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By Eugene Robinson | Friday, February 8, 2008 | The Washington Post

“…This week, George W. Bush reminded us how grievously he has wounded our nation’s ideals, values and standing in the world — and how big a challenge the next president will face in repairing the damage.

On Tuesday, authorized by the White House, CIA Director Michael Hayden gave Congress the fullest account so far of the CIA’s use of waterboarding, which the administration calls an ‘interrogation technique’ but which international agreements — and plain English — call torture.

Think about that. Did you ever imagine that we would have a president who uses legalistic euphemisms and craven rationalizations to justify strapping prisoners down and subjecting them to simulated drowning? A president who claims the right to use waterboarding, and God knows what other ‘techniques,’ in the future if he wants? This is a moral outrage, people….”…BS

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/07/AR2008020703691_pf.html