George W. Bush, the Torturer and Murderer

It might seem a bit over the top to accuse Dubya of torture and murder. But certainly, he authorized excessive and illegal use of force to persuade Al Qaeda suspects to divulge information. And some of these actions led to murder. Under the laws of the United States, this makes him an accessory to torture and murder.
There is another part to this story that I discovered today on More David Podvin:

[1] “‘We were terrible to animals,’ recalled [Bush childhood friend] Mr. Throckmorton, laughing. A dip behind the Bush home turned into a small lake after a good rain, and thousands of frogs would come out. ‘Everybody would get BB guns and shoot them,’ [Bush buddy Terry] Throckmorton said. ‘Or we'd put firecrackers in the frogs and throw them and blow them up.’”
— The New York Times, May 21, 2000 (archived at MakeThemAccountable.com)

[2] “Even though George W. Bush is president, Neil Bush can still see in him the 16-year-old who gave him and his younger brother 10 seconds to start running down the hall before firing BB pellets at them.” — Utah County Daily Herald, March 2, 2002 (archived at MakeThemAccountable.com)

[3] “Bush was quoted in the New York Times defending the branding of fraternity pledges with a hot coat hanger, saying the resulting wounds resembled ‘only a cigarette burn.’” – Washington Post, July 27, 1999

[4] “George [Bush] tells [conservative commentator Tucker] Carlson that he watched the Larry King interview with [condemned murderess Karla Faye] Tucker while she was on death row. Bush says, ‘(King) asked her real difficult questions like, “What would you say to Governor Bush?”’ ‘What was her answer?" Carlson asks. Bush ‘whimpers, his lips pursed in mock desperation....Please...don't kill me,’ Bush says, pretending to be Karla Baye [sic] Tucker. ‘I must (have) looked shocked,’ Carlson writes, ‘ridiculing the pleas of a condemned prisoner who has since been executed seems odd and cruel, even for someone as militantly anticrime as Bush--because he immediately stops smirking.’” — Jerry Politex, August 15, 1999

There is a well known principle that associates cruelty to animals to future cruelty to humans. Gregory K. Moffatt, PhD, author of Wounded Innocents and Fallen Angels : Child Abuse and Child Aggression and psychologist, writes:

Many years ago when I was first beginning my practice, I worked with a child who delighted in killing frogs. He repeatedly would find frogs and then throw them into trees or into the ground to kill them. His parents were not sure if that was a problem. In his case, it most definitely was a problem.

Many teenagers and young adults who rape, assault, or kill began their careers by torturing and/or killing animals. I recognize I am making a sweeping generalization, but if there is no resolution to the internal conflict that drives this behavior, he or she will eventually graduate to harming people.

Dubya, in the past, has been accused of seeking revenge for an attempted assasination of his father attributed to Saddam. To manipulate the US by lies to go to war against Iraq sure to kill many innocents for reasons of revenge and to secure oil for blood seems like the actions of a disturbed person.