Bush Advisor Says President Has Legal Power to Torture Children

[pisshead]

perhaps you're just an idiot...i'm sorry it's not worth your time to hear what john yoo said...not alex jones...can you repeat...john yoo...

Cassel: If the President deems that heâ??s got to torture somebody, including by crushing the testicles of the personâ??s child, there is no law that can stop him?
Yoo: No treaty.
Cassel: Also no law by Congress. That is what you wrote in the August 2002 memo.
Yoo: I think it depends on why the President thinks he needs to do that.

The audio of this exchange is available online at revcom.us

[CocaCola]

So what Bush's advisor is trying to say is... Bush has the legal power to do anything he wants. Right?

[eg420ne]

Lordbushit is above the law thats what Alberto Gonzalez said----

[CocaCola]

Pretty much, yeah... so that's nice to know. Someone is above the law and it just happens to be our president. I think we should trust him!1

[nicholasstanko]

You guys are crazy. If you think that the Bush Administration tortures every single child they get their hand on, then your crazy. All that the guy was saying was that if the situation arose (which it probably never did and never would) in which a child withheld information detrimental to the safety of the U.S. as a country (300 million people) , then they would have the authority to torture them. Think of it this way, if you had to choose between a nuclear bomb hitting a major city in whatever country you live in (which could be millions of people), or torturing a kid that had the conscience not to tell American officals the information they needed, which would you choose?

yet another tactic by the fanatics to justify harming a child. You guys always use some hypothetical scenario from some bruce willis movie.

well, what would be a better option?

how about truth serum or whatever the scientific name for it is? it's condemned by the international community as being unethical, but torture is way better.

someone make sense of this please.

[pisshead]

and you know the real terrorists aren't going to get tortured...imagine if we had tortured cheney or rumsfeld or bush or rice before 9/11...

we could have stopped 9/11 from happening!