King of Pain - PAUL KRUGMAN -Bush, Torturer; The Kafka Strategy - BOB HERBERT -Bush & Co.+

OP-ED COLUMNIST
King of Pain
By PAUL KRUGMAN
Published: September 18, 2006


A lot has been written and said about President Bush’s demand that Congress “clarify” the part of the Geneva Conventions that, in effect, outlaws the use of torture under any circumstances.

We know that the world would see this action as a U.S. repudiation of the rules that bind civilized nations. We also know that an extraordinary lineup of former military and intelligence leaders, including Colin Powell, have spoken out against the Bush plan, warning that it would further damage America’s faltering moral standing, and end up endangering U.S. troops.

But I haven’t seen much discussion of the underlying question: why is Mr. Bush so determined to engage in torture?
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OP-ED COLUMNIST
The Kafka Strategy
By BOB HERBERT
Published: September 18, 2006


The president seemed about to lose it at times last week. He was fighting with everybody — tenacious reporters frustrated by the absence of straight answers about the treatment of terror suspects; key Republican senators who think it’s crazy for a great country like the U.S. to become a champion of kangaroo courts and the degradation of defendants; even his own former secretary of state, Colin Powell, who worries that the world is coming to “doubt the moral basis of our fight against terrorism.”

It seemed that the only people the president wasn’t fighting with were the Democrats, who have gone into a coma, and the yahoos who never had much of a problem with such matters as torture and detention without trial.

As Marvin Gaye once sang, “What’s going on?”
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The CCNWON Torture Files
http://tinyurl.com/ky8vr
and
http://www.ljseek.com/torture_strictZs2Zumparent7777.html



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