The Bush administration are criminal. There's just no other way to put it. At least, no other honest way. As we learn more about what's happened in our name, we find that we don't recognize the nation we grew up in. We find that we're responsible for torture and kidnapping, for crimes against humanity. We find that we've been led down a dark and evil road by some very nasty characters. I don't use the word evil lightly -- in fact, I try to avoid using it because I'm not always sure what it means. In this case, however, there's no question. The Bush administration and their apologists in Congress and the media are evil.I suppose we often equate evil with genius. I'm not really sure why that is. But the evil character in fiction is seldom a moron. Evil, after all, requires calculation. But it also requires brutality and brutality doesn't require brains. One thing I've learned from the Bush administration is that you can be evil and stupid as all hell at the same time.
And, just as the administration has been defined by calculating evil, they've also been defined by their stupidity. "Seldom in my life have I met a dumber man," said Colin Powell's chief of staff of Undersecretary of Defense Donald Feith -- a key architect of the Iraq war. It turns out that evil doesn't require a lot of skill...
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