Rove defends torture: "You bet we squeeze them for information"

[sabra]

http://www.themiamihurricane.com/2009/01/24/campaign-architect-karl-rove-speaks-to-students-about-gitmo-presidential-legacy/


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“One year from now, Gitmo won’t be closed,” Rove said. “If it is, there will be an uproar in the U.S. about where to put these people.”

Interrogation tactics used by the CIA during Bush’s term in office were not torturous, Rove said, but he did not deny that the CIA strongly pressed terrorists for vital information.

“You bet we squeeze them for information,” Rove said. “If we hadn’t, those same terrorists could have executed their plans to kill, and (people) would be asking why Bush didn’t protect American soldiers’ lives.”

[Why Syzygy]

1. Protect? American soldiers?

When the freak did he ever protect any soldier? I am so sick of the a**wipes.

[Veritas_et_Aequitas]

2. Cite one instance, Rove, where torturing suspects demonstrably saved lives.

I dare you.

[Piewhacket]

3. Sure, and now we're gonna "sqeeze" you behind bars, animal.

[Botany]

4. and (people) would be asking why Bush didn’t protect America

Fuck you Karl ... sell your lies elsewhere

8/6/01 PDB: ""Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S."

[kentuck]

5. We tortured for you.

To save your life. Don't you realize that? <sarcasm>

[TahitiNut]

8. You got it. Pathological political codependency on a massive scale.

"We only do bad things because we serve you." Uh-huh. Sure. :eyes:

[gratuitous]

6. Sell it to college kids, Karl

Because grown-ups aren't buying your line of bullshit anymore.

[yellowcanine]

7. “You bet we squeeze them for information,” Which "we" are we talking about Karl?

You sat on your fat butt and let others do the dirty work Karl. And then lied about it.

[Kashka-Kat]

9. "Squeeze?" More like injure, maim, and occasionally kill - as per red cross & other reports

Karl is probably looking for a squeeze, what a strange word to use in this context.

[gkhouston]

10. Spin while you can, Karl. You didn't get a pardon. n/t

[JackBeck]

11. Divine retribution would be Rove squeezing

Rush Limbaugh's pilonidal cyst every hour, on the hour, for the rest of eternity.

[endarkenment]

12. War criminal needs to go to jail,

Look, we really can't have self confessed war criminals running around bragging about their crimes, it is a national embarrassment. These clowns need to shut up and they need to go to jail.

[sarge43]

13. Remember those words, Karl, when you do the perp walk. n/t

[HillWilliam]

14. Now, put Rove's fat, flabby ass on the waterboard

and get at some pointed questions like the 2000 and 2004 election, caging, his involvement in the DA firings, the politicization of the DOJ, the careful stovepiping of intel through Rheumy to the Chimp, the Plame outing, ..., ohhh, I dunno, a million other scandals he had his chubby little grubby hands in...

Then I'll make up my mind whether or not torture is valuable or not.

Sauce for the goose is gravy for the gander, verdad?

Betcherass some opinions would change then, now wouldn't they. I guarantee you, the entire right wing is comprised of nothing -- absolutely nothing -- but nuts, flakes, crooks, bigots, criminals, and every form of creepy-crawly lowlife that every slithered out of the muck.

One of two things would happen: we'd either get the truth about the criminality of the last eight years and I'll change my mind about torture being a legitimate means of extracting information or the howl from the right would be so intense that torture would be banned outright and forevermore.