"I Am Going to Be Face-to-Face with Jesus Now"

By Zamboni

So in the wake of the release of the Bush Administration torture memos, the Senate Armed Services Committee has issued a report that the Bushies started racing toward torture as an interrogation method as early as 2001 — well before they said they did.

Are we cats surprised that Bush officials would lie, and say they only turned to waterboarding, sleep deprivations, confinement and "walling" later, and as a last resort? Nah.

But we still find it chilling, for a lot of reasons. One of them is Karla Faye Tucker.

What, you say? Uncovering the secret abuses of Bush II — a process which, by the way, has only just begun — make us think of a woman executed for murder in Texas in 1998?

Sure. Because even though the Governor at the time — one George W. Bush — had received appeals to spare the life of Tucker, a model prisoner and born-again Christian, he openly mocked her in an interview with Talk magazine. "'Please,' Bush whimpers, his lips pursed in mock desperation, 'don't kill me,' " the magazine reported. This prompted even right wingers like Gary Bauer to say, "I think it is nothing short of unbelievable that the Governor of a major state... thought it was acceptable to mock a woman he... put to death."

Bush is clearly a psychopath — someone totally without empathy. So that's why we're not surprised that his Administration behaved the way it did.

And don't even get us started on his alleged Christianity.