Last night during his presentation to the American Public Bush made a statement to the effect that The United States did not torture and he was asking congress to come back with a legal definition of torture because it was unclear to him what torture was.  And it doesn’t want to make any mistakes so congress is now tasked with defining torture.

Interesting that he would not understand that waterboarding is torture. I wonder how he raised his kids?

I think it’s telling that it was the Army that banned torture, not the Bush administration.

Think about that for a moment.

The Army realizes what’s at stake, if Bush gets impeached. Because “just following orders”, has been ruled out as a justification for violating the Geneva convention, at the trials of Nazi war criminals in Nuremburg.

It should indicate something to Herr Bush, that the Army is not going to take the fall for him. Maybe just maybe there’s a little bit of revolution brewing in the leadership at the Pentagon, tired of seeing their soldiers wasted by a madman.

I dont believe this for a second. Its just another PR campaign.

Any nation which presents itself to the world as “the greatest” and “the Land of the Free”, etc. etc., which could even CONTEMPLATE using the inhuman tactics the USA has been proven to be using, is below contempt. You can’t rationalize, justify or legitimize using brutality, torture and terror and still expect anyone to view you as civilized.

Such actions demonstrate that the USA’s published and hyped philosophical and moral standards are a hypocritical fraud.

But, it seems, just as long as you’ve got more and bigger guns than anyone else, you don’t need principles and fairness.

Note that the USA will NOT be “top dog” forever (“the end” may come sooner than you dream courtesy of China and India) and “what goes around, comes around.” Whether an individual or a nation, a bully is a bully. Sooner or later you’ll get what you give.