THE DOCTOR'S DISCIPLES

Thankfully, the true story of the hideous conspiracy at the highest levels of the Bush administration to legitimize and practice torture and then compound their criminal behavior by throwing five low level soldiers directed to practice that torture in prison as scapegoats, is coming to light.

These folks used terms like "harsh" and "enhanced" as euphemisms for torture, possibly because they realized that writing memos about and then directing low level soldiers to practice TORTURE wouldn't set well with the civilized world.

Just maybe, the revelations cascading out of Congress, the Justice Department and the remaining free press might spur our somnambulant populous, which enabled this criminality to exist, to wake up and demand justice; harsh justice for the perpetrators on top, and mercy for the scapegoats rotting in prison to protect their superiors.

But until then, up in Nazi Heaven, Dr. Joseph Goebbels, Hitler's Reich Minister of Propaganda, is smiling in appreciation that his lessons in devious totalitarian double speak were so aptly learned by the misguided and mendacious leaders who held the reins of power for eight dark years.