Well, then! It could have been much worse! We should all just quit quibbling, shouldn't we?

The lawyers who prepared it include attorneys from both the Defense and Justice Departments, and possibly other parts of the government.

7 New & Improved Techniques!

The seven techniques not found in military manuals include:

Isolating a prisoner from others (Doesn't sound so bad until you hear the horror stories from The Red Cross)

Altering his diet, but still providing him adequate food to survive (Let Muslims eat pork!)

"Some" drug injections

Questioning him up to 20 hours at a time for up to three days (isolated, offered pork, and injected with "some" drugs)

I can't imagine why Bush administration officials wouldn't want this information made public!

Four of the seven nonstandard methods require at least tacit approval from Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.

"None are torture in the Pentagon's view," Di Rita said.

Ignoring Di Rita's ignorance of subject-verb agreement, who the hell died and made Pentagon officials Mengele?


Wade through the watered down (AP news story) drek for yourself...

Dr. Mengele's idea of fun!