"NOT A PEDESTAL, BUT A CAGE"
Oh heavens, what a lot of evil is done while couching it in deceptively favorable terms.
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"Adam ate an apple from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. It's a shame we ran out of apples." -- The Sage.
"The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness." -- John Kenneth Galbraith
"Reality has a liberal bias." -- Stephen Colbert
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Oh heavens, what a lot of evil is done while couching it in deceptively favorable terms.
Good for WaPo. They nail what's wrong with Arlen Specter's weasely bill caving in to Bush claims of unlimited executive power.
Is there anyone in the United States except those inside the Bush administration, their sycophants in the Republican Congress, and their cheerleaders in the wingnut media and their followers (think Limbaugh, Hannity, Levin, Coulter, Ingraham) who believes that torture, rendition, secret prisons and holding "enemy combatants" without legal recourse, and in defiance of the Geneva Convention, are in the best interests of American soldiers, or compatible with the traditional U.S. values and the Constitution that formerly made this nation a beacon of freedom and justice in the world?
Oh. My God. The Middle East is exploding in violence. Hezbollah and Israel are in open warfare along the Lebanese border and coast, exchanging rocket strikes, and armed gunmen dressed in Iraqi police uniforms have kidnapped the head of the Iraq Olympic Committee and about 20 others one day after the Iraqi Olympic wrestling coach was murdered.