Things really are as bad as I thought, aren’t they? Bush has sailed up, above and beyond the law, and the military is rotting from the head down, like bad fish. Americans are not supposed to kidnap women and blackmail their husbands into surrendering. We don’t do that kind of thing, right? We’re the good guys! Do I sound like a whineyass weirdo liberal? Maybe, but the paranoia is catching. It’s spread all the way to Andrew Sullivan’s blog at Time.com.

“Sure, it’s against the Geneva Conventions. Sure, those Conventions are supposed to apply in Iraq. But this is the Bush administration. King George doesn’t have to obey the law; and his military can do anything they want.”