Bush in Panama City today:
"There's an enemy that lurks and plots and plans and wants to hurt America again," Bush said. "So you bet we will aggressively pursue them but we will do so under the law."
He declared, "We do not torture."
For such a black & white, good & evil, right & wrong president, he sure takes a nuanced position on this. As I've written since the torture allegations broke, they DO endorse and mandate torture. But their definition happens to be different from the agreed-upon definition the rest of the world understands. Water-boarding? Bushco says: not torture. Dropping acid on the skin? Bushco says: torture. The problem is, both are torture.
And the United States? Our home? The nation and Constitution we love and fight to defend? Tarnished and stained by a pack of criminals whose crimes infinitely outweigh a break-in or lying about a blow job.
These men are committing crimes against humanity day-in and day-out. Not to mention the fact that their techniques are putting us all in grave danger.