Wil's Rant

The bad news just doesn't seem to be ending anytime soon. First, the latest "position" on torture. Again, it would be humorous if it didn't involve the topic of torture. Rice now says that the international rules do apply to Americans working out of the country after all. So what we're saying is that you don't support the use of special means to get information. Perhaps she really needs to sit down with her boss and decide on which policy they are 1) going to follow, and 2) going to tell the rest of us they are following. These days it appears that the policy is determined by who they are speaking too and what day of the week it is. Ahhh credibility, a dying art in the U.S.

This article goes into the whole concept of how the U.S. could have come to this state in the first place and how Bush managed to get around all the safeguards and laws that would have prevented it. A very interesting piece if not for the scariness of it all.

The natural result of it all is the calling for the arrest and prosecution of Bush and Blair for war crimes. The latest to make the call is the recent winner of the Nobel Prize for literature. I doubt that it will happen anytime soon, but there's always hope.