Laying It On Thick By: Mark W Adams

Saturday: 2 US Soldiers, 29 Iraqis Killed; 41 Iraqis Wounded
Juan Cole reports one of the Americans killed was female
and observes the minimal British casualties in Basra:
"It turns out, if you don't have troops in a place,
attacks on them fall dramatically."

Larry Johnson doesn't mince words:

"I had always assumed that Jews who survived the Holocaust or the relatives of those who were murdered under the Nazi plan would understand the importance of standing against tyrants and torturers. And for the most part that has been true. But now we are confronted with the spectacle of two prominent Jewish American legislators who are enabling a President who has authorized torture. They have no shame."

(H.T.: Avedon)

Yep, I think that's what was bothering me. Add Lieberman and even Russ Feingold to the list. Lieberman because he sold his soul a couple of years ago. Russ, because he even has to think about this issue.

Unadulterated inhumanity is what once separated us from anything approaching Nazi Germany. When you don't take a stand against something as basic as torture, you lose your humanity.

Leave it to Digby to reach into my brain and send my thought into the intertoobz with so much more alacrity than I could hope to muster.

I think the debate is over, folks. Every time they normalize state sanctioned sadism, from tasering to waterboarding, we are one step closer to fully accepting a police state. That's how they do it. It never happens over night. It happens one taboo at a time.

We are a torture culture, immoral, vulgar and profane. We actually think it's fun. If college boys and reporters can laugh about it, how bad can it be? Thanks Dick and George.

Don't Torture Me, Bro........