Charles C. Krulak and Joseph P. Hoar - It's Our Cage, Too

This coming from two former U.S. military commanders, plus a number of other revelations in the past couple of weeks leads us to believe that the military is sending the Bushites a very clear message.

We are mad as hell and we aren't going to take it anymore!

Better listen up, Junior!

Charles C. Krulak and Joseph P. Hoar - It's Our Cage, Too - washingtonpost.com:

Fear can be a strong motivator. It led Franklin Roosevelt to intern tens of thousands of innocent U.S. citizens during World War II; it led to Joseph McCarthy's witch hunt, which ruined the lives of hundreds of Americans. And it led the United States to adopt a policy at the highest levels that condoned and even authorized torture of prisoners in our custody.

Fear is the justification offered for this policy by former CIA director George Tenet as he promotes his new book. Tenet oversaw the secret CIA interrogation program in which torture techniques euphemistically called 'waterboarding,' 'sensory deprivation,' 'sleep deprivation' and 'stress positions' -- conduct we used to call war crimes -- were used. In defending these abuses, Tenet revealed: 'Everybody forgets one central context of what we lived through: the palpable fear that we felt on the basis of the fact that there was so much we did not know.'