When "Torture Warrant" Dershowitz jumps ship, you know Bush is in trouble!

kpete

(1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Tue Dec-20-05 07:45 AM
Original message

When "Torture Warrant" Dershowitz jumps ship, you know Bush is in trouble!

Hey - when Alan "Torture Warrant" Dershowitz jumps ship, you know Bush is in trouble.
http://www.haloscan.com/comments/firedoglake/113505490286434581/

Alan Dershowitz reached the tipping point today on CNN's Situation Room, and Crooks and Liars has the video.

I think the President broke the law....It's not enough for the President to get his lawyers to tell him what he wants to hear. That's not the kind of objective legal advice that the Constitution requires for this kind of action to be undertaken.

Dershowitz further called for Congressional hearings and an inquiry into the power of the President.
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2005/12/19.html#a6391

Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top

leftchick

(1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Tue Dec-20-05 07:48 AM
Response to Original message

1. omg...

Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top

donco6

(1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Tue Dec-20-05 08:26 AM
Response to Reply #1

7. Hee hee - no kidding.

Love the pic!

Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top

Skidmore

(1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Tue Dec-20-05 07:48 AM
Response to Original message

2. Dershowitz was one of the enablers of this type of policy.

His suggestion that it might be okay to torture moved the boundaries of the tolerable and acceptable a little further out. Making a discussion about something as horrible as torture seem as if it were stupid, makes a debate about wiretapping seem a waste of time. Dershowitz disgusts me to no end. Why would someone who was always seen as a defender of civil rights suddenly jump ship like that.

I hope he lands in with the sharks. Perhaps he'll understand the damage he has done to this nation civilly, politically, and legally.

Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top

cantstandbush

(1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Tue Dec-20-05 08:08 AM
Response to Reply #2

3. Yes, but even he respects the law and the protection that it brings. n/t

Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top

greiner3

(1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Tue Dec-20-05 08:22 AM
Response to Original message

4. I saw Alan and Noam;

Chomsky in a debate aired on CSPAN recently. Dershowitz would rant and Chomsky would reply with citations. Dershowitz would then rant some more and Chomsky would cite... You get the gist of the entire hour!

Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top

herbbrown

(318 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Tue Dec-20-05 08:25 AM
Response to Reply #4

5. Noam ate him for lunch

I saw that debate, Noam ate him up Allan came off as juvenile!

Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top

Inland

(1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Tue Dec-20-05 08:26 AM
Response to Original message

6. He's right: it's another instance of telling Bush what he wants to hear.

He wants to do without congress or laws, so they give him the legal opinion he wants.

Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top

underpants

(1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore

Tue Dec-20-05 08:29 AM
Response to Original message

8. Wolf then retreated to the treetop Ewok village to begin shaving..

for the next day down in humanland.

Printer Friendly | Permalink | | Top

DU AdBot (1000+ posts)

Mon May 13th 2024, 03:11 PM
Response to Original message

Advertisements [?]

Top

Powered by DCForum+ Version 1.1 Copyright 1997-2002 DCScripts.com
Software has been extensively modified by the DU administrators

Important Notices: By participating on this discussion board, visitors agree to abide by the rules outlined on our Rules page. Messages posted on the Democratic Underground Discussion Forums are the opinions of the individuals who post them, and do not necessarily represent the opinions of Democratic Underground, LLC.