Alberto Gonzales has a question:
WASHINGTON — Alberto Gonzales, who has kept a low profile since resigning as attorney general nearly 16 months ago, said he is writing a book to set the record straight about his controversial tenure as a senior official in the Bush administration.
Mr. Gonzales has been portrayed by critics both as unqualified for his position and instrumental in laying the groundwork for the administration’s “war on terror.” He was pilloried by Congress in a manner not usually directed toward cabinet officials.
“What is it that I did that is so fundamentally wrong, that deserves this kind of response to my service?” he said during an interview Tuesday, offering his most extensive comments since leaving government.
Can you answer his question?
He’s an even bigger dumbass than I thought he was.
Does he even deserve an explanation? Or instead, how about a prosecution, for failing to uphold the Constitution.
He’s a dumbass for not maintaining his low profile. His question adds insult to injury for all those tortured detainees.
You missed the vomit-inducing next paragraph:
I’m not a violent man. Really, I’m not. So rather than wishing that Gonzales actually were “one of the many casualties of the war on terror” I will instead wish that I could take him to an Iraqi graveyard – or perhaps a morgue – where he could see what a real “casualty of the war on terror” looks like.
Asshole.
Paul Krugman is at a loss for words. Citing the same comment of Abu’s that you just bolded above, he asks what to call people who make such statements…
He then cites Laura Bush’s comment on the carnage in Iraq:
I’m stumped as well.
Simple. He thought he was qualified to be the AG.
He’s in the same position as that German guy at the Nuremberg Tribunals: “I vas chust folloving orders!”
The meaty parts of the Nuremberg trials should be shown him, alongside his testimony or statements to date.
He should be asked if he recognises the similarities.
If he does, then I would loet the chips fall as they may…let the decision to prosecute go to others. (IF he understands his role in the illegal activity, I’m content to let other, better qualified people decide whether Gonzo should be tried)
If he does not, recommend him for immediate prosecution, or extradition to the Hague on war-crimes charges. Anybody so unqualified for his post, ignorant of applicable domestic and international Law, and blind as to teh consequences of such ignorance should be pursued to the maximum effort of the Law…
Just because a lawyer says you can torture does not change the wording or true meaning of the Geneva Convention.
He should stop looking for a publisher and print his book in PDF on the net, if its truly for his sons and not Gonzo’s own wallet.
what a steaming pile of mierda.
Simple. He was Bush’s personal attorney. When he became Attorney General, he thought he was still Bush’s personal attorney, just with a fancier title.
He was a dumfuk. But the Senate was a clusterfuk for even letting that happen.
And my Senator Salazar was his sponsor in the Senate. For which I will never forgive him.
call a whaaambulance for abu, he can’t find a job …for obvious reasons [resume pdf]…even the RATpub think tanks won’t give him a cushy position,
and he doesn’t have a publisher.
face it Abu, you’re not only a sycophantic dumbass, you’re a 21st century pariah and a loser.
couldn’t happen to a more deserving fellow.
History is indeed written by the winners.
Right now…the beginning of a four year term that has no guarantees of success attached to it…a point of view that (apparently) does NOT think that his actions were either moral or legal is about to take power in the United States of Omertica. At least that is what it says.
In the nearly 50 years since the JFK coup, the U.S. has been ruled by people who quite plainly did agree with actions such as those of Mr. Gonzalez for roughly 3/4 of that time. Further, this administration only won about a 4% majority…54%…of the popular vote, does not effectively control the Senate, is SLAMMED in terms of the Supreme Court makeup and has no effective control whatsoever over the most conservative elements of the PermaGov, the military and the intelligence services, both of which are rather…errr, heavily…armed.
UH oh!!!
The history ain’t been writ yet, folks. In light of the last 50 years…it’s 3 to 1 against it being written by people who do not much like Gonzalez’s actions.
And that’s just the odds from the 1/7th of the stuff that’s on the surface. Note well the staff that Mr. Obama has assembled in an effort to grab hold of the reins of power in some effective way. Gates? Jones? Blair? (National Intel) Hayden? (CIA)
Please.
Waterboarding anyone? In order to “save American lives?” In a HEARTBEAT. No matter that those lives shouldn’t have been risked in the first place. Enemies? Even possible enemies? Kill ’em all and let God sort ’em out.
Just sayin’…
Gonzalez? Just a little chicken in a henhouse FULL of badass roosters.
Bet on it.
This Blogojevitch thing is going to put a crimp in Obama’s early crowing as well. I TOL ‘ ya Rahm was a mistake. (From the look of him, waterboarding and such is only off of his table because it’s too crude. He’s got other knives to sharpen. Excruciatingly sharp ones. Which he has already used during infighting with some bad, bad boys. Watch.)
This whole thing is going to get very interesting.
Watch.
AG
I went and created an account just to answer with this one word:
“torture”
… oh, and illegal wiretapping
… war crimes
… detention without due process
… let’s not forget perjury/lying under oath to Congress
… wasn’t there an ignored subpoena in there as well?
it’s impossible to answer with just one word … why isn’t this bastard in jail? Or maybe we should all just chip in for a nice European vacation for Abu G and the lovely Mrs. G.