I really can’t help but agreeing with this. If we see this country as setting the (moral?) standard for the world, we must expect imitation of our actions, good or bad.

The bodies of the two captured U.S. soldiers were found in Iraq - bearing signs of “barbaric torture.”

How quaint.

I hope Alberto Gonzales and John Yoo will sleep well tonight, with visions of those boys’ bodies and the horrible barbarities inflicted upon them dancing in their heads. Perhaps Gonzales, and Yoo, and Rumsfeld and Bush will be able to envision the same inhumanities being visited upon their family members and loved ones as they drift off to peaceful slumber.

This cannot stand. We cannot allow this administration and its incomprehensible defense of and support for torture in violation of the “quaint” Geneva Conventions to remain.

The chickens have come home to roost. As ye sow, so shall ye reap.

- From Daily Kos.

For a moment yesterday, a horrific thought went through my head. Several of my former classmates (and younger) are serving (or have served) in Iraq — suppose I had taken that route after graduation, as so many did? I was, at the time, sitting, comfortably reclining on a couch, reading a book. My mind flashed gory, bloody images, blinding, suffocating heat, insecure and sleepless nights, fear… How must it feel to be in a WAR? Those of us observing from outside probably can’t begin to understand what it’s like.

And then, what if I was an Iraqi?