The Bush Legacy

The US govertnment cannot get the benefit of the doubt with interrogation any more:

I was reading your post on Murat Kurnaz and I can't help but think that the biggest tragedy in all of this is that we can't feel certain about who is right.  It is fair to say that if we went about detaining numerous terrorist suspects and treated them as honored guests we'd have to deal with some allegation of torture regardless.  But with a track record of fair and just treatment, we could readily prove that these were lies to tarnish our image.  Unfortunately, our image has been tarnished through our own actions and thus, any allegation, no matter how outlandish, becomes believable.

We can only hope that after Bush is removed from power that the world will believe that these actions were an aberration launched by one failed presidency and that we are a better nation going forward.  If they do not, I cannot fathom the cost to our nation's image.