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It is becoming quite clear that the torture regime is connected to the wish to pump up the desire to invade Iraq which is connected to the desire to placate the oil industry which is connected to... oh, never mind.
To suggest that the Bush/Cheney administration is less than the worst, worse than Buchanan, far worse than Nixon -- is both appallingly ignorant and viciously revanchist.We tortured people under the rule of these criminals, who drove the economy into a ditch.
Stop this shit, Salon. It isn't evenhanded to have such an apologist, it is supporting fascism.