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• Thursday, November 13, 2008 09:36 PM

  Why do people care so much about the plight of terrorists?

  Bush forced the USA PATRIOT Act, authored by Joe Biden (or so he boasts), down our throats and thus Americans are spying on Americans--all our phone calls, emails and financial transactions are sieved for the convenience of law enforcement, it's all blatantly unconstitutional. Yet people are clamoring for Bush to be investigated because his thugs were supposedly mean to bloodthirsty terrorists?

  Critics claim that leading a dude around on a leash is torture. Tossing a bible in a toilet is torture. Geez. How cutthroat can you get? I guess liberal Bush haters never saw how Saddam tortured people--dripping acid on them, flaying them, hacking off their limbs, poking out their eyeballs and cutting out their tongues, lowering them slowly feet first into industrial shredders.

  If waterboarding, dog leashes, and mock porno sessions are the best Bush could do, he's an amateur torturer and these stupid investigations are going to come up empty handed.

  Why doesn't Obama first pen an Executive Order affirming the Fourth Amendment, immediately shutting down ALL domestic surveillance, getting rid of the Star Chamber judges, handing over their own records to the people who were spied upon? Undo the real damage from the Bush administration.

  Anybody who thinks roughing up terrorists is worse than spying on US citizens is a crackpot, or a traitor.

  —Old Poor Richard Read Old Poor Richard's other letters
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