Last Call

Nearly two-thirds of Americans want some kind of investigation into Bush's torture regime. After all, we killed people doing this.

The American Civil Liberties Union has released previously classified excerpts of a government report on harsh interrogation techniques used in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay. These previously unreported pages detail repeated use of "abusive" behavior, even to the point of prisoner deaths.

The documents, obtained by the ACLU under a Freedom of Information Act request, contain a report by Vice Admiral Albert T. Church, who was tapped to conduct a comprehensive review of Defense Department interrogation operations. Church specifically calls out interrogations at Bagram Air base in Afghanistan as "clearly abusive, and clearly not in keeping with any approved interrogation policy or guidance."

The two unredacted pages from the Church report may be found here.

The ACLU's release comes on the same day as a major FOIA document dump by three other leading human rights groups: Documents which reveal the Pentagon ran secret prisons in Bagram and Iraq, that it cooperated with the CIA's "ghost detention" program and that Defense personnel delayed a prisoner's release to avoid bad press.

Understand that? People died. We tortured them to death. Bush is a war criminal.

But Obama wants to be magnanimous. He wants to be Lincolnesque, forgiving the Confederate Army after Lee's surrender. He wants to forge a lasting, bipartisan legacy. He wants votes from the GOP.

How long will it take Obama to realize they want to destroy him?

Ask Lincoln.