Photo: Bush smirks through torture bill signing while "Protecting America"

[Human Torch]

LOOK! It says "Protecting America!" Why, that must mean that whatever Bush is signing will Protect America, especially if it gives him unlimited authority to force captives to strip naked and engage in simulated sex and masturbation, break fluorescent light tubes over their backs and pour phosphoric liquid on them, rape detainees with a chemical light and a broomstick, and unleash attack dogs that severely maim prisoners! WOW! USA! USA! USA!





President Bush is seen after signing the Military Commissions Act of 2006, which sets new standards expediting the interrogation and prosecution of terror suspects, during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Oct. 17, 2006. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

[niyad]

1. he looks disgustingly happy at being dictator of the world, doesn't he?

[napi21]

2. "I GOT MY WAY AGAIN!"

Spoiled arrogant brat! Mommy didn't spank this brat nearly often enough a long time ago!

[JuniperLea]

3. I wonder if Hitler smirked like that

Whilst signing death warrants and torture bills...

[11 Bravo]

11. Nah, Hitler had actually seen combat. He knew better.

[BootinUp]

4. I object to that sign on the podium. n/t

[11 Bravo]

13. I object to that smirking, cowardly, criminal sitting behind ...

the Presidential Seal.

[JuniperLea]

18. Same here

I'd like to kick his PR team between the legs then upside the head when they bend over.

It's cheap and tacky as all hell. The symbol of the POTUS should always stand alone. There should be no other signs or words needed to convey to the people that the person behind the podium is looking out for our best interests. So you see, the fact they feel the need to put up the extra BS goes to show you how little respect the presidential seal commands at this time.

[Stephanie]

5. He's a long-established sadist

Tortured his brothers as a child - shot them with BB guns. (Actually shot them, as per Neil's account). Blew up frogs with firecrackers. It's well-known that a child who tortures animals indicates trouble in adulthood.

[KyndCulture]

6. He actually popped out a couple tears

between smirks. Praying to the holy flag of jesus land and invoking 9/11

[Totally Committed]

7. What a disgustingly microscopic soul he is....

Half of me believes he doesn't even grasp what itis she's really signing into law there, while the other half despises him for doing it. Jesus Christ, as most of us have come to know and understand his teachings, would NEVER have signed a bill like that into law.

It just horrifies me.

TC

[Double T]

8. The smarmy, smirking psychopath loves the torture win.........

what would expect from the ALL TIME BIGGEST executioner in Texas.

[Totally Committed]

14. "The smarmy, smirking psychopath..."

Genius illiteration, and amazingly right on-point! Great post, Double T!

TC

[Human Torch]

15. Time to share Tucker Carlson's account of the Karla Faye Tucker story:

Karla Tucker and George W. Bush



Under Texas law, each death penalty case has one chance to be reprieved by a governor without the recommendation of the Board of Pardons and Paroles. The board must recommend the second reprieve in order for it to be granted. All 18 members of the Board of Pardons and Paroles are appointed by the governor (Clark, 2000). Before Tucker was executed, there were pleas for clemency from Waly Bacre Ndiaye, the United Nations commissioner on summary and arbitrary executions, the World Council of Churches, Pope John Paul II, and Italian Prime Minister Romano Prodi, among other world figures. Unusual pleas came from conservative American political figures such as Newt Gingrich and Pat Robertson, interceding on her behalf. Tucker did not ask for a pardon, only commutation of her death sentence to life in prison. Huntsville Prison's warden testified that she was a model prisoner and that, after 14 years on death row, she likely had been reformed. Despite these pleas, Bush signed her death warrant. In 1999, during the 2000 Republican Presidential primary race, conservative commentator Tucker Carlson interviewed Bush for Talk Magazine (September 1999, p. 106). Excerpt from this interview is quoted below:

In the weeks before the execution, Bush says, a number of protesters came to Austin to demand clemency for Karla Faye Tucker. "Did you meet with any of them?" I ask. Bush whips around and stares at me. "No, I didn't meet with any of them," he snaps, as though I've just asked the dumbest, most offensive question ever posed. "I didn't meet with Larry King either when he came down for it. I watched his interview with Tucker, though. He asked her real difficult questions like, 'What would you say to Governor Bush?'" "What was her answer?" I wonder. "'Please,'" Bush whimpers, his lips pursed in mock desperation, "'don't kill me.'" I must look shocked — ridiculing the pleas of a condemned prisoner who has since been executed seems odd and cruel — because he immediately stops smirking.

Bush denied that he had intended to make light of the issue.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karla_Faye_Tucker

[Double T]

16. The 'Torture-meister' is an empty soul without a conscience and.....

no remorse. Don't be fooled by this heinous, evil personality's 'good old boy' mantra; it is purely a devious act.

[rodeodance]

9. actually, i seen lots better smirks from him (? he was being presidental')

[mnhtnbb]

10. You can only hope that Karma bites his ass, eventually.

[deminks]

12. His name is now on it.

One wonders why he is smiling or smirking. An ordinary person would consider the gravity of what he just signed, or the history of it, or at least reflect that he was now the chimperor of all that he sees.

Is he thinking of all of the hands on he can now do?

Is he thinking of all the video he can now watch?

Is it just like the frogs back 'home'?

[riderinthestorm]

17. .

:cry:

[wanpete]

19. what a cheap stunt, putting that cheezy protecting america sign next to

the potus symbol...getting quite desperate aren't we now??

[Supersedeas]

23. a symbol that will go down in history

[butterfly77]

20. This is one crazy - - - - - - - -

I hope I can see the day when they smirk will be wiped off his face...

[AnotherMoonbatLibrul]

21. Yeah,

he thinks that he's signing the law that will keep him out of prison for crimes he already knows he has committed. He'll have an entirely different look on his face one of these days, after a few investigations and after that law is overturned.

[Cameron27]

22. I still can't believe that my country is making torture legal

and the POS's doing it with a flourish. Sound the trumpets.

The sign should read America Disappears.