“I know about interrogation,” he said, alluding to his days as a British spy in the 1950s. “I’ve done interrogations, and I can tell you this: By extracting information under torture, you make a fool of yourself. You obtain information that isn’t true. You receive names of people who are supposedly guilty and aren’t. You land yourself with a wild goose chase, and you miss what is being handed to you on a plate, and that is the possibility of bonding with someone and engaging with them and talking to them reasonably.”We have done more than make fools of ourselves as a nation.
As the former head of M.I. 6 told le Carre: "You can’t imagine how disgusting our world has become." And that was before 9/11, before the Bush Administration, aided and abetted by Prime Minister Blair, began our national descent into the cesspit. We have shown, by our actions as a nation, that all of our fine words about "liberty" and "justice" and "freedom" are only platitudes to be inserted into speeches by politicians.
The blood is on all of our hands. Neither history nor the rest of the world will care that only one-fifth of all Americans voted for George Bush. His crimes and the crimes done on his orders shame us all.
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