Thursday 28 July 2005

New Bush Cry: Let Us Beat Them!

Administration Fights, Lobbies To Keep Inhumane Interrogations

The White House is shifting gears, as President Bush is moving away from "Bring it on" to a more aggressive and harsher position.

The President is now warning terrorists that "If we catch you, we'll kick your butt six ways from Sunday, and then knock your teeth out for mumbling about it".

Flyers are being dropped in Iraqi and Afghanistan, written in English and Arabic, telling the terrorists to give up, or "face the beating of your life". A new television ad campaign of the Administrations harsh interrogation initiatives, produced by the Department of Defense, will soon begin running on Aljazeera.

The President has stated that he needs "the beatings" to make "all Americans safer".

The change comes as the Administration lobbies military officials on the need for the President to order harsh interrogations, as new documents and memorandums, recently declassified at the request of Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), show that the military command is at odds with the President on this issue.

One member of a task force, deputy judge advocate general of the Air Force, Maj. Gen. Jack L. Rives, advised that several of the "more extreme interrogation techniques, on their face, amount to violations of domestic criminal law" as well as military law.

Graham, along with John McCain (R-AZ) and Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman John Warner (R-VA) have introduced amendments to a defense bill that establish rules for the interrogation and prosecution of terror detainees.

Recently, both the President, and Vice President Dick Cheney met with top Republicans, in an effort to have them remove the legislation. Some from the meeting say the Vice President Cheney acted "menacingly".

"He stood there, with an evil look in his eye, pounding his fist into the palm of his hand", offered a source who attended the meeting.

At a press conference yesterday, Scott McClellan, White House Spokesperson, defended the President.

"Just like many of us, the detainees serve at the pleasure of the President. If he wants to beat the living daylights out of them, that's his prerogative".


The Senate Armed Forces Committee is set to investigate new charges of prisoner abuse in Iraq, of forced labor being conducted by U.S. sactioned contractors.