War Crimes

We really just have a government of war criminals. There's just no other way to characterize it.

Basically our official position is that it's not torture if we can't think of anything else to do. This is just nuts, it's standard rhetoric to rationialize criminal behavior that you can hear from inmates in pretty much any prison in the world. "It's not my fault, I wouldn't have had to kill him if he'd have just given me the money like I told him to".