There are days when I feel full of fire and sit at my keyboard, the rage and humiliation coursing through me like an electric jolt and I find it hard to even articulate the sense of shame that George Bush and his cabal of cowards, criminals, sadists, hypocrites and bootlickers have created in me. On days like that I pace about my office, struggling to find words to connect into coherent meaning.

This is one of those days.

There is a very remarkable article in yesterday’s WaPo. It’s written by an American lawyer, P Sabin Willett who is representing one of those many faceless human beings imprisoned by George Bush at Guantanamo. The prisoner, Saddiq Ahmad Turkestani, was judged by the military in 2005 to not be an enemy combatant. In fact, he despises Osama bin Laden. Mr Turkestani is a Saudi citizen and because he hates Osama, the Saudi government will not accept his return to his home.

Let’s stop and think about that for a moment. Somehow the guy got into our hands, and he’s a prisoner at Gitmo. I have no idea whether he’s been tortured. Possibly he has because we are quite comfortably torturing prisoners down there, with the express permission of George Bush, Dick Cheney, John Ashcroft, Alberto Gonzalez, Donald Rumsfeld, General Peter Pace, and a whole slew of others who disgrace our flag on a daily basis. He’s innocent. Not a criminal. Not a terrorist. Not an insurgent. Not a “foreign fighter.” But, because he hates Osama bin Laden, the man currently blamed for the deaths of over 3,000 Americans, our best friends the Saudis don’t want him in their country.

And apparently, Saddiq has found some sort of zen tranquility by virtue of gardening.

You really should read the article because it tells a lot about why dictators and totalitarians like Bu$hCo will never be successful in their lust to crush the human spirit. Because Fred Hiatt is still editor at WaPo, I will not link to the article. I refuse to extend a professional courtesy to a newspaper that is as unprofessional and mendacious as the Washington Post. Fred Hiatt lies for a living and is a stain on the mantle of journalism. Someday, Fred Hiatt will be forced to resign in disgrace to atone for the dishonor he has brought to the once-great newspaper that I was proud to read.

One of our best friends, Jo Fish at Democratic Veteran can lead you to the article.