Hunter, over at DailyKos, says it better than I could.

I think it’s time to invent some new swearing, because there isn’t anything currently in the language that fully encompasses the White House’s unapologetic attempts to ensure the Bush administration’s own crafted and approved “interrogation” policies be allowed to continue unhindered. Yes, according to the Bush administration, any attempts by Republican senators to legislate against, say, the sodomizing of detained children are unduly infringing on the president’s fight against terrorists.

Truly, there is no sunken depth to which this White House does not feel comfortable indulging itself in.

Those who get into arguments about whether this president is another Hitler are missing the point. He isn’t recreating past horrors by channeling some dead dictator, he’s designing whole new ones all on his own. In the future the question won’t be “is bush Hitler?” (because he isn’t), it will be whether the evil dictator of the moment is the reincarnation of George W. Bush.

This president will go down in history all right, only not quite how he and his followers envision it and they are taking all the rest of us with them into the pit.

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