The Washington Post reports Alleged Architect Of 9/11 Confesses To Many Attacks. I've seen a bunch of speculation on this. The right says: see how bad he is! The left says: he was tortured for years, he's probably just saying this. I've also seen speculation that the release of this is just the administrations way of changing the news topic from Attorneygate.
I'm surprised that if the right believes what he says, they don't also believe his statement that others at Guantanamo are innocent and should be released.
To me the important point is this. By the nature of what we've done, capturing these people, holding them prisoners for years, without rights, while torturing them; people don't trust any information we get out of them. Post 9/11 the world was on our side. Because of this kind of behavior (and invading countries under false pretenses) the world doesn't believe us when we talk. This is how Bush has so badly damaged this country. It's also why another administration will have an easier time, after a little non-Bush I'm hoping the rest of the world will start trusting us again.
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