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Thursday, November 4, 2010

The Rise of the Indecent Right

The Right would have you believe the Left is "Godless".

But, frankly, apart from their pious pretenses, the Right are happy to do whatever.

In a memoir due out Tuesday, Bush makes clear that he personally approved the use of that coercive technique against alleged Sept. 11 plotter Khalid Sheik Mohammed, an admission the human rights experts say could one day have legal consequences for him.
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Bush writes that his reply was "Damn right" ...

-WaPo


Torture is way out of bounds.

The "vengeance" implied in "damn right" and the treatment given to the disturbed travel agent? Same.

Separately, the religious Left still not energized, perhaps, as yet another rightwing "let us question your faith" goes by. I hope Chait keeps watching and watching, until the light goes on one day, there (about the threat of this one-sided "toleration").