Speaking of the Bush family, you probably need to take the fifteen minutes minutes to watch Jon Oliver's take on torture. And hey, it also features Helen Mirren.

(Yes I know fifteen minutes is a long time in internet terms, but trust me it is worth your time.)

Here is more courtesy of Raw Story:  

With a CBS poll showing the 69 percent of Americans believing that waterboarding is torture and 57 percent believing “aggressive” interrogation techniques help stop terrorist attacks, Oliver set out to point out that not only doesn’t torture work — it may make a comeback since it is only restricted by executive order, which can be tossed out by the next president. 

With the help of British actress Helen Mirren, Oliver compared the reality of torture to the version most American’s believe from television shows like “24.” 

With Mirren reading from the report about “rectal rehydration” — in the case of one detainee who was force fed a meal of hummus, pasta, nuts, and raisins pureed and introduced rectally — an aghast Oliver challenged his viewers to “try not to think about that the next time you eat hummus.”

Oliver's point that the only thing that is keeping us from torturing people right now is an executive order, that the next President can repeal on a whim, is yet ANOTHER reason to make damn sure that our next Commander-in-Chief is not a Republicans. And certainly NOT another Bush!

P.S. To end this post let me just trot out one of my own personal conspiracy theories, which is that the program "24" (Which is cited several times in this video.) was purposefully broadcast into our homes to help Americans become comfortable with the idea of torture. After all we saw it saving American lives every week on our television sets.

I don't actually have any proof of that, but it's one of those things that just seems a little too coincidental to actually be a coincidence.

And just to screw with you further the creator, Joel Surnow, is a Republican who is good friends with Rush Limbaugh. He filmed the pilot for the show in March of 2001, and aired the first episode on November 6th less than two months after the attacks on 9-11.

Surnow now owns the actual American flag that was flown over Baghdad during the 2003 invasion. 

Not saying you should read too much into this, just saying these facts exist.