A New Entry in the Lexicon of the Bush Years

It’s early in the morning, I’m on my first cup of coffee, and it may be those things that are bringing me down too, but one statement yesterday is among the most disturbing ever uttered by any figure in a Congressional Hearing.

Yesterday, before the Senate Terrorism, Technology and Homeland Security subcommittee hearing on the legal rights of Guantánamo detainees Air Force Brig. Gen. Thomas Hartmann, the legal adviser to the military tribunal system stated that he would not rule out the possibility of "Waterboarding" being used on detainees nor would he exclude the use of such evidence during their trials:

”If the evidence is reliable and probative and the judge concluded it is in the interest of justice to use that evidence"

Rarely has one sentence been both so ironic and so disgusting.

In other testimony, Hartmann could not say that an American soldier waterboarded by an enemy nation is being tortured.

The nation continues to abandon its ideals with barely a peep — while having Lee Greenwood songs thrust upon us.

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