Pensieri di un lunatico minore

Bush, war criminal

George Bush’s legacy is varied in its wide-ranging incompetence and mendacious servility to power, but I don’t think anything can top his insistence, against all logic, morality, ethics or sanity, that it’s absolutely appropriate to torture people. While he might style himself Tomás de Torquemada, that would imply he’s ever heard of the late Inquisitor General whose name is still synonymous for cruel and inhuman torture mixed with sociopathic fanaticism. Definitely George Bush’s hero.

If Congress and the President are so unclear as to whether waterboarding is torture—even though the Geneva conventions are quite clear, and its origin is inextricably rooted in the brutal reign of terror of the Spanish Inquisition—perhaps they might subject members who are unclear on the concept to a brief experience of their own and see whether they still have such surety in their moral superiority?

This “War on Terror”, more accurately termed the “war on something to distract the public from the wholesale looting of the treasury” is yet another chapter in our Inquisition. Devoid of morality, fueled by inhuman cruelty and a sociopathic desire to kill, it will come to be known either as our darkest hour, before the light, or simply the final collapse of a once great Nation. Which we are remembered as will come down to whether the next President has the strength to not only repudiate the gruesome and power hungry path that this one has charted, but to bring Justice to bare on those who have so soiled our Nation in the name of “security”.