Check out
the memo from March 2003 that has recently been released that basically says the President has the right to set aside law and excuse torturing the prisoners at Abu Ghraib as "necessary". Scarey stuff. The fact that this report that obviously had a great deal of time and research invested in it was sent out in early March of 2003 seems to me to indicate that the people way up in the chain of command
planned to torture people and wanted to be able to justify such actions if necessary, and give the people doing the torturing an out by saying that they were ordered to by the President, and since he can put aside the law, they are not disobeying law.
On page 22 the memo states that "it is for the President alone to decide what methods to use to best prevail against the enemy" in times of war. It also states on the same page that any laws that would prevent the President from doing whatever is necessary to get intelligence to prevent attacks on the US would be unconstitutional. On page 23 it goes on to state that "harm inflicted by necessity may include intentional homicide, so long as the harm avoided is greater." To me this says that the President has license to kill whomever he wants and then write it off as being necessary to the security of the US and that to deny him the right to do so would be against the Constitution... and to me, that's
wrong and that's frightening to think that he would have to right to do that. What's more frightening to me is that he thinks he's doing the will of God. That's just fucking insane. Who else thought they were doing the will of God? The terrorists.
If I were God, I would be hella pissed at all these people saying I talk to them and try to excuse the things they do as being in my name.
