Look at what the tyrannical Bush and his Repuglican thugs have done to our country.  Tom Engelhardt has written an excellent post, "How Bush Took Us To The Dark Side," a frightening tale that shows why the United States, in just seven years under Bush the Torturer and his puppeteer, Dick Darth Sidious, is so intensely despised throughout the world.

Here is what the US has become during the proto-fascist, anti-constitution, anti-human rights Bush regime as described by Engelhardt: "This is what "homeland security" means in the United States today. It means putting your country in full lockdown mode. It means the snarl at the border, the nasty comment in the waiting room, the dirty cell, the handcuffs, even the chains. It means being humiliated. It means a thorough lack of modulation or moderation. Arriving here now always threatens to be a "tempest-tost" experience whether you are a citizen, a semi-official visitor, or a foreign tourist. (After all, even Sen. Ted Kennedy found himself repeatedly on a no-fly list without adequate explanation.)...... a country in which the presumption of innocence is slowly being drained of all meaning."

Bush and his Repuglican cohorts have made kidnapping and torture national policies, perpetrated upon people as Engelhardt explains "like  Mohamed Farag Ahmad Bashmilah, a Yemeni.....After 19 months of imprisonment and torment at the hands of the CIA, the agency released him [in Yemen] with no explanation, just as he had been imprisoned in the first place. He faced no terrorism charges. He was given no lawyer. He saw no judge. He was simply released, his life shattered.....No charges, no lawyers, no judge. This is increasingly the norm of -- and a legacy of -- George Bush's world."

When Bush opens his mouth, that is, when he can talk without stumbling in his supposedly native language, English, the odds are good that he will lie--such as claiming that "This government does not torture people." 

Number one on Dahlia Lithwick's list, "Legal Fictions" about the Bush administration's ten dumbest legal arguments (I might add, lies) is:

Human rights, let alone human dignity mean nothing to George "Dubya" Bush or his fellow Bushite annihilators of the Constitution and champions of torture, which apparently include all the Republican presidential candidates.

And impeachment is still off the table.