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Tristero gets it, readers:

Bush claims that if we don’t give him the right to make people scream out in sheer agony at what American officials physically inflict on them, he will not be able to keep you and me safe. George W. Bush is completely full of shit. I am prepared to accept whatever risk that goes along with living in a country that doesn’t ever torture its enemies. Because I know that there is no such risk, that in fact torturing people places a country at greater risk, morally and existentially, than not. Whatever the reasons he has for torturing people, he is not doing it for the good of ordinary Americans and I reject his insinuation that either my fellow Americans or myself are somehow the reason he feels he must indulge in such perversions.

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Bush will go down in history as the torture president. I hate that this country ever had a president who made the torture of human beings official government policy.

It’s not hard to understand, and it’s not hard to see right from wrong: The United States of America does not need to torture people. Ever. Period. Tristero gets it.