I'm so confused. I mean, we've all seen the torture pictures. There's even worse ones the government is sitting on because releasing them would be a threat to our national security. (I guess that means they would make great Al Qaeda terrorist recruitment posters.)
We know Dick Cheney's haunting the hallways of the Republican senate lobbying them to vote against the Mc Cain anti-torture bill. We know our Big Dick's been a strong advocate of torture in the past, that is, our blossoming love of torture on a global scale didn't just spring from one night's boredom of PFC Lynndie England in a Abu Graib cell block as they'd have us believe.
But today we catch glimpses of Bush in Panama with shirt sleeves rolled up ala post-Katrina "Brownie, you're doing a helluva job" form. And then we hear him reaffirming to all of us through his declaration to the Panamanians, "We do not torture."
Well, I guess Bush will have to resort to using the Clinton defense about lying. Sex between Clinton and Monica all boiled down to the definition of the word "is" according to his testimony. It led people like Timothy Noah to write in Slate at the time, "Bill Clinton really is a guy who's willing to think carefully about 'what the meaning of the word is is.' This is way beyond slick. Perhaps we should start calling him, 'Existential Willie.'"
Yeh, well, if "is" can impeach a president, why can't "we"?
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