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[Tyrone Slothrop]

Originally posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy
It stopped being about the Bush administration's lies some time ago for me.

The Geneva Convention, the International Court of Justice, and the international law that has been developed around the treatment of prisoners and the use of torture comes out of the most horrific wars the world has ever fought, and the recognition that unless these laws and conventions were in place, war, particularly in the modern age, inevitably leads to horrors beyond the imagination.

By breaching these laws and conventions, apparently flagrantly and intentionally, the Bush administration has cheapened them, and made it significantly less likely that they will be upheld and followed in current and future conflicts, and has exposed our soldiers to additional risks wherever they are. My family has members now serving in the military who are at increased risk because of the break-down of the Geneva Convention.

The actions that the Bush Administration has taken in Iraq constitute "high crimes" to a far greater extent than anything the Clinton administration ever did. Of course, there will be no impeachment and trial because of the partisan balance in the Congress.

It seems clear to me that the President and the Vice President have convinced themselves that the end justifies the means. "Means" meaning things like legal niceties, such as laws against torture and the like. It's hard to respect this philosophy, though, when they're not willing to come and say it, and instead try to conceal and mislead about what they're doing.