The Bishop and the Butterfly: Murder, Politics, and the End of the Jazz Age
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    We are guilty of torture in our name! Bush admits crimes.

    By mageduley on Thu, 01/22/2009 - 1:53am |

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    Keith makes the compelling case of the crimes committed by our government.

    This is the people's democracy, we are the people, these are our elected officials. That they did not come to us and ask to act thusly in our names is unfortunate, indeed criminal, but it is also almost irrelevant. They work for us, they tortured people, and so, we have tortured people.
    Bush's own words told to Fox News:
    "And I'm in the Oval Office and I am told that we have captured Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and the professionals believe he has information necessary to secure the country.

    "So I ask what tools are available for us to find information from him, and they give me a list of tools. And I said, are these tools deemed to be legal? And so we got legal opinions before the decision was made."

    "And I think when people study the history of this particular episode they'll find out we gained good information from Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in order to protect our country. We believe that the information we gained helped save lives on American soil."

    "Are these tools deemed to be legal?" That quote sends a chill up my spine. How horrid these "tools" must have been for GWB to actually question their legality?
    Keith is far more elequoent that I could ever be on this subject.
    The entire transcript to the above video Special Comment can be read here for those who are video impaired.