“A healthy-minded boy should feel hearty contempt for the coward and even more hearty indignation for the boy who bullies girls or small boys, or tortures animals.” FeelsShouldGirlPresidentAnimalBoysHealthyTortureCowardContemptBullyIndignationHearty Book:The Bully Pulpit: A Teddy Roosevelt Book of Quotations Source: The Bully Pulpit: A Teddy Roosevelt Book of Quotations
“After 9-11, the President had a historic opportunity to unite Americans and the world in common cause. Instead, by exploiting the politics of fear, instigating an optional war in Iraq before finishing a necessary war in Afghanistan and instituting policies on torture, detainees and domestic surveillance that fly in the face of our values and interests, President Bush divided Americans from each other and from the world.” WorldWarFacesValuesOpportunityCausesPresidentInterestCommonPolicyIraqTortureDividedAfghanistanHistoricPresident BushSurveillanceFinishingOptionalDetainees Author:Joe Biden
“It is not an opinion that "enhanced interrogation techniques" are torture. It is a legal fact. And it is also a legal fact that the president is a war criminal.” WarFactsPresidentOpinionTechniqueCriminalsTortureInterrogationInterrogation Techniques Author:Andrew Sullivan
“That's what torture does: it creates a miasma of unknowing, about as dangerous a situation in wartime as one can imagine. This hideous fate was made possible by an inexperienced president with a fundamentalist psyche and a paranoid and power-hungry vice-president who decided to embrace "the dark side" almost as soon as the second tower fell, and who is still trying to avenge Nixon. Until they are both gone from office, we are in grave danger the kind of danger that only torturers and fantasists and a security strategy based on coerced evidence can conjure up.” TryingKindDoeMadeStillsSidesPresidentDarkSituationGoneFateImagineSecurityDangerousDangerOfficeEvidenceDecidedStrategyEmbraceVicesGravesHungryTortureTowersDark SideHideousParanoidVice PresidentFundamentalistWartimeUnknowingPower Hungry Author:Andrew Sullivan
“If you suspend the Geneva Conventions, give the green light to anything that will get intelligence, round up thousands all over the globe with reckless disregard for guilt or innocence, you are effectively and knowingly issuing orders to seize innocent people and torture them. Any president who decides to do that and then says it was not his intention to do that is a fraud or a fool.” PeopleIfsGivingLightOrderPresidentFoolGreenGuiltIntentionRoundsInnocentInnocenceTortureFraudConventionsGlobesRecklessDisregardGenevaGreen LightsGeneva Convention Author:Andrew Sullivan
“I will criticize President Obama on this level: it's a good thing I'm not president because I would prosecute every person that was involved in that torture. I would prosecute the people that did it. I would prosecute the people that ordered it. Because torture is against the law.” PeoplePersonsLawPresidentLevelsInvolvedGood ThingsTortureCriticizePresident Obama Author:Jesse Ventura
“President Bush will go down in history as the torture president. He has now defied a majority of Congress to allow the use of interrogation techniques that any reasonable observer would call torture.” UsePresidentMajorityCongressTechniqueTortureReasonableObserversPresident BushInterrogationInterrogation Techniques Author:Jennifer Daskal