Impeach Bush for torture and foul lies.

[tevarin]

From the President's official Press Release:

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/10/print/20071017.html

"Q Thank you, sir. A simple question

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[tevarin]

The reporter is asking specifically and repeatedly for Bush's personal definition. He's not required to match the law word-for-word.

Given all the controversy lately, is it too much to expect Bush to have at least skimmed and understood the laws in question?

Here's my off the cuff definition:

Torture: deliberately causing severe physical or mental pain in order to extract information from an uncooperative person.

Proof: The pictures from Abu Ghraib. The "torture memo" from the Presiden't Office of Legal Counsel
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38894-2004Jun13.html
The testimony of wrongly-accused Canadian citizen Maher Arar.

We are breaking our laws. Specifically the 8th amendment, which forbids "cruel and unusual punishment" including torture.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eighth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution

Plus our commitment to the treaty on the Geneva Conventions forbidding torture of prisoners of war. And probably other laws as well.