Were you afraid enough to take on the patriotic burden of torturing someone?

[Luminous Animal]

[Zorra]

1. Why do you keep forcing me to waste my beautiful mind on these awful, harsh,

stark realities?

[Luminous Animal]

2. Hugs to you too, Zorra.

I'd been stewing over what Obama said for the last few days and it hit me.

Torturers are patriots. Thus the Bush and Cheney regime are the patriotic regime. Just what the right wing and their crazies have been telling us all along.

And Obama confirmed.

[woo me with science]

3. Thank you.

[Rex]

4. There you go again, being all sanctimonious!

Everyone was afraid and begging the government to take over our lives and invade every aspect of our privacy!

[hobbit709]

5. As the Stanford Experiment showed, there are plenty of people that will do it

[sabrina 1]

6. I was horrified by 9/11 and had friends who worked and lived in NYC

that day. I couldn't reach them by phone so didn't know for a few days if everyone was alright.

After absorbing what had happened, my next biggest fear was that the Cheney/Bush gang would USE it to start a war somewhere.

I remember a beautiful woman, a writer I believe, she was from the ME, speaking about the awful tragedy of losing so many innocent people, and then she pleaded for a response that would not cause more heartbreak for more innocent people. I can't remember her name and never saw her again.

As time passed, I realized I was not a patriot, because Bush supporters told me so, I suddenly became a terrorist loving traitor who thought that giving Saddam a hug would solve all the problems in the world'. I remember asking 'what did Saddam have to do with 9/11'? But the patriotic fervor that was gripping the country made THAT question 'treason'.

So no, I wasn't even patriotic enough to support lying about who was responsible, never mind torture.