Histories actors

Create their own reality.

Apparently this administration feels that the moral or ethical difference is that ordinary laws and principles do not apply to them.

RICHARD BUTLER: Well, I've talked to senior members of the Bush Administration and if the viewing public are asking "Well, why are they behaving this way?" Well, one can say they're just plainly selfish or this is the consequence of September 11 and so on. Not really. It's this---this administration has a view of the special character of the United States, the singular and exclusive character that is new. I've talked to them about it and they make this plain. They say "We are the sole super power, we're therefore the exceptional country, we're outside of international law. Others have to obey the law and obey the rules, but we don't." I mean, I'm not making that up. If they were sitting here tonight, Mark, the people I've talked with would readily agree. They'd say "Yeah, that's right, that's who we are. We are the exceptional country and we don't have to obey the law because we're different." Now, that's where this is proceeding from. And I ask you to recognise what happens when the most powerful country, the same as the most powerful people within a domestic society, consider themselves to be above the law. What happens? Citizens, or countries, decide that the law itself is no good and that's what will happen in the nuclear area.

http://www.counterpunch.org/davis05172003.html

Posted by: Windhorse on November 20

Talk about reversals, hows this one coming from Rummy today?:

"The history of the United States military is clear. Torture doesn't work," Rumsfeld said. "The military knows that. We want our people treated humanely."

I feel like I've been transported from the bizzarro-world I've been living on for the past 5 years, into a completely new, even more bizzaro world.
Posted by: osama_been_forgotten