Bush Speak

Lawrence Eagleberger just said, "We're going into paroxysms of guilt over this and that's not who we are." Oh good, so we don't have to feel guilt for what even Eagleberger calls horrendous acts (the Iraqi abuse).

However, as much as I hate to say this again, we all share some blame for this. After 9/11, we allowed the word "torture" to come into the public debate over how we could treat anyone we thought might have some issue against us. And large numbers - in some polls, a good majority - of Americans said it was all right. Hell, Alan Dershowitz, the lawyer too often identified as a serious leftist - said torture was acceptable if it got us the information we wanted.