really any president at this point would have done the thing bush did going to war that is it was a very popular move what you can't say any president would do however is all the stuff that came after this moment and perhaps the reason that NUMBER_TOKEN approval rating took a steady seven year decline these alternative methods you talked about in terms of extracting information from these suspected terrorists were you made personally aware of all of the techniques that were used for example against the khalid sheikh muhammad and did you approve all of those techniques i i told our people get information without torture and was assured by our justice department that we were not torturing ah good question from matt lauer jesus christ what a time the mid-NUMBER_TOKENs were specifically that's from september of NUMBER_TOKEN and thanks to a handful of leaked documents and books and all sorts of what do you call it evidence since then we finally have a pretty darn good idea of what went down behind the scenes and that starting in NUMBER_TOKEN attorney general john ashcroft verbally approved a series of enhanced interrogation techniques such as slapping cramped confinement sleep deprivation diapers waterboarding and use of insects you know torture and the following month the cia considered filling in the president to the torture to which the white house decided it would be better if bush simply didn't know about the torture and so for the next four PROFANITY_TOKEN years our president gave the cia a blank check under the single stipulation that what they did was technically legal the torture why is waterboarding legal in your opinion because the lawyer said it was legal it said it did not fall within the anti-torture act ah so great to see both of these dudes back together obviously we're just gonna scratch the surface when talking about the bush-era war and all the torture but the crux appeared to be a president that was willfully ignorant while a cluster of gop ghouls did pretty much whatever they wanted under him and while those ghouls were way more insidious in their actions you know your cheneys your dead rumsfelds the blood flows to bush's hands bush who and i don't know if you know this rejected an offer from the taliban to turn over osama bin laden there's no need to discuss innocence or guilt we know he's guilty turn him over if they want us to stop our military operation they just got to meet my conditions and when i said no negotiations i meant no negotiation yes no negotiations just turn him over but also we don't want him if you negotiate for it and for context the thing that the taliban was asking for at the time was for us to stop bombing them we were bombing them to get osama bin laden but refused their offer to hand him over if we stopped bombing them so yeah maybe bush should go to jail or something i don't know seems weird that he just moved on from this without going to jail or something seems super weird that anyone over a certain age could act like this all falls on biden or even trump or obama when this guy did so much deliberate damage while in charge like really PROFANITY_TOKEN disingenuous for the gop to point all of their fingers at joe biden really messed up stuff also maybe all presidents should be in jail you get to be the president but when
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