Kryptonite Dubya

Democrats need to hang Dubya and his torture gambit around the neck of every single GOP candidate this November like the green kryptonite necklace Lex Luthor once laid on Superman. It will suck the life out of every "weak on terror" argument the Rethugs put into play. "Democrats are weak on terror? Oh, really? It wasn't a Democratic president who played with our national security for personal political gain. It wasn't a Democratic president who held our safety hostage in a shameless attempt to get his own way with Congress, the representatives of the American people. And, finally: IT WASN'T A DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENT WHO WAS IN OFFICE ON SEPTEMBER 11, 2001!"

Bush is Blackmailing the National Security of Every American | BuzzFlash

But Bush is now saying, that suddenly for him, the Geneva Conventions do not provide "clarity." This, of course, is the Rovian/Luntz use of framing to make a betrayal of the American people by the Bush Administration look like a reasonable act. The Geneva Conventions have provided uncontested "clarity" through multiple Republican and Democratic administrations, but all of a sudden they have become "vague" to Bush, even though not a word in them has been changed.

So Bush went to Capitol Hill this past week -- as the Washington Post said in an editorial -- as the first president of the United States to lobby for torture.

Here is where the blackmailing of our national security comes in – and for anyone to blackmail this nation in regards to our safety is a criminal offense.

Bush is threatening to close up the CIA unit involved with terrorist interrogations if he doesn’t get the authority to thumb his nose at the Geneva Conventions. In short, he is blackmailing America.

He is telling us that he will not allow the CIA to interrogate prisoners -- within the bounds of the Geneva Convention -- who might yield information, unless they can be tortured. Bush is thus blackmailing all the residents of America by telling us that he will shut the CIA out of all detainee information gathering unless he can use barbaric methods.

This is isn’t a threat being made against Osama bin Laden. This is Bush threatening the American people, and endangering our lives.

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