This weekend, Bush vetoed a bill that would have restricted the CIA to the same interrogation techniques allowed in the Army Field Manual. In other words, banning torture, including techniques such as waterboarding in which water is forced down your throat as if you were drowning (the phrase “simulated drowning” makes it sound much too harmless for my taste).

When the horrible mess that is the Bush presidency is dissected by future historians, I’m sure the Iraq War will be the mistake by which he goes down in history. But history shouldn’t forget that the president of a country that once aspired to be a shining city on a hill has fought to mainstream and legalize torture. Even without the Iraq war, Bush deserves infamy for that.

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