basis of their orders to invade and occupy Iraq.

Children of detainees being raped and sodomized as a means of obtaining confessions. In testimony before Congress five years ago no less a war
criminal than the murderous former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said the unrevealed photos and videos contain acts "that can only be described
as blatantly sadistic, cruel and inhuman."

Two months ago, Hersh, speaking at the University of Minnesota, said the following in trying to reveal yet more of the incredible depravity and
lawlessness of Dick Cheney:

"After 9/11, I haven't written about this yet, but the Central Intelligence Agency was very deeply involved in domestic activities against people
they thought to be enemies of the state. Without any legal authority for it. They haven't been called on it yet. That does happen.a stop to it because there were so many collateral
deaths. "Under President Bush's authority, they've been going into countries, not talking to the ambassador or the CIA station chief, and finding
people on a list and executing them and leaving. That's been going on, in the name of all of us."

[Note: The former head of JSOC -- Lt. General Stanley McChrystal was named this week to replace Gen. David McKiernan as U.S Commander and Commander of
NATO forces in Afghanistan.]

Torture conducted by the CIA. The rape and sodomizing of children. Sending detainees to countries whose methods of torture are medieval in their scope
and techniques. Assassination squads that answered only to Dick Cheney. This was your country. This was your country in the grip of a madman. This is
your country trying