When I am president I would like to deal with rendition. What I would like to do to bring change would be to stop the practice of extraordinary rendition whereby we kidnap people who we think are terrorists and take them to foreign countries where they are probably going to be tortured. I would like to return to the practice of ordinary rendition whereby we kidnap people and then take them either back to the U.S. to face trial or to their own country to face trial. I liked when Bill Clinton was president and he did ordinary rendition. Some of my friends tell me that’s a responsible tool to have in the toolbox and I like to be responsible.
Maybe though sometimes being responsible and ordering ordinary renditions will lead to kidnapping people and not feeding them for 30 hours while they are in custody and taking their clothes off and photographing them without their clothes on. And they would be hooded even though Donald Rumsfeld who I don’t like eventually stopped hooding people. And this would be done to someone wanted for questioning in a "case involving inflated invoices" who would end up pleading guilty to "conspiracy to commit bribery" who we flew from Afghanistan to Virginia, and did not have something to do with terrorism. I want to be responsible but I am not sure if this is responsible and if this is change and I believe in change and want you to believe in it too.



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When I am president I would also like to use rendition to apprehend white collar criminals. I would start with the Bush administration, then the bankers, the insurance ceos, the republicans in Congress, the Blue Dogs, the Katrina rip-off artists, Haliburton, yes the whole company, oh yeah, Enron, World Com, Xe by any name, all those kids sent over to Iraq from Liberty College to run the country and lose 9 billion dollars (has anyone checked their bank accounts?), the HumVee people who couldn’t provide the armor for the vehicles so young boys died, anyone who really believes that the Republicans want bi-partisanship, and all those independents who are too f’n stupid to tell the difference between lies and the truth and have no shame about the death and destruction done in their names of the last 8 years.
Darn. I thought I would feel better after getting that off my chest but I guess it’s just too heavy.
I promise a chicken in every pot and a boot on every face.
Dear Barry:
I am glad your first rendition did not involve the use of scalpels. I need that “change I can believe in” narrative, and it gives me something to work with.
You do have to wonder, however, why Cobos didn’t make the same claims.
heh, Corrente retitles this: “Rendition You Can Believe In…. /s “
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration will continue the Bush administration’s practice of sending terror suspects to third countries for detention and interrogation, but will monitor their treatment to ensure they are not tortured, administration officials said on Monday.
(Wink wink, nudge nudge. Say no more. Say no more. Know what I mean? Know what I mean?)