That's what it is, that's what we're doing.  You've heard about them before, the secret CIA rendition jets, the archipelago of secret prison camps around the world so we can torture and even kill undocumented and ill defined prisoners.

Hell, were even using the U.S.S.R.'s old concentration camps.

CIA Holds Terror Suspects in Secret Prisons

The CIA has been hiding and interrogating some of its most important al Qaeda captives at a Soviet-era compound in Eastern Europe, according to U.S. and foreign officials familiar with the arrangement.

I'm sorry, but what the American government is doing is down right . . Un-American.

The Cheney/Rumsfeld cabal simply cannot be allowed to continue this repugnant practice, period.  Even the Mooney Times has had enough.

But an interesting question arises about just what one particular prisoner knew, and when did he know it, and why he was allowed to escape.  Especially now, since he was expected to testify against his interrogators.

I never in a million years thought that the country I grew up to love and respect so much could sink this low.  I only hope that eventually Colin Powell's prediction that the world could watch us and see how a free and democratic people clean up our own mess.  It sure is taking longer than I would like.

If it takes ten years, everyone, and I mean everyone from Bush on down must be made to pay the price or this gift of freedom Washington, Jefferson and Madison handed down to us and for which so many courageous men and women sacrificed their lives will indeed perish from the Earth.

Oh, there'll still be a nation-state called the USA here in the center of North America, but it will be unrecognizable to those of us who remember what America used to stand for:  Fairness, equal opportunity, ruled by laws not men.  A place where the foot of the wealthy and greedy didn't stomp on the necks of ordinary folks trying to make a better life for their families.  A place where we all could own guns, but didn't need guns.

A place where our leaders were accountable and all human beings were treated with dignity and the presumption of innocence applied to everyone, not just the party faithful.  A place that had no place for fascists, even if they do look like the Olsen twins. A place where we didn't steal elections or work so hard to divide so many.