By Matthew Rothschild
September 30, 2012 "The Progressive" -- So now Mitt Romney wants to bring waterboarding back?
An
article
buried on the bottom of page 13 of The New York Times on
Friday revealed that Romney’s national security team has
recommended to him that he rescind President Obama’s executive
order barring torture.
The Times
article, by the great Charlie Savage, also notes that Romney
last December said he didn’t think waterboarding was torture and
that he would use techniques—isn’t that a creepy word—that Obama
refuses to use and that are not allowed by the Army manual.
This puts
Romney squarely back in the sadistic Bush-Cheney camp
And little
wonder: Because many of the people on his national security team
actually served in the Bush-Cheney administration and backed
waterboarding and other kinds of brutalities.
This is
not a lovely glimpse into what a Romney presidency would look
like.
In fact,
it’s a horrifying flashback, and a reminder that the neocons and
Cheneyites are just biding their time, waiting for their
opportunity to abuse power once more.
This is
what happens when there is impunity, as Professor Al McCoy of
the University of Wisconsin argues. By not prosecuting Bush or
Cheney or Rumsfeld or Alberto Gonzales and other senior
officials who designed the torture policy, and by not
prosecuting the CIA agents who actually did the waterboarding,
President Obama has left the door open for the torturers.
And
they’re lining up to get back in.
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