Republicans Advocate Committing War Crimes

George Bush bragged recently that he had Khalid Sheikh Mohammed waterboarded. He's proud of that because it saved American lives, so he says.

So the defense of waterboarding is that it works. Is that why torture has been considered a crime all these years? Because it didn't work? Has the rule always been that torture is a crime unless it gets results? Is anyone dumb enough to believe that?

If you don't believe that George Bush and Dick Cheney are war criminals, then you have to make one of three arguments: 1) We did not waterboard anyone 2) Waterboarding is not torture, or 3) Torture is not a war crime. Bush happily confesses to number 1, and no one is seriously arguing number 3, which leaves us with number 2.

The Bush apologists like to argue that Bush had legal advice that indicated that waterboarding was not torture. By that line of reasoning, Hitler can be forgiven for murdering millions of people, as long as he was able to find an attorney who said it was OK. I think he probably did that, actually. Let's face it, Bush didn't just ask the Justice Department for an opinion; he shopped for an opinion that would give him cover for performing a procedure that had been considered torture by this country for decades. And he was shopping amongst attorneys hired by his administration partly based on their political ideology. Excusing this behavior opens the door to allowing any dictator anywhere to do anything they want.

And let's not forget that Bush and company called torture "enhanced interrogation techniques," because "torture" has such a negative connotation. if that doesn't frighten and sicken you, it should.

Waterbording someone makes them feel like they are drowning. If you don't believe it's torture, watch this. If you don't believe it's torture, you are saying that it is OK for other countries to do it to our soldiers, men and women both. You are rationalizing something that you never would have accepted if another country had initiated it. And that makes you utterly irrational , and one sick puppy.

The Republican Party never wanted George Bush held accountable for his war crimes, and they continue to defend the Bush administration.

The Republican Party advocates committing war crimes. One of the two major parties in the United States of America believes that this country should commit crimes against humanity whenever we want to. That is not some wild conspiracy theory; it's just an undeniable fact. And it should shock any American, and it does shock every decent American.

If you support the Republican Party, you either are in favor of war crimes, or you are at least willing to support the party even though they advocate commiting war crimes. Either way, shame on you.