This is what happens when The Infected start to panic. Click over to Think Progress and watch Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA), within the space of about two minutes, whitewash extraordinary rendition (note how he Freudishly says “abducted”), dismiss and excuse torture, wave the bloody corpse of 9/11, trivialize the concerns of the majority of people on the planet, whinge about people “hating America,” state that Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann would still be alive if anyone else “were in charge,” and finally, wish death upon the families of the audience.
Last week, a House Foreign Affairs subcommittee held a hearing on the Bush administration’s practice of extraordinary rendition, whereby hundreds of “terror suspects who had never been indicted for any crimes” have been abducted and flown to either secret agency prisons or to foreign countries such as Egypt or Syria where they are tortured.
Throughout the hearing, Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA) aggressively defended the U.S. rendition program and attacked the witnesses, three members of the European parliament, who testified that rendition actually hinders prosecutions of terrorists.
Rohrabacher told the witnesses that Nazi leader Adolf Eichmann would still be alive if they were in charge. He said the witnesses were free to doubt the motives of U.S. rendition since “I know there’s a lot of people who hate America.”
At one point, Rohrabacher argued that imprisoning and torturing one innocent person was a fair price to pay for locking up 50 terrorists who would “go out and plant a bomb…and kill 20,000 people.” When members of the audience groaned, Rohrabacher said, “Well, I hope it’s your families, I hope it’s your families that suffer the consequences.”
It is completely insane that this person is allowed to speak on behalf of this country and Americans. I can’t begin to describe how much this clip sickens and embarrasses me. These people must be removed from office. They will not rest until the entire planet is a smoking crater, and a few rich white Republicans are standing on top of the rubble, holding an American flag.
Click over to watch the video, and to read more about Army Col. Ann Wright, who was present at the hearing and was removed when she stood up and protested Rohrabacher’s tirade.
10 Comments
April 24, 2007 at 1:06 pm
Interesting that Rohrabacher would channel Eichmann, since “extraordinary rendition” was exactly what Eichmann had in mind when he helped put together the Final Solution.
Dr. Freud, call your service.
April 24, 2007 at 1:23 pm
I can’t begin to describe how much this clip sickens and embarrasses me.
Ditto.
Sorry, Everybody.
April 24, 2007 at 1:23 pm
The scary part is that enough people thik like hime to get him elected. 3 times!
April 24, 2007 at 1:40 pm
You mean this Dana Rohrabacher? The guy who was apparently buddy-buddy with the Taliban and Osama bin Ladin up until he flip-flopped on them post-9/11?
Yeah, he’s a real catch…
April 24, 2007 at 1:41 pm
Hmmm, I was anonymous@1:40. This is what I get for switching web browsers…
April 24, 2007 at 1:55 pm
And this same Dana Rohrasda”sealdick”qwe;ogi,
who thinks there may be a link between Middle Eastern terrorists and Oklahoma City?
http://rohrabacher.house.gov/UploadedFiles/Report%20from%20the%20Chairman.pdf
April 24, 2007 at 2:01 pm
This is what happens when The Infected start to panic.
The Infected don’t panic; they rampage. That’s what everything that has happened in the last 6½ years has been all about.
April 24, 2007 at 3:06 pm
What a tool.
I wonder how he’d be talking if one of the “miniscule” number of people totured and disappeared was his wife. Or daughter. Or mother or father.
Or his own fat, white ass!
April 24, 2007 at 3:09 pm
Some might say that they hope it’s the familiy of Rohrabacher who are falsely imprisoned, tortured, and held without a hearing for many years, in the hope that a terrorist attack is prevented. Personally, I wouldn’t say that, but some just might.
April 25, 2007 at 11:08 am
They will not rest until the entire planet is a smoking crater, and a few rich white Republicans are standing on top of the rubble, holding an American flag.
Oh, no – they’ll be living in clean and cheap luxury in space habs by then, while the ecosystem on earth dies.