The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #55055   Message #905685
Posted By: toadfrog
08-Mar-03 - 11:58 PM
Thread Name: BS: US torture
Subject: RE: BS: US torture
Well, Beccy and Doug R.:
There is something to be said for not mixing theology and politics. It doesn't shed much light on the subject to say somebody is "evil." But it seems to be the in thing these days. If it is o.k. for GWB to relegate people to the "axis of evil," why shouldn't Bobert? Has this stopped being a free country?

I personally would say, it's worse for a President to sling that kind of abuse around, in public, than for some otherwise ordinary guy to curse a bit in a private argument. Because when the President says stuff like that, it has consequences that may be haunting us for years to come. A lot of people may yet suffer and die as a direct or indirect result of his saying that. Why shouldn't Bobert blow off a little steam.

And it seems to me, Bobert is as qualified to discuss good and evil as GWB is. Perhaps even a bit better qualified.