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"We do not torture."

That's what Bush said recently, at the same time Dick Cheney is seeking a torture exemption for the CIA. This statement was so brazenly false, it struck me as transcendent. It wasn't just an ordinary lie; it was an exercise in absurdity. It was as though he stood up there and told the world, "I am a potato." The first thing that popped into my mind was Nixon's famous "I am not a crook" line, which I'm glad I managed to work into the strip. I can only hope this one goes down in history too, as one of the great whoppers of our times.

Another laughable bit of BS came just a couple days later, when Alito "reassured" senators that he (*snicker!*) "respected" the precedent of Roe. This is the same Alito who, we learned today, said the Constitution does not protect a right to an abortion. The case could not be more clear-cut. It's time to stop our high-fiving over Bush's growing unpopularity and get to work educating people about this dangerous, out-of-the-mainstream judge.

"We do not torture" (Click to enlarge)