Comments on: Bush’s torture-by-bug smells like rat method in Orwell’s ‘1984′

By: lynn

lynn — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 02:43:47 +0000

I completely agree with you about the 1984 parallel! – not that they even needed to read Orwell’s book. but my sense of horror when I read that book as a teen is coming back as we hear that the Cheney/Bush etc were torturing to find evidence to justify their war, not to “keep the USA safe”

By: Mike

Mike — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 17:32:32 +0000

It makes me sick to my stomach that our country would do that.

By: Eric Ferguson

Eric Ferguson — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 20:30:26 +0000

I don’t care about prosecuting the people at the bottom of the chain of command, and I presume the people who did the torturing are at the bottom. They can go. I’m fine with Obama letting them off, provided they tell who authorized or ordered what. So far I’m still giving Obama credit for releasing these memos, since it’s so clear why the CIA badly wanted them kept secret. What I want to know is what will happen to the people who wrote the memos and the people who approved them. They are war criminals, and the law must come down on them to prevent this ever happening again.

By: Hulles

Hulles — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 19:33:39 +0000

I think you give the DOJ and CIA a bit too much credit. I personally think someone in one of those agencies saw the incredibly awful “Wicker Man” (the one with Nick Cage) over, and over, and over…