EGAD

"Conservative Idiot" is Redundant

A few examples:

Quoth Bush:

"The first lesson is, is that oceans can no longer protect us. You know, when I was coming up in the '50s in Midland, Texas, it seemed like we were pretty safe. In the '60s it seemed like we were safe."

To which the internet responds, bwah? For instance:

I also enjoyed this Prospect article today illustrating the tendency of conservatives to take their foreign policy cues from science fiction. Seems they mistook Battlestar Galactica for a documentary.

A more recent Bush gem:

This stuff about "stay the course" -- stay the course means, we're going to win. Stay the course does not mean that we're not going to constantly change.

So we've been exporting torture for a while now, and increasingly outsourcing it, too. This should have been obvious: now we're inspiring cheap foreign knock-offs:

UNITED NATIONS, Oct. 23 -- Several governments around the world have tried to rebut criticism of how they handle detainees by claiming they are only following the U.S. example in fighting terrorism, the U.N. special rapporteur on torture said Monday.

Manfred Nowak said that when he criticizes governments for their questionable treatment of detainees, they respond by telling him that if the United States does something, it must be all right. He would not name any countries except Jordan.