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irancontra Donating Member (689 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-11-04 12:35 PM
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Architect of Abu Ghraib Torture is Bush's Pick for Attorney General
Know thine slime.





Infowars.com
November 11, 2004

George W. Bush's pick for Attorney General, Alberto Gonzalez, is the White House who advised the President and the Pentagon that Bush was above the law concerning torture. This sicko actually said that the President is not just above international law (the Geneva Convention), but that Bush is even above Federal law.

So now, the chief law enforcement officer in the country is going to be the individual who advised Ashcroft that torture was okay and came up with the enemy combatant designation to strip Americans of their rights.

Out of the frying pan into the central furnace of hell. Ashcroft was bad enough, but he was simply a willing puppet of individuals like Gonzalez and Bush. Everyone should contact Congress and tell them enough is enough. We don't want Josef Mengele Gonzalez as our Attorney General.

Here's some background info:

On June 13, 2004 the London Telegraph reported that Constitutional experts were shocked by Gonzalez's memo, which told Bush that the nature of the war on terror "renders obsolete Geneva's strict limitations on questioning of enemy prisoners and renders quaint some of its provisions"

On June 16, they also reported:

"A string of leaked government memos over the past few days has revealed that President George W Bush was advised by Justice Department officials and the White House lawyer, Alberto Gonzalez, that Geneva Conventions on torture did not apply to "unlawful combatants", captured during the war on terror."

Scroll down for more information on how Gonzalez put Bush above the law, basically declaring him a god-emperor.


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Senate expected to OK Gonzalez as attorney general
The Washington Post , November 11, 2004
By Dan Eggen

WASHINGTON — President Bush nominated White House counsel Alberto Gonzales as attorney general Wednesday, choosing his top lawyer and longtime friend to guide the war on terrorism and lead the federal government's largest law enforcement agency.

Confirmation by the Senate, considered likely, would make Gonzales, 49, the first Hispanic attorney general in U.S. history. It would place the Justice Department in the hands of a loyal Bush confidant who helped craft some of the administration's most controversial anti-terrorism strategies.

More--- http://www.infowars.com/articles/ps/gonzalez.htm

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Skidmore Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-11-04 12:36 PM
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1. His plea was to "give him a chance". I say we remind him
that he had his chance and this is how he used it.
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Deja Q Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Nov-11-04 12:39 PM
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2. At least Gonzalez is handsome and doesn't have an evil sneerish smile
like Ashcroft had.

So he condones torture. I wonder who he classifies as 'enemy combattant' and where the line is drawn?

Bush himself said he would cast the Dems aside if they didn't work with him. Will 49% of the population become enemy combattants, assuming they stage something big? :tinfoilhat:
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