A moment of truth

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Through out history one thing that has been widely known, before the years of George W. Bush, is that America will treat it’s enemies as we would wish our soldiers to be treated.  That we would protect our enemy, feed our enemy, clothe our enemy, be fair with our enemy, and never torture our enemy.  This common knowledge as gained us much respect through out the world.  No matter our enemy they knew that if their soldiers were captured by America that their soldiers would be protected.  In the years before this disgraceful President, George W. Bush, we have been the example on how to care for ones enemy that is captured. We have even led out troops off to attack any nation that dared harm it’s citizens, our nation, or any other area of this world.

However that pride, that fear, and that respect is now damaged, if not all but gone.  Gone is the common knowledge through out the world that if you attack us we will kick the ever lovin’ shit out of you on the battlefield and as we give you this American style ass whoopin’ if we capture your soldiers they will be treated as we would demand/expect you to treat our soldiers that you may capture.
Gone are the days of knowledge that all humans should be cared for and never treated like pigs.  Gone are the very days that we lived up to what we preach to others through out this world.  In the last eight years this nation has gone from being one of the most feared nations to an example of what disgrace looks like. In the last eight years we have allowed filthy trash like Lynndie England to torture our enemy and pretty much get a slap on the wrist.  In the last eight years our disgraceful President has not only allowed but ordered that our enemy be tortured and declared before the world that he did not have to go by the rules that he demands our enemies go by.

In the last eight years very few leaders have had the courage to stand up and say “STOP THIS! YOU ARE DESTROYING WHAT OUR MEN HAVE BLEED AND DIED TO UPHOLD AND PROTECT!”  Very few leaders of this nation have said to George W. Bush what you have done is wrong and it must stop now.  I have read many, many items through out the last eight years and the number of people that have had the courage to do this great act are, in fact, few and far between.   John Murtha is one, Barrack Obama is another, John  Edwards and Al Gore are two more, and there have been a “few” members of the G.O.P. to have the guts to stand up to shrub.

As you review this list of people that are few and far between that have had the guts to stand and scream their voices loud enough for the world to hear there is one that has yelled very loudly over the years.  He is a great example of what an American is, he is a decorated war hero, he is a man that loves his nation, he is a man that has both fought for his nation and lead its warrior’s to many of fights.  He is General Wesley K. Clark!  Gen Clark is a man of honor, truth, and fairness.  Gen. Clark has bleed, sweat, and given to this nation many, many years of outstanding service.  Even in his retirement he has kept his voice raised high and his love for his nation even higher.  General Clark has stood for the men and woman of the Armed Forces and has fought hard for the fair treatment of it’s enemies.  Even in the light of a few members of his own party telling to him shut the hell up..he has never remained silent.  He has remained true to his nation, to his fellow citizens, and to those that fight for the protection of all of us.

Rcently he proved all of these facts about himself to be true once again in a piece that he wrote for the Washington Monthly.  It can be found, read, and shared by going to No Torture, No Exceptions!  In it he states:

Torture is illegal, ineffective, and morally wrong. The United States has signed numerous treaties condemning torture and abjuring its practice. Those treaties are the law of the land. And, yes, waterboarding is torture: in the past, we convicted and punished foreign nationals for torture by waterboarding. There are no legal loopholes permitting torture in “exceptional cases.” After all, those were the same excuses used by the torturers we once condemned.

It is too bad that almost all of the G.O.P. and a few of the DNC have told him to sit down and shut the hell up.  It is to bad that Senator John Kerry did not really want General Clark to even attend the last Democratic convention much less help his failed campaign.  It is too bad that our disgraceful President called him,  and former soldiers like him, a disgrace when interviewed by drug addict Rush Limpdick.  Mr. Bush Wesley Clark is more of a leader, American, Hero, and warrior then you will ever be.  Mr. Bush you’re not good enough to share his MRE much less try and judge him.  He is after all what you pretended to be, a real soldier.

In this piece General Clark shared his expert thoughts when it comes to torture.  Here is another good comment by Gen. Clark:

Perhaps it was our flight from the repression of the Old World and the practices of European monarchy. We were different. We expressed it in our Declaration of Independence. We captured it in our adaptation of English common law, in our trials by juries of peers, and in our spirit of justice. We were a better nation for it, more respected, more influential, and more secure.

Please go to No torture, No expectations and read this piece for yourself and when you are done share it with your family, co-workers, and friends.  It is time that we as Americans begin to stand up and protect our nation and our standing in this world as THE leading super power and restore the common knowledge that America DOES NOT torture it’s enemies! And as you take this stand remember this when going to the ballot box in November:

ANYONE THAT VOTED TO PROTECT AND ALLOW THE TORTURE OF OUR ENEMIES SHOULD BE VOTED OUT OF OFFICE, NO MATTER THEIR PARTY!

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