Impeach George W. Bush. Impeach Him Now

Matthew Yglesias:

Matthew Yglesias (March 31, 2008) - The Horror (Foreign Policy): There was a time when I never could have imagined I'd be reading stuff like this about my own country:

At the age of 19, Murat Kurnaz vanished into America's shadow prison system in the war on terror. He was from Germany, traveling in Pakistan, and was picked up three months after 9/11. But there seemed to be ample evidence that Kurnaz was an innocent man with no connection to terrorism. The FBI thought so, U.S. intelligence thought so, and German intelligence agreed. But once he was picked up, Kurnaz found himself in a prison system that required no evidence and answered to no one...

Read the whole thing; I don't really have the heart to make a witty remark.

Only those people who embrace the idea of being evil and think that evil is cool have any business voting for the Republican Party ever again. Ever. Again.

Comments

[42]

Well, there's another avenue of attack, since none of the other impeachment things have gained traction:

http://financialpetition.org/petition-impeach.shtml

on the basis that the Fed-backed Bear bail-out was, essentially, a bribe; this one crosses the aisles.

[Jon Moyer]

Why impeach Bush when we once again have Fafnir and the Medium Lobster to do the dirty work?

http://fafblog.blogspot.com/

Bask.

[42]

Yay! Fafnir and Giblets save the day!

[andres]

I liked the old layout of Fafblog better. But still, they're fantastically welcome.

As for Brad:

"Only those people who embrace the idea of being evil and think that evil is cool have any business voting for the Republican Party ever again. Ever. Again."

As much as I sympathize with this, but Brad, it is heart-wrenchingly naive. The OSS, CIA, and others were teaching torture techniques to reactionary regimes since probably before G.W. Bush was born--post-1954 Iran and Guatemala at the very latest, but more likely Nicaragua and South America nearly a decade before. Including under Democratic presidents and Congresses. By no means does this excuse what is currently being done, but it puts the problem into proper perspective. If you want to stop the U.S. government from engaging in torture by proxy or otherwise, you have to get rid of the imperial mindset of the U.S. foreign policy establishment, and this goes way beyond emasculating the Republican party.

[me]

I am about half done with this book and lest you think he is lying, what he relates sound about in line with what we have heard. People kidnapped for profit in Pakistan and sold to the Americans.

Continuous beatings and little food, or pork, and no heat.

Angela Merkel brought this up to chimpanzee Bush twice over at meeting and oh yeah, the honorable Colin Powell knew about this as well.

This country under Bush/Cheney has become a disgusting disgrace and it is little wonder we are scorned by the world.

[David]

NY Times article about the memo detailing how far the Pentagon can go with its interrogations.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/02/washington/02terror.html?ex=1364875200&en=9acd283547175558&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss

[quote]
The memorandum gave the military broad latitude to use harsh interrogation methods. It reasoned that federal laws prohibiting assault were not applicable to military interrogators dealing with members of Al Qaeda because of White House authority during wartime. It also argued that many American and international laws would not apply to interrogations overseas....

“The victim must experience intense pain or suffering of the kind that is equivalent to the pain that would be associated with serious physical injury so severe that death, organ failure or permanent damage resulting in a loss of significant body functions will likely result,” Mr. Yoo wrote.[/quote]

Lovely. Apparently there are some "insignificant" body functions that aren't worthy of preserving?