The Iraq Torture Scandal... Worse than Watergate?

How would you rank the current scandal/attrocity?


My personal opinion: Worse than watergate

Note this is on a scale of RELATIVE political magnitude...

When he stole the White House. Everything after that has just been exponential multiplication -- along the lines of the richter scale . . .

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It's hard to believe that the whole country sit back and watch Bush and his crime family steal a Presidential Election and we did NOTHING. Every time I hear a Democrat refer to him a President it turns my stomach. Look at all that he has gotten by with and we have done NOTHING. I feel like I am living in a different universe since 2000. Up is down, In is out, Good is bad. TOTALLY UNBELIEVABLE
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Haliburton, Bechtel, Boot&Root subsidiaries.

This is SEX and lies folks. You know how crazy some people are about S-E-X. I just hope someone can show people making $$$$$$ off of the situation relative to the paltry $$ enlisted get + cuts in benefits!

Abu Gharaib, on the other hand...

(Blackmail)

THOUSANDS DIED THEN IN HONDURAS, GUATEMALA, ETC. JUST AS THOUSANDS ARE DYING NOW IN IRAQ/

Watergate was circa 1973, during Nixon's era. All it was was some dumbass Republicans wiretapping Democratic room(s?) at the Watergate Hotel, eavesdropping. For that, Nixon resigned!!! That was back in the days when the Republicans had a shred of integrity and honor.

Iran-Contra was MUCH worse. That occurred under Reagan's watch (with Bush Sr as VP) in the early to mid-80s. The reptiles sold arms to Iran (our "enemy") and used the money to fund death squads in Central America; specifically the Nicaraguan Contras, who were opposed to Daniel Ortega's (*gasp*) "socialist" and very progressive revolutionary government, after they seized power from--aarrrgggh, can't think of the dictator's name, one of the U.S.'s pals. Six of those felons are now in Bush Jr's administration--they were all of course pardoned by their buddy Bush Sr. (I may have some details twisted; other DUers please tidy this up if necessary--thanks!)

At least the breakin was. But the coverup lasted until '74 and the retaliation against the good guys lasts till this day.

No one outside of the USA was effected by it. Torture-gate is a disaster for our international image and relations. The neo-cons have pissed on the flag again.
(Torture-gate is not copyrighted in any way. Feel free to use it as often as possible.)

apparently, DU thinks it ranks pretty high.

"-gate" somehow trivializes it. Even "scandal" doesn't do it justice.
I like the word "atrocity" that is in the original post. The torture atrocity of the Bush regime--that has a nice strongly condemning ring to it.

The "gate" suffix has been used repeatedly to trivialize a number of scandals and to jump start others ("Monica-gate")--and overuse has also had a way of trivializing Watergate itself, making it seem little more than one in a bunch of tv events.

Watergate was more like a Fraternity Prank! The Bu$hitler machinations tell us so.

--and, by comparison, "minor." They've gotten away with far far worse so far. Up to this time I've despised Nixon, but now I greatly respect him for having had the graciousness to resign, which basically took full responsibility for the crime. Bush, on the other hand, is a goddam fool who thinks he can "get away with it."

because I've run out of fingers to count the scandals of BushCo that have far exceeded Watergate in terms of damage done, laws broken, and extent of cover-up.

I didn't think anything could exceed the illegal invasion of Iraq on the old atrocity meter but the scandal du jour, Abu Ghraib, is causing a total meltdown.

as Bill and Monica?

must be one of our visiting *cough cough* "friends"

as far as political impact inside the US? No.

There have been many more worse.

.... 'cause The Faithful will not be swayed. They're too locked-in to their faith-based politics.