Utter, complete, absolute bullshit.
First off, Mr. Hayden, do not pretend to speak for anyone but yourself and the lying, bullshit regime you represent. You did not speak for us. You did not act on our will. You and your colleagues were part of the apparatus that made the torture of human beings at OUR HANDS a program within our government, without our knowledge. How, Mr. Hayden, fucking HOW could the Bush Admin be doing the American people's will when we didn't know what was going on, arguably, till about 2005 with Abu Ghraib? How the fuck could we have possibly approved of torture when we did not even know about it.
Secondly, is it not the responsibility of a functioning government not only to represent the will of the people, but also prevent the darkest and most vile of our own urges from becoming codified into US policy, regulation and law? Is it not your duty, as the adults in the fucking room, as our elected representatives, to prevent the most evil desires of some of us from rising to become actual policy of the United States. I mean, I know the US has shirked this responsibility before and elected officials often use the "will of the people" as cover to act in horribly monstrous ways. But don't fucking turn around years later and pretend like you were doing us a favor by building this sociopathic torture program. Fact of the matter is it was the Administration's (of which, Mr. Hayden, you were a part) responsibility to uphold the ideals on which this nation was built. Not only did you not uphold those ideals, you did your best to set them on fire and piss them out.
I hate the fact that all day today and yesterday the media has been covering this program in terms of effectiveness. I mean, yes, not getting any reliable information is an important part of the complete and total failure of this program at every level. But -- Even if the program produced 100% truthful information, IT WOULD STILL BE WRONG. It would still be anti-american, it would still go against the core of who we are. It would still be representatives who, IN OUR NAME, inflict harm for information, like inquisitors in the Spanish Inquisition. In our name, they traded our humanity, our reputation around the world, and our sacred ideals...for what?
Well, as the Torture Report points out today, for absolutely fucking nothing. YOU were a part of that Micheal Hayden. To turn around and place the blame on US, on the AMERICAN PEOPLE, is a slap in the face. Its insult to an injury you inflicted.
I hope one day I see you, and Bush II, and Cheney, and Rumsfeld, and Yoo and all the other war criminals behind fucking bars. Seriously, if I had one wish, if Santa Claus was real, if I found a Disney's Aladdin-esque lamp, if I ever saw a shooting star -- I would wish the Bush Criminals behind bars.
The healing will never truly begin until that happens. Until then, this wound will continue to fester and infect the rest of the american body politik until our country dies.