"Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God." -Thomas Jefferson
Waterboarding, according to Human Rights Watch, dates back to at least the Spanish Inquisition, and has been used some of the world's cruelest dictatorships, including the Chadian regime of Hissène Habré, the genocidal Khmer Rouge in Cambodia and the imperial Japanese during World War II.
Hissène Habré is facing charges for war crimes, something the Bush administration applauded.
The US government sought war crimes trials for senior Khmer Rouge members.
US military commissions prosecuted several Japanese soldiers for war crimes for waterboarding American troops during World War II.
In fact, these Japanese soldiers were EXECUTED by US officials after their conviction for waterboarding.
US soldiers were court martialed for waterboarding prisoners during the Vietnam War and during the guerilla war in the Philippines in the early 20th century.
This means that waterboarding has been considered a war crime not only by international standards, but by US standards as well.
Now, President Bush decides to overtly support the use of waterboarding torture.
Bush officially supports a form of torture used by Spanish Inquisitioners, Axis of Evil North Korea and Pol Pot's minions. He supports a form of torture that the most evil regimes of our time have used.
It can be unambiguously stated that the supposed beacon of civilization has a president who is officially on record as supporting actions that several generations of Americans have considered torture.
We have a president who is officially on record as supporting war crimes.
Maybe the Vermont towns of Brattleboro and Marlboro have it right.
Just click your heels and intone, "They hate us because we're free."
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