{"id":21073,"date":"2010-11-04T15:10:26","date_gmt":"2010-11-04T19:10:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=21073"},"modified":"2010-11-04T15:11:27","modified_gmt":"2010-11-04T19:11:27","slug":"bush-accepts-responsibility-for-waterboarding-in-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=21073","title":{"rendered":"Bush accepts responsibility for waterboarding in book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>R. Jeffrey Smith of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2010\/11\/03\/AR2010110308082.html?hpid=topnews\">Washington Post<\/a> claims he knows someone who has read a copy of President Bush&#8217;s memoir &#8220;Decision Point&#8221; and that in the book, the former president admits that he gave the CIA the go-ahead for waterboarding Khalid Sheik Mohammed;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In his book, titled &#8220;Decision Points,&#8221; Bush recounts being asked by the CIA whether it could proceed with waterboarding Mohammed, who Bush said was suspected of knowing about still-pending terrorist plots against the United States. Bush writes that his reply was &#8220;Damn right&#8221; and states that he would make the same decision again to save lives, according to a someone close to Bush who has read the book.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You mean he didn&#8217;t impanel a blue ribbon commission to deliberate for months while the political advisers shopped the proper response and polled study groups? <\/p>\n<p>And then he admits it in his book, despite the fact that he might be tried in some useless-ass international court? <\/p>\n<p>I wonder what you&#8217;d call all of that?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>R. Jeffrey Smith of the Washington Post claims he knows someone who has read a copy &hellip; <a title=\"Bush accepts responsibility for waterboarding in book\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=21073\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bush accepts responsibility for waterboarding in book<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[153],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-do-you-miss-me-yet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21073\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}