Perhaps we all remember bush's stance on torture when Abu Gharib and Guantanamo first became noteworthy names- remember when "we didn't torture detainees"? Then we (the American people) found out that we DID torture detainees, but it was okay because the president said so. We dropped it for whatever ungodly reason (oh, I think it's because Dancing With the Stars came out) but now these fourteen recently transferred men are creating a controversy that ol' george is going to have some difficulty shuffling out of. Don't get me wrong, I have no doubt he'll be instructed to say something just preposterous enough to placate his base (doesn't Al Queada mean "the base"?), but what I'm really hoping for is that his own unique and undeniable stupidity will be his undoing. If enough "nice people" who cover their sensitive ears when someone says damn, shit or hell find out that we have been holding prisoners underwater to elicit confessions Salem Witch trial style, I think they're going to scrape him off like a scab. I honestly think he deserves to be tried as a war criminal for this shit, it's so far beyond humane or acceptable, and I don't want to hear a fucking word about "what they did". We have due process for a reason, and if that is violated, as it clearly was here, then it is WE who are committing war crimes and we need to see first that OUR own house is in order- you know, remove the plank from our own eye before worrying about the speck in our brother's.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ag3QsL2hbXI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ag3QsL2hbXI