Pretending That Bush is Not a Tyrant

By Robert Parry, Consortium News
Posted on June 30, 2008, Printed on June 30, 2008
http://www.alternet.org/story/89834/

All over the world down through history, political leaders who have engaged in torture and other grotesque crimes of state have justified their actions as necessary to protect their governments or their people or themselves.

It was true when England’s King Edward I had William Wallace – “Braveheart” – drawn and quartered in 1305 for resisting the crown’s rule in Scotland, and a gruesome death was what King George III foresaw for America’s Founding Fathers in 1776 when they stood up to his abuses in the Colonies.