Thursday, October 04, 2007

The Full Monty

The Bush Administration as war criminals.

At this point, I no longer care about backlash from people who complain that I cite the NY Times in an Administration-bashing article. The truth hurts, no matter where it is from.

Andrew Sullivan came around on this some time ago (though his note about supporting the wartime president in 2000 has a Michael Moore-type timeline to it), but his quote from hilzoy is great, and bears repeating:

The techniques in question are repugnant. But in many ways, the administration's disregard for the law is worse. When your policies violate treaties you have signed and laws that are on the books, you are not supposed to come up with some clever way of explaining that appearances to the contrary, what you're doing is not illegal at all. You're supposed to stop doing it.

Amazing how this Administration made me a radical. Just for trying to stand up to what American should stand up for.

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