CEO Government
Darth Cheney continues to appear [in a cloud of sulfurous smoke, no doubt] on the talking heads shows peddling his enhanced interrogation techniques [ Verschärfte Vernehmung in the original German]. As the News Writer notes, too many Americans are buying into the argument about the “ticking bomb”.
Since they keep trying to compare themselves to Churchill and their war of choice to World War II, lets take a look at how Churchill and the British government dealt with intelligence gathering in WWII.
Oops, the GOP is not going to like this. They packed a lot of over educated liberal intellectuals into a place called Bletchley Park to work on the problem. To make matters worse, they let a Post Office employee create one of the world’s first computers, and one of the leaders of the effort was gay. Further they kept their mouths shut about what was going on and never revealed what they knew about sources and methods, even when it might have been politically convenient, or to punish their critics. The details didn’t come out for 50 years.
In case the GOP has forgotten, the “good guys” won that war, even though one of the “good guys” was a murderous bastard who was responsible for the deaths of millions of his own people. Hey, Churchill had Stalin, and Reagan had Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden, but “the ends justify the means”, or “the enemy of my enemy is my friend”.
Why do these people continue to push for torture? What part of “suicide bomber” eludes their understanding? Do they not know what “martyr” means?
