Vindicarre wrote:
Hi-larious! Bush was the devil for wiretapping,
Bush was not the devil because of Wiretapping. That was one of the *many* things (and in the scale of his evils, one of the smaller ones sadly enough) he did that put him in that category. He invaded a country that posed no threat to us. In doing so, he murdered countless thousands of innocent people. He destroyed the country's infrastructure and locked us into a decade-long quagmire that has cost us thousands upon thousands of lives and hundreds of billions of dollars. It has sent tens of thousands of Americans home as casualties, injured in a conflict that never had to be fought.
He approved the use of torture, and as a result people in our custody were raped and brutally murdered in interrogation. He approved the use of middle-ages era torture techniques. He convinced the country that Hussein posed an imminent threat and that he had a massive stockpile of weapons of mass destruction. He cynically manipulated our country's terror after the 9-11 attacks to make all of this happen.
So yes, when I look at what the Obama administration is doing, I am not going to fall into the trap of drawing a false equivalence between him and bush. I strongly oppose the use of warrantless wirteaps. I vehemently oppose the use of rendition to nations that are likely to torture a subject, and I vehemently oppose CIA black sites and other dodges to international and domestic law.
However, trying to say it's all the same is simply irrational. Obama has a very long way to go before he matches Bush's evil. A very long way to go indeed.
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