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In the case of the Bush administration, it is the documents themselves that seem to want to confess, that are bursting with the desire to talk, to tell the story of these last years of illegality. Americans, and the Congress they have just elected, should take heed.
"Confess"? No. They're boasting about what they've done. These people honestly believe that the American people will love and reward them for committing torture, particularly if they're mostly torturing foreigners.
And given what I've heard from a lot of average American voters, I have a terrible fear that Bush et alia really understand the public mood correctly; that as a people we are not only willing to accept torture and the loss of all our civil and human rights, but that we'd be actually glad to lose them, if a smooth-talker convinced us that the primary victims would be people that look, sound, or believe differently from ourselves.
Can it be that the Republicans lost the recent elections not because they violated every human right and standard of decency imaginable, but simply because they mismanaged the economy and the Iraq war?
