"We do not torture."

TORTURE(D) REASONING by Mike Gauldin Arkansas Times 12/15/2005
"King Henry VIII . . . did not think it at all inhumane to have a counterfeiter boiled alive or to cut off the extremities, including the heads, of sundry enemies in prison without a fair trial. Some of Henry’s enemies, after all, were of a new and particularly thoughtless kind — religious zealots." "What the king lacked . . . but what George W. Bush has had were gifted speechwriters . . . When he was pressed during his Latin American tour about all the stories of soldiers and government agents torturing detainees in secret prisons, already confirmed by governmentsfrom Scandinavia to the Mediterranean, President Bush declared, 'We do not torture.'”
Ernest Dumas
Torturers at the top, Arkansas Times 12/15/2005

Remember it, write it in red crayon on the bathroom wall, tattoo it onto your acid tongue because those very words rang throughout the land like a bleak bell, like a low scream in the night, like a cheese grater rubbing against the teeth of common sense when Dubya mumbled them during a speech not long ago, and it was, at once, hilarious and nauseating and it took all the self-control in the world for everyone in the room not to burst out in disgusted laughter and throw their chairs at his duplicitous little head.
By Mark Morford, SF Gate Columnist
Friday, December 16, 2005