Prominent members of the U.S. Senate today expressed outrage over the torture tactics practiced by the CIA during the Bush Administration.  Bush's reaction was caught in a sound bite in which he calls the CIA "interrogators" patriots.  When some of these heroes force fed detainees by "rectal infusion," i.e. blasting solutions of food up their asses, they were being patriotic, I guess.
     Dick Cheney, the Number Two during the years such dietary and other torture methods were being practiced, insists, not surprisingly, that the "enhanced interrogation techniques" worked.  Both Cheney and George W. Bush exist in a prosecution-free realm granted to them by President Barack Obama, who put the kibosh on the possibility of Bush-era war criminals ever facing justice for their crimes. 
     The Orwellian warping of language, as in the term, "enhanced interrogation techniques," can be seen in the previous Bush era term, "enemy combatants."  An enemy combatant, one with no rights, is what used to be called a prisoner of war.  Prisoners of war have long-established legal protections under the Geneva Conventions.  The switching of terms, prisoner of war to enemy combatant, shows how easy it is to legally commit crimes against humanity by simply substituting words.  Therefore, a CIA interrogator who waterboards an "enemy combatant" is a patriot, not an evil sadistic motherfucker.  And senators who, suddenly after more than a decade, find themselves outraged over the internationally illegal practices of a CIA acting on the orders of President Bush and Vice President Cheney, regard themselves as stewards of American morals, not as morally hollow apologists who've chosen for many years to not notice what's been going on in our name.

                                                                                Vic Neptune