At Five Bells, Serving The Lord

President Bush just vetoed a bill banning a 19 unique “interrogation techniques.”His condoning of these practices undermines his faith in my view, and makes me question his ethics and morals. America’s continuing torture of suspects will likely cause more terror attacks, not less. Groups like Al-Queda call us the infidel, and if we are willing to stoop low enough to torture, then we fully deserve it. If we treat prisoners the same way they do, then what differentiates us? How can we continually claim the moral high ground in any of our actions against terrorist groups?

The most famous of these is waterboarding (a torture technique that creates a sensation of drowning, invented during the Spanish Inquisition).

Here is a Bush quote which I’ll leave you to ponder.

“The bill Congress sent me would take away one of the most valuable tools in the war on terror”

When a President calls sensory torture a “most valuable tool,” it shows his views on the value of human life. John McCain, Barack Obama, and Hillary Clinton have all denounced waterboarding, but Bush continues to proclaim it’s value. I often hear Republicans blaming the left-wing influence in the legislature for halting things like abortion bans, but lets consider a situation in which such a bill makes it’s way to the oval office. Would George Bush have valued the human rights of the unborn like he values the human rights of our enemies?

 He would probably be quick to pass an abortion ban, but would that be a move to satisfy the conservative base of his party, or would he pass it because he really, truly believes in it? Based on current evidence, it causes one to wonder.

~Brian~