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Bush's Glib Waterboarding Admission Sparks Outrage

From Dan Froomkin's blog:

George W. Bush's casual acknowledgment Wednesday that he had Khalid Sheikh Mohammed waterboarded -- and would do it again -- has horrified some former military and intelligence officials who argue that the former president doesn't seem to understand the gravity of what he is admitting.

Waterboarding, a form of controlled drowning, is "unequivocably torture", said retired Brigadier General David R. Irvine, a former strategic intelligence officer who taught prisoner of war interrogation and military law for 18 years.

"As a nation, we have historically prosecuted it as such, going back to the time of the Spanish-American War," Irvine said. "Moreover, it cannot be demonstrated that any use of waterboarding by U.S. personnel in recent years has saved a single American life."

More here.

If I have to explain to you why this is so significant, you'll never understand.

Suffice it to say that torture is deeply immoral, worse than murder, and any nation that willingly engages in torture as official policy is evil. Consequently, America is evil. Both Cheney and Bush have now publicly admitted to ordering the torture of prisoners of war--this was never, as they claimed back in 2004 when the Abu Ghraib scandal first hit the headlines, a few bad apples; this was always United States policy as dictated by the White House, ordered and directed from the very top.

Our former President and Vice President must be put on trial immediately for crimes against humanity. Anything less constitutes endorsement of their heinous acts. But it won't happen because America has lost its moral compass. President Obama's failure to act has made him every bit as responsible, and therefore every bit as evil, as his predecessors.

I mourn for my country.

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