Amazingly enough, even the staunchest of supporters of "look Ma, no evil", Andrew Sullivan seems to be having a hard time with the Codpiece and his minions suborning torture in Iraq. Little did our lassie know that the continuance of the torture and rape rooms would be the product of good old 1600 Crew rhetoric...remember that stuff?

George W. Bush's "You're either with us or with the terrorists" mentality and his repeated lie that the occupation of Iraq is an extension of the war with al-Qaeda also foster an atmosphere of distrust and violence.

[Juan] Cole says, "The rhetoric that all those who oppose the U.S. presence in Iraq are 'terrorists' also dehumanizes prisoners of war and implies that they are akin to the Sept. 11 hijackers, when, in fact, many of them are just neighborhood boys who took up a gun to defend their city quarter from what they saw as foreign incursion."

The forces of evil are being dealt a terrible blow on the battle-field.

So he says:

It renders one speechless.