Dana Rohrabacher, in the true loving spirit of the Republican party had some kind words for those that do not support the Bush Administration. Apparently in his sick and twisted mind, he believes that if you do not support George Bush's secret torture program that stretched across Europe, he wants your family to die. The black and white thinking of this sad little (well not so little) man shows his hatred for anyone that opposes the Bush Administration and its never-ending efforts to destroy the constitution and the support of the world for our country. That small-mindedness was exemplified in all its glory towards the European Parliament’s committee on Human rights.
From AfterDowningStreet:
Back to the Congressional hearing. With eyes narrowed and mouth in a contorted grimace, Congressman Rohrabacker attacked the two British and one Italian members of the European Parliament who testified before the committee. Reminding one of Joe McCarty in tone and substance, Rohrabacker demeaned and degraded the report and chastised, belittled and berated the Parliamentarians. Remarkably, Rohrabacker said the most of the CIA private flights that landed in Europe were to transport CIA agents all over the world, not to move prisoners. Yet the logs of the 1245 flights have been tied by date and location to the movement of specific individual prisoners from one location to another.
Rohrabacher railed against anyone who questioned the right of the Bush administration to do whatever it wanted, legal or illegal, to prevent terrorist acts and said that by not supporting the Bush policies was consigning their country to the terrorists. In particular he said that any Americans who questioned the extraordinary rendition were un-American.
Citing historic examples of other countries kidnapping persons, Rohrabacker said Israel had every right to kidnap Nazi official Adolph Eichmann from Argentina, bring him to Israel and execute him. Rohrabacher conveniently forgot to mention that the Israeli government did put Eichmann on trial, a trial which none of those who have been extraordinarily rendered have had. Rohrabacher then attacked and belittled the European Community for outlawing the death penalty saying that “You in the European community won’t stand up to evil people, you won’t execute them. Eichmann deserved to be executed, just like these terrorists must be executed.”
Someone needs to wipe that goofy smile off of his face and remind him what America is truly about. We are supposed to have this thing called the rule of law, and neither him or his master in the White House have any respect for that time-honored tradition. It is what has helped America to be the great country we became, but are now falling from in the eyes of its awakened citizens and the global community. And by the way, the Israelis put Eichmann on trial, a right that was not afforded to those secret prisoners the CIA shipped around the world.
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