BUSH KEEPS REDEFINING TORTURE

Remember when Clinton famously said: "It depends on what you mean by definition"?

Well now, here we are--six years into this embarrassing excuse for a Presidency--and Bush has constantly had to "redefine" himself and what definitions mean for certain things.

Things like:

The Constitution

Federal law

Oath of Office

Illegal spying

Indefinite detention

Human rights

Executive power

Habeus corpus

and of course--my all time favorite?

Torture.

Here we have water-boarding, exposure to extreme temperatures, and slapping people till they are blue in the face.

Each and every one of these methods are construed as methods of torture--but Bush keeps redefining them as "legal and lawful methods of interrogation". (Severe as they may be.)

So it makes me wonder:

What will a rogue nation like Iran or Syria use if they capture some of our soldiers out in the battlefield tomorrow?

Will they call it "legal and lawful"--as Bush has done many times over?

I mean--after all--if we can torture our enemies in secret, surely other nations can do the same in return.

After all: Fair is fair--in time of love and war.

Right?

Schuyler Thorpe

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